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Hall of Shame

MSI Live Update disables User Account Control

by Aaron Parker on May 11, 2009

in Hall of Shame

I thought I’d seen just about every dumb thing that a developer could do, but this latest one from MSI is a whopper..
I have an MSI Wind netbook that’s having some shutdown and sleep issues when running Windows 7, so my first thought was to ensure I was running the latest BIOS version. For some [...]

Tagged as: UAC

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CutePDF: F A I L

by Aaron Parker on May 1, 2008

in Hall of Shame

This:

is obviously not the case:

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Citrix Drops The Icon Ball

by Aaron Parker on May 1, 2008

in Hall of Shame

Instead of waiting for Citrix to support Windows Vista icon sizes in their new beta client, I’ve updated it myself. I’ll bet the Mac OS X client gets a full size icon (Leopard supports 512 x 512 pixels). Why does Vista have to be a second class citizen?
Here’s the before and after shots:

I’m sure [...]

Tagged as: XenApp

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Should We Need To Inform The User They’re Running With Limited Rights?

by Aaron Parker on January 16, 2008

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Expecting an application to execute correctly when run with limited user privileges should be something that we take for granted. Alas in the real world this is not the case, but things are getting better, if slowly.
Perhaps we’re currently in some sort of transition process as demonstrated by Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0. Adobe feel’s that [...]

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Tip Of The Day – Ain’t Got No Tips

by Aaron Parker on January 7, 2008

in Hall of Shame

It’s been a while since an entrant in the Hall of Shame, so today I’m pleased to bring you a bit of a chuckle courtesy of ACDSee Standard 5.0. It seems that the Tips dialog in this old version, doesn’t like it if you’ve installed the application to a non-default location (think sequencing in [...]

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Look, I’m Not Going To Tell You Again

by Aaron Parker on April 9, 2007

in Hall of Shame

Here’s an amusing dialog box that was displayed when Battlefield 2142 crashed the other day:

I dare not click Continue since I shouldn’t have been there in the first place and I don’t know what sort of trouble Try Again would have got me into..
(This one’s an entry in the Hall of Shame because Battlfield crashes [...]

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Presentation Server Client 10 still uses Windows Help

by Aaron Parker on March 11, 2007

in Hall of Shame

Gee, I expected a little more than this from Citrix – the new Presentation Server Client version 10 is still using the old 16-bit Windows Help format (.HLP). What’s the problem with this you say? Well, Windows Help is no longer included with Windows Vista and Microsoft have been discouraging its’ use for some time [...]

Tagged as: Windows-Vista

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