Programs you hate?

[NeoMayhem]

Here is a list of Programs tha tI hate, you can post your list too ;)

1. Real Player:

I hate this program and the .rm format because it is slow and buggy, MP3, WMA, and OGG media is smaller and sounds better. You cant get free encoders for it, and they dont let other programs open .rm files :(

2. AOL (And the AOL ISP Service):

I hate this program and service because it is slow, unreliable, has more sercurity holes then I have money, and its features suck compared to other free products :(

3. Window Blinds:

For me this program lets me use really slow skins that suck up valubal resources on my computer, and every time I tried a skin, it looked 10x better in the screenshot demos then it really did on my system. I also dont like the false advertizing and other non factual info they give you about the program to get you to buy it :(

4. Invision Power Board:

I like the software a lot, but I *HATE* the defualt skin, and almost every site I see these days use it because the owners are to lazy to change it :(

[CarbonKnight]

skinnylegs,Jan 24 2003, 07:36] How can anyone hate AOL? Noobs need an ISP venue just like everyone else! Also, it makes the internet available to gramps and gran!

No, n00bs shouldn't be online. The internet would be a safer place. That goes double with AOL n00bs.

Gramps and Gran? No, that's bull. Having to buy a computer just to write their spoiled grandkids just isn't right. A long time ago we had this crazy thing called a telephone, and mail!

OMG!!1!1@1 I no iT SUNDS CWazy!!!1 buTT TRU!!!1!111 LOLOLOLOLolololololo

[nekrosoft13]

-- The Hall of Shame --

Word 2002 (takes so damn long to load!)

what do you mean? :wacko:

my pops up in about half of a second

[zhangm Supervisor]

Hmm, Word 2002 takes about 12 seconds to load up and 5 seconds to close for me... Its slower than Mozilla... Maybe its cuz I've got some extra toolbars that I put up...and the speech recognition interface...and the eastern language packs installed?

[Silverity]

Hmm, Word 2002 takes about 12 seconds to load up and 5 seconds to close for me... Its slower than Mozilla... Maybe its cuz I've got some extra toolbars that I put up...and the speech recognition interface...and the eastern language packs installed?

I have word installed along with japanese, chinese & russian language packs, w/ voice recognition too... loads fast as hell

[glazzz]

No, n00bs shouldn't be online. The internet would be a safer place. That goes double with AOL n00bs.

Gramps and Gran? No, that's bull. Having to buy a computer just to write their spoiled grandkids just isn't right. A long time ago we had this crazy thing called a telephone, and mail!

OMG!!1!1@1 I no iT SUNDS CWazy!!!1 buTT TRU!!!1!111 LOLOLOLOLolololololo

amen, my brotha... :)

[mAcOdIn Veteran]

No, n00bs shouldn't be online. The internet would be a safer place. That goes double with AOL n00bs.

Gramps and Gran? No, that's bull. Having to buy a computer just to write their spoiled grandkids just isn't right. A long time ago we had this crazy thing called a telephone, and mail!

OMG!!1!1@1 I no iT SUNDS CWazy!!!1 buTT TRU!!!1!111 LOLOLOLOLolololololo

amen, my brotha... :)

We need noobs online to attract more support and e-commerce.

But on the other hand, I haven't won a single contest over the internet ever since AOL offered internet access. Before that I was a gamespot.com junkie. I musta one crap off that site about 10 times. Oh the days when it seemed like the net was your own little secret.

Oh and my vote for most hated software goes to any program bundled with new.net.

[glazzz]

-- The Hall of Shame --

Windows Messenger (couldn't get rid of it)

MSN Messenger 5.0

Yahoo Messenger

AOL Messenger

Netscape 6.x and above. (Communicator 4.7 was alright)

Internet Explorer (complete POS compared to Moz or Opera)

Outlook Express (really, do I need a reason?)

Frontpage (Il n'aime pas travaille)

DesktopX (made by SD, you get the picture...)

Star Downloader (nothing worked right)

Word 2002 (takes so damn long to load!)

RealPlayerOne (should be named RealPlayerMinusOne)

WinAmp3 (unstable, takes so long to load that it needs a splash screen)

WinME (it must have escaped the testing facility...)

-- --

-- The Hall of Fame --

WinRAR (yeah!)

Mozilla (go tabbed browsing!)

ObjectDock (damn good gfx, no upgrade BS, free)

FlashGet (free, if you delete the ad banners)

WinAmp 2.xx (fast, light audio player, good file compatability)

MSN Messenger 4.7.0036 (yep, I'm still using that one)

Messenger Plus! (extra features)

Norton AV 2003 (eh, I use it...)

Windows 2000 (not stuffed with GUI, fast, slim, efficient)

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My Computer:

Gateway 400SD4 laptop

2.4 Ghz P4

384MB RAM

30GB HDD

WinXP

Burn baby, burn! :D

are you serious? or are you stoned?

half of the stuff on your shame list is either a later or earlier version of the things on your fame list, or its made by the same company you're complaining about.

I mean they may have problems on your l33t p4 g4t3w4y, but 75% of them have never given me problems, the other 25% i haven't tried because i don't feel the need to try every single piece of software that hits the net.

I use:

IE

Office XP

Trillian Pro

Style XP

Windows XP Pro

Winamp3 ( and 2 because its the only version that the trillian plugin supports yet)

and they all load fast and my life is good.

buy more ram for your l33t g4t3w4y. maybe it will load faster.

[techquilla]

oops, i just realised i was typing in another input type....sorry...

i hate WINDOWBLIND...

Edited January 24, 2003 by iomayho

[Icarus ^i^]

Incredimail (happily imports anything, but it's f**king impossible to export)

OS/2 (almost killed my uncle when he installed this crap and I had to clean it up afterwards)

umm.. actually I hate PC's as well... Amiga rocks!!! :)

[majere]

Who the heck is that on your avatar, Mr. User above me? A mod also uses that avatar (forget his name).

keldyn uses it, he's Simon Baker

[Daza]

Bonzi Buddy

Gator

Real Player

Windows Blinds

[DarkLordSouron]

bonzi buddy

ftp programs(wsftp)

kazaa and lite

imesh

realplayer

winamp

[Trust]

I forgot!. QuickTime!! Da crap!

[AshMan]

1. NETSCAPE NETSCAPE NETSCAPE NETSCAPE NETSCAPE

2. Safari

3. eMule

4. RealPlayer

5. WinAmp 3 (2 is far better)

6. Media Player 7+

7. Quicktime

8. Norton's crappy firewall thingy

And any program that has a skin. Why the hell do some dumb designers think their programs look better with a skin? They are a turn off and are unprofessional in most cases. All most all the video editing/capture programs have them.

[Daybreak]

Hmm.. programs I hate? Not really that many.... but offhand here's a list..

(1) Realplayer 8 / RealONE

No brainer for me. Anything that tries to take over every media association that I've painstaking assigned must die.. Not to mention the constant nags, programs added into startups...

(2) Quicktime

See above. Quicktime.. is slightly more well behaved than Real though..

(3) Programs that are spyware and aren't upfront about it.

I actually don't mind programs that use reporting/advertising components, especially if they ANNOUNCE it during the install, and give you an option to disable it.. but those that go stealth are a strict NO-NO.

I would guess that's about it.. :cool:

I noticed some people mentioning some programs that I don't really agree with...

For example Winamp 3. What's wrong with it? It's currently the best skinnable player out there, the plugin architecure is properly designed ( much unlike Winamp2's hacked together API ) .. Sound quality should be equal with Winamp2 unless you seriously messed up, and both aren't the best for playing music out there by any shot...

And Mozilla? It's a pretty super-functional browser that's got a lot going for it. The crash rate is about equal to IE here ( IE seems to die on Javascript, Mozilla dies on real HUGE pages ).. and well, I don't expect my browser to pop up the moment I click it..

[briangw]

SAP,

anything mainframe related,

Win2k at work (because the links folder in the favorites will not go away, even if you delete it. Yeah, it's stupid, but it bugs me),

our help desk software (a heavily modified journal in Outlook 98),

Event Viewer, to look up locked accounts (it may take minutes to find info when everyone in the company is logging in at the same time)

Exceed (Unix product)

Norton Antivirus,

Windows XP networking

[AshMan]

Imesh (the worst case of spyware ever conceived)

Are you sure that iMesh has spyware?

[CarbonKnight]

Are you sure that iMesh has spyware?

Yeah, very minimal. Only 45 different cases of spyware, some of which can cause the internet to stop working when you uninstall it.

[m0]

Javascript that causes popups 2 come up in ie :angry:

m0.

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Bonzy Buddy

Gator

Internet Explorer

Norton AV

[CarbonKnight]

I can't believe I (and everyone else) forgot about Interactual DVD player!

[Samoa]

I forgot!. QuickTime!! Da crap!

welll said. :yes:

[darkmark327]

SAP,

anything mainframe related,

Win2k at work (because the links folder in the favorites will not go away, even if you delete it. Yeah, it's stupid, but it bugs me),

our help desk software (a heavily modified journal in Outlook 98),

Event Viewer, to look up locked accounts (it may take minutes to find info when everyone in the company is logging in at the same time)

Exceed (Unix product)

Norton Antivirus,

Windows XP networking

just set the 'hidden' attribute

[whatchadoin]

programs i hate:

quicktime

aol instant messenger

real player

spywear

window blinds

and all programs that seem to work and have great reviews until you download them! grrrr

oh yeah! and norton antivirus and mcaffee, mainly because it totally tried to take over my computer

[aleni]

SAP,

anything mainframe related,

Win2k at work (because the links folder in the favorites will not go away, even if you delete it. Yeah, it's stupid, but it bugs me),

our help desk software (a heavily modified journal in Outlook 98),

Event Viewer, to look up locked accounts (it may take minutes to find info when everyone in the company is logging in at the same time)

Exceed (Unix product)

Norton Antivirus,

Windows XP networking

do u have tweakui installed?