Most irritable Softwares

Hey technoguys
What are the worst softwares that one can ever come across?
(like i find norton the worst antivirus)

umm...Totem I would say

(no flame wars plz)

^^ aisa ho sakta hai kya

hey OSC and arya another thread for u ... please feel free to express ur views

Horoscopes' Softwares

hmmm...looks like no big names are hated.

Waitin 4 more interesting response (Wrath welcomed,i mean it)

Norton AV........ arghhhhhhhhhh

Nortan and Zone alarm latests........very very system heavy......

windows xp....

.... it is also a collection of softwares... as it stops the system when u get those blue screens for errors.... :grin:

dursleyin said:
Nortan and Zone alarm latests........very very system heavy......

even zone alarm free ....is it also very heavy?

All major ex-biggies in AV.. read.. Norton, Mcafee, even pccillin

Some Diskdefraggers...

Gizmo was it,... ?? crached my IE all the time :lol:

realtake HD sound manager

never got the settings right

Now days I am starting to hate Nero 7.5 versions

takes too much load to PC...

out of the ones that I have used.... I dunno why but I never really liked kodak easy share S/W.....

Hate NAV

...Lets See How Many People More Vote for it

..I think that Must be the worst ever product for all users here

Any and every RAM optimizer...............

Gimp : Irritable just coz of the interface(i m used to PS) but at the same time it is helpful too.

ZA, PC Cillin, QuickHeal, Real Player, QuickTime are the others..

ssk429 said:
even zone alarm free ....is it also very heavy?

yeah man...if its ver 7 & above......

blueshift said:
Gimp : Irritable just coz of the interface(i m used to PS) but at the same time it is helpful too.

ZA, PC Cillin, QuickHeal, Real Player, QuickTime are the others..

Agreed with QT and Realplayer......ofcourse ZA

Try to beat this software for irritability.
xxx Dialers...

Nothing tops that!

Microsoft Windows (Vista, with its UAC system, tops the chart).

All Antivirus software.

Windows (in fact it explorer has crashed right now... only I can still use firefox...). Keeps nagging me about some software being blocked from starting up....

iTunes is the software I (or rather my PC) hate the most..!!

Heres My List

Norton Av 2004,05,06,07,360
Kundli Pro(horoscope Soft)
Panda Av(almost As Good As A Panda Slleeeping)
Zone Alarm(made My Sys Crash)
And Most Importantly

Ms Office(you Hv To Fiddle Wid 1000 Settings To Make A Text Document!!! Arrrrrrrgh)

digital2006 said:
Ms Office(you Hv To Fiddle Wid 1000 Settings To Make A Text Document!!! Arrrrrrrgh)

Ugh!

Are you wrestling with it?

N

I can see people find softwares irritating when they can't configure them properly. MS office is the best Office software one can use...!

And please post genuinely irritable softwares. Windows is not the one atleast for me!

guys how come ZoneAlarm is irritable???

atleast it does its WORK PERFECTLY, that is blocking unneccessary incoming/outgoing traffic.

just coz its resource hog doesnt mean its irritating s/w, if your system cant handle it, dont install it.

ZA crashes or malfunctions if your system does not meet the requirements ->XP SP2. or due to some in-compatible AV s/w...

when you say Norton, i'll agree :))

, coz its a paid product but still faaaaar behind the free AV solutions. (Detecting virus/trojans).

how many of you here use LimeWire?

I use Limewire..I didn't find any problems except that the searched results have ad links.

i too use limewire.....prob with ZA is that it slows up the whole system performance.....as this is my case.....dunno bout others....

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^ ZA free 7.5 worx perfectly 4 me. I am using it on an old system with 256 mb sdram and willamette p4 1.5. just turn off the mailsafe settings and antivirus monitoring.
I hate what they did to acrobat 8 with the pink pdf thumbnails. What an eyesore.

i hate norton antivirus - bloody slows down the comp like hell and also SYSTEM MECHANIC great software ..... but hangs the system as its also very slow.... sick of both

buddy put a poll how many hate or like norton tat would be better

to all LimeWire users,

hmm, so you never felt that LimeWire slows the system down , well it slows my PC, when i restore it (frm minimized state), it takes nearly 30 seconds for it to become functional, & in the process takes 90+% CPU & stops all other activities (WinAmp, Opera...) till it loads.

i've 256MB RAM pc, ZA remains OFF, when using LimeWire.

do get something (songs,...), we gotta tolerate something (pc slow down)

One of the software which I hate is "Download Accelerator Plus". Initial Free version came bundled with spywares. It is really sucking as a download manager. More over, it's takes a nice 5+ seconds to initiate a download!

Kiran_tech_mania said:
One of the software which I hate is "Download Accelerator Plus". Initial Free version came bundled with spywares. It is really sucking as a download manager. More over, it's takes a nice 5+ seconds to initiate a download!

that is why i switched to free download manager

IDM is good, give it a try.

Wow , so many antivirus haters ...Pessimists excuse me but i dont have any
antivirus installed in my pc(they suck more than viruses i hope some guys support me) . i just have spybot for that purpose..and i advice all beginners(plz
dont post 'i already knew' comments) this stuff.ull love itz speed and u ensure at the same time that no program is slowing down ur pc.....well waitin 4 more critics

Kiran_tech_mania said:
One of the software which I hate is "Download Accelerator Plus". Initial Free version came bundled with spywares. It is really sucking as a download manager. More over, it's takes a nice 5+ seconds to initiate a download!

Yup DAP sucks

Ihatemyself said:
Wow , so many antivirus haters ...Pessimists excuse me but i dont have any
antivirus installed in my pc(they suck more than viruses i hope some guys support me) . i just have spybot for that purpose..and i advice all beginners(plz
dont post 'i already knew' comments) this stuff.ull love itz speed and u ensure at the same time that no program is slowing down ur pc.....well waitin 4 more critics

well even i wud be happy not to use AV solution (for system speed), but i'm NOT the ONLY user of my PC & the other users (my frnds), visit "those" sites :))

a lot, so....

pityful man...ihate to share my pc wid anyone( i m not MEAN but some possessions shd be only your.......again sorry to repeat but i wud prefer hell to norton(hmmm somewhat)

Another one i hate is Internet Explorer 7.0( and ppl say microsoft has improved it) Firefox is best (opera is not so plug-in friendly) ....and i also hate nero showtime ...till it starting u could read 1/4 digit mag(ive done it)

navjotjsingh said:
I can see people find softwares irritating when they can't configure them properly. MS office is the best Office software one can use...!

And please post genuinely irritable softwares. Windows is not the one atleast for me!

well , the beauty of any software lies in ease of use . i agree that ms office may b good but i have found more people struggling with it than creating a professionally lookin document(they rather open notepad / wordpad). what is software when u spend time always configuring it ? MS should definitely add some wizard/quickstarter for easy configuring.

anyways, its always a matter of personal choice
no offence

Ihatemyself said:
pityful man...ihate to share my pc wid anyone( i m not MEAN but some possessions shd be only your.......again sorry to repeat but i wud prefer hell to norton(hmmm somewhat)

Another one i hate is Internet Explorer 7.0( and ppl say microsoft has improved it) Firefox is best (opera is not so plug-in friendly) ....and i also hate nero showtime ...till it starting u could read 1/4 digit mag(ive done it)

IE7 when compared to IE6, has definetly improved

i'm using Opera for more than a year now, i tried FF, but too much plug-in thing, which Opera offered as "out of box".
(i'm not tryin to make another browser war).

what? nobody experiencing the LimeWire thing like me?

M

One and Only Linux
Sometime windows too

Norton Antivirus and then comes Microsoft Windows !

@ kiran_tech_mania

did you try out DAP 8.1 premium??...i shud say...superb download manager...try out once !

Yup! Norton and McAfee(havent' tried this one out recently) They do suck a lot.

R

Norton Antivirus,

without a doubt nav,n also der was a sw 4 monitoring realtime speeds of ur net called "watchwan".bt it sucks big time.
n 4 vista users its uac(user account control) till u disable it

Does anyone think Jetaudio is also crap

microsoft windows...not only for OS problems but also for ethical reasons:
*fsf.org

and coming to Linux(pardon other users,just expressing):
1)KDE is nice for most people i'd say.even i'm not here to bash it anyway,but as the thread starter asked.
i get irritated using it..may be its interface which i find difficult.GNOME works fine.
perhaps I think i'll find myself using it in version 4 of kde-kde4!
2)beep-media-player(winamp 2 like app made using gtk2) -it plays hide-n-seek with me when i minimize or maximise in GNOME.sometimes playlist manager is missing,sometimes equalizer windows hides..Ufff!

Linux users here,dont take my first comment to ur heart,its my personal experiance only.infact most people are using kde, ie near 50% share of DE in UNIX like Systems.