Re: OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Mar 2006, at 17:15, Wayne Brissette wrote: Those directions are for Windows XP Professional. If I follow them on my work computer, they are 100% correct. Obviously there are multiple issues here. First, the wrong help files with the wrong OS, but we can also lay blame on MS for have way

RE: OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Anne Robotti
Sure makes writing installation procedures fun. No matter *what* you do, some users will think you're a fool. :-( Unless you want to do something *totally* crazy out there, like stabilize your software, perform adequate testing, document the actual interface and distribute it to the users

OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Daniel Emory
I was helping a friend who?d just acquired her first computer, an E-Machine with Windows XP. I was demonstrating how to get help, and showed how she could type in a search phrase and get a list of all the help topics containing that phrase. So, to demonstrate how to properly shut down the

OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Findon
On 10 Mar 2006, at 17:15, Wayne Brissette wrote: > Those directions are for Windows XP Professional. If I follow them on > my work computer, they are 100% correct. Obviously there are multiple > issues here. First, the wrong help files with the wrong OS, but we can > also lay blame on MS for

OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:55:57 -0800 (PST), Daniel Emory wrote: >?Click Start, click Shut Down, and then in the >drop-down list click Shut Down? > >The only part of that instruction which is correct is >?Click Start.? It's correct for my Win 2000 Pro system... I wonder if it is correct for XP

OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Anne Robotti
> Sure makes writing installation procedures fun. No > matter *what* you do, some users will think you're > a fool. :-( Unless you want to do something *totally* crazy & out there, like stabilize your software, perform adequate testing, document the actual interface and distribute it to the

OT: Unbelievable On-Line Help Stupidity

2006-03-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:25:29 -0500, "Anne Robotti" wrote: >> Sure makes writing installation procedures fun. No >> matter *what* you do, some users will think you're >> a fool. :-( > >Unless you want to do something *totally* crazy & out there, like >stabilize your software, perform adequate