It's the little things...

[judas]

...that make me want to see the entire Microsoft development team burn in hell.

Just been trying to upgrade my main PC from XP Home to XP Pro and in the process it's fd the hard disk and made it unbootable. Bad enough at the best of times. But at least I can slave it to another drive and pull my data off before I wipe it and reinstall. And this is the bit where flames start licking around the ankles of the idiots at MS. I have about 8GB of files to copy onto the other drive, which is fine until it finds a file buried deep somewhere in one of the folders that it can't copy, but instead of just telling you 'can't copy file x' and carrying on - no, it aborts the whole copy process leaving me to trawl through all the folders to see what was copied and find the errant file and not copy that. Until it finds another file it doesn't want to copy... How fing idiotic is that? Do any of these people understand the basics of usability aren't pretty graphics and buttons to click, but making sure the program does what it is supposed to and not dick the user around! How difficult would it be to do this properly?

[/soapbox]

Bah! Back to data reovery mode...

[FunkyNige]

The most annoying little thing about MS for me is telling I live in England, I speak 'UK English', and where are my internet bookmarks? The 'favorites'. Fecking MS and their stupid 'color settings' .

[_DJ_]

judas said:

...that make me want to see the entire Microsoft development team burn in hell. Just been trying to upgrade my main PC from XP Home to XP Pro and in the process it's fd the hard disk and made it unbootable. Bad enough at the best of times. But at least I can slave it to another drive and pull my data off before I wipe it and reinstall. And this is the bit where flames start licking around the ankles of the idiots at MS. I have about 8GB of files to copy onto the other drive, which is fine until it finds a file buried deep somewhere in one of the folders that it can't copy, but instead of just telling you 'can't copy file x' and carrying on - no, it aborts the whole copy process leaving me to trawl through all the folders to see what was copied and find the errant file and not copy that. Until it finds another file it doesn't want to copy... How fing idiotic is that? Do any of these people understand the basics of usability aren't pretty graphics and buttons to click, but making sure the program does what it is supposed to and not dick the user around! How difficult would it be to do this properly? [/soapbox] Bah! Back to data reovery mode...

I agree. However, if you're copying a large number of files use xcopy.exe. It's quicker, is installed by default and /C will instruct it to continue even when it encounters an error.

DJ

[zumbruk]

Why not give Billy Bob Gates and all his hell-spawn the old heave-ho and use something else?

[_DJ_]

You're suggesting he chooses a different OS because one application (explorer.exe) doesn't behave exactly as he wants it to? The upgrade from Home to Pro could have been performed (and fixed when it didn't boot without a reinstall) with a bit of effort (and less technical knowledge than the 'alternatives' such as Linux)

>> Edited by _DJ_ on Monday 29th December 14:32

[judas]

There's a very good reason for not ditching Windoze - all the games and applications I use aren't available for anything else...

Very hard to do any VB and ASP development on Linux anyhow