I don’t hate Microsoft, I have been using windows since the Windows 3.1 era, along with other microsoft products. But sometimes the small things that Microsoft choose to do simply piss me off so much that I have to write about them here:

1. Who is the genius that thought it was a good idea to have the system automatically reboot after an automatic system update? This problem exists in both XP and Vista. Have you ever thought about maybe, just maybe even if I’m not physically in front of the computer, my computer could still be running some important application or contain unsaved work??? There isn’t even an option to change this behavior. I had to manually edit some registry setting or group policy to disable this extremely annoying behavior. You know what kind of program reboot the user’s computer without the user’s permission? a virus!

2. This problem is vista only. In windows explorer, when I copy a bunch of files to another directory, they become automatically resorted! This becomes a problem if the folder I copy to already contain a bunch of files, then I would easily lose track of the new files I copied. Now, I can see some people might want this behavior, but when you make such a major change, I would appreciate it if you would at least give me an option to turn this off. So far there isn’t even a solution to allow me to change this behavior to XP style (new files always are at bottom until refreshed).  I almost switched back to XP just for this. It is very frustrating.

3. Vista home edition does have a RDP (Remote Desktop) client, but again some genius at Microsoft decided to hide the icon from the menus. To run the RDP client, simply run “mstsc.exe”. I can’t imagine what is the reason to hide this from us home edition users?

4. No “group policy editor” (gpedit) for home edition users. Gpedit is such a useful system configuration tool, it would be a crime to not include it for home edition users.  It’s like not including a “preferences” screen in a software product.