Holy christ.
I can't believe I left off the mastadon dung that is Windows Installer.
You can say it's great.....and blah this and that....but it's all FUD. Just try using the SDK.
I can't believe I left off the mastadon dung that is Windows Installer.
You can say it's great.....and blah this and that....but it's all FUD. Just try using the SDK.
can't sleep, sdk will eat me comes to mind.
and for people who say OE is alright...I agree it's an ok program if people stopped exploiting it, problem is that windows update doesn't catch bugs for OE 100%, Heck, it still tells me I need service pack 3 when I know for a fact it's already there. Plus, there's no way that MS can keep up with all the xploits for OE since it's tied to IE which is tied to windows. It gets "hacked" not because it's popular or people use it. It's not MS outlook, just OE. It gets hacked because every IE installation will throw OE into the system, regardless of whether or not ur using it.
1. Any Spyware/Adware
2. Netscape
3. WinME
4. RealOne/Realplayer
5. KaZaA (not diet KaZaA or KaZaA Lite)
2. Netscape
3. WinME
4. RealOne/Realplayer
5. KaZaA (not diet KaZaA or KaZaA Lite)
I'm not sure about 5, but Outlook Express is one and number 2 may well be snapstream pvs. I think the authors are getting really lazy b/c 3.0 has been "supposed to be out" for about 5 months now and the features of 2.0 are starting to not work but nobody's issueing fixes, just promises. I'm starting to learn that vaporware can be a real headache.
1. anything with the letters AOL
2. norton products
3. adobe products
4. quicktime
5. any OS not XP Pro
love Music Match, best ripping program I have found to upload my cd collection to HDD, but that's all I use that for.
2. norton products
3. adobe products
4. quicktime
5. any OS not XP Pro
love Music Match, best ripping program I have found to upload my cd collection to HDD, but that's all I use that for.
WeatherBug - It's loaded with spyware, it slows the entire computer down, hogs network bandwidth and is a pain in the a$$ to remove from NT/2000.
Originally posted by: GoodToGo
WTF is MS bob?
BTW my choices are:
i) Real Player - never stops giving pop ups, is really unstable. I really wonder why people still use it as the primary video streaming software as comapred to WMP:|
ii) AOL - dont bother.
iii) EZ Cd creator - OMG, I cannot imagine how people use this POS. It is the most obstrusive, useless POS software ever. I uninstalled this software the first time I used it.
iv) MSN messenger - interferes with your TV tuner, crashes like crazy, dunno why my family uses it
v) Weatherbug- OMG, its going to rain today so I am going to make sounds that are going to drive the user insane and give 100 pop ups
EDIT: forgot Zone Alarm, OMG that program makes you wanna get off the internet.
sweet, you hate the same programs as me.. and all with good examples too..
MSN messenger = gay as hell.. it screws with TV tuners? I wonder if that's the probem I have with mine! 1.) Any Gain or Gator wear. In fact any buddy software. (like the talking parrot and stupid monkey thing)
2.) Steam (gets my vote every time. Nice idea, bad distrobution if you ask me)
3.) Modem Booster (takes ages. much longer then a bit of registry hacking)
4.) GameSpy (too bulky for something that is half as good as ASE)
5.) Precision Time (why bother? set the time yourself)
2.) Steam (gets my vote every time. Nice idea, bad distrobution if you ask me)
3.) Modem Booster (takes ages. much longer then a bit of registry hacking)
4.) GameSpy (too bulky for something that is half as good as ASE)
5.) Precision Time (why bother? set the time yourself)
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haha... so true... I hate Symantec... it sucks when you install A/V and then are forced to re-install the operating system..
1) Real*
2) MS Office apps(if you use them often)
3) kazaa(however you spell it)
4) MathCad!
5) ICQ is getting pretty bad nowadays
2) MS Office apps(if you use them often)
3) kazaa(however you spell it)
4) MathCad!
5) ICQ is getting pretty bad nowadays
realplayer - it eats resources and causes conflicts with other programs in my experience - sounds like bad software to me...
kazaa sucks.
win me was a joke.
ati mmc of any vintage i have yet to get to actually, fully work.
win 98se was better than win me but that doesn't prove anything.
gator and its minons are about as annoying as it gets.
dew.
1. Realplayer (no explanation needed - why can't people distribute content in other formats and let this garbage die away)
2. Quicktime (absolutely terrible user interface, you have to go through 2-3 menus/drop downs just to get full screen playback, very hard to resize, crashes sometimes)
3. Win ME (no explanation needed)
4. The Acrobat Plug-In for IE (notice how if you open a .pdf in IE it acts so crappy compared to how normal it behaves when you save the .pdf and open with the actual program).
5. Logitech Mouseware (sits and uses 5MB of memory just to operate a mouse, also causes wierd mouse slowdowns).
2. Quicktime (absolutely terrible user interface, you have to go through 2-3 menus/drop downs just to get full screen playback, very hard to resize, crashes sometimes)
3. Win ME (no explanation needed)
4. The Acrobat Plug-In for IE (notice how if you open a .pdf in IE it acts so crappy compared to how normal it behaves when you save the .pdf and open with the actual program).
5. Logitech Mouseware (sits and uses 5MB of memory just to operate a mouse, also causes wierd mouse slowdowns).
Definitely Gator and those other Stupid spyware programs like BonziBuddy.
I dont know why anyone would knock Kazaa (except for the extra programs like Brilliant / Gain) when you could use Kazaa lite. I would rank the next batch of crapy software to be the ones modeled after Gnutella - like Livewire, BearShare, blah blah blah).
Wasn't that dinosaur game - I think it was called Trespasser pretty terrible? I think it's 2 or 3 years old now and I'm not even sure the processors of today can still run it at max options.
Oh yeah - and Survivor was by far one of the worst even though I'm still a Survivor / reality tv junkie.
I dont know why anyone would knock Kazaa (except for the extra programs like Brilliant / Gain) when you could use Kazaa lite. I would rank the next batch of crapy software to be the ones modeled after Gnutella - like Livewire, BearShare, blah blah blah).
Wasn't that dinosaur game - I think it was called Trespasser pretty terrible? I think it's 2 or 3 years old now and I'm not even sure the processors of today can still run it at max options.
Oh yeah - and Survivor was by far one of the worst even though I'm still a Survivor / reality tv junkie.
Originally posted by: Yield
Originally posted by: GoodToGo
WTF is MS bob?
BTW my choices are:
i) Real Player - never stops giving pop ups, is really unstable. I really wonder why people still use it as the primary video streaming software as comapred to WMP:|
ii) AOL - dont bother.
iii) EZ Cd creator - OMG, I cannot imagine how people use this POS. It is the most obstrusive, useless POS software ever. I uninstalled this software the first time I used it.
iv) MSN messenger - interferes with your TV tuner, crashes like crazy, dunno why my family uses it
v) Weatherbug- OMG, its going to rain today so I am going to make sounds that are going to drive the user insane and give 100 pop ups
EDIT: forgot Zone Alarm, OMG that program makes you wanna get off the internet.
sweet, you hate the same programs as me.. and all with good examples too..
Hehe, glad that we have the same thoughts
About MSN messenger, the lesser said, the better. I have had two TV tuners and the horror stories just never cease. In my old computer, it was either MSN messenger or the TV tuner. Usually I had messenger uninstalled but when I had to chat with ym parents, I had to reinstall it. After chatting, uninstall again in order to watch TV
anything by real ... this has to be winning hands down!
quicktime - what a pain!
i disagree about musicmatch tho. aside from the annoying emails i love the way it records and organizes my music library!
quicktime - what a pain!
i disagree about musicmatch tho. aside from the annoying emails i love the way it records and organizes my music library!
Win ME. I don't use it, but too many family & friends just had to jump on that broken @$$ bandwagon.
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