[Shotimes] RE: OT - New car/New computer - FUNNY

[James F. Ryan III]

Cheezus H Riced, isn't it just easier to click on the stupid Start button?

Try this, go down to your local senior citizen home and ask one of the
octogenarians to shut down your Windows computer.  I will bet you $1 billion
they'll say, "Well, I see the Start button but no Stop button."  If they
don't recognize that the Start button is the way to Stop the machine, why in
the hell would they ever surmise that Ctrl-Alt-Del will do the trick?
Microsoft has taken all of the logic and intuition out of it.

Ask the same crowd how to turn off the TV and I bet they do that
lickety-split by pressing the "On/Off" button.  So maybe, the Start button
should be re-labeled "Start/Stop" or perhaps quite simply, "Main Menu", OR
maybe put a "Stop" button in the lower right-hand corner and move the
chronometer somewhere else.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of mkelley1@gt.rr.com
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:56 AM
>To: dmall@mwonline.net; shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] RE: OT - New car/New computer - FUNNY
>
>
>Under NT 4.0 and Win 2000, CTRL-ALT-DEL displays a dialog box which gives
>you several options including Lock Workstation, Logoff, Shutdown, and
>Change Password.  If you select Shutdown, it peforms an orderly shutdown
>(including applications) of the workstation with the option to restart
>after shutdown.
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Donald Mallinson dmall@mwonline.net
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:46:23 -0600
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] RE: OT -  New car/New computer - FUNNY
>
>
>Paul,
>
>My computer won't do anything if you hit the power button.
>IBM AMD Athlon.  If the Windows locks up, which it does a
>couple times a week, I have to kill power at the power strip
>to get a re-boot.
>
>CTRL-ALT-Delete, does not do an "orderly" shut down on any
>computer I have ever had.  It won't shut off programs
>currently running, and usually causes a fault that triggers
>windows scandisk.
>
>Don Mallinson
>
>Paul L Fisher wrote:
>
>> If you don't want to hit the Start button to shutdown, jut hit the power
>> button. It will produce an orderly shutdown. You can also hit
>CTRL-ALT-DEL
>> and select Shutdown from there.
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