skydrive

I tried to avoid skydrive when I installed 8.1, but was unsuccessful.

I finally went into the permission and denied it all accesses. Will
this essentially kill skydrive and will it cause problem down the road.

On 27/10/2013 6:37 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I tried to avoid skydrive when I installed 8.1, but was unsuccessful.

I finally went into the permission and denied it all accesses. Will
this essentially kill skydrive and will it cause problem down the road.

How I did it is as follows:

1) Using control panel and uninstall programs I installed Skydrive.

2) In user management, the tablet UI one, as control panel doesn't have
it, I convert the account to "Local". You have to login again after
doing this.

3) Remove any non-local accounts. One will reappear but it is a app one.

4) Any app, usually games that nag for net access, uninstall them.

5) Uninstall Office, use OpenOffice. Ditto IE, use Firefox.

Above is just my 2 cents and may not be complete nor accurate. But it
disappear from file view.

Google (noit Bing) is your friend as I got above from googling.
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Ken1943 wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:37:54 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

I tried to avoid skydrive when I installed 8.1, but was unsuccessful.

I finally went into the permission and denied it all accesses. Will
this essentially kill skydrive and will it cause problem down the road.

I caught it on install and get denied by admin. when I try to access it.
Google block skydrive, there are a couple of registry hacks to kill it.
Would have to use a packet sniffer to see if it is really killed, which
could take plenty of time since we don't know how/what is sent.


KenW

Packet sniffers aren't that hard to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_...et%20analyzers

And you can learn some things from them.

Recommended.

The packet sniffer I use, can be redirected to disk, so
the log can be as long as I want. At one time, it only
stored to RAM, but now it has a disk option.

Paul

Ken1943 wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 22:34:30 -0400, Paul wrote:

Ken1943 wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:37:54 -0400, Keith Nuttle
wrote:

I tried to avoid skydrive when I installed 8.1, but was unsuccessful.

I finally went into the permission and denied it all accesses. Will
this essentially kill skydrive and will it cause problem down the road.
I caught it on install and get denied by admin. when I try to access it.
Google block skydrive, there are a couple of registry hacks to kill it.
Would have to use a packet sniffer to see if it is really killed, which
could take plenty of time since we don't know how/what is sent.


KenW
Packet sniffers aren't that hard to use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_...et%20analyzers

And you can learn some things from them.

Recommended.

The packet sniffer I use, can be redirected to disk, so
the log can be as long as I want. At one time, it only
stored to RAM, but now it has a disk option.

Paul
I know. I have Wireshark installed. The log could be hugh. A filter could
be used, but on what ?


KenW

You can always convert a trace into a text file, and deal
with it there. That's easier than trying to filter. I have
a port of "grep" I can use, or I can use "gawk" (AWK language)
as a text processor. For people that know how (not me), there
is Perl as well.

I'm just shocked at the amount of information being scraped
from what I do. (Pages with Facebook buttons, Google Plus
buttons, or whatever, which don't really belong there,
and only get put there to generate money for the web site.)

One of the reasons I don't regularly update the tools
I use, is the fear that "new leaks" will have been installed
into them. Needing time spent monitoring with the packet
sniffer, modifying the Preferences to stop the abuse,
adding Add-ons to change things (Ghostery), and so on.

I get a smile on my face, when I visit a web site, and
the web site claims I "don't support cookies". When you
look at my cookie settings, they're "perfectly open".
So some scraping option is obviously missing from
my ancient browser, as they can't seem to figure out
how to abuse it :-) Funny stuff. You would think
they would have tried setting a regular cookie. The
browser would allow that. My current browser does not
support HTML5 (which has its own storage space on
your disk drive).

Paul

On 2013-10-27 8:37 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
I tried to avoid skydrive when I installed 8.1, but was unsuccessful.

I finally went into the permission and denied it all accesses. Will
this essentially kill skydrive and will it cause problem down the road.

Installing Windows 8.1 from scratch isn't a necessarily a viable option
for everyone, but man, is it ever nice to turn off all that stuff before
even connecting to the Internet the first time.

The Installation routine has options that enable you to turn off all the
Metro chatter to the mother ship, *before* Windows runs.

If you made sure to unplug the network cable (and not set up the
wireless when prompted) you will be offered a LOCAL account (with
Administrators group privileges) by default.

Once installed and you have logged on to your Local account, uninstall
(or unpin if there's no right-click option to uninstall) all the metro apps.

Now connect to the Internet to update Windows and activate.

With that you will have a much more pleasant to use and productive
installation of Windows 8.1.

WireTalk

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