These are things that I've come across all on our own, and I assume that everybody at MS uses MS products, so you'd think they they would have banged their heads against this stuff and would have gotten around to fixing it all! Of course, the economics of the situation dictate that they must spend more time and energy (and presumably better reward those working) on "New Features!" which only serve to make the whole thing more convoluted, bloated, broken, and annoying. But it sure does make the stock rise (or not, ha ha ha). Money is the bottom line, and I don't like that. They should just add a default Help entry for all their stuff: "Why does <application name> suck so much poop?" These have been gathering here for many years, so toward the bottom are lots of things that are probably no longer quite valid. Like, they've been 'fixed' with new and even more broken 'functionality'! Apologies in advance for all the typos and grammar problems and things. I've stopped trying to copy-edit this list because it is just too darned long.
A reader sent in this note: You might want to check out "Outlook Annoyances" from O'Reilly. They have a bunch of fixes for a lot of little problems.
These days, I'm mostly running Win XP. Also, I moved from VS6 to Visual Studio 7/.Net and it is killing me so I started a separate list for all that.
Error
A Runtime Error has occurred.
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 268
Error: Permission denied
Yes No
(I assume maybe it happens maybe when I don't
allow Active X things to run and the Javascript
is trying to talk to some on the page? Whatever.)
C:\WINDOWS\JAVA\Packages>dir /w
Volume in drive C has no label.
Directory of C:\WINDOWS\JAVA\Packages
[.] [..] 0K7RPJ5F.ZIP 22EQUVZL.ZIP 2QFDVFHZ.ZIP C0SN9373.ZIP [Data] FPBJXR5V.ZIP
HJ9ZB5VB.ZIP KXJTVB1N.ZIP LV5R5FH7.ZIP OOBPNFL3.ZIP OP39RZV5.ZIP Q13VTJJD.ZIP QU1JBLB9.ZIP SDZ7PJLF.ZIP
UZTBPJ39.ZIP VXN13539.ZIP XJTZRPBD.ZIP ZDZF5JDV.ZIP
17 File(s) 22,945,438 bytes
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