Tag: ANNOYANCE

A long time ago (in a blog far, far away) I lamented the lack of documentation on Apple's knowledge base. It's gotten better, but still is nowhere near the comprehensive nature of Microsoft's KB. Granted, MS has a lot more to say since it makes more tools, but to call their KB labyrinthine is putting it nicely. Worse, just jumping to a particular KB article, even if you know the specific number ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is software that insists on you rebooting your computer after you've installed it. As a guy who writes about software, if I rebooted for every installer that insists I do I'd spend more time looking at XP's loading screens than actually using it. WhyReboot is a free little app that tells you what file operations are pending for the next reboot, i.e. what that urgent ...