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Should I Send Microsoft an Error Report When My Program Crashes?
White Paper And then one sees a dialog box similar to the following dialog box, and one asked themselves, "Should one click Send Error Report? That was really annoying, right? Has one ever used a Microsoft Office program that suddenly closed or just stopped... [16 Apr 2008]
Office XP Document: Macro Security White Paper
White Paper You can choose to trust all macros signed by this person (or corporation) by checking the Trust all macros from this source check box. If you use the Office XP digital signature features as advised in this white paper, you will not see annoying... [24 Feb 2004]
Gmail to thwart phishing with a big red box
News When a Gmail user opens a suspected phishing message, the software displays a large red dialogue box stating: "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. The company's help pages say that "the more spam you mark, the better our... [05 Apr 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Why I'm not in captcha rapture
Comment In case you've never seen one (though they've been around for years), here's what a captcha box looks like on Hotmail - complete with the obligatory error message which my efforts to interpret these things normally engenders. [10 Apr 2007]
The best of 'Reader comments': Electoral liberties, 'rip-off Britain' and farewell to the paperclip
Comment If we click on the Options button, we can uncheck the box that says, 'Use the Office Assistant'. Or, if we're really, really helpless, we can type 'stop using office assistant' in the box provided by the Office Assistant and click on 'Search'. [19 Apr 2001]
Internet Annoyances: Searching Annoyances
White Paper It's easy to type a few words into a search box, but it's tough to actually find anything one wants. Crafting the right search criteria for each different search engine, accommodating their quirks and limits, learning their arcane syntaxes, pawing... [10 Oct 2007]
Photos: See the new Firefox
Photo Firefox lets you use a variety of search engines on the search box and even add your own. Above you see how the ability to block annoying and unwanted pop-up windows has been improved in Firefox 1.5. Earlier this week the Mozilla Foundation... [02 Dec 2005]
AOL blocks Messenger spam
News The text-only messages pop up in a dialog box on top of any other window being used at the time. In a move quickly discovered by spammers, the AOL Time Warner subsidiary made a few technical changes last week to stop a relatively new type of... [26 Nov 2002]
Video nasty, adware nastier say experts of Guardian.co.uk ad
News Steven Cox, principal security consultant at CA, said too few end users read the terms and conditions when signing up for such adware and expressed concerns that many may be children, despite being presented with a tick-box which asks users to... [14 Aug 2006]
Analysis: The CIO's legacy IT nightmare
Comment This leaves two options - building a complex 'black box' to resolve those problems, or ripping out and replacing the whole lot. Les Boggia, IT division head at Carole Nash insurance, warned: "Of course, the thing to remember is that whilst the... [16 Mar 2006]
Avoid Vista until 2008, business users told
News Small organisations may find Microsoft's disk encryption and device management good enough out of the box but large enterprises will need more management features, leaving room for third parties, he said: "Companies that can focus on manageability... [08 May 2006]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment If this list (see grey box below) considered green credentials, who'd come out top? I don't mind too much, in this case, though things like secure websites (the old 'https') slowing to a crawl can be annoying. [13 Sep 2007]
If you thought pop-ups couldn't get any more annoying...
News Advertisers hope people will visit the promoted web page by clicking anywhere on the window, although many simply close it by selecting the 'X' box in the top-right corner. Pop-up ads, already the bane of millions of web surfers, are set to become... [23 Dec 2002]
Spam doesn't kill appetite for email
News Those people were also the most likely to check their in-box several times an hour, and many said they spend two hours a day dealing with email. By Lisa M. Bowman Spam hasn't killed enthusiasm for email among US workers, according to a new study on... [09 Dec 2002]
