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Re: Vent thread

Post by *POTS* » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:38 am

Hermskii wrote:Ever installed a HP printer using the recommended options? Holy crap! All you want are drivers so when you click print it prints but no. They have to install about 8 other icons on your desktop too.
Oh yes I did, and I even unchecked some options. Still got plenty of tasks running in the background.
Hermskii wrote: Yeah David. you hit a raw nerve here. I hate this crap!
David?! :o :roll:
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hermskii » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:53 am

Hahaha! Yeah, on double checking that I see that was from you POTS! Sorry. Being called David is no insult though.

Is there a single program you can pay for and install that doesn't try to install all sorts of other stuff on your PC these days? You are right POTS that even if you do use the custom install and uncheck to have these things installed they still ram it down your throat with hidden services.
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Re: Vent thread

Post by David » Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:32 pm

Hermskii wrote:Hahaha! Yeah, on double checking that I see that was from you POTS! Sorry. Being called David is no insult though.
Thank you Herm.... :mrgreen:
David is a strong name.. My name is in the Bible :wink:

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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hermskii » Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:49 am

Hey! So is mine! Not the Hermskii name. The real first name: James. I'm royal and holy just like you David. We both have names that belonged to Kings and each of us are named after a Saint which is even better!

All of this is true of my real middle name too!
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hook » Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:39 am

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Re: Vent thread

Post by *POTS* » Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:28 pm

Hermskii wrote:Being called David is no insult though.
Correct, but this makes me think sometimes I may look similar to David in the way we rant. :mrgreen:
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hermskii » Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:22 pm

Ummm? You don't ever rant POTS. David doesn't either but he does enjoy sharing his pain while blowing off some steam here in this very controlled environment.
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hook » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:33 am

Hey POTS, sometime you Need to rant or blow off steam - a good thing for your soul.
Reduces stress too. :P
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Re: Vent thread

Post by *POTS* » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:36 am

Hook wrote:Hey POTS, sometime you Need to rant or blow off steam - a good thing for your soul.
Reduces stress too. :P
And is also a good remedy for hypertension I guess. :P
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Sir Mandrake » Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:33 am

HP software is one of the worse installation experiences. Its bloatware at its finest. However, most likely its a printer or scanner you're installing and the unit is worthless without the software suite... so what can you do? lol Also, the time it takes to install is insane. HP software is never fun to install.
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Re: Vent thread

Post by *POTS* » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:42 pm

Have to agree with Sir.

Their installation CD failed to be read so I had to download the whole stuff from the Web (over 300 MB or so if I recall right).
They also offer plenty of additional stuff without a proper description so you might find yourself with a useless, outdated plug-in for IE/FF installed, not to mention that stupid Digital Imaging Center auto-starting each time you turn on your PC and always running in the background, which I have forcibly disabled using the msconfig tool.

Between iTunes and HP, I dunno which one is worse when it comes to useless tasks running in the background; it's a hard fight I guess. :roll:
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hermskii » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:49 pm

Kodak just went out of business and maybe they deserved it. If you every downloaded stuff from one of their cameras on your PC, you know what I'm talking about!
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Sir Mandrake » Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:15 am

Kodak EasyShare :roll:
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Re: Vent thread

Post by Hermskii » Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:27 am

That is the stuff. I hate that program!
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Re: Vent thread

Post by *POTS* » Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:02 pm

PsychoPOTS!

<rant>
this is so much fun :D
adobe cares about us :D
adobe releases update 11.3 for flash player :D
it will improve security :D
it will add improvements :D
it will crash firefox and freeze msn :D
but you have to install it :D
and if you want to install an older version you can't do it that easily :D
you must suffer :D
cause you're a poor mortal being :D
you must find an older version from the most remote sources :D
and is not just that simple yet :D
you usually uninstall crap from the Windows Control Panel :D
not this time dear customer :D
you must download and run the official Adobe [R] Uninstaller [TM] piece of junk [C] :D
but not just that :D
you have to run it with administrative privileges :D
otherwise it might not work :D
and still, it won't work the same :D
cause there are left-overs of the previous installations :D
the almighty, awesome, genius, etc etc Adobe Uninstaller can't get rid of :D
so you have to manually locate those files one by one in their respective folders :D
and delete them :D
then you must reboot your system once or twice, just to be sure :D
and finally if God wants, you can install an OLDER version of the software :D
5 hours of your life wasted :D
to fix something that the previous day worked fine :D
thank you so much Adobe, Microsoft & Co. :D
I feel better, I'm a happy stressed customer :D
gonna send this chatlog in blind carbon copy to the above companies maybe :D
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