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To me this is poor design. I prefer to have everything turned off by default. Then I have to learn how to turn things on.

In the end, this teaches me much more about controlling the program's behaviour than having developers make decisions for me. But that's just my opinion.

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Not sure of the exact figures, but a large portion of computer users never change the options for their programs (nor are they particularly able to).

For these users, sub-optimal settings are permanent, so you want to turn everything on.

This is one of the problems with a single program being shared by several demographics.

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