Windows sucks because it can’t do simple things.
So I’ve got to use Windows XP in work and it’s driving me particularly nuts today. 5 minutes ago, I right-clicked on a shortcut on my desktop and deleted it. Or rather I asked XP to delete it. 5 minutes later, XP is still thinking about doing it:
I was deleting that shortcut because I spent the morning installing anti-spyware/anti-adware software – my laptop has recently started behaving like a i386 running Windows NT.
But it does all beg the obvious question – what the hell is XP doing in there? Just delete the damn shortcut and get on with it. You’re supposed to be a modern all-singing-all-dancing operating system and you can’t even delete a bloddy sub-1kb file in under 5 minutes! What a pile of $hit.
When I got the laptop it had XP pre-installed. I had too many critical tasks on hand at the time to go installing a Linux distro but as soon as this product release is out the door….
hi John, glad to hear your still the grumpy old engineer
I wonder if your problem is a full recycle bin. If this happens, windows tries to delete stuff from the recycle bin before actually moving the newly delete file(s) to it.
-P
That might well have been it Paul…it’d be nice if it told me!
You think thats bad, try vista. I uninstalled some software, but it didn’t delete the shortcuts from my desktop, so I tried to manually delete them. Windows said it cannot delete the required shortcust as the destination folder is missing. Of course it is, I have uninstalled it? so I have to put up with these damn things all over my desktop being unable to remove them!