The most useless dialog in Windows?

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adondai — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:05:31 GMT

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?

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wjglenn141 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:23:44 GMT

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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Waethorn — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:14:56 GMT

"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!

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Cfischer83 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:54:05 GMT

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.

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lotsamystuff — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:48:50 GMT

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

Yes, all six of you.

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Mark KB — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:24:15 GMT

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.

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rjohn05 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:20:12 GMT

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

re: The most useless dialog in Windows?

Grannyville — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:09:19 GMT

@emuelle1

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

re: The most useless dialog in Windows?

stimshady — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:43:05 GMT

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

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emuelle1 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:22:05 GMT

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.

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Grannyville — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:53:52 GMT

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

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techfan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:38:18 GMT

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.

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stimshady — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:33:19 GMT

nice to see you using N'bin Paul ;)