Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination

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They should just add a bunch of black monoliths everywhere and make an announcement that they are the latest pictures from NASA or something hilarious like that.

Seriously, if google did that I would delete this post to make it seem like they thought of it first.

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Originally posted by jesus

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What the f***? It only has 924 bytes! It might be that the .lips file im using is ment for SMW but im using it on Super Mario All-Stars+world but that has SMW on it...

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Anyway The Patch IS .lips.

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• When you use alpha translucency in WinXP, if the Start menu pops up over a translucent window, an image of it stays in that window for quite some time. Really annoying because I like to have my taskbar translucent. This doesn't happen if I make the Start menu translucent too, but then it stops updating the recent program menu for some reason.
  
• If I accidentally click and drag on a taskbar button, it remains highlighted until I ctrl+double-click it.
  
• C is right next to V; you select some text, go to press Ctrl+V to replace it with something you've copied, and end up copying it instead.
  
• So many Windows themes fail at vertical taskbars. Some screw up completely (quick launch icons disappear), others just have HUGE buttons.
  
• Every now and then my flash card reader stops working for no apparent reason and I have to remove and re-insert it. Similarly sometimes my wireless card I use for Nintendo DS development decides to just stop sending anything until I reboot.
  
• God help you if you move a network card and want WinXP to ever connect to the Internet again. Move it back or be eternally offline.
  
• Windows counts the same device being put into different USB ports as different devices. I have like 6 webcams and 5 joysticks, at least if you're to believe Windows, and the webcams all have their own sets of pictures. Also I have like 4 network cards that don't exist, even though I only moved it once.
  
• Pressing Alt+some number to type extended ASCII doesn't work in Gaim. I often end up saying Pokmon, anim, and vv (as opposed to v¯v).
  
• Windows doesn't appear to send a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message to programs when you resize the taskbar, so if your program needs to know when this happens, you're out of luck.
  
• My sound drivers crash whenever I close the volume control program, and while it's open, no other program can adjust the volume.
  
• Windows clearly has some sort of image conversion code in it capable of converting PNG, JPEG, GIF and probably others to BMP. However, it seems to be well-hidden.
  
• Having a message box pop up while you're typing, and before you realize it, you've pressed a key that automatically responds as if you'd clicked one of the buttons.
  
• Anything in which I have to code in javascript or a batch file.
  
• Windows' error reporting gives no useful information and takes forever to launch. Would it be so hard to throw in 'stack overflow' or 'cannot write to 00000000' somewhere?
  
• That lololol bug that makes it randomly crash when loading Gmail.
  
• Programs that don't follow standars. Eg: lololol and Gaim's menus don't play sounds, Ctrl+W in Hex Workshop doesn't close the document, some programs use Linux-style command line parameters despite being made only for Windows, editors that put 'Save' under some other menu than 'File', etc.
  
• WMV.
  
• Free web hosts that shut down your account for some obscure TOS violation, without warning you and without bothering to notify you of the updated TOS that you're suddenly in violation of.
  
• The 200-page legal agreement that comes with EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM EVER and forces you to comply with such ridiculous crap as "if you sue us you have to give us $50 and the most you can sue for is the price of the program which is nothing". Especially when THEY HAVE THOSE SECTIONS IN ALL CAPS THAT REALLY HURT YOUR EYES. Except in free (as in speech) programs. Thank God for those. Hell, I think this could be considered the #1 reason to use Linux.
  
• Programs that obviously haven't been tested at all, and/or just plain don't work.
  
• Programs with ridiculous bloat. Like a program we use for 5 seconds at a time needs a 3D animation with sound.
  
• Accidentally pressing F1 instead of F2 in Windows Explorer. (And BTW that troubleshooter is totally useless.)
  
• Programs whose file open/save boxes lack the "All Files (*.*)" option. Maybe the file is in a zip/rar/7z archive and I'd like to extract it from within the open box? Maybe I gave it some other extension? Also why can't I just drag files into the box from Explorer?
  
• Programs that require registration and/or keys despite being free.
  
• Websites/boards that require registration just to view the page. Why would I sign up if I have no idea what I'm going to see? That's like going up to someone and saying "hey, if you buy this, I'll tell you what it is".
  
• Programs that fuck up your file extensions. Ahem, Winamp. It always took a lot of mucking around to get it not to say "Winamp Media File" for every single audio file type. (Actually, Windows' file extension system just plain sucks.)
  
• Container formats such as AVI and OGG, that make file extensions practically useless.
  
• Programs whose windows move around at random. Ahem, just about every emulator.
  
• Programs that don't accept command line parameters but should, or that do a really shitty job of it. Ahem, Tile Layer Pro, No$GMB.
  
• Crappy documentation, especially when it looks like it was done by a 6-year-old.
  
• Windows' registry-related APIs.
  

Originally posted by Zachio

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Google bar. if anyone asks for something which we think they should google, we can say "LOOK AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE" instead of "Google it."

I ignore the the ads at the bottom either way. it's cool seeing what they're trying to sell, though.

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Originally posted by neotransotaku

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Accidentally pressing F1 instead of F2 in Windows Explorer. (And BTW that troubleshooter is totally useless.)

Disable the help service. Error message thought but at least help won't be loaded...

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Originally posted by FreeDOS +

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Google Video has that plain avi download so you're fine without Flash

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