This is something that never happened to me and I don't know how to deal with this new Windows bug (maybe it is new just for me; suggestions are welcome!).
As you can check from this screenshot:
There is a window with no right-side borders. No matter how much you drag the window on the left, the right side remains open-ended. This type of window appears when I select "properties" from the print dialog box, no matter of the application from which I am printing and the selected printer. This happened after I installed Adobe Acrobat Standard and after few automatic updates. I don't know if the two things are related, but printing from Acrobat or other applications make no difference and the "infinite window" always shows up. If you select one of the two tabs, the print monitor application crashes and sometimes also the Windows Explorer.
Needless to say that anyone I asked about it have no idea of what's going on. Moreover, my system is perfectly clean and no viruses are swarming around.
So what? Well, I think that we are in presence of an instance of the Vic_Peacock's Machine, which I proudly discovered! It is composed of a crappy operating system and at least one Infinite Window. It runs exponentially slow and makes exponential use of resources (whatever they might be). Its theoretical importance lies on the fact that it is difficult (or almost impossible) to debug and that the only programs that run well are viruses, troyan horses and spywares.
My overall life is degrading because of this machine and I am tempted to do what Turing did to end all this. Turing had two choices on how to suicide: eat a poisoned Apple or jump through a Window. He foresaw that he might have jumped through an "infinite window", hence never die and thus risking of being trapped in Windows for the eternity. He wisely chose a poisoned Apple that gave him a smooth, delicate and painless die!
Needless to say that anyone I asked about it have no idea of what's going on. Moreover, my system is perfectly clean and no viruses are swarming around.
So what? Well, I think that we are in presence of an instance of the Vic_Peacock's Machine, which I proudly discovered! It is composed of a crappy operating system and at least one Infinite Window. It runs exponentially slow and makes exponential use of resources (whatever they might be). Its theoretical importance lies on the fact that it is difficult (or almost impossible) to debug and that the only programs that run well are viruses, troyan horses and spywares.
My overall life is degrading because of this machine and I am tempted to do what Turing did to end all this. Turing had two choices on how to suicide: eat a poisoned Apple or jump through a Window. He foresaw that he might have jumped through an "infinite window", hence never die and thus risking of being trapped in Windows for the eternity. He wisely chose a poisoned Apple that gave him a smooth, delicate and painless die!
2 comments:
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I feel pretty much the same way.
I am tired of caring of so many stupid technical details.
I would be ready to pay as much as 100 Euros per month for a *complete* solution.
What about you?
Hi David,
there is indeed a "complete" solution: switch to MacOS-X! :-)
I'm trying now all my best to roll back to a Powerbook as a "work" computer. Of course, I have a Mac at home which works infinitely well! However, I hope Apple will reach the "perfection" in the next release of MacOS-X by allowing user to resize windows from all sides and not just from the lower right corner! :-)
By the way, when I was in Paris at the Microsoft academic meeting, I received a tick book on Windows XP where I looked for a solution to the "infinite window" problem. Of course, I did not find it. But I had some fun reading that, according to experts, one of the major cause of problems in Windows are not from software by from hardware and environment such as overheating, obsolete hardware and DUST!!! That's amazing, isn't it?
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