I'd like to at least *limit* XP phoning home ;)

[Mope]

XP Home, non-service pack with recent hot patches.

I'm currently going through the laborious process of figuring out all the svchost processes that are *listening* everywhere. I still have a problem though, every time I try a search in safe mode I get an error stating that I'm missing files.

The stupid little dog doesn't pop up and I can't do my search. I also wasn't able to disable the balloon crud under safe mode because none of the search panel shows up.

I finally ignore the mess.

I install kerio and what do you know - every time I execute a search (in user mode) explorer *goes somewhere*. Now, I don't want it to do that anymore, anyone else's explorer phoning out when they execute a search? If I'm missing a file I'd like to know which one so I can replace it (if explorer is just going out and getting it off the net). Well, now I guess I know why search doesn't work under safe mode - I'm not on the internet ;( Huh, very strange. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.