[Notary Sojac]

MS popups were of course brought to their ultimate in Windows Vista, where what was missing was a radio button that said “NEVER BOTHER ME ABOUT THIS F*****G THING AGAIN, OK????”

[samtheman]

MS popups were of course brought to their ultimate in Windows Vista, where what was missing was a radio button that said “NEVER BOTHER ME ABOUT THIS F*****G THING AGAIN, OK????”

That's a good one.

Another one -- and I've thought of this a long time ago -- regarding how MS always challenges you when you want to do something (and sometimes just ignores you):

I would like a registry setting in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet, a DWORD value that I can set to 1, with the name:

DoWhateverTheF*ITellYouToDoWheneverTheF*ITellYouToDoIt

[samtheman]

Another general windows beef that maybe somebody can help me with:

Situation: I try to go to a network share on my LAN on a server that is temporarily unavailable.

Result: It takes freaking FOREVER for the attempt to time out, during which it sometimes even freezes my entire computer (not just the windows explorer window where I made the connection attempt).

Is there a registry setting that shortens that time-out time?

Thanks.