Tag: UI Fail
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Windows Browser Ballot
Mildly controversially, MS have found themselves compelled to offer Windows users in the EU a ‘browser ballot’ screen in an effort to make IE a less default choice, which is fairly understandable (if perhaps not understandably fair). But MS have decided for some reason that the best way to do this is is render it…
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UI Fail: scanpst.exe’s incompatibility
Sometimes, on trying to scan a PST with MS Office’s bundled scanpst.exe, you get the below error: And a log that ends: Fatal Error: 80040818 What MS meant to say was: You’re scanning an Office 2003 PST file with the scanpst tool that shipped with Office 2007. For some reason, we decided that while Outlook…
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UI Fail: Windows XP ‘runas’ dialogue box
On right-clicking an executable ((Though not every executable. If you want to run something in the control panel, probably the most common place to want to runas, you need to shift+right-click. Several MSI files don’t do it, and nor do any apparent CAB files. Let alone the inability to directly open a non-executable file as…