TrackbackWindows annoyances #481
Important information crammed into a dialogue box which is tiny by default and (even worse) can’t be maximised nor resized. The user is forced to scroll so many times to work with this window, eventually assuming that Microsoft is messing them around even harder than usual.
Especially bad in this particular case, as there are two panels and the information displayed at the bottom depends on the selected item at the top. So it’s not enough to scroll the upper list to read the bottom field — you actually have to keep on jumping between the two panels, sometimes to reveal just the odd line or two that remain hidden beyond the border of the text field.
This criminal dialogue box (plus a few others like this one) has been happily living inside many flavours of Windows for years now. I reckon there must be a very good technical reason to keep things this shitty suboptimal, but I don’t know it.
Why? I mean, why?
Llevas toda la razón. Entre esto y las ventanas modales es que me matan.
Why? So you end up pressing Ok, sick with such a crappy interface, maybe installing unwanted updates? When doing things right is easier than doing it wrong, and it’s done wrong, something stinks…
Tra me e lui ormai è tutto chiaro. Io lo odio. Bill Gates maledetto, odia me.
I hate it! Every single week there’s a new set of updates…i don’t want to install!! And some of them are “security updates” meant to discover my pirate Windows….