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From: Greg Surratt <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG5.30 problems and auto updating in WinXP
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 07:13:13 -0500
References: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDGEJBCOAA.clcasper@sprynet.com> <3DC2FB00.80905@rcn.com> <001501c281f6$fe5582b0$1043accf@charliexii> <3DC3C295.2000501@rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DC3C295.2000501@rcn.com>


On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 07:18:29 -0500, you wrote:

>I don't want to give WinXP updates a bad name.
>
>I haven't had any problem of system instability or hard drive crashes
>and I've been using WinXP with the auto update feature on for about 6
>weeks now. The updating, per se, seems to go well and unobtrusively.
>
>I was following up on Cheri's theory that the auto update setting for
>WinXP and Norton Systemworks might be behind some of the problems that
>seem to crop in TMG 5.03. The problems I experience (open Project
>Explorer confuses/substitutes person ID #'s when adding new tags) are
>annoying, but not fatal.

I won't install a piece of software on my system if it requires that I
make modifications to my operating system to work. And I consider
anti-virus definition updates to be "part of the operating system" in
today's environment.

If I find a game that requires changing my screen resolution to run,
it doesn't get installed. I'm not going to give up the photo
processing power of true-color, high resolution to run a game in 256
colors.

By the same token, if, as some have suggested, TMG 5.x requires
turning off the automatic updates which protect my computer from virii
and intrusions, it isn't going on the machine.

Imagine the problems this list could create if automatic virus updates
were turned off for each person who has come to depend on them.

another Greg

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