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Thread ID: 73162 2006-10-09 06:42:00 What's your most annoying program? Shortcircuit (1666) PC World Chat
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490320 2006-10-09 08:07:00 Too many options for a poll.

I can't think of anything too annoying on my computer, but the most annoying legit program I've seen on anyone's computer is Mcafee Antivirus - more ads than a lot of spyware

Twas sarcasm.
pine-o-cleen (2955)
490321 2006-10-09 08:09:00 Been quite a few years since I had it, but Real Player takes the cake for me.

You think RealPlayer for Windows is awful? You should try RealPlayer for Linux!

Adobe Acrobat reader for Linux is pretty nasty as well. I uninstalled it because I got sick of it being loaded as a Firefox plugin - opening a PDF took ages and the memory usage of the FF program instantly doubled. I now use KPDF, which loads documents much faster, is much simpler to use, and supports many features in an intuitive manner.

Other close competitors are Windows Media Player (Give me amaroK any day), The Windows configuration tools, Norton Antiwhatever, and of course trojans and worms (it's a close race with the others in this list though).
TGoddard (7263)
490322 2006-10-09 08:24:00 I dump anything that annoys me, apart from Adobe reader.Why not use Foxit? Greg (193)
490323 2006-10-09 08:30:00 Because I don't like it. Metla (12)
490324 2006-10-09 08:30:00 Anything that Steals the focus from what I'm doing. :badpc:

Anything that asks me if I want to quit it annoys me.


I dump anything that annoys me, apart from Adobe reader.
*Throws Windows XP CD in the trash* :lol:
Cornot (10386)
490325 2006-10-09 08:33:00 Windows vista Agent_24 (57)
490326 2006-10-09 08:42:00 My shutdown program... :D

The_End_Of_Reality (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) wanted sooo many features added on.
Got them all in, bar one which can be easily done. Ha ha, did you really have to drop my name in? :p

It is a very good program, I use it all the time

But my most hated program is... Windows Movie Maker... is just so slow and not good...
The_End_Of_Reality (334)
490327 2006-10-09 08:49:00 Hmmm, most annoying program.... gotta be explorer.exe. Oh and anything not supported by dpkg/apt. Erayd (23)
490328 2006-10-09 14:10:00 If on windows... any of the default apps (media player, IE , OE, etc), Nortons whatever (except Ghost), Quicktime, real player ....
If on Linux, anything windows related is usually ugly as; not to mention painful.. Nero for Linux.. Acroread (Adobe acrobat pdf reader)
Myth (110)
490329 2006-10-09 14:31:00 most annoying frustrating program ive come across..


theres annoyingn cause of layout and crap features and user...user userage thing, easyness? right then theres ****ING annoying..

****IGN annoying is: realplayer.

biggest pile of **** ive ever witnessed, if theres a program that can CREATE failure in its most purist form, its that god forsaken pile of crap people call a media player, it is probably....in levels of shietness.. 11/10, it makes me want to rip my face off and gauge in my eyes with my fingers...

it is really a pile of crap, its a yeah, its a pile of crap, and it should be banned from this planet, no, make that, banned from this galaxy, i dont mind if some star or something gets it, it might make blow up from frustration from that very fact that its THAT frustrating with its stupid ass pop-ups wher it tries to install over programs in front of your very eyes and doesnt even ask you, or it might be the fact that it is just soooooo inaccessable, i couldnt even find my music with it, its THAT bad, i mean **** was it ****, what a pile of crap, if i really could vote for ANYTHING to be banned from this earth software wise it would be realplayer.
jesse_jax (9283)
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