What really irks me is when game companies require you to have the cd in the drive every time you want to play, and some of the enforcement mechanisims can cause harm to your comp. (starforce being a recent example of this).

my rant is that you can't read the license/agreement until after you already opened the software thus, making it impossible to return the software if you don't accept the license.

I couldn't play the Hindenberg game few years ago.

Zepplin?anyone has this? It didn't even work on windows 95 , 98, or xp.,or dos or anything.

I came accros a Dos game pack which had paperboy on it. nnt only did the installer *demand* a Dos boot floppy, complete with all of the basic utilities, it flat out refused the disk i made! This was a CD-ROM game too. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??!!?!!

Anonymous, do you have a name? perhaps HAL 9000?

Hal 9000: My mind is going. I can feel it. Why don't you take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions
lately but I'm all right now.

(this off the top of my head Polls/torq)




ps. too much spambot on Nit

First: I hate it when programs ask if you want to save changes, even though you haven't made any changes.

Second: The incredibly moronic feature in Windows
which allows programs to steal the focus. I hate
typing in something, only to find that half of it didn't go through, because ^$##ing Windows decided what I was doing wasn't important enough, and allows an incepid error message or pop up window from another program to get in the way of my typing. ARRRGHHH! My idea for revenge/justice?
Make the person who put that feature in type something real important, and then stick plates, hands, boards, tarantulas and other obstructions over the keyboard at random intervals.

Third: I hate it when I am looking for a game file, and all of the sites I come across that seemingly has it insteads links to the same •••• web page. To make things worse, either the link is broken, or you have to go through a very long, painful registration process.

and Fourth: Dead links-'nuff said.

I hate having to click shut down only to have my computer questioning my decisions. What else would I want the computer to do when I select shut down... sheesh..

Worse is when you try to shut down and the system wont because some program refuses to close. >

Phone Menu .trees. some have a sadistic new twist: after you get through the touch tone menus, a human voice comes on, only its not human, its an intellegent voice activated automated agent! i nearly gagged when first encountered this.

I really hate it when programs try to micromanage everything and impose artificial restrictions on what you can do. Worse is when installers refuse to extract their contents because of hardware checks!

I bought Microsoft Word and once I installed it, it gave me the message that I so many days to register it before certain features stopped working.

Now besides the fact that I shouldn't have to log into Microsoft just to keep a program I bought from no longer working properly, I'm a little annoyed that certain programs are designed such that I must have internet accessability in order to use software that in my mind, doesn't require it. (Like MS Word)

It seems that most software created these days demands you have an internet connection available... Are those of us in the West doomed on the computer if we don't want to have to access the internet?

It's becoming harder and harder to maintain privacy on the computer these days.

The first thing I do when installing any program is to check the Options and turn off all Internet-connecting things. Then I check the Startup and Services to see what else the program plugged in without my permission.

I found a program I hadn't used in a while. I had installed it but not "activated" it. I went through all the instructions on the Internet page and found that it had "been installed on too many computers." (This was a Microsoft product). No... I had just had to re-install it many times on the same computer because of hard drive crashes.

So I had to call and get the access code. At least it didn't cost me anything, and it wasn't too long a wait or hassle to perform. But still, what difference should it make how many computers I want to install it on? I already paid for the software, I should be able to do whatever I want with it -- even sell it to someone else, like a CD or a book.

I'd like to buy the Star Trek seasons but the only place one can find them now is by buying them online... I ordered something from Texas instruments and AIAA and now my email gets ads so I'm not wanting to do that with StarTrek.com

I can't find a Railroad tycoon game(1990 version) to play on windows xp or vista.the train tracks don't appear to be working on my xp, or 98.I tried to download from various sites but..

can anyone help.

The bloat DRM crippled monster that is Vista

If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait, he does...

My Registry got corrupted. Had to spend 4 hours recovering the dratted thing. Couldn't just wipe and reinstall because Mrs. ScottN uses the same computer.

What idiot thought that putting all the system configuration information into a single, non-human-readable, easily corruptible file was a Good Idea™?

A lady got 400 spam emails per day from some idiot, she closed down her email account!

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I still cant get my dvd to read dvds,my emachine t2682 with windows xp i went to Ccity and they lost my comp to the lostn found!I waited four days four this?

That annoying ***** spam with the picture of the lady holding her hands out to say "it's this big!". Some even show a picture of the guys **** in them. I really don't need to see that thank you very much.