<rant> OK, my wife-kids' laptop (which was my experimental Vista machine before the kids took it over) was running very, very slow. New-ish machine, no new software, checked all of the usual culprits (virus protection, etc.) -- nothing would get it going faster short of rebooting, then it would slow down again the next time I saw it.
So just now I'm up there trying to help my daughter with something, and the machine is so painfully slow as to render it a virtual doorstop. So what's going on? Daughter is running Outlook & iTunes, so that is part of it -- both horrible, bloated pigs of programs. But still -- should be responding *some*. Flip over to my wife's login -- nothing special there -- her usual Outlook and a single Word document. But, I sorta-accidentally look at the Outlook icon in whatever-the-hell-they-call-the-lower-right-part- of-the-status-bar. A whole boatload of checkmarks in the menu -- AND THEN I SEE IT: "Hide while minimized" -- On. Oh, sh|t. I turn it off, and 5 -- count 'em -- 5 copies of Outlook are running simultaneously! Now I get it. Wife comes to computer, flips to her login. "Oh, I guess somebody shut down my Outlook. <expletive>! I wish they wouldn't do that." So she starts it up. Little does she know that the word "again" needs to be added to that sentence. OK, so you say: "She oughta know better." But here's the thing: the last version (and maybe this, I don't know) had this "feature" -- it is always running in the background -- you couldn't kill it -- and puts an icon in that same position when you have an eMail waiting. She has no way of knowing. Not to mention that NO OTHER piece of software behaves this way. And *why* allow a second copy to run at all? On the *same* login? Why?!?! Nobody needs 2 copies running at the same time. Much less 5. I deeply, deeply regret bringing Vista and Office 2oo7 into my domicile. </rant> Sorry to waste your bandwidth -- I just *had* to vent.... Ken _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/b230860f-c5c1-4358-8266-28378825f...@information-architecture.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
