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nice to see you using N'bin Paul ;)

I hate this dialog! In all the times I've had this dialog pop up on me, it has never given me a useful bit of info when I've chosen the web option. The worst thing is when I click Okay mistake before selecting the second option, which lets you use a program to open the file with.

I hate it even more when you get dialog boxes that use pictures/icons from the Windows 9x era

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Actually, the most useless dialogue in Windows is when a program crashes and it asks what you want to do. It has an option to "Check for a solution then close the program." Has anybody EVER gotten a solution? I haven't.

BSOD, whilst maybe not the most useless, is certainly the most infuriating!

@emuelle1

I have actually been offered solutions from the Problem Reports and Solutions feature. which have fixed problems for me

Hay Paul! For those of us who are graphics designers on the Windows platform, the poor fonts dialog is a BIG ISSUE.

The main reason that website is so useless is that Microsoft relies on the developer to send in a form describing the extension:

blogs.msdn.com/.../9311703.aspx

Unfortunately, it appears most developers are lazy/think such a thing is a waste of time/money. (Note the description for PDFs, however... :) )

As an aside, you can turn that first dialog off using good ol' RegEdit, by navigating to "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" and adding/editing the DWORD value "NoInternetOpenWith" - just set it to 1.

"Hay Paul! For those of us who are graphics designers on the Windows platform..."

Yes, all six of you.

100% agree with you, Paul. I hate this thing, it's never worked for me at any point I've ever had it come up.

"Hay Paul! For those of us who are graphics designers on the Windows platform..."

"Yes, all six of you."

Wow!  That's still double to number of worldwide Mac users!

In all these years, I've never once had it come up with a program for me. But, then I've never tested it with anything really obvious, like a PDF file or a DOC file. It would be sad if it couldn't even come up with a suggestion for Word for a DOC file.

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Look, come on Paul - you provide the best balanced Windows coverage on the web, but the arrogance post just annoyed me a lot... you're the bigest nit picker around, only a couple months ago you wrote a great long post about the inconsistency of the spelling of 'homegroup' in Win7 yet today you're sneering about other people's comments concerning the archaic and pointless font window?