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My Top 5 Complaints on Windows
2008-04-08 | Mike Acker

Posted on 04/08/2008 7:22:14 AM PDT by Mike Acker

my personal top 5 gripes about windows

  1. INEFFECTIVE SECURITY
  2. CAP LOCK KEY
  3. SCROLL WHEEL DOES NOT SWITCH WINDOW CONTEXT
  4. LACK OF STICKEYNESS (products reverting to "My Documents when the should remember where you were working)
  5. MS Word trying to guess how you want to format a document
  6. Access


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1 posted on 04/08/2008 7:22:14 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: Mike Acker

I’m pretty sure there’s ways to change those defaults you mention, so that they won’t be a bother any longer.


2 posted on 04/08/2008 7:23:28 AM PDT by jdm (Sign you've got a crappy job: your boss asks if you're on MySpace and if you'll add him as a friend.)
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To: jdm
That would require learning how to set properties in MS Word.

FWIW My Documents does not need to be the default for anything and can be changed in the Registry.

3 posted on 04/08/2008 7:28:02 AM PDT by Woodman ("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
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To: jdm

some,— like in Word you can switch a lot of the autmaticc guessing off but you have to go into an endless menu and find all the switches. wouldn’t be so bad if ya had a button to ban all wizards on 1 click


4 posted on 04/08/2008 7:28:39 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: jdm

Also #4 can be solved by doing a ‘Save As’ instead of ‘Save’.


5 posted on 04/08/2008 7:29:58 AM PDT by Woodman ("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
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To: Mike Acker
Right Click on ‘Clippy’ and tell him to go away. Problem solved.
6 posted on 04/08/2008 7:31:22 AM PDT by Woodman ("One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." PW)
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To: Mike Acker

Ineffective security? What version are you using? If it’s Vista then you should know that recently it came in second place to Ubuntu on internet security, Apple was hacked in minutes while Vista took three days.


7 posted on 04/08/2008 7:33:09 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: Mike Acker

Windows’ biggest letdown for me.... no multiple desktops like in most Linux distros.


8 posted on 04/08/2008 7:33:20 AM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: Woodman
remember: these are on-going aggravations:

open an Excel spreadsheet; right click on a tab you need a copy of; select move/copy and create a new book. It will dump you back into "My Documents ( or whatever you have set as default ) instead of figuring out the most likely place is the PWD ( present working directory -- when the source document came from ) .

9 posted on 04/08/2008 7:33:40 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: Mike Acker

Whoa, dude - chop some firewood, dig some dirt.

Go outside, at least.


10 posted on 04/08/2008 7:33:45 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: MarineBrat

good. we’ll ad that to this list!


11 posted on 04/08/2008 7:35:16 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: headsonpikes

when no remarks are posted then the purveyors of the Status Quo win by default.

that ain’t our way around here


12 posted on 04/08/2008 7:37:28 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: Mike Acker
MS Word trying to guess how you want to format a document

Just turn it off.

13 posted on 04/08/2008 7:38:06 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: aft_lizard
security must win by a SHUTOUT. there is no such thing as pretty good. like sayin' "I didn't get hit for 3 days"

3 days ain't long next time they have it in 300ms

Security must SHUTOUT the attackers

14 posted on 04/08/2008 7:46:30 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: Mike Acker

So, most of your problems with Windows are actually problems with Office, right? (That aren’t even really problems, just a lack of user knowledge...)


15 posted on 04/08/2008 7:46:37 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Petronski
yeah go ahead there's about a dozen or more little switches ya gotta find and set. it's a PITA which is why it's on my gripes list.

Wordperfect was a pleasure to work with; Word is a PITA

16 posted on 04/08/2008 7:48:42 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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To: Mike Acker

Curse the darkness or light a candle.

Yes, I know that involves finding the candle, standing it upright in a safe place, opening the matchbook, tearing off a match, striking the match, moving it toward the wick, igniting the wick and extinguishing the match.

But when you’re done, you have light.


17 posted on 04/08/2008 7:57:45 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Mike Acker

It isnt quite as simple as you are saying, no matter how much you dream it to be. Those three days also had a year of preparation and the best they could come up with was a third party app that had to be used in such away that 99.9999999999% of all users would never be effected by such an attack. A shutout is a nice dream however.


18 posted on 04/08/2008 8:03:31 AM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: Mike Acker

Word and Excel are very powerful programs that try to satisfy both the casual user and the power user.

Those on the border of both type of users will often be fustrated.

I urge you to subscribe (for free!) to each of the following websites. As a subscriber, you will get an e-mail every Monday with tips...some for power users (such as Macro usage), some for casual users (how to turn borders on and off) and those in-between (like how to work with Styles).

http://excel2007.tips.net/
http://word2007.tips.net/


19 posted on 04/08/2008 8:26:38 AM PDT by kidd
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To: aft_lizard
==>A shutout is a nice dream however

A shutout is the minimum acceptable

whatever was or was not found during HackerFest doesn't tell us that much. Experience tells us what is real and what is wishful thinking

20 posted on 04/08/2008 8:28:12 AM PDT by Mike Acker
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