I have Windows XP Home. came w/ puter as did mcafee. problems have been
minimal. mostly my doings i guess. Since mcafee costs me less than a buck a
week it is a bargain.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:16 PM, d.b.baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Oct 28, 9:47 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...Baker appeared to be disputing the fact that the Real Player will d/l
> / record and play YouTube videos.
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> Can't "download" YouTube on my system (Vista/Firefox3.2.2). I can
> "upload/Share/Send" - but not download. Except for Firefox, all auto-
> updates "off" since originally booted.
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> I do receive periodic update notices from Real Player, which may or
> may not include a "download" option. But one thing you quickly learn
> when using Vista, updates (and drivers) of any sort tend to send the
> system into convulsions. Especially MS updates. Also Norton, which I
> uninstalled in favor of AVG/free.
>
> Interesting, AVG/free doesn't allow its daily updates to be turned
> off, but when the update is particularly ambitious (large), it may be
> (and is by me) canceled during the download process. After which scary
> messages pop up. Several months ago lots of AVG/free users must have
> [also] canceled the download, because after about a week AVG rolled
> back their insistence that us freebies install their newest version.
> Made it optional, and went back to updating the "old" version.
>
> Meanwhile, fatigue has turned me into a minimalist. I started out with
> MS/3.1 with 1mb of memory - now Vista with enough hard-drive to
> download the Library of Congress. But in reality, the Internet
> environment has changed dramatically during the intervening years -
> and as long as this clunker gets me where I'm going, I can't
> complain.
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