Erik Funkenbusch wrote: Granted, Joe Sixpack isn't going to do that, but if he wants to, he should be able to. I am not disagreeing here, he should be able to. Just not by default. You make to many things defaulting on and it can cause problems. Erik Funkenbusch wrote: No, you can't configure the Win2k start menu to be like the XP one. There is a very major difference. Right clicking on the objects in the XP start menu allows you to adjust properties on those actual objects. Right clicking similar ones in a 2k menu would only allow you to adjust the properties of the SHORTCUTS to those objects. It's very different. Further, I like the way XP shows the most recently used PROGRAMS (as opposed to documents in 2k) which is better than 2k's smart menus. I wasn't aware of that, that is another point toward XP :) Erik Funkenbusch wrote: Also, you make the same mistake as everyone else. You didn't read what MS said. They didn't say XP was the most secure OS ever. They said it was the most secure *WINDOWS* ever. You make it sound like products like firewalls are bad things, because they lull people into a false sense of security. I'm sorry, but that's a very bizarre way to think of it. Maybe we shouldn't have locks on our doors, since they too give us a false sense of security, or burglar alarms, since those aren't going to protect you if you let a strange person in your home. I appologize, I did misspeak there. However to Joe Public it means what I interpreted it as. And they *do* make it sound like those pieces of software are not needed. They are lulling people into a false sense of security by saying it's the most secure and giving them a firewall that is just "ok." Erik Funkenbusch wrote: Further, you don't seem to understand how the internet works if you think the internet has central DNS servers. It doesn't. There are literally 10's of thousands of DNS servers, and they all talk to each other in a web. There's no "central" servers out there that run the entire internet. Actually there are. Please read up on that. In the beginning (of the internet) there were about six of them. They are what sort out the .com, .edu, and .net's. Then they sort out domain name. Once you get there, the local dns servers point to the IP of the machine needed (www, apps, whatever). The local dns servers that you hit first cache the IP's for most sites, but if it is a site it has never been
