Karanth posted:

Leading straight into my thread contribution: when people assert that lack of their own pet features in a software package is not only a bug, but a sign of developer laziness because it would be "so easy" to add, completely overlooking or disregarding the idea that it might be like that on purpose. Whenever someone asserts that "not doing things my way" = "laziness", they come across sounding like this guy:

The corollary to this is when someone uses the well-polished mirror argument of, "The developer wants me to do it their way instead of mine. How arrogant! Of course their software should do things MY way!"

Erwin posted:

Which brings me to my second point. Microsoft Silverlight. Go away, Microsoft. Yes, Flash is retarded and somebody should do it better and free-er, but you are not the ones to do it. Just because you can sneak your poo poo onto computers through Windows Update doesn't mean you should try to make a product that does nothing more than an already existing product just so you can have your name on it. gently caress off.

narby posted:

Another thing that irritates the poo poo out of me is windows feeling the need to decide what folder properties I should have just because there happens to be an mp3 or jpeg in a folder with 100 other non media files.

You know what? I really don't need a loving "myrating" column for anything, let alone a directory full of cpp files and headers you son of a bitch.

All I want is to be able to sort by filename, file type, size and modified

Zorilla posted:

Here's a small one I wish I never have to see again:



No, not System Restore being turned off, but rather, having to check a box on to turn a feature off. It's pretty bad when items in the core OS interface don't follow this common sense rule of UI design.

arcticthunder posted:

Switching to vista I'm personally really annoyed that with all the hype about the aero glass theme, Microsoft didn't seem to allow third party programs uses transparency for anything but the title bar.

narby posted:

-Similar to above, "Windows is searching for a solution to the problem". Has anyone ever seen this actually find a solution?

Z posted:

Also, back to the OP, I hate everyone who doesn't use their LCD at native resolution. And Vista's control panel. Seriously, am I just supposed to guess what vaguely-named category has what I'm looking for in it?

PowerLlama posted:

I don't care where you are, you go home right now, and you figure out how to make that fucker go away.

Rock Tumbler posted:

Why the gently caress did Microsoft make Office 2007 look the way it does? YOU ASSHOLES MADE WINDOWS. Why can't you make your OWN GODDAMN SOFTWARE use the native widgets in your OWN GODDAMN OPERATING SYSTEM? Gah!

hyperborean posted:

By the way, earlier today I went to save a file, and double-clicked not-quite-fast-enough on the folder it should go in, and it wanted me to rename the folder. After this thread made me think about it, I've noticed this actually happens to me on an infrequent but regular basis.

Jetsetlemming posted:

I used a Vista machine for about a month at the beginning of the year, and it was hell. I was having PSTD flashbacks to Windows ME from the shocking display of reduced usability and increase in annoyances.

Jetsetlemming posted:

Luckily there's a brazen scofflaw community of ne'er-do-wells to help.

Lum posted:

It's against the rules to link to cracks and filez, so no-one here is going to help

Ryouga Inverse posted:

No, it still does that. It's the superior choice to just loving showing the key.

I honestly don't get this. OSX at least offers a visibility checkbox but stuff like the Wii or the iPhone especially, why are you not showing me the key as I type it? Anyone looking over my shoulder could see? SHOCK HORROR OH GOD! People IN MY HOUSE might be able to GET ON MY WIFI?!

Alternately, the person whose laptop I am typing this key into so that they might be able to utilize my network might be able to see my key, which, oh god, they might be able to use to... how does this make sense at all?

It's like the guys who designed the interface just went with "it's a secret, it must need to be masked" without actually thinking of what the cryptographical definition of "secret" was.

Zhentar posted:

^^ It's got all my bookmarks in it. Lots of people want their bookmarks migrated.


When I switch computers, or reinstall my OS, I'd like to be able to copy one single My Documents folder over, and have everything I want copied over. Instead, I have keep an image of my old Program Files folder for at least a year because of random files hidden in deep subfolders that I end up needing later.

Less technical users than myself are less likely to copy over things other than My Documents (which is what the windows utilities know to actually copy), and more likely to end up needing to reinstall their OS or move to a new computer.

God Bless programs that keep all user files & settings in My Documents.

AcridWhistle posted:

No, that is what VirtualStore is for

Ryokurin posted:

Another I've recently run into are people who eat up with slashdot says about how uac is worthless because it can be "hacked around" I'm not a programmer, but I found in a quick search that 1. a program can ask for elevation from the jump, and once UAC is advised the program is ok it remembers it, so it won't prompt you every single time. 2. Splitting a program into user and system process is better because at least non administrators can run the program if it really needs system access. Its not a hack, its how Microsoft wants you do do it! UAC is actually making you make good security and usability decisions. Its not the devil, and if more and more programmers actually researched what triggered a prompt and why then most people would rarely see the prompt.

Dyscrasia posted:

On my Gigabyte board, I was able to update the BIOS without ever leaving windows. Course I needed to reboot after the update. Worked without a hitch. I was pretty impressed, my first BIOS update without having to deal with bootdisks.

quote:

The real reason is that on Windows there's really nothing that passes for a standard, consistent way of doing things, and so developers just sort of make stuff up as they go along. That's the standard.

Sister Miyagi posted:

2. loving wireless. In XP, you could right click on the wireless icon to open the settings prompt (I think it was what came up if you double clicked, even). Now I have to click/right-click the icon, go to the worthless network and sharing center, from there take a hyperlink to "Manage my network connections<' right click the connection I want and open status from there. Very helpful! And don't get me started about getting a loving WPA connection set up.

The Gunslinger posted:

I really feel bad for people in bachelor apartments or dorm rooms, I don't even know how I'd get to sleep with that loving fireworks going on in my room.

bob arctor posted:

Why the gently caress does updating adobe (Reader or acrobat pro) need to reboot my system ever? Shouldn't it's libraries be isolated enough from critical system libraries to not need a reboot? Also standard adobe updater rants here.

liquidXenon posted:

syphon^2 posted:

Eh? I always thought Ctrl+F is Find, while Ctrl+H is Replace (and Ctrl+G is Go-To). I just verified with Word 2007 and this is its default behavior.

EDIT: Checked Word 2003, it's the same there too.

Drighton posted:

Does anyone else hear Office 07 referred to as "Vista"?

Xenomorph posted:

No, but I worked with someone who ONLY referred to Word as "Microsoft".

"I opened it in Microsoft."
"Let me type that up for you real quick in Microsoft."
"That file you sent me won't open in Microsoft."




I'd always say "Microsoft ... what?"
Her: "What??"
Me: "What, what? You said said Microsoft. Microsoft-what? What Microsoft program?"
Her: "You know, Microsoft. The thing where you type."

c0burn posted:

Copying and pasting from web pages into a Word document or whatever. Did you REALLY think I wanted all that lovely formatting? Thankfully Puretext fixes this.

Lum posted:

How do you get multiple rows of tabs to appear (assuming Firefox)

Lum posted:

How do you get multiple rows of tabs to appear (assuming Firefox)

Doctor Optimal posted:

This is more social and less technical, but what pisses me off is the casual racism against Indians I hear from my users. No one in our entire company ever has to deal with Indians, we aren't big on outsourcing but since I'm "the computer guy" that means I clearly want to hear about how they had to "talk to a goddamn Indian" this weekend when they couldn't figure out how to use their HP photojet-whatever.

Seriously, shut the gently caress up, you sound like a mouth breathing redneck.

brc64 posted:

My girlfriend's Vista laptop had this problem for a long time. And when it did come out of it successfully, the wireless wouldn't reconnect until after a reboot. Since then, though, I've got it all patched up to SP1 and installed some wireless driver updates and now it's awesome!

It hibernates when the power is low (which happens quickly because the battery is shot), but turning it back on from hibernate now brings me to a fully functional and Internet-connected desktop in about 45 seconds. Considering it's only got 1 GB of RAM, I find that pretty impressive.

Lum posted:

I thought Windows Search was supposed to be horribly broken on XP and missed loads of stuff when searching?

Have they fixed that now?

MrMoo posted:

It also lurks as an optional update in Windows/Microsoft Update.

It'd be better if there was a standard API that could integrate with Google, it's a bit lame running both Windows Search and Google Search indexing. Same crap on Ubuntu with trackerd.

The Remote Viewer posted:

Steve actually thinks iTunes on Windows is good. I believe the phrase used was 'Like a glass of icewater in hell.'

Fishstick posted:

Why do this? Just let me grab the drat installer itself already.