Microsoft annoyances....


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While many people here complain about OS instability, the latest vulnerabilites, DLL hell, worms, hackers and the size of bill gates' ever-increasing...

bank account. :shifty: I am annoyed by the "little" flaws in Windows, for example, look at the nice new Luna interface for example, nice interface (arguably), but then, when you come to download a file... wait? isnt that a winows 9x animation showing folders flying over from the internet? OK, so maybe that isn't windows, thats IE, but wait, didn't we just have IE6 SP1?? And was there an icon fix? NO!!!

Look around, in more places than one, there are old-style icons and other sorts of blatant glitches that don't match up... wondered if anyone could shed some light on the matter of WHY or their opinions? :blink:

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There's loads of crap in the DLLs, even alpha and beta images like "Codename Whistler" stuff all over the place. I hope to god I'm not still seeing Win95 crap in longhorn :(

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me to dazzla haha it peeves me when i dl and see the old icons and animaitions arggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg :angry: :angry:

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I know exactly what you mean; very annoying. MS should've looked at all that for SP2 (since they're taking their sweet time) and given XP a real facelift (something it really needs right about now). It would help get the idea across that this is something "new" as well or ?reloaded? and fresh. Hell throw in another MS signed theme to exemplify that, Watercolor maybe? Of course this is all low priority for MS. If their market share was much lower and they had the time to twiddle their thumbs and make things pretty (Apple) then we'd probably see these changes. However, since they support the vast majority of the world's computers they have more important responsibilities that need attention.

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solution : Shell packs

that doesn't fix anything, you're just using another shell32.dll (and some others)

I think Microsoft should seriously think about cleaning everything up ; would definately shave a couple megs off :D

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I agree with all of you, nice to see some people who share my views... now my next issue: the registry...

how is it POSSIBLE that the registry is SO INEFFICIENT, SO BADLY ORGANIZED? How many keys are DUPLICATED? oh yes, thats right, we have some keys in HKLM_CurrentUser, some in HKLM_Local_Machine, why can it not be WELL ORGANIZED with SANE NAMES and maybe a new GUI to go with it?

Look at those stupid cryptic names? It's almost as if Microsoft have a special way of doing it... Its a bit like this....

1) Take MS, initials of Microsoft

2) Take a random TLA (three letter acronym)

3) Take two completely unconnected words and put them together

4) Maybe add a number on the end....

So now we have...

MSGUIBattyPotato

MSHDDEjectPortfolio

and we can make countless more! Oh the endless fun!

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,Jun 1 2004, 13:22] I agree with all of you, nice to see some people who share my views... now my next issue: the registry...

how is it POSSIBLE that the registry is SO INEFFICIENT, SO BADLY ORGANIZED? How many keys are DUPLICATED? oh yes, thats right, we have some keys in HKLM_CurrentUser, some in HKLM_Local_Machine, why can it not be WELL ORGANIZED with SANE NAMES and maybe a new GUI to go with it?

Look at those stupid cryptic names? It's almost as if Microsoft have a special way of doing it... Its a bit like this....

1) Take MS, initials of Microsoft

2) Take a random TLA (three letter acronym)

3) Take two completely unconnected words and put them together

4) Maybe add a number on the end....

So now we have...

MSGUIBattyPotato

MSHDDEjectPortfolio

and we can make countless more! Oh the endless fun!

Yep, the registry is complete crap. That is reason 1 of 3 that made me switch to OS X :p

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Now... my next rant is about COMPATIBILITY!

ARGHHH! This is a NIGHTMARE! Ok, so lets see, ah yes FrontPage, ok whatever its a rubbish app, but if it comes with Office Suite, may as well use it for SOMETHING... Ok so I open up bla.php and now what? Oh dear, it wont open as a document, never mind syntax highlighting, instead it opens in some NOTEPAD reincarnation where I am left to scavenge through the ruins of my PHP...

BUT - Microsoft FrontPage fully supports ASP... Well thats GREAT isnt it, the PHP team go into so much effort to make a win32 version of their predominantly linux application, whilst Microsoft WONT ALLOW ASP to run on anything other than windows?

Not fair... not fair at all! I suggest you join me for my Microsoft manual-burning!

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Yep, the registry is complete crap. That is reason 1 of 3 that made me switch to OS X :p

Which ones were the other two?

[jon], I agree completely. :laugh: "MSHDDEjectPortfolio" :rofl:

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,Jun 1 2004, 17:22] I agree with all of you, nice to see some people who share my views... now my next issue: the registry...

how is it POSSIBLE that the registry is SO INEFFICIENT, SO BADLY ORGANIZED? How many keys are DUPLICATED? oh yes, thats right, we have some keys in HKLM_CurrentUser, some in HKLM_Local_Machine, why can it not be WELL ORGANIZED with SANE NAMES and maybe a new GUI to go with it?

Look at those stupid cryptic names? It's almost as if Microsoft have a special way of doing it... Its a bit like this....

1) Take MS, initials of Microsoft

2) Take a random TLA (three letter acronym)

3) Take two completely unconnected words and put them together

4) Maybe add a number on the end....

So now we have...

MSGUIBattyPotato

MSHDDEjectPortfolio

and we can make countless more! Oh the endless fun!

LoL so true.. and so funny at the same time :laugh:

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I think I'm going to have to turn this into a forum for my rants now! Argh the anger!! I try to edit my sig code on my brothers laptop with frontpage (which is actually a perfectly decent application) only to be met by a blank wall when trying to open PHP, have to rename as HTM then back to PHP - shameful, really shameful...

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One thing I hate is Windows' inability to fill the drive space pie chart properly with colour.

Not a problem I've come across personally, but nevertheless a valid point...

Makes you wonder - for a commercial, polished, finished application this is UNNACCEPTABLE... Maybe for an open-source hobbyist OS, then we could accept this - but wait, no, I don't see any "MSFBIFunkyChicken" registry keys in RedHat, I don't see any 4-bit icons in FreeBSD...

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Funniest thing about the icons is they made replacements for all of them, they just failed to replace the files. If you search through the DLLs you'll find for example XP style file icon, but XP uses the Win9x style file icon so that's just odd as they already did the most difficult part, you can fix most of this without downloading new icons by changing some values

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There's loads of crap in the DLLs, even alpha and beta images like "Codename Whistler" stuff all over the place. I hope to god I'm not still seeing Win95 crap in longhorn :(

Consistency has never been a strong point of Microsoft.

They seem to take the old and put a new lick of paint on it and re-sell it to customers as Microsoft {insert product name here} {insert current year here}

Annoyed me a great deal, but now I use my PC sporadically and have a nice new shiny Mac. :D

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One thing I hate is Windows' inability to fill the drive space pie chart properly with colour.

Those pie graphs can be really tricky customers. :laugh:

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the best software ms made -> notepad

You could make a poll out of that. But it would bring out 1001 trolls. :ermm: Better not to do it.

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