CA>> Once you have the newer hardware and software you're
CA>> forced to accept the 'alternate' page with all the bloat
CA>> which, as you have said, would make you wonder what you
CA>> had gotten for the money.

RS> I'm confused by this statement.

RS> AFAIK, you can still turn Off most of that crap. I know
RS> that my Win95 has most of it prompt me, and I usually say
RS> NO!!! I could set it to just not do it at all; but once in
RS> a while, I need the crap to run (like Acrobat Reader).

CA> The only 'prompt' I see is put up by webpages asking if I want
CA> to add another plugin. After it's installed there may be
CA> prompts to PAY for it (register) otherwise I see no prompts, no.

 The prompts appear because I selected to have
IE prompt me if a web page asks to run them. I
could have selected to run them automatically,
or to not run them at all.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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