Future Tense: Bottom Ten Windows Annoyances

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All the other articles list the top ten Windows Annoyances. I’m going to list the bottom ten. These are things that work, but they’re sloppy.

Maybe the programmers thought good enough was good enough. It isn’t. Maybe the programmers forgot to stress-test their work. They should have. Maybe they didn’t think about the actual work environment where their software would be running. Oops.

And perhaps, some of these behaviors are my fault—things that are particular to my machine, quirks that have developed over time as the detritus of heavy use piles up like scree at the bottom of a cliff. Whatever the case, they’re still annoying.......

Read more at: Maximum PC | Future Tense: Bottom Ten Windows Annoyances

 

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http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91629-windows-explorer-add-remove-delete-button.html

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http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/129401-windows-explorer-toolbar-buttons-customize.html

 

[Windows i7 920]

Every OS has it's annoyances (for OS X, the whole OS is an annoyance to me, Linux + high end Radeon HD cards can be glitchy, etc). I've found Windows 7 to be an OS with relatively few annoyances, especially compared to Windows XP. I will say though, I hate the new taskbar... Vista had it perfect IMO. Also I really miss Active Desktop. JavaScripted animated backgrounds were epic. Sometimes I'd embed an SWF I quickly made in Flash 8.