Getting rid of outdated $NTUninstall information from your main Windows directory can free up several hundred megabytes of disk space. Do it wrong and you can confuse your OS.
When you view the Network Map on Windows Vista, you can’t see Windows XP computers on the network diagram. But Microsoft says Vista is not to blame.
Who in their right minds wants Microsoft full access to whatever information they choose to send to themselves when you accidentally click on the box that pops up wanting you to report an application error or system crash to Microsoft? Not me! I personally find screaming an obscenity at the offending application much more therapeutic [...]
The Windows operating system has made a lot of advances in the last ten years — that admission a shocker coming from me, eh?! However, Microsoft has not been the innovator; rather it is the third-party companies that develop enhancements that have been the driving force behind the improvements.
For example, Norton Utilities was (and probably [...]
I’m republishing this piece of spam just because I think it so funny:
In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft’s rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products [...]
Are you tired of seeing MSN Messenger pop up on your Windows XP system? As usual, in an effort to continue its course towards domination of everything, Microsoft has made it difficult to remove. But it is possible! The following method works in Windows XP Professional, but has not been tested on a system with [...]
Well, since I covered a few computer stupidities, I guess I should give equal space to software stupidities…
Microsoft Word (somewhere around 1999) - “Word cannot edit the unknown.”
If you typed in ‘God’ at the prompt on an ICL mainframe running the VME operating system, and assuming an appropriately named program was not installed, you’d receive [...]
You receive message that says “Manifest Parse error: Invalid at top level of document” when installing a new copy of Windows XP, and the installation stops because it cannot parse CONTROLS.MAN. What do you do?
There are days when I just don’t like Microsoft. There are days when I hate Microsoft. And then there are days like today when words utterly fail me. What the $#^%$@#$ is wrong with Microsoft?!!
I’m not exactly someone you’d think of as pro-Microsoft; I’m sure that’s no surprise. Yet, unfortunately, I can’t afford to be totally anti-Microsoft, either — it’s just way too pervasive in our lives today to avoid altogether.
