coz all feature u talk about it is not important

TODAY XP IS THE BEST.

REGARDS,
GS (MY SHORT NAME)

TODAY XP IS THE BEST.

REGARDS,
GS

Didn’t know you were a member of the National Waffle Association! Welcome!

2. Color calibration. Ditto wrong there, too. Photography requires olor calibration, but ask anyone techie how to calibrate it and nobody knows. It’s something for very high-end techie discussion in photgrapher’s forum and special software.

3. MS search is like MS help–no help at all–hence the google toolbar popularity. MS recovery from deleted trashbin is also extremely bad. Spent two days trying to recover 200 frogs and then the file names were corrupted so although I recovered the images, i would have to also re-identify and tag them.

but a real pet peeve with MS is the inability for it to preserve settings, particularly for editing or tables. No matter how often you turn off the automatic MS “automatic editing” such as bulleted menus, stupid smart quotes, etc– anytime you open a new document, you have to go through the same bullshit again an then remember where MS hid the damn options. Menus on XP are grossly illogical. Althougt the function for turn off automatic caps for first letter in table cells logically should be under the tables tab, it’s elsewhere on other side of moon and if you search XP help for it you get the stupid clippy which is equally useless.

Dealing with the slow XP help index with small print is always better than the idiotic clippy.

Xp refusal to save very basic formatting and its insistence of flipping from metric to inches although you consistently reset everything back to metric is perverse, but so is Microsoft.

the inability to untie totally inane programs of MS such as paint so they don’t pop-up and impede working with other real programs. Nothing more harassing and annoying than the damn MS Paint constantly popping up to inform you that a 60-MB image is too large to load for preview because you’re trying to right-click open it to Adobe. This is Microsoft.

MS freezing keyboard because you turn off all the crappy unwanted automatic formatting

No easy way to rename entire folder files or filename strings such as image files.

No real batchng software that can grind through and resize images without destroying the IPTC data. You must hunt and buy special software for this as it’s also not a capacity within Adobe.

Serious MS annoyance is MS stealth downloads in foreign language systems over an English version so keyboard flips and you end up opening documents that are corrupted in two languages–all courtesy to Redmond brainless thinking.

No tool or means to shut down the horrific IExplorer because the program never shuts down properly. Apollo mission would never landed on earth had it been using MS software. It freezes all other programs, and apparently picks fights with Adobe, but IE is needed for ftp uploading for photography and MS patches. Other than that IE is undesirable catastrophe.

No tool to unfreeze the taskbar as a result of IE freezing during ftp uploads which make photography uploading a nightmare.

No easy manner to convert hyperlinked text to plain text so tool must be gotten from internet, but also essential for daily grind.

lots of junk in xp for writers and photographers, but not many real editing tools. Is Microsoft. mediocre to bad.

no date in taskbar? is that all you can grouse about when there are serious defects? As for auto clock, ignore it and just count an hour back. Who cares?

What really sucks is getting obnoxious PCMech titles in my email when XP/ MS offers serious challenges to daily like in professional work with photography.

Not to mention that Europe went over to DST two weeks before US– so sorry your little world is so badly inconvenienced. Is childish and offensive to get constant PCMech titles in mailbox with offensive titles like : this sucks..

So it does and so I don’t read PCMech any longer because I get tired of all the garbage titles and ego-pandering. It used to be interesting to read, but I have enough stress and daily frustrations with MS/ XP that I don’t need to hear some stupid childish whine about Daylight Saving Time. grow up. It’s a done thing. And if all you have to whine about is a missing calendar on taskbar, then hang one over your head. Very very stupid complaints when there are far more serious shortcomings and problems with Xp and Office.

Using XP SP3 on a computer purchased October 1, 2006. Turned on the status bar in Windows Explorer. It has NEVER disappeared.