Originally Posted by MSD

You know what I really hate? Every software company out there thinks they need to run an updater that spends an hour updating their software more frequently than I use it, some sort of monitoring process to give you instant service in case I ever decide to buy and plug in one of their products, and tries to shovel more programs down my throat every time I launch one I already have. No, Apple, I do not want Safari, Mobile Me, and whatever other shit you're pushing today, I want to sync my goddamn iPod, maybe listen to music while I'm at my desk, and close iTunes, at which point all programs associated with the iPod and iTunes should close without having to use the task manager. Hey Adobe, I get 6GB of bandwidth a week before I have to either give IT a good reason to exceed the cap, and I doubt you really need to update CS3 every other day.

What happens when I shut all this shit down and prevent it from starting through system configuration? Start up one program and it's all back the next time I reboot. The only things I want to update themselves are virus scan and Windows. Everyone else go to hell.