A thought on improving Vista security.

Hello everyone,

I have an idea that I think would really help improve Vista security. At
the same time, it would make Vista run faster and take up less space, and it
would make things more difficult for malicious hackers.

Could someone tell me the flaw in this thinking ?

Create an application called "Customize Windows" which presents to the user
a list of yes/no questions. It would look something like this:

"Will you use a tablet PC? □ Y □N"
"Will you use a mobile PC? □Y □N"
"Will you be on a company network ? □Y □N"
"Will you use an ISP? □Y □N"
"Will you be using Bluetooth? □Y □N"
"Will you be working with video? □Y □N"
"Will you use remote connections? □Y □N"
" etc. ..."

After the user has made his/her selections, Vista will go and turn-off
/disable all the tasks, processes, and services that are associated with
those things that the user will not be using.

I know there is already a "turn windows features on/off" but the features
have very technical names that are hard to understand.

If a user changes his/her mind, (s)he can go back into "Customize Windows",
make the changes, and the application can automatically reinstate the
relevant processes, services, and tasks. Also, if the user later installs an
application that needs a disabled process, task, or service, the application
can put up a window that reminds the user to change this-or-that in
"customize windows".

The benefit here is that Vista will not have unused processes, tasks, and
services sitting around taking up space and processing power. Bugs in unused
processes and services (no program is perfect) can be taken advantage of by a
malicious hacker. Vista will run faster and it put a big dent in the
complaint of some people that Vista is "bloated fatware" because it will be
running fewer services, tasks, and processes.

I thought it would be a good thing to share. What do you think ?

Windows allready does it!

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"Paul" <Paul.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have an idea that I think would really help improve Vista security. At
> the same time, it would make Vista run faster and take up less space, and
> it
> would make things more difficult for malicious hackers.
>
> Could someone tell me the flaw in this thinking ?
>
> Create an application called "Customize Windows" which presents to the
> user
> a list of yes/no questions. It would look something like this:
>
> "Will you use a tablet PC? □ Y □N"
> "Will you use a mobile PC? □Y □N"
> "Will you be on a company network ? □Y □N"
> "Will you use an ISP? □Y □N"
> "Will you be using Bluetooth? □Y □N"
> "Will you be working with video? □Y □N"
> "Will you use remote connections? □Y □N"
> " etc. ..."
>
> After the user has made his/her selections, Vista will go and turn-off
> /disable all the tasks, processes, and services that are associated with
> those things that the user will not be using.
>
> I know there is already a "turn windows features on/off" but the features
> have very technical names that are hard to understand.
>
> If a user changes his/her mind, (s)he can go back into "Customize
> Windows",
> make the changes, and the application can automatically reinstate the
> relevant processes, services, and tasks. Also, if the user later installs
> an
> application that needs a disabled process, task, or service, the
> application
> can put up a window that reminds the user to change this-or-that in
> "customize windows".
>
> The benefit here is that Vista will not have unused processes, tasks, and
> services sitting around taking up space and processing power. Bugs in
> unused
> processes and services (no program is perfect) can be taken advantage of
> by a
> malicious hacker. Vista will run faster and it put a big dent in the
> complaint of some people that Vista is "bloated fatware" because it will
> be
> running fewer services, tasks, and processes.
>
> I thought it would be a good thing to share. What do you think ?