Originally Posted by Maxington 
Use a free browser like Firefox, and install the Adblock and Flashblock extensions.
No more ads, no more flash unless you want to enable it for a specific reason.
Of course, making sure people don't use IE anyhow if you lend them your laptop is another problem.....
Adblock is awesome...a must have. I'll check out the Flashblock since I've never heard of it. I also tried NoScript but it didn't work for some reason.
On my PC, the desktop has 1 icon (Recycle Bin) and 4 buttons in the Quick Bar: Desktop, Documents, FF, and WinAmp...that's it. You'd have to dig to find IE in the Program menu as well
