2 things i've been trying to figure out

Ya know how everyone thinks Flash is cool and it does all those really useless animations that waste bandwith and really don't provide much for someone looking for information other than a really cool looking ADs ?
How can this be completely disabled, not just turned off so it doesn't play, not just, not installed, cause it still download the crap. I want to completely and absolutely ignore flash. I don't want it promting me about flash certificates. I want it to completely disappear as far as my computer is concerned. I don't want it waste the very limited bandwith I've got a modem.

Ok next question, I've got an ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon and it comes with the ATI MMC software, in version 7.1 or higher it can put the tv in an internet explorer bar (like the history and favorites media etc...) it pops out from the users left on the screen. I really like this feature watching tv and surfing on the same screen in the same window, it's great to me.
This is where the problem comes in though, when in this mode (tv explorer) it always uses the cable source for the input source. Well as you may already know cable looks like crap on a pc monitor. However S-Video looks pretty damn good. I do not use the (coax)cable connection and I want to make the S-video connection the defualt input source.
I have spents days searching ATI's site and found nothing I've even tried opening several of the files in an asci editor and searching for input and source went all through the registry etc... but have had no luck so far. So if anyone has figured out how to this or even thinks they have a good hunch fill me in.

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