On Monday 11 February 2008 08:25:31 am jdd wrote:
Randall R Schulz a écrit :
How can it be "tied closely to the OS" without being tied into the kernel.
In fact, every bit of software that does not run on a virtual machine is very much tied closely to the OS on which it runs. Only things like device drivers and file system modules are in the kernel (and even they need not be a part of the kernel per se).
Actually, Aaron (or whomever) is correct. Since '99 or so, in both NT and Win98/ME, the kernel handles many aspects of IE. IE6 cannot run in Vista since it has large chunks of code in the ntdll.dll file, which was wholly re-written for Vista. Is there actually code in krnl386.exe? I don't know.
well... What Microsoft said is that the OS is tightly linked to IE, so they can't remove IE :-)
and I've seen a *mouse* driver requiring IE as dependency... (I beg it was for the help system, but who knows :-))
discussion on the lack of security of windows is endless. and vista is funny on this respect. every single operation need to be acnowledged twice by the user, so nobody read the popup anymore, it could be "your are going to die", the user whould clic OK anyway :-))
You can remove that. I have it disabled on both my Vista machines. Go into control panel, do a search for uac and select "Turn User Account Control on or off." It will gripe at you a bit, but the annoying issue will go away. Not as elegant as openSUSe and certainly not ready to be a usable operating system, but this little bit helps. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org