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Microsoft Forces Desktop Search On Windows Update

Posted by kdawson on from the what-part-of-no dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that the blogosphere is alight with accusations of Microsoft forcing Windows Desktop Search on networks via the 'automatic install' feature of Windows Update — even if they had configured their systems not to use the program. Once installed, the search program began diligently indexing C drives and entire networks slowed to a crawl."

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  1. Re:Similarly as Beagle.... by nschubach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why does lsass have to continue running after you log into your PC and generate your key? It simply doesn't make sense for a login service to remain running. You should be able to shut it off and thus further disallow people from logging into your PC. This is nothing like "killing the kernel on Linux."

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