Windows XP wants to know what to do with every CD you put into the drive. Even if you select, “do nothing” and “always take the selected action” it still asks you if you’ve changed your mind. For crying out loud, you handholding annoyance of an OS, stop asking me stupid fucking questions!
Here’s another one: Windows ME and Office 2000 introduced the magical self-editing menus. I grew accustomed to these items. XP got rid of the personalized start menu. Oh, it says that it personalizes the menu, but it does it differently. I don’t want to be limited to the dozen or so applications that will fit in the first column. I want to be able to go to the programs menu and see the programs I use commonly. Why is that so hard? Why must Windows become less friendly to powerusers with every iteration?
We’re only a couple generations away from getting Windows BOB – the sequel.
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I’m not sure I get you here…I customized the crap out of my menus, violently. Are you on the XP setting, or did you switch it to Classic?
Not customizing it manually (I can do that in Win95 for cryin’ out loud), but the automagical disappearing folders and icons that you don’t use thing that Office 2000 does and Windows 2000/ME does. XP doesn’t seem to do it. It’s inexplicable. If the program you’re looking for isn’t in the 10 or so items in the left column, you have to look through the entire 300-folder blob. Of course, I’ve since gone through and customized it like I did with Win98 – hiding folders that I don’t use much, moving items into subfolders, etc.
It just seems odd that they got rid of a feature. That’s so un-MS. They like to keep all features and keep adding more, normally.
Ah, yeah, now I think I get what you’re saying. XP did do that, when I first installed it….the menus would collapse, only showing frequent use items, and I’d have to force them open…until I asked my dad how to disable that nuisance.
See, I want it to do that.