Comment by apexalpha
1 day ago
Dutch here... Most of my family kept having the Yahoo search bar in there for some reason.
Then it become Google, then something else that popped up.
The amount of time I've spent in my life fixing stuff on Microsoft "All binaries have full disk access by default" Windows is weird. It also mostly faded when people moved to locked-down smartphones.
I wonder if young people today could even comprehend what a dangerous shitshow Windows was pre 7.
Any Windows release that was based on NT had the notion of users and administrators. It was just that in the default setup, the user account was also an administrator.
Since Vista they added a prompt, the UAC. But since they required it for almost anything people trained themselves to just hit Yes on everything.