Taking over the desktop
I’m sure you have gone through this frustration: You install some program and before you know it, it’s all over your system waving hands at you saying “click me, click me!”. It’s on your desktop, start menu, quick launch, favorites, explorer toolbars, Send To menu, New menu, and sometimes in the Startup folder and even in the system tray. They sure make damn sure that they won’t go un-noticed. Geeez…
ICQ and Yahoo Messenger are just two of them.
Raymond Chen of Microsoft Windows development team, whom I have become so fond of recently, describes this issue perfectly:
In Windows XP, the Start menu pin-list is for users to put their favorite icons. It is not the place for a program to decide unilaterally, "I am so cool. I am your favorite icon. I just know it. So I'll put myself there because, well, I'm so cool."
What's particularly galling are the programs that, as part of their install, decide that they are so cool they want to be everywhere to make sure you don't miss out on the coolest most amazing program ever written in the history of mankind, so they go into the Start menu, into the Fast items, onto the desktop, into the Quick Launch, onto your Favorites, take over as your default autoplay handler, and even hang out as an icon next to the clock on the taskbar just in case you somehow missed all those other places - and each time you run them, they go and recreate those icons and settings in case you "accidentally lost them".
I hate those programs.
ICQ and Yahoo Messenger are just two of them.
Raymond Chen of Microsoft Windows development team, whom I have become so fond of recently, describes this issue perfectly:
In Windows XP, the Start menu pin-list is for users to put their favorite icons. It is not the place for a program to decide unilaterally, "I am so cool. I am your favorite icon. I just know it. So I'll put myself there because, well, I'm so cool."
What's particularly galling are the programs that, as part of their install, decide that they are so cool they want to be everywhere to make sure you don't miss out on the coolest most amazing program ever written in the history of mankind, so they go into the Start menu, into the Fast items, onto the desktop, into the Quick Launch, onto your Favorites, take over as your default autoplay handler, and even hang out as an icon next to the clock on the taskbar just in case you somehow missed all those other places - and each time you run them, they go and recreate those icons and settings in case you "accidentally lost them".
I hate those programs.
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