On Mon 2003-03-17 at 21:50:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > On the other hand, the typical MS Windows user/admin will simply hit > > "OK", because they are used to do this all the time (that is not meant > > as a flame, but personal experience with MS Windows users). > > On this point .. had a friend of mine who would always install a little > program he had on windows systems... If would randomly pop up the usual > window message and since most windows users didn't read them... if you > clicked OK it turned the box off. No harm done, but my fav is one guy > who reported "Everytime I click ok the box turns off" We told him "Then > don't click ok!" He then said something that made me think. "But you > have to click ok don't you?"
Yeah, that was exactly my point. MS Windows kind of conditions people
into pressing OK without actually reading/understanding the message
(not sure about newer versions, my experience is mostly with people
using 95 and 98SE). I think it is because so often you have no choice,
but have to simply accept whatever it tells you. There is this old
joke, which is representative for this: "Your mouse has moved. Windows
must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]"
I very much like the idea of the reboot program. A almost perfect way
to recondition such people. Have to google if it and if there isn't
one available, I am probably going to write one myself. Won't be that
hard. :-) Thanks for the idea.
Bye,
Benjamin.
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