19 Sept 2009

Vista's awesome Program Compatibility Assistant

I have a Windoze machine at my workplace.  It's running Vista, which brings wow experience to your computers.  Today I upgraded my VLC player to the latest version and when I open VLC, Windoze decided to save me from falling off earth into nowhere:



Windoze expects me to decide and tell if the installation went fine before even opening the app.  Before going mad, I saw the help link in the bottom that read "What settings are applied?"  Ah good, now it's gonna show me the settings used by the new app and I can tell if it's correct or not.  So I click on the link and this is all I see:



Oh well.  Using Windoze is like being handicapped.  You just get used to it over time.  If you manage to successfully move away from it, you pray you never have to go back again. 


PS: FWIW, A quick Google search seems to suggest that not a lot of people like this feature:



2 comments:

  1. Why do still have that machine. I thought you would have cannibalized it long ago for spare parts.

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  2. @Bharat: Every now and then my mind wants to experience "wow!" so I keep this Windoze box.

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