This is not really a rant about microsoft ,but more about the people who designed the windows help system.
I bought an external hard drive from a pawn shop about two weeks ago and its been a real adventure in getting it up and running.
Pick up the 120 gig for a song, there is bigger drives out there now and they come with either combos or usb hookups, but this one was a firewire connection, which to my thinking was not a big deal at the time.
Since my acer has no firewire port onboard and being a laptop , I had to get a pmcia card and they seem to be almost non existent in most stores around my area, I did not want to go directly to TigerDirect , cause their webpage does not discriminate between whats instore and web only. For me thats a 35 minute drive down to toronto and a bitch to find out its not instore and no they cant order it in, you have to go online.
I get blank looks at the source by circuit city and finally was able to pick up the card plus the cable at a Source in the town i work in.
Get home , slap in the card and bingo works right out of the box , then attach the firewire cable and turn on the drive and its no where to be found. Device manager sees both the firewire thingie , plus the drive and says its working fine.
Now the part that frosts me , the windows help screen pops up and its the one where you click a radio button for what seems to be the problem. Its always been useless as far as I am concerned and this proves it once again.
Its a limited system, what were these people thinking when they thought this up and was it the program design team that screwed up , or some bean counter that thought it was to expensive
When you click on the windows help system, it would be better off being a hyperlink to google , instead of the current way of doing things.
Declan