hgnlordowen wrote:

> 3. An IE page refresh
> What?!! Why would that be writing to critical system files? A new
> page with a typed address or something I could understand because it
> would write a value to the registry, but to just refresh a page...
> Okay, now Microsoft has me worried. Unless it has something to do
> with how Windows and IE are so dependent on each other... I'm not
> saying it isn't true but that would be one of the great mysteries of
> windows computing.

I don't know. But when a page refreshes, some of what's done is under the
control of the page. The page could update a database, log its refresh to a
scratch file, download an event that triggers an Active-X control (which, in
turn, does god-knows-what), yak-yak-yak.

Windows an IE are not dependent on each other - they ARE each other. While
you can disable IE, much of its code is integrated in the OS.