RE: Weird Story of Troubleshooting a Weird Laptop Issue (Part 3)
I read a random article on the internet where one employee of Microsoft said that IE is now considered unsafe to be used, they even recommend users to switch to Edge for a more secured browsing experience.
Technically, IE today is more towards meme usages (go Google IE memes or stroll around the comments section of the KobeEngineers' Facebook page for laughs). Well IE could be nice at times (Fact: I refused using Chrome back then as it refused to load pages back then), until all stuff (toolbars and extensions that came from program installation and stuff) came in which I don't like it somehow (well IE without plugins is also a thing back then you know haha, oh you asked me what happened to IE after that? I changed to Firefox).
Speaking of diagnostic tools, HP's are somehow better than Acer anyway. Acer's loaded with all those unnecessary junk (aka games that you can only play for the first 30 minutes or less, ah and all those unnecessary resource consuming tools that won't help much on diagnosing the computer). From my troubleshooting experience, HP's tools are better than Acer's. IE aside (go send a feedback and tell them to change a wrapper), their tools may be one of the best I can say.
IIRC dual-booting won't destroy the warranty right? You aren't altering Windows or the hardware but just adding Linux in. Hmm I dunno. Maybe you should check HP's warranty policies.
Well looking forward towards the end of your story!
Yes, because IE was not built according to any standards used by other browsers...see, that's what monopoly can cause. They were once so big till the point that they don't even have to care about standards, lol. And it is also true that MS had stopped giving out security updates for IE, so for sanity's sake please use a better browser :P
The toolbars are a good addition to IE in the very ancient times (IE6) because it is so barebone that you cannot find it pleasant to live with. So, people invented helpers to attach to it and boost their own business at the same time. Of course they got abused and you know what happened next.
Personally I don't know Acer...but HP does comes with a lot of bloat (including games which I think are trail versions) and I happily nuked them away because why wouldn't I. One of the most annoying points of their tools will be the fact that they have processes in the background and of course you won't like that on a low-powered CPU. Anyways, it's not like you use them every day either.
So, nukedI did altered Windows...In fact, I reinstalled the entire system. The preinstalled OS was replaced with a vanilla installation of Windows 10 with the ISO provided by my school, and of course, Linux. Then, I further slapped the vanilla installation of Windows with more tweaks such as DestroyWindows10Spying...if that counts as modification? Lol. Anyways, they are still helping me so it should be fine anyways. This thing has only about 1 month of warranty left so we can forget that very soon as well :P
Oh, approximately 2 parts more. I originally thought that it will only take 2 or 3 parts but it seems that I am so wrong, lol.