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WHAT AN ENCOURAGING [sadly] DOCUMENT!

Thanks.

Every time I click on my programs button, I have an error message saying there are too many items to show all of them etc. that I should delete some . . .

I've deleted all I can bear to delete!

Also, there's this anoying problem of MSN updates or some such typically cause more than 2-3 windows open or minimized to hang. Forcefully ending the one problem window causes all the IE windows to close. I have 1.X Gigabyte RAM; more than 150 GIGABYTES HD; DUAL AMD 1.XGIGHZ CPU ASUS MOTHERBOARD etc. I shouldn't have any problem having a dozen windows open.

Is there a good efficient place on the MS site to get help from? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Is there any workable way to get email help? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

They get tons of automated error reports from my machine and that does me all of 0.00000000000% good.

I tried to go to the UPDATE page at MS recently and that was a bust, too. I don't think I could get it to function much at all.

THEY HAD A REPUTATION IN TAIPEI OF BEING ABSOLUTELY BLOOD THIRSTY RUTHLESS AFTER A CORRUPT FASHION.

Regardless, they are grossly insensitive to customers and their products are a mess.

I have a Linux box I've hesitated to fire up because I hate the learning curve and have to interface everything with a college addicted to Microsoft.

But I look forward to the day when I can kiss the monsters goodbye and rejoice only.

My last PC came with Windows ME. After that fiasco I decided it was time for a change. I've been using Apple computers since the spring of 2000, and once OS X 10.1 came out I started using OS X for everything. I used to get very frustrated with my PC's and their never-ending problems. No longer. My one word answer to everyone's computer problems is "Apple". Just switch, and tell Microshaft where to put their software.

To give you an idea of the difference between the Windows user experience and the Apple user experience, I'm still using the Apple G4 I bought back in 2000. Use it every day. Just loaded the latest version of OS X (10.3 aka "Panther") on it, and it actually runs faster now than it did with the previous OS (10.2 aka "Jaguar"). Can you imagine being able to run the "latest and greatest" software from Microshaft on a three and a half year old PC? Let alone getting a performance boost from it? Ain't gonna happen!

The best summation of my Windows experience can be expressed in this simple haiku:

It worked yesterday,
yet it does not work today.
Windows is like that.

Well, my Apple computers worked yesterday, they work today, and they'll work tomorrow. My troubleshooting skills have almost totally atrophied. You don't need them when your machines simply work. Now my time is spent doing cool things like video editing, graphics, Photoshop, and music composition. Needless to say, I'm glad I switched.

"Every time I click on my programs button, I have an error message saying there are too many items to show all of them etc. that I should delete some . . . I've deleted all I can bear to delete! "

It's a simple setting:

R-click on the Taskbar, select Properties; select the Start Menu tab; choose Customize; in the middle box you will see it says "Number of programs on the Start menu" with a number field next to it. Lower the number until you no longer receive the error message.

The warning just means your screen resolution/icon size is too large for the selected number of icons to be shown in the Start menu.