> > Why does Task Manager ask me if I want to end a task? > > If I hadn't wanted to end the task, I wouldn't have opened > Task Manager > in the first place, and I wouldn't have clicked on the End > Task button.
It is a regrettable feature of many modern systems that they constantly ask you if you're sure you want to do what you told them to do. Even harmless things, like closing a window. It's the designer's lazy way of making you take the blame if things go wrong, rather than them providing an undo mechanism. It's quite well known that people tend just to click through such things anyway - they rarely achieve what they set out to achieve. If an Undo mechanism is impossible for some reason, and you need the user to be really, really sure that they want to do something potentially destructive, you should make it a bit difficult, requiring some sort of positive action that can't be ingrained by repetition. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
