Originally Posted by Jace

wtf are you running, windows 98?

I have two machines running windows xp
I never get pop up notifications
I activated ONCE, a year ago
I have not had any virus issues in at least a year
spyware isn't even an issue, complicated dialog menus? um, yeah, us smart people like more options, sorry if it confuses you
drivers? I plug in new shit and it works, what are you having issues with?
security? in what way?

you really sound lik you are running an old version of windows, have you upgraded recently?