# Things other people do with computers that annoy the crap out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 31, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697 "2012-05-31T20:08:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/62 "2012-06-01T15:28:33Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Hell, if you’ve just highlighted some text to copy or cut, one hand is _already_ on your mouse, so it’s not like it’s going to slow you down much to do it by mouse. This. Why should I move over to the keyboard. And you don’t have to go up to the menu. Just right click\>copy. Much faster than moving over to the keyboard for me. ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/63 "2012-06-01T15:48:26Z")
My number one is people that store items in their Deleted Items folder. We wipe that out as a policy at my company (not every time, but on a schedule), and it drives me batty when people get pissy about it. It’s called deleted items for a reason, it’s not store all the stuff I’ve read items. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/64 "2012-06-01T15:56:54Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > > [@RTFirefly](#): > > > > Hell, if you’ve just highlighted some text to copy or cut, one hand is _already_ on your mouse, so it’s not like it’s going to slow you down much to do it by mouse. > > This. Why should I move over to the keyboard. And you don’t have to go up to the menu. Just right click\>copy. Much faster than moving over to the keyboard for me. Most people have two hands, so a command like CTRL-C can be done without moving your hand from the mouse. > [@Morbo](#): > > People on Macs who use the Red X to close the window, thinking they’ve Quit, but leave the Application running, then ask me why it’s so slow. Not a Mac user, but as I understand it Macs have a red x and a yellow minus sign. You’re telling me that **both** these buttons minimize the application? ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/65 "2012-06-01T16:01:14Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > This. Why should I move over to the keyboard. And you don’t have to go up to the menu. Just right click\>copy. Much faster than moving over to the keyboard for me. Yes, the right-click works. We’re talking about people who use the Edit menu in 2012. My hubby has a situation at work where the manager, who knows very little about computers, has decided that Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are NOT the same as choosing from the Edit menu. So occasionally she goes on a rant saying that Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are the reason for mis-addressed envelopes, missing customer files, etc. and that everybody must use the Edit menu from now on. She also says that it’s dangerous to have more than one application open at once, and that this is the reason for virus infections, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/66 "2012-06-01T16:26:00Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > My pet peeve is: zillions of icons on the desktop. I mean geeze - haven’t you heard of folders? My pet peeve is: putting things in folders. I mean, geeze - haven’t you heard of the desktop? Why the fuck would you want to make things more difficult to access when you need see and open them frequently? I have, right now, 7 columns of icons on my desktop, and I like it that way. Your way is like burying your car keys in the yard every time you come home and digging them up when you leave. It’s like putting a drawer on your closet shelf. It’s like putting a pencil holder in your desk drawer. _You_ can’t find anything, but _I_ know precisely where my documents are! ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/67 "2012-06-01T16:35:13Z")
> [@Dr.Love](#): > > Most people have two hands, so a command like CTRL-C can be done without moving your hand from the mouse. > Not a Mac user, but as I understand it Macs have a red x and a yellow minus sign. You’re telling me that **both** these buttons minimize the application? Red button is application specific. Sometimes it quits the program, sometimes it closes the window but leaves it running (you can tell the difference by whether there is a dot under the icon in the dock). The yellow button minimises to a section to the right of the dock, with an icon that should represent what is happening in that window at the time (as opposed to the other icons in the dock, which should be of the application’s icon). Actually, red button being “minimise application” and yellow button being “minimise document” is probably a close way of putting it. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/68 "2012-06-01T16:56:02Z")
Double click, FUCK double click, who the hell thought this was a good idea in the first place? double click my ass, is microsoft getting kickbacks from mouse companies for all the broken left buttons from double clicking? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/69 "2012-06-01T17:06:51Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have a friend who, whenever he sends me an image, puts it in a Word file first. My friend does this too, but he’s an accountant, so he puts them into an Excel file. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/70 "2012-06-01T17:07:06Z")
> [@Dr.Love](#): > > Not a Mac user, but as I understand it Macs have a red x and a yellow minus sign. You’re telling me that **both** these buttons minimize the application? No, they don’t both minimize the application. In fact, neither one minimizes the application. The Red X _closes the current window_, and leaves the application untouched. That means if there is more than one window open in the application, the remaining windows remain maximized. That window is then gone. The Yellow Minus _minimizes the current window_ and lodges it as an icon in the dock. Again, if there are other windows open in the application, they remain maximized. In both cases, if the window you have closed or maximized was the only window open in the application, the application still remains on top, waiting for you to either (1) open a new window, (2) quit the application, (3) “hide” the application, or (3) choose the desktop/finder or some other application. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/71 "2012-06-01T17:13:44Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > People who don’t learn the keystroke shortcuts for common actions, like cut and paste. Instead, they slooooooowly navigate to the menu bar then slooooooowly scroll through the drop-down menu to “Cut.” Then they place their cursor and do it all again to paste. GAH! Keyboard shortcuts often don’t work well through remote sessions (VNC, MSTSC, Citrix). Also, it demonstrates to the other person viewing exactly what you’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/72 "2012-06-01T17:39:54Z")
Uses application windows to navigate the file system. For example: When he wants to open a Word document, he loads MS Word, then goes to “file”, “open”, and then navigates the 9 folders down in the small dinky Word window to the document he wants, and clicks on it. It opens up into Word. Well, we also need an Excel document for this too. Well, now we have to open up Excel, then go to file, open, and then navigate the 9 folders down in the small dinky Excel window to the document he wants… I’m thinking, just open up a windows explorer window and use it to navigate to where you want! First of all, it is nice and large which shows you more folders, and it will show ALL the types of files there. You can launch any particular file in any particular program you want! It’s that easy! ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/73 "2012-06-01T17:58:30Z")
I also have to defend those who use google instead of the address bar. For example, I have it so google is my home page. When I lauch Firefox, there is google and the cursor is blinking in the search box. I just type SDMB and then hit TAB TAB ENTER\*. Bam, there is the straight dope message board. One of the benifts of using google is that I always get what I want, even if I misspell it. \*Actually, this benefit has been somewhat removed. I will never forgive google for removing the I’m feeling lucky option by hitting TAB TAB ENTER. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/74 "2012-06-01T18:15:29Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > Double click, FUCK double click, who the hell thought this was a good idea in the first place? double click my ass, is microsoft getting kickbacks from mouse companies for all the broken left buttons from double clicking? You realize that double-clicking can be disabled and a single click will work? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/75 "2012-06-01T18:20:54Z")
It annoys me that my mother takes forever to scroll through webpages. She hasn’t learned to use the scroll wheel on the mouse, and I don’t know if she has learned to slide the scrollbar. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/76 "2012-06-01T18:25:56Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > Double click, FUCK double click, who the hell thought this was a good idea in the first place? double click my ass, is microsoft getting kickbacks from mouse companies for all the broken left buttons from double clicking? I don’t get it. Double-click is a shortcut. Single-click selects. Once selected, you can do a number of different operations to the selected item, one of which is “open” it. Double-click just does the select/open combination. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/77 "2012-06-01T19:02:52Z")
Naming files all\_lowercase\_with\_underscores like they did in the olden days. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/78 "2012-06-01T19:09:15Z")
> [@Dr.Love](#): > > Most people have two hands, so a command like CTRL-C can be done without moving your hand from the mouse. :shrug: I don’t leave one hand on the key board and would have to look down to find the CTRL-C. It’s much faster IMHO to just use the right click. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/79 "2012-06-01T19:13:04Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > :shrug: I don’t leave one hand on the key board and would have to look down to find the CTRL-C. It’s much faster IMHO to just use the right click. The complaint is about people who use the menu. What exactly are you arguing about? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/80 "2012-06-01T19:19:55Z")
> [@Dr.Love](#): > > Most people have two hands, so a command like CTRL-C can be done without moving your hand from the mouse. Silly person! The other hand is for my coffee mug. Why should I use two hands on the computer if I only need one? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697/81 "2012-06-01T19:23:45Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > The complaint is about people who use the menu. What exactly are you arguing about? Actually, it was about “People who don’t learn the keystroke shortcuts for common actions, like cut and paste.” The particular example he gave was of people who use the menu bar really slowly for this, but that’s what he said the complaint was about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-other-people-do-with-computers-that-annoy-the-crap-out-of-you/623697.md?page=5)