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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2003 06:22:24 PST8
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com > ,
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: local DSL on the move

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:23:09 PST8, Tony Butka wrote:

>I 'upgraded' on a Win2K partition the other day. Sure, there are gotcha's. Basically
after doing the install, which requires Internet Explorer, you wind up with
>a heavily modified SBC/Yahoo browser that is a lot like the AOL portal design. Slow,
cumbersome, & tracks your every move to sell the information to all
>that will buy it.

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Tony,

I recently upgraded to DSL and went with SBC, because they are my telephone
provider. I wanted to have a "homerun" line installed, so I paid for a technician to come
out and install it (I also have inside wiring protection/service). The homerun was the
smartest move I made. No mini filters on the telephones and no problems with the
telephones.

The technician installed the DSL on my wife's XP machine (I later made it available to
all machines). He specifically did not use the SBC installation CD. He stated that the
CD gives you a lot of software (like the SBC browser) that locks you into certain settings
that you might not want (just as you stated). As a result I got a pretty clean SBC
installation. I use only the Windows included browser (IE) to get to the Internet.

For my taste the standard Windows system is setup to be pretty intrusive. For example,
the Internet Explorer has cookies that are hard to find and deactivate. The same is true
with the browsing history. Also, Windows has those infamous Index.dat files that contain
data on your browsing, but cannot be deleted or modified. Finally, standard installation
of most Windows programs fixes the program files to the "Program Files" directory,
places a copy of the program icon in the desktop tray, or the startup folder, or places
an entry in the registry such that it starts the program each time you start Windows. I find
all of that pretty bad! Here's what I do about the Internet stuff:

1. I have a *.cmd file in the Windows Startup folder. This file deletes all instances
of the Index.dat files. It does so before Windows loads and locks these files. Windows
then loads and rebuilds all instances of Index.dat in default format and nothing in them

2. The *.cmd file also deletes all cookie.txt files anywhere on the hard disk

3. Finally, I open IE via a batch file. The batch file deletes all instances of
cookie.txt files each time IE opens

Hope this helps
HCM

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