hello everyone,
we all have different philosophies when it comes to our computers. i believe that the user controls the computer, not the other way around. the operating system needs to load its files, in order to make the system run.
but any program that i download, i want to choose how to run it. i do not want it to dictate to me that it is gonna run no matter what. thanks to you guys, i now know how to do this when i have a program that is being persistent.
if i had wanted to run avast on an ongoing basis, i would not have been able to, because i had previously downloaded avg and antivir. avast was telling me it could not run all its options because of this.
now i can choose which, if any, anti-virus program i want to run. and what i may choose today is not necessarily the same as what i may choose tomorrow. if i have found anything at all about pcs, it is that change is inevitable.
for example, i have spybot on my system. but it has not had an update now for a couple of months. these programs become somewhat useless if they stop keeping up with the current weeds, i mean spyware - LOL. so while i may have once thought it was a great program, there may come a time in the future when i do not use it much.
it was never my intention to test a product in a crippled mode. i was not gonna test it at all, if it came with strings attached. in real life, few people would be willing to do this. it is like a woman asking me to love her, and at the same time threatening to kill me, if i don't - hardly conducive to a loving relationship. i want to choose or not to choose to love her, with no strings attached - the only true way of knowing.