Most hated piece of Software.....

[High_Jumbllama]

Though it does have a lot of usability, Office 2000!

Too may registry and access permission problems to count!

[dZeus]

RealMedia Player G2 (or was it G3?).

zoomplayer or bsplayer (can't remember which one exactly), it had a gui which nearly made me throw up.

btw. what's wrong with winrar? It's one of my favourite utilities... the gui is not the best looking one, but functionality is superb.

[stcynic]

Word. Because:

- Volume. It is ubiquetous as a standard. Practically everone with a PC has to use it for one reason or another, and pretty frequently usually. So any amount of annoyance per user is multiplied by a _lot_ of users.
- Complexity. Almost all of the people forced to use it do not need ninty-five percent of its features. And the features make it slower and harder to do the simple things.
- Bugs. It has the same bugs it did back in the 16bit versions. For example, I still get random changes to fonts that get "stuck" and cannot be removed without deleting large sections of text completely pasting them in notepad then back to Word. And sometimes the formating still comes back! This is most notable with bullet lists. This is just one exampel
- That damn paperclip! No matter how many times you turn him off, he is still lurking, waiting to annoy you when you least expect it.

[cjolley]

Quicktime, Acrobat
I don't realy use Acrobat it's self, but I think pdf files are the work of Satan.
And I do have to deal with them sometimes.
chuck

[Indiana]

I'm really astonished that noone mentioned LiveWare up to now...
I'd say any software provided by Creative is a hard contender for this "award".

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Indiana
I'm really astonished that noone mentioned LiveWare up to now...
I'd say any software provided by Creative is a hard contender for this "award".

You actualy INSTALLED LiveWare?
chuck

[Ssin]

Real Softwares, creative softwares, Norton anti-viruses also s*ck big times whenever used with some windows 2000 boxes.
Top contenders are Symantec and Real for me, creative being just a pain in the .ss

[TnT]

Quicktime, RealOne/Player, Aladdin Stuffit.

So many people hate Quicktime and Real, yet so many people use it!!!

Originally posted by cjolley
Quicktime, Acrobat
I don't realy use Acrobat it's self, but I think pdf files are the work of Satan.
And I do have to deal with them sometimes.
chuck

Yay, someone else who hates PDFs.

[GT98]

Originally posted by TnT
So many people hate Quicktime and Real, yet so many people use it!!!

The ONLY reason I have quicktime on my PCs are to watch movie trailers...because thats all what they seem to come out on. GGRR

[KeiFront]

Realmedia
Outlook
Visual Basic IDE

[Paddy]

The ONLY reason I have quicktime on my PCs are to watch movie trailers...because thats all what they seem to come out on. GGRR

Media Player 'Classic' supports QT and Real

It works a treat!

[Kooldino]

Why do you guys hate PDF?

[Wombat]

Why would you hate PDFs? They're the best way to transfer a document and be sure that both sides see the same layout.

[Guru]

Actualy you are not forced to use quicktime and realplayer you could always use Quicktime and Real alternative available here http://www.freecodecs.com/

(Uh this also makes my choice not count! )

EDIT: Woups Paddy already mentioned it!

Originally posted by Paddy
Media Player 'Classic' supports QT and Real

It works a treat!

[Paddy]

I may have mentioned it, but I was also too lazy to provide a link

Cheers mate

**edit** message made no sense!