Re: Time Taken to Boot

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

>>A large percentage of windows boot time is reading and parsing the
>>registry.
> 
> No. I have listed the causes for slow Windows boot.
> 
>>Which brings up the issue that the windows registry is one
>>of the biggest problems with security in Windows.
> 
> Sorry, how the boot speed is connected with security? Registry keys are
> protected by ACLs.
> You cannot achieve better protection with files.

The problem as I see it, is nobody makes use of that security!
Almost every week, my spyware software is telling me I have
gator installed. This stupid thing is thanks to the stupid
security around ActiveX and the way registry entries are
permitted to be changed. If you set it to "prompt", then you're
bugged constantly, including for plugins for Adobe (to read
PDF files). If you disable it, then Adobe's plugin doesn't
run (I mean, at least separate plugins you have installed vs
the web download-on-the-fly ActiveX crap).

In XP, I set up my family as unpriviledged users (whatever that
was named), initially. But in the end, I had to give in and make
my wife and kids administrator, because they couldn't do the
things they needed to do. Sigh.

So why bother putting a security layer in place, Microsoft, if
you're not going to plan out a decent design of roles and use
of the system!?!?!?  </rant>

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg