What apps do you hate ?


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-iTunes is the new RealPlayer, QuickTime still sucks.

-IE Browser Toolbars. I will remove them from any PC I have 5 sec alone with. Pay it forward.

-7ZIP, another ugly program for cheapskates. On that tangent anyone running WinZip on XP and later, if you actually bought it I might slap you.

But above and beyond those...

Foxit Reader. There hasn't been an excuse for your existence since Reader 6. Acrobat doesn't suck so much anymore and XPS is a viable alternative. Stop using something that is going to make any well designed form look and act like ****. We don't need a PDF 'browser war'. And on top of that, since some harebrained retards coded you, if uninstalled you will probably roach the chance for IE to render PDF's correctly without invasive procedures for the foreseeable future. **** YOU!

Anything that uses a fancy and often buggy look instead of the native Windows one. You get the picture. I'm looking at you iTunes!

Yea I kinda agree with that, I hated Steam's old UI (The flat green style). The new Steam UI isn't perfect but it was a much needed improvement.

Its nice to see more programs using Aero in their UI: FF4, Chrome, Inbox2, Paint.NET, etc...

All and any browser toolbars !

Everything from Google, exept Gmail (but not as main account), Earth and Chrome (but. Chrome not as main browser).

Nero 7,8,9,10 - bloated as hell and useless.

Outlook Express - it destroys your e-mails

Windows Messenger

Everything from Apple

All spyware (containing) apps, including but not limited to Limewire and Bearshare.

+1 except Nero 7 was OK

I agree with everything else + Almost all stardock application.

+1 on that one! My wife has to use it for her iPod Touch, and iTunes is the worse piece of garbage there is! It is so frustrating sometimes. I dread having to be forced to install iTunes 10.

There are free programs that work with your iPod you know?

SharePod being one of my favourites.

OpenOffice

7zip

Well, both do their job. 7-ZIP has bad UI, I agree, but is is execellent application. Very good for people, who MUST have all apps legit and need simple (un)packer. Also 7-zip provides powerful compression with LZMA and large dictionary.

OpenOffice - it is IMO not as good as MS Office, but it works. You can do some (simple?) tasks, inluding opening .doc files, for free.

Also, I agree with Dead'Soul - Windows Defender is BAD.

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IrfanView... wondeful app, but the logo of the roadkill animal and having it overlay over all the media files I want to associate with it is just ugly. I use XnView now (mainly for .PSD support, but other common picture filetypes open a lot quicker in that program than in Windows... sad really).

All and any browser toolbars !

Amen Brother, amen.

Outlook Express - it destroys your e-mails

And its hell to back up without an Office Outlook installation on the system, I don't understand why in 2010 people with Office Outlook on an XP machine will still try to use Express. If I reinstall an XP machine that's the first thing I remove. Hell Live Mail is better.

Windows Messenger

Another instant remove on any XP reinstall.

All spyware (containing) apps, including but not limited to Limewire and Bearshare.

Add Imesh. I cannot for the love of me why people would soil their systems with that thing. And back to the first one you listed, publishers have maximized on the user's tenancy to click next through every install. Hence the slow IE with toolbars taking up half the screen. :blink:

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