The worst software you have ever dealt with thread!

[BoomChickn]

Nothing too bad lately, but avast has been a pain in the ass for me, when its installed my computer is locked up when I try to turn it on normally, I had to go in to safe mode, and uninstall the program, no problems since.

[tigojones]

Silverlight: Doesn't run in Linux, the Linux alternative doesn't run current Silverlight apps (like the UFC Live stream, which is the only one I've ever come across, TBH). I also don't get any reason why someone would use it over Flash. If someone wants to explain it to me, cool.

Windows 7: Because it makes my Hex-Core/8gig ram system run like my old Athalon64 single core system with XP.

So, basically, I hate Microsoft products.

[Tribunal]

Silverlight: Doesn't run in Linux, the Linux alternative doesn't run current Silverlight apps (like the UFC Live stream, which is the only one I've ever come across, TBH). I also don't get any reason why someone would use it over Flash. If someone wants to explain it to me, cool.

If "someone" is end users and not developers, a lot of people have Silverlight thanks to Netflix. I know that's the case for me.

If "someone" is devs then yeah, agree. It has some unique features (and flash has plenty of it's own problems) but overall with the problems and plusses all weighed out Silverlight's performance still makes Flash win-out.

[Deleted]

i hate any software that requires the user who wants to work with it to have more rights than they usually have in a corporate environment
f.ex. i recently had to deal with some software used to program coffee-machines - that pice of junk simply wont run if the user does not have full write permissions directly on the root folder of the harddrive.
also anything that by default stores the users data in places the "normal" user wont find, like <userprofile>\Application Data\ or <userprofile>\Local Settings\

[Tyrianth]

Windows.

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[Cilraaz]

Everyone up to this point gets a pass. From this point on, if you're going to claim a piece of software to be the worst you've ever dealt with, then back it up with some substance. Otherwise, it's no different than the software bashing that's not permitted as per this forum's guidelines.

[Drunkenvalley]

Well, to add substance:
Games For Windows Live for being a horrible piece of software. There is literally no commendable feature in it. Its features were severely lacking and apparently based on a poorly coded browser, which showed in its functionality when you could not at any point in time rely on actually being logged in when needing it.

Nevermind that trying to get addons working with its games, ie Fallout 3, was downright horrendous. Despite being supposed to function by its own, you were forced to find the addon itself and copy it over to your Fallout 3 folder. This was not an easy task, because Games For Windows Live tried poorly to conquer piracy of it, I assume it was, by having a metric fuckton of redundant folders all over the place.

And even if you managed to get it working, may god have mercy on your soul if you tried to actually earn the achievements. Getting the software to function with the game was a miserable event.

[Cuppy]

You haven't seen anything unless you've tried Samsung Kies. Haha, it's goddamn hilarious!
It's amazingly buggy, my god!

[Deleted]

RSA Secure ID. God that made my computer slow. And the support of that company is just terrible.

[Deleted]

NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M Drivers.
The newest drivers let programs like wow, photoshop and solidworks crash every few seconds. The old drivers messes with the colors. And the interface is horrible.

[shiryo]

Solid works. (CAD program)

"You cant attatch a solid onto this structure, can't find a plane"
Making a plane
"You cant attatch a solid onto this structure, can't find a plane"
I just made one you piece of crap. Trying to fix whatever might be wrong which takes me way back up the library
"Error. Plane missing, can't fill solid"
And 4 hours of work is made into a pile of steaming errors due to one minor flaw at the beginning.

Thank god I never have to work with it again

[Deleted]

Solid works. (CAD program)

"You cant attatch a solid onto this structure, can't find a plane"
Making a plane
"You cant attatch a solid onto this structure, can't find a plane"
I just made one you piece of crap. Trying to fix whatever might be wrong which takes me way back up the library
"Error. Plane missing, can't fill solid"
And 4 hours of work is made into a pile of steaming errors due to one minor flaw at the beginning.

Thank god I never have to work with it again

I love solidworks :O Though I understand what you mean