Mark,

I have to agree, I think. I followed several of the "nefarious" leads in the article, and found nothing that didn't relate directly to a known operating function in Windows.

Several of his "plots" appear to revolve around a feature called "aliasing" that can be seen just by looking in your Windows Directory (or WINNT) at the "Fonts" folder. You will see the font names. If you copy the font files to another directory, and look in the new directory, you will see the font file names.

It's a pretty neat trick, and I suppose someone could see a plot there, but it is done for a reason and can be helpful, possibly even to the majority of users.

It can be annoying when Microsoft uses tricks like this coupled with their standard assumption that "all users are idiots," since it may hide things that those of us who are only mildly drain bamaged would really like to know.

The man with a spear is a god to one who never used anything but a rock?

John