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whysoserious

The Most Annoying Error Ever

May 17, 2009 11:30

For a few months now, my computer had been annoying the hell out of me. Any time I opened a folder with any kind of video files in it, this annoying window would pop up:

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debugging, computer

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mirrorglassball May 17 2009, 15:47:00 UTC

Victory shall be yours! Huzzah! :)

whysoserious May 17 2009, 16:09:23 UTC

Heh, I knew you would appreciate this post!

mirrorglassball May 17 2009, 16:13:00 UTC

Yeah... I know how annoying those errors can be, and how satisfying it is to fix such stuff!

jem_endured_fit May 18 2009, 01:43:09 UTC

Awesome job. I love the fact that people post out to bulletin boards allowing the rest of us to find solutions that someone on a help line would fail, fail, fail.

At work we'll never get Vista. (I'm still begging for Office 2007).

whysoserious May 18 2009, 13:39:29 UTC

Thanks, it always feels good to solve a problem that's been bugging me for a while!

I like Vista and have generally had few problems with it... Nearly everything that's gone wrong has done so because of 3rd party software. :-/ Now Office 2007, on the other hand, is a different story. I think it sucks and is one of the worst "updates" ever put out by Microsoft. I would stick with Office 2003 for as long as you can!

jem_endured_fit May 18 2009, 14:26:17 UTC

I'm curious - What are your gripes about Office 2007. We are scheduled to get it firmwide by this fall.

(I do have it at home and know the look is different.)

whysoserious May 18 2009, 17:08:33 UTC

We've just had a ton of problems since our "upgrade." The worst, by far, is with Outlook. Many times a day it will just freeze up while it says it's "requesting information from the server." It's really annoying because you can't access your email, calendar, ANYthing while it's frozen. You just have to sit and wait, and usually in like 5-10 minutes it'll come back. IT doesn't know why... Microsoft doesn't know why... It just sucks.

Another problem I have is with Excel 2007. Microsoft removed the database file (.DBF) functionality. I have NO idea why they did this, because that's a universal file format that ANY database program should be able to use. The best part about it is its portability. But I guess Microsoft didn't realize that. My office has had to use OpenOffice anytime we work with DBFs now.

This is a general complaint, but I really don't care for the interface. Too flashy, and I hate the tabs. The old menus worked SO much better!

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