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Originally posted by blade
Well b4 I turned off Windows Security Center it would constantly badger me about my firewall ( ) and also, after SP2 - I can't view anything in WMP10 in full screen .
these two things are just two things you need to properly set up.
1) Security Center. You can tell it what firewall you use and if you want to check this or not.
2) WMP10 works perfectly for viewing full screen things. You only need to set it up properly.
If you install/upgrade anything, it is always a good practice to go over every single option (again) in that program. Some options may have changed, added, removed...
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Originally posted by frankiedaman
and made my PC even slower again to load up and do things.
Proberly (without any more info) because the systemwide DEP was on. (this is set on by default when you install SP2)
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Originally posted by frankiedaman
Just goes to prove that sometimes, older can be better
That doesn't proof a thing though. It only proofs that some settings were wrong... I can make make SP1 going even slower if I wish....
About that fact that MS decided to set some things by default when installing SP2 is something else, some things are indeed dodgy for the "advanced" user. But it only takes a mouseclick (and reading some stuff before installing) to set things strait....
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Originally posted by frankiedaman
I'm a bit new to this Firefox business though, can it block popups etc. that IE can't. Does it cope with Flash and ActiveX Applets OK? Any other things it can do which IE can't?
Popups: yes, it can block also popups.
Flash: install the flash plugin
ActiveX: there is a plugin which supports secure, signed activeX applets
Other things: visit the
firefox pages
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