By default, Windows 7 doesn't let you run as admin. It has a decent permissions set up out of the box, which shocked the **** out of me, because with the other OSs they put out, not only was Admin the default account, in early version you couldn't do otherwise out of the box.

And XP not having a password on the admin account and doing auto login was pretty funny... So with Windows 7, I was pretty shocked to see that not only does it NOT use admin by default without a password, but, when you DO log in, nothing is running as the admin account right at the start like before.

Basically, if you want to run something as admin (Like, say, Spybot, so you can do updates properly, and do that Immunize thing properly, and so on) you have to right click on the Icon, and tell it to Run this as the admin. I haven't changed that much on my machine. Somewhat because I haven't felt like it, and somewhat because I didn't have to do much. I did lock a few things down, and I did turn off those damn auto updates...

Which is another thing; Why do they have this set this way? Shouldn't they instead, have a check run to see the hardware you have and so on, and THEN decide?

That was one thing I hated when I had Windows on my Laptop; I'd turn it on, log in, and then, WAIT.... Because even if I had the thing fully charged, I had to wait around for like EVERYTHING to sit there and look for updates. Windows update would tell me it was ready... Even if the damn thing wasn't connected to the net, it was trying to look for updates.... And then AVG did the same thing when it finally got done loading, and then everything else wanted a chance to look for updates.... And did it matter if there was no connection to the net? Of course not! It would try and waste my time and battery anyway!

If it checked first this wouldn't have been a problem. And being that I had to get a Laptop I could actually pay for at the time, it wasn't like I went all out either. So it took a while before I could actually do anything.

First thing I did was turn off those stupid updates. I turned off Windows update and had it set where I'd personally check myself (Which I did, all the time) and then it complained about THAT....

And then AVG I told not to do the same, and then Windows Security center went on about that.... And you can see where I'm going here.... If you have a Laptop and you were trying to do something quickly because you didn't have time and needed to hurry up and do something, and you weren't even connected to the net, you had to wait for a LONG time before you could use the machine, because everything on there was trying to do an update check. And then you had to tell it "Yes I know you aren't connected to the net....No I don't want you to try again until I throw you through a brick wall...No I don't give a **** the machine isn't connected" And so on.

A Smarter idea would be having Microsoft have something you can run when you first boot the OS that checks all your hardware out, and sees what you have, and makes a sane decision on what is going to happen when you boot. That way if you don't have top of the line everything, you don't have to wait for a half hour to type a note out real quick in the middle of a class room just to try and keep up.

This is why my Wife has Slackware on Her Laptop; She can boot up without waiting for everything installed to try and update itself. And then of course in Windows if you turn that crap off in XP, Ohhhhhh are YOU going to be waiting... Because THEN you have to sit there while it tries ANYWAY to do updates, and click OK 50 times when it says it couldn't.

I understand there are people in the World who NEED this stuff because they don't know HOW to do an update, and they don't get why they should, and they don't know a thing about the machine they're using. But for those of us who know how to click on "Windows Update" and have it install them...And for those of us who know how to right click on a little Icon in the bottom right of the screen, and select "Check updates" without the thing doing it... Couldn't they make a little application that ran, checked the hardware, and saw "Hmm, a Battery is detected, and no plug is plugged in charging, and there is no connection to the net....And the Cable isn't even plugged in...Maybe not run this **** right now?".

My Laptop had XP and could not only tell me if it was plugged in or not, it could tell me how much battery I had left, and then, when I did plug it in, it could tell me I did that too. And even react to it with a brighter screen and more CPU power. And then, if the Cat5 got unplugged, it could tell me that too, and it could tell me when I plugged it back in that I had done so. So why can't it make a few more reactions?