Annoying quirks in Windows that seem to find their way into every subsequent version

PiKe said:
The second problem is cos you're moving too far off the slider as you drag it, that makes it 'snap' back to the top.
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Yep, you're right! Don't know how I missed that for so long... in my defence though, when I'm holding down the left mouse button to take control of the slider, I don't expect to lose control of that slider until I decide to let go of the button again. It should let me control it regardless of where I put my mouse pointer! :p

The folder fix sounds great, will give it a go later.
 
The folder is only a temporary fix by the way. It will revert to what it wants in various folders again at some point, so that porn stash returns to that thumbnail. I keep thinking I should try Directory Opus, but then think it will just cost too much if I do like it. It's expensive for a single machine, let alone all the ones I'd want it on.

Print spooler issue listed above is the biggest bug that I can think of. It's just never been fixed (haven't really tested in Vista much at work, to be fair, and don't print at home). How it can remain so ignorant never ceases to astound or frustrate me. At least it's not as bad when using Printer Sharing through Group Policy.

Nathan, you don't need to focus on a separator on that pop-up menu. Just click and hold on one of the options, then drag your mouse off the pop-up.
 
this_is_gav said:
The folder is only a temporary fix by the way. It will revert to what it wants in various folders again at some point, so that porn stash returns to that thumbnail. I keep thinking I should try Directory Opus, but then think it will just cost too much if I do like it. It's expensive for a single machine, let alone all the ones I'd want it on.
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How long we talking? All the things have said that this is a permanent fix and they've had no problems there after. My folders usually reset themselves every couple of hours. But the ones I changed earlier seem fine.
 
Its not hours its however many folder you look through, the default Microsoft give is between 400 or 5000 folder, but they didn't even set a default to the right location. So its even lower something like 50 to 100 folders. With this reg "tweak" (correct fix is what it is really :p) applied it's upped to 20,000 but you can turn that down if you wish a little by modifying the text in the reg file. :)

Print spooling is my biggest grip, local isn't great, but over a network its pathetic. But even when i was running a Linux server with samba things weren't really much better, so i assume its to do with the way printers communicate or something?
 
LeperousDust said:
Print spooling is my biggest grip, local isn't great, but over a network its pathetic. But even when i was running a Linux server with samba things weren't really much better, so i assume its to do with the way printers communicate or something?
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Try adding terminal services into that mix!
 
my personal annoyance, is if you have the taskbar at the top of the screen rather than the bottom many programs you open decide to do this ->

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stopping you moving or closing the app until you move the taskbar to the bottom and then back up.
 
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Baked said:
my personal annoyance, is if you have the taskbar at the top of the screen rather than the bottom many programs you open decide to do this

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stopping you moving it until you move the taskbar to the bottom and then back up.
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Have you locked the taskbar again when you've moved it to the top?
 
hohum said:
Slider on the side of open windows likes to stay at the top of a window

I think this affects nearly every program under Windows, although I'm not too sure... anyway, here's a situation: you want to scroll quickly down a large folder or webpage, etc, and using the mousewheel will take too long. So, you move the mouse pointer over to the slider on the side, hold down left mouse, and drag it down to where you want.

...Then as you let go of the left mouse button, the slider promptly resets itself to the top of the window, and you have to do all over again for a second time. What's the deal with that? I've seen this happen so many times now that it's beyond a joke. I can't think of any good reason as to why this happens, it just serves to annoy the hell out of me!
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Click down your middle mouse button then when the cursor changes to a multidirectional arrow, move your mouse down. It'll scroll the pages fast without gimping back to the top.

;)
 
hohum said:
I don't mean this to be a Windows bashing thread... indeed, I very much enjoy using Vista. However, I feel that I must rant about some of the annoying quirks that manage to find their way into each subsequent Windows release. God knows why they're still cropping up, and I doubt it's for 'compatibility reasons'.

Windows constantly forgetting or changing your view/column settings for a specific folder
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i didnt have this in XP, but it drives me mad in vista
 
zap said:
loss of focus. (you can be typing away, or be clicking through menus and something will pop up to tell you something or a programme will finish loading etc etc. It's SO annoying
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Argh yeah, this is so annoying. Often the pop-up will be a yes or no or cancel box and typically I hit one of the Y N C keys and enter without even realising and then I'm like "what the heck did I just do?".
 
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