Click Shut Down to Restart your Computer Please.

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senne

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I'm having a discussion on another forum about the user-friendlyness of Windows XP and OS X. I have only said one non-user-friendly thing about XP and we're discussing about it for about 30 posts already...

The thing we're discussing about is the fact that in XP you have to click on "Shut Down" if you want to "Restart" your computer or put it in "Stand-by".

Another, but actually the same thing: When you want to Shut Down the computer, it will ask you that you want to shut down, restart or put the computer to sleep. Although you have already selected Shut Down.

The win-pro-people just don't get it that it is not user-friendly. That it's not easy to use. And that it's just not logical.

Why? I don't get it!
 
Actually it's even worse than that: if you want to restart XP, first you click "Start" THEN you click "Shut Down", THEN you select 'Restart'. ;)
 
That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Try telling a windows user how to set their TCPIP properties on a connection.
"First we have to go to control panel. To do that, click Start, then control panel. If its not there it'll be under settings. Now we need to go to network connections. If you can't see network connections, you'll need to go to network and Internet connections first.
"OK, right click on the Local Area Connection (they might have more than one, all labelled mostly the same) and then in the list of "Services" find the checkbox "Internet Protocol TCPIP". Click on it so it's still checked but highlighted as well .... yeah I know its already checked, but you have to highlight it. OK now click on properties. Now click on advanced, and go to the DNS tab ... Now you'll need to add your domain suffix to the search list there. No you can't just type it in, you have to press "Add" and then type it into the box that pops up."

Its easy to see how even the simplest Windows setting might require a user to wade through several dialog boxes all of which are far too complex for such simple tasks. On the Mac, you just go to Apple-Menu --> System Preferences --> Network and the settings are right there, and you can type straight into it.

Oh, yeah, and on the PC you'll need to restart, or disable and re-enable the networking, whereas on the Mac you just click "Apply". Of course, Windows has the "Apply" button there, but clicking it won't take effect until restart anyway.
 
in some configurations/setups you also have to do the same click "start" then "shutdown" to finally get the logout option. at least i know this to be on win 2k.
 
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