What annoys you?

The fact that people buy corn as a fast food.

z3r010 said:

Vent all you want Greg, but if it gets too much then hit the report button and we will sort it out

Yup, you admins rock! Everytime I see something bad, like the illegal craking Windows the other day you guys shut it down in a FLASH!

You Rock! Thanks!

Bad actors in good movies.

Britton30 said:

ICit2lol said:

Hum my ex used to be at her worst at back seat driving and I was always in the wrong

If a man speaks in the forest with no woman around, is he still wrong?

Yeah mate always LOL!!

JaidynM said:

Bad actors in good movies.

Plus vice versa J!

TV ads that take up more time than the program and seem to be louder!

ICit2lol said:

TV ads that take up more time than the program and seem to be louder!

+1

That's why it's so much easier to but the DVD and watch it. With the ads, a show is 1 hour+, without, it's barely 40 minutes.

JaidynM said:

ICit2lol said:

TV ads that take up more time than the program and seem to be louder!

+1

That's why it's so much easier to but the DVD and watch it. With the ads, a show is 1 hour+, without, it's barely 40 minutes.

Yeah I know J plus you ever noticed too how far in advance you have to set the timer as the advertised times are eaten into by the previous program and the end of what you are recording is cut off if you don't add at least 15 mins to the record time

gregrocker said:

Interference in threads so that standard procedures which have helped in thousands of similar cases are confused or derailed entirely by competing suggestions. There's a rash of it right now, stretching one day solutions out to two weeks in one case.

The prob is not always with noobs. Other badged members' competing suggestions can give OP's pause even when they've not been working these same fixes for years or at all.

When someone knowledgeable has latched on to a post, I always wait to see if they have exhausted their quiver before shooting an arrow in myself. Too many cooks as it were...

fseal said:

I see that happen at times. I mean I've been guilty myself but usually only when I see that the initial suggestions are likely going WAY off base or are far to generic when a specific test may get to the heart of the matter right away.

Had one lately where a person was confused about the Documents and Settings folder (Everyone is at first) and almost immediately there was a suggestion to do a restore /repair then a reinstall. :/

You gotta get down to the actual meat of the problem, do a little triage, before suggesting such grand recovery options. In this case I was pretty sure the problem was a PEBKAK, perfectly solvable with a little education/explaination, and restoring/repairing and reinstalling were just enormous wastes of time and dangerous for the user (likely to lose a lot of data they wouldn't want to if not careful).

Rarely is a repair install, or reinstall a correct suggestion up front. But rather a last resort if all else fails, IMHO. A SFC is never a bad suggestion, but any other steps can always be followed by a repair install if it becomes necessary.
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