AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

Brian Knoblauch bknoblauch at sscorp.com
Fri Oct 24 12:25:36 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their
> connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's
> Windows computers?

	I've already seen an interesting side effect from a disabled messenger service...  With one of those new low-price
Intel hardware modems in a P4 running XP, the system will not shutdown properly after a dial-up session with messenger
disabled...  Just an FYI in case confused AOLers start swamping your helpdesks...  :-)




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