TCH-Thomas Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 It seems to be picking on Micro$oft products here, so lets start a little survey (in lack of words). What is the weirdest, most stupid, strangest thing your windows-machine has ever done by itself? To start it I can tell what happened to me just minutes ago... I use Cutesite builder (CSB) to build my sites as many of you know. In CSB, there is a preview option that opens your default browser so you can preview what you done. I clicked the preview option but no Internet explorer opens. Instead windows installer starts and wants to install my webcam. So, whats the weirdest thing your windows has done? Quote
Santolina Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 Hiya Thomas. Does a 'hanging app' count as weird? When I used IE as my default browser, it hung alot. --------------------------- Santolina Quote
youneverknow Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 I regurally loose my Intelemouse (optical) settings...I have it set up that the Scroll button will CLOSE the window but XP Pro sometimes looses the setting and defaults to the Auto scroll feature. I go into mouse settings and the Close window is selected and then I close it a gain and all is well for the next couple of days....just a little inconvienent...but youneverknow Quote
jandafields Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 About two or three times a day, windows installer comes up and installs my HP Printer/Scanner. It goes through the install, and is successful. A little bit later, there it goes again... Quote
jandafields Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 Hiya Thomas. Does a 'hanging app' count as weird? Actually, Microsoft has made this a standard feature now. It comes bundled with all versions of Windows. Quote
sabershooter Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 One day last month I tried starting Windows Media Player but there was no sound. After checking all settings everything was correct, so then I went into "Windows mode" (just start clicking everything until I get results - good or bad). Much to my bewilderment, after selecting 'mute all' and then deselecting it the sound started working!? I now have to do this everytime I want to listen to music. Select mute and then deselect it... weird. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 16, 2004 Author Posted July 16, 2004 Hiya Thomas. Does a 'hanging app' count as weird? Actually, Microsoft has made this a standard feature now. It comes bundled with all versions of Windows. Quote
DarqFlare Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 My fiancee's family computer loses the HP printer install after a couple hours, then you have to manually reinstall it again. Quote
Virtual Imager Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 I have two printers installed. I can only print with the Epson once.... then I have to restart in order to print again. Also, if I have used either printer, I often (but not always) get a message that something is preventing my computer from entering the standby mode. Or, if I'm trying to shut down, I have to click "end now" a bunch of times. Grrrrr. Mad!!! Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 16, 2004 Author Posted July 16, 2004 Hiya Thomas. Does a 'hanging app' count as weird? When I used IE as my default browser, it hung alot. --------------------------- Santolina jandafields answered that very well (Thanks Jana). Its a standard thing these days, so it doesnt count. Quote
borfast Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 Well, my Windows installation had several features before I stopped using it. The most peculiar one was that after an update (through Windows Update), Mozilla started behaving very strangely - when I'd open a web page, it would take around 3 seconds for the darn thing to become responsive again. If I'd open a new tab, it would also take about 3 seconds before it responded to mouse clicks and key strokes. No other software was affected by this and when I had to reinstall Dreamweaver, it went back to normal. Another neat thing was that everytime Windows started, it opened up the mouse driver settings window (the MS Intellimouse stuff). I deleted every startup command that could be starting it up but no good. I *uninstalled* the drivers but it still started up everytime Windows started. Suddenly, one day it stopped. Another neat Windows feature, which I think is also a "standard feature" is the fact that Windows destroys itself and forces you to reinstall it every 6 months, give or take a couple of weeks. It eats up hard drive space and I could never find out how it was being used and it also messes up the registry so badly, it's impossible to recover. It then comes to a point where it's impossible to free up more disk space and to fix the registry mess and the only way out is to reinstall Windows By the way, here's an interesting link. Can't remeber exactly where I found it but it's an interesting reading: http://www.techuser.net/index.php?id=47 Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 16, 2004 Author Posted July 16, 2004 Mozilla started behaving very strangely MS found out that they had a competitor so they needed to do something about it, so they told Mozilla to get weird. Quote
MikeJ Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 The weirdest thing my MS-Windows did was run for more than a day without crashing. *ducks all the incoming flames* Yea yea, windows isn't that bad, buy ya left the door wide open! Quote
jandafields Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 The weirdest thing my MS-Windows did was run for more than a day without crashing. Something's definately wrong. You better contact MS. They won't be happy with that weird behavior. Quote
DarqFlare Posted July 18, 2004 Posted July 18, 2004 I wonder when my current Windows install was made... I seem to be in the group of reinstalls every so often... Quote
jandafields Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 I wonder when my current Windows install was made... I seem to be in the group of reinstalls every so often... Are you asking "When did you last install Windows?" or "When was Windows version X released from MS?" Quote
arvind Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 The stupidest thing eh ? Well I was just reading all my blogs subscriptions in good ol' Feeddemon, suddenly the computer just shuts down. I reboot and Windows says: "Keyboard Error, press any key to continue" Quote
DarqFlare Posted July 19, 2004 Posted July 19, 2004 I wonder when my current Windows install was made... I seem to be in the group of reinstalls every so often... Are you asking "When did you last install Windows?" or "When was Windows version X released from MS?" I'm wondering when I reinstalled XP. lol... Quote
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