Microsoft annoyances....


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I bet a majority of all this crap is cause MS was trying to make this backwards compatible. It will be good to see the complete from scratch longhorn os come out.

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Same here. All the 8bit icons, the registry (eViL, it ate my brother, then it jumped off a plane!), and all the beta stuff... I wish they fixed it :(.

And now I have to find the registry entry MSREGAteVeivasBro! Where it may be.

Veiva

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It may seem like a small thing to everyone else, and maybe there is a way to change this behavior (I hope!), but this really annoys the dickens outta me when I am on a Windows machine:

I start up some application, then click the START button and start navigating to open a different program...

When the first application starts up, it cancells my navigation through the START menu! :angry:

Maybe I am too easily irritated? :unsure:

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it anoys me how damn temprimental a windows installation can be, after a week of a new installation you can tell if its a 'bad' one, why this occurs, i dont know, nothing chnages everytime i install, but sometimes the machine is fine, sometimes (like now) i am having to consider formatting again after only 2 weeks

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it anoys me how damn temprimental a windows installation can be, after a week of a new installation you can tell if its a 'bad' one, why this occurs, i dont know, nothing chnages everytime i install, but sometimes the machine is fine, sometimes (like now) i am having to consider formatting again after only 2 weeks

I've never had a "bad one" what do you mean?

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it anoys me how damn temprimental a windows installation can be, after a week of a new installation you can tell if its a 'bad' one, why this occurs, i dont know, nothing chnages everytime i install, but sometimes the machine is fine, sometimes (like now) i am having to consider formatting again after only 2 weeks

If you screw up your user it's usually enought to create a new user account and your computer will feel fast again just like you had formatted it.

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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...

You could just use PHP's ASP Style tag support...

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I wonder if MS will ever consider building Windows on UNIX and dumping NT, Unix seems to have outlived everything that gets in its way DOS | NT | BeOS etc... I would fully support MS moving to a UNIX based OS if it meant stability and a cleaned rebuilt from scratch OS.

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I wonder if MS will ever consider building Windows on UNIX and dumping NT, Unix seems to have outlived everything that gets in its way DOS | NT | BeOS etc... I would fully support MS moving to a UNIX based OS if it meant stability and a cleaned rebuilt from scratch OS.

Even Unix (in any form) isn't completely secure though. Why give up on a system that they've been improving over the years? There's a reason why Server 2003 is so good.

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I wonder if MS will ever consider building Windows on UNIX and dumping NT, Unix seems to have outlived everything that gets in its way DOS | NT | BeOS etc... I would fully support MS moving to a UNIX based OS if it meant stability and a cleaned rebuilt from scratch OS.

That would reduce Windows to a "Window Manager" for UNIX.

I really doubt that they would put themselves in that position.

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That would reduce Windows to a "Window Manager" for UNIX.

I doubt they could even do that right ;)

But in all fairness, Windows NT is very stable, but they really need to drop all this backwards compatibility crap for Windows 9x. Hopefully this will be the case for Longhorn's successor.

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This reminds me of an old site called www.annoyances.org . It hasn't been updated beyond Windows ME, unfortunately.

My beef is that there is no way to use wildcards on Move, Copy, Delete and Rename commands in Explorer. Why must I go into DOS to type in "ren *.html *.php"?

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My beef is that there is no way to use wildcards on Move, Copy, Delete and Rename commands in Explorer. Why must I go into DOS to type in "ren *.html *.php"?

good question

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Even Unix (in any form) isn't completely secure though.  Why give up on a system that they've been improving over the years?  There's a reason why Server 2003 is so good.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: THAT was the funniest thing I've heard in a while, really. Windows 2003 Server more secure than a Unix Server. :: wipes tears from eyes :: :laugh: :laugh: :blush: ;)

How much experience do you have being an administrator of a W2k3 Server Mav?

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MS softwares always bulky...too many fancies features which were crap and useless and that takes up so many hard drive space. I guess MS should scrap those crap features...we need fast and stable OS. For XP, I hope all known bugs will be addressed for upcoming SP2 release and promises better reliability and more stable.

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,Jun 2 2004, 01:43] :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: THAT was the funniest thing I've heard in a while, really. Windows 2003 Server more secure than a Unix Server. :: wipes tears from eyes :: :laugh: :laugh: :blush: ;)

hmmmm he actually never said it was more secure than. he said it was good.

unfortunately, Microsoft has to keep tons of legacy support in windows. most of those old icons are there probably because developers use them in their old software. maybe if they're removed, then it suddenly causes yet another application to not be compatible with the new windows.

for those who are wondering, longhorn DOES have the same (much of it) legacy support that xp/2003 has. it has to have it. think about it. what use is an OS that can't run anything that the previous version did?

one other note: the registry isn't duplicated in HKLM, HKCU and so on. it's actually different configurations for different scenarios. Local Machine are globals, Current User are the settings for the current user that generally should override the Local Machine ones. and so on. there actually is a logic to it. the problem is that it wasn't the most perfect idea and it was misused by devs :p

shame :)

i too wish Microsoft could dump the legacy support and just support old windows apps in some sort of emulator. that'd be nice. it'd remove TONS of crap in Windows. :)

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Unix is old and archaic, NT is the way forward is very stable, secure and versatile.

I would hesitate to call Unix "archaic". Indeed, in some ways it is more advanced and versatile. Plus, it (and variations of it) can run on numerous CPUs and archetecture types.

I don't mind your constant pro-Windows slant, but that does not mean that other OSes are dog food... :p

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,Jun 1 2004, 20:53] I am annoyed by the "little" flaws in Windows ...

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:

:rolleyes: Try writing your own Operating System, compatible with a million software programs and who-knows how many printers, modems, and other bits of hardware.

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