I am about to reformat but thought I'd ask a couple of questions this time around.
1) I remember back in XP there was an in-built net limiter that shaved off some of your available bandwidth, reserving it for background Windows Update tasks. Does this exist in Win7, and if so, how do I kill it with fire?
2) How do I get Win7 to stop being such an internet !@#$%? What I mean is, whenever I open a file like .dat or .r3s, a dialogue box opens asking if I want to search the web for a related program, or choose one from a list of those already installed. Why does it default to the web? Really bugs me that MS is advertising in context menus. How do I get it to default to 'choose from a list of installed programs', without permanently associating file extensions with random programs?
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.