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Posted on 01-02-10 03:26:55 AM

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You can turn off the confirmation message.

There's a checkbox in the recycling bin properties window.

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Posted on 01-02-10 03:27:43 AM

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I think that only gets rid of the one when you send the file to the Recycle Bin, not the one when you empty the Recycle Bin. I could be wrong.

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Posted on 01-02-10 04:20:49 AM

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Windows 7 not having the option to have the taskbar on multiple monitors, nor having different backgrounds.

I have a program for it, but still. I shouldn't need to.

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Posted on 01-02-10 12:30:58 PM

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Mac OS top menu bar with no way to change it, making focus follows mouse model completely impractical. I think kde at least gives you the option between top of the screen or top of the window.

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Posted on 01-02-10 01:32:36 PM (last edited by Terra at 01-02-10 10:32 AM)

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Laptop keyboard that put Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down in a vertical line rather than the usual square formation. That fucks up movement keys in a few games.

Also, the positioning of the Windows key and the fact that it minimizes any active full-screen game when you were trying to hit Ctrl or Alt, without even pausing it.

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Posted on 01-03-10 12:15:56 AM

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Computers which freeze randomly, just like mine!

Old computers which hang for a while when doing even medium loads of processing.

Hard drive Virtual Memory chugging.

New operating systems and their attempt to reinvent a perfectly fine thing. It took me 10 years just to finally accept Windows 95 (before I had plans to go back to Windows NT 3.51 just to bring back Windows 3.1's interface) and I'm sure as heck not gonna accept this new Vista/7 one.

Heck, I'd switch to Ubuntu instead if I can't make 7 look like a proper OS again.

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Posted on 01-03-10 06:37:39 AM

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Requiring the horizontal scan rate to stay within a particular range to prevent the power supply and monitor from both frying. (This applies to every CRT iMac and every eMac.) Great engineering, Apple. :specialed:

My keyboard and its marvelous lack of home, end, page up, and page down keys. I prefer using the number pad for entering numbers.

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Posted on 01-03-10 06:49:55 AM

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
Computers which freeze randomly, just like mine!

Old computers which hang for a while when doing even medium loads of processing.

Hard drive Virtual Memory chugging.

New operating systems and their attempt to reinvent a perfectly fine thing. It took me 10 years just to finally accept Windows 95 (before I had plans to go back to Windows NT 3.51 just to bring back Windows 3.1's interface) and I'm sure as heck not gonna accept this new Vista/7 one.

Heck, I'd switch to Ubuntu instead if I can't make 7 look like a proper OS again.

7 replaced the Classic start menu with a far more useful one... but if you're talking about schemes... Windows Classic does exist. I'm a rather big fan of Aero, though.

As for annoyances? My damn Celeron bogging everything down. This comp is perfectly acceptable (2GB RAM, GeForce 9500GT, an okayish amount of storage) except for that thing. :|

Oh, and Opera crashing and breaking a lot for me. I get a lot of shit about it.

Joe: Wait, the eMacs do that? Is it easy to screw up? I've been looking at getting one of those, but now I'm possibly reconsidering...

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Posted on 01-03-10 02:51:43 PM

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Both Opera and Firefox scrolling really really slow on certain pages (Onyx's layout specifically, among others) on a core i7 920... absolutely painful to visit Jul on the Athlon XP 2500+. Maybe I have something configured wrong, but I don't see what. My video drivers are installed... I haven't touched anything related to that in opera or Firefox, except turning off smooth scrolling, since that is just uselessly slow at times, and it's the same on 2 computers, even with fresh installs.

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Posted on 01-03-10 06:55:25 PM

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Originally posted by Onyx
Joe: Wait, the eMacs do that? Is it easy to screw up? I've been looking at getting one of those, but now I'm possibly reconsidering...

You have to be there when it first loads the GUI and switch it back to the terminal if it fails. The horizontal sync must be 72 kHz for an eMac.

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Posted on 01-03-10 07:01:20 PM

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It's particularly annoying when switching the colour of the Aero theme doesn't change stuff like the menus or ribbons to a different colour... it always stays Aero blue

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Posted on 01-03-10 10:02:59 PM

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While happily playing a fullscreen game...

HEY WINDOWS NEEDS TO RESTART TO INSTALL UPDATES!

I've made it stop doing this now, but it certainly was annoying.

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Posted on 01-05-10 06:06:27 PM

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Originally posted by paulguy
Both Opera and Firefox scrolling really really slow on certain pages (Onyx's layout specifically, among others) on a core i7 920... absolutely painful to visit Jul on the Athlon XP 2500+. Maybe I have something configured wrong, but I don't see what. My video drivers are installed... I haven't touched anything related to that in opera or Firefox, except turning off smooth scrolling, since that is just uselessly slow at times, and it's the same on 2 computers, even with fresh installs.

I don't get why this happens. Supakitsune's layout is a REALLY big culprit of this (it actually bumps Firefox's CPU usage up for me, for whatever reason... oh god celeron) too, unfortunately. :/

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Posted on 01-05-10 07:20:31 PM

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I've since stopped this, but FUCKING STICKY KEYS.

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Posted on 01-05-10 08:12:52 PM

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Windows 98 only warned you once about restarting... but all later versions, like 2000, XP, and on bother you with "Do you want to restart now or later?" every 10 minutes or so

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Posted on 01-05-10 08:23:02 PM

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The USB bus. My old laptop couldn't power 4 gamepads and I would need a powered hub. Just for that?!? I turned off the wi-fi which was internally connected to USB and I could then game without random disconnects.

My desktop would have horribly slow wi-fi and would randomly drop the connection. I recently installed a PCI card instead, and my internet connection now feels like coming out of dial-up, and has never lost a connection; I mean, it's only from here to the garage.

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Posted on 01-05-10 10:19:08 PM

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Not being able to run a full-screen game on one monitor and do other things on the other without it going crazy once it loses focus.

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Posted on 01-05-10 10:20:52 PM

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Originally posted by Shadic
Not being able to run a full-screen game on one monitor and do other things on the other without it going crazy once it loses focus.

I was super-happy to see some games accepting background input. Now I really can game and use the web on separate monitors without trouble.

Good point though; not every game is quite as configurable.

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Posted on 01-06-10 12:58:08 AM

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Especially older games. And a lot of games make the second monitor go crazy on its own. I think it's because of older games that I can't run at native resolution.

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