Annoying things about Windows

[BigOto2]

Thanks James. That was pure trollblock skills right there.

[James]

Np - and Dave, go to a member's profile and hit "Edit Member". I suspended lemonz' posting privileges for 7 days.

[BigOto2]

Anyways, enough mini-modding.

My latest annoyance happened yesterday during a casual playing of a YouTube video. Out of nowhere, the whole freaking video goes green and the whole screen keeps flashing and the computer slows to a crawl, leaving me with no choice but to make it restart (which thankfully did not require a hard button reset in this case, but usually it would).

[jblewis]

That honestly sounds like the transparency glitch on steroids.

[BitBuster]

^Hahaha!



I hate the way you can't turn off the volume while Windows 7 is starting up. This means that if you forgot to turn the volume off before shutting down the computer, you have to listen to all the opening sounds, at a potentially earsplitting volume.

Windows sounds in general are something I can live without.

[jblewis]

I agree about certrain ones, but I guess I'm nostalgic for the days of Windows 95/98 sounds. The remixes on YouTube can be fun to listen to...

[BitBuster]

Good remixes are always a pleasure.

http://nooobreak.ytmnd.com/



That said, I will never be nostalgic for any sort of Windows sounds. They're a blight on my childhood, not something to remember fondly.

[jblewis]

They've just gotten worse with time, too...

[BitBuster]

...yeah. At least those old DOS bleeps had a primitive charm about them (look! There's a machine that can do your taxes and plays text-based games! And it can make sounds! Not particularly sonorous ones, mind...)

[geodave]

Changed the startup sound on one of my computers to the Windows 3.1 "TADAA" sound. Those were the days!