Recent content by meridius10

Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep testing and get back to the forum again soon.

OK. Many thanks for all this advice. I managed to disable Windows Defender, but I'm not sure it was set to update automatically as Windows Update is turned off. I also went into IE and disabled Shockwave Flash Object which I imagine is the equivalent of Adobe Flash player. I'm not entirely...

Actually I am using a dongle so every megabyte counts and I don't want any video type applications functioning in the background. So the question really is as above and I would like to know what Windows 8.1 is doing in terms of downloading in the background which is different to Windows 7 or XP.

This is my third day with Windows 8.1 and I just have a couple of questions at this stage: I was unable to install SQL Server 2008 R2 properly. Is it difficult/impossible to install properly? When I used Windows 7 or XP, I uninstalled flash player from add/remove programs. I also did the...