Why is Windows such a piece of Crap

[Guest]

I'm an IT professional with over 30 years experience and I cannot solve
simple little problems with Windows. Why are there no log files create so
that those who want can find out what is wrong with their systems.

I too am having the "MCI Command Handling" window show up during shutdown
and cannot find a fix for it. Of couse there is absoulutely no where to look
to see what error are logged. Event viewer is just somebodys idea of a joke!

I'm also having a problem with the Welcome Screen. After logging off, when
I next click on a user id to log back on, the system will not allow for the
entry of a password. It just sits there staring at me, doing nothing. The
only way out is a C-A-D to get the real login screen. Again, I can find lots
of people having this problem but nobody solving it.

A computer system should log every thing that it does for audit purposes and
error correction. Or at least give me the opportunity to turn on logging.

 

[Guest]

Try user profile clean-up utility.Also,ever thought of installing xp tools
from
the cd,or downloading them.Also,if xp doesnt shutdown as it should,then youre
obviosly running xp with a software conflict in the OS.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Andrew

Would you stop posting ridiculous answers

 

[Peter Foldes]

Greg

Is ZA installed by any chance and what does the Event Viewer say.

 

[Rock]

I'm an IT professional with over 30 years experience and I cannot solve
simple little problems with Windows. Why are there no log files create so
that those who want can find out what is wrong with their systems.

I too am having the "MCI Command Handling" window show up during shutdown
and cannot find a fix for it. Of couse there is absoulutely no where to
look
to see what error are logged. Event viewer is just somebodys idea of a
joke!

I'm also having a problem with the Welcome Screen. After logging off,
when
I next click on a user id to log back on, the system will not allow for
the
entry of a password. It just sits there staring at me, doing nothing.
The
only way out is a C-A-D to get the real login screen. Again, I can find
lots
of people having this problem but nobody solving it.

A computer system should log every thing that it does for audit purposes
and
error correction. Or at least give me the opportunity to turn on logging.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MCI+command+handling

 

[Leythos]

I'm an IT professional with over 30 years experience and I cannot solve
simple little problems with Windows. Why are there no log files create so
that those who want can find out what is wrong with their systems.

You should have started off with "HELP, I've got a problem."

As it is, you sound like your ego is over inflated.

With 30 years as an "I.T. Professional" you must have done some Windows
diagnostic work, unless you're trolling.

 

[Guest]

you being a IT Pro for 30 should know you have all those Audit options in
windows in group policy editor. also about error logs u can try help and
support & check error logs registered by windows (dr watson)

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm an IT professional with over 30 years experience and I cannot solve
simple little problems with Windows.

I would not advertise this so loudly - it might reflect more on you
than on Windows.

 

[Guest]

Though, as I was discussing with a colleague only last evening,
overcomplication _is_ a major issue with computers, and with Vista it's only
gonna get worse.

Most of this overcomplication, paradoxically, stems from a perceived need to
cater for the absolute lamer who can't even tie his/her own shoelaces. For
example, the kind of user who doesn't even understand disk structures, so
that the system has to 'automatically find and download your camera images
into My Pictures' or whatever instead of just presenting the camera as a
driveletter.

If MS instead said "Go wise-up, it's not that difficult" we would all have a
simpler, better, more reliable computing experience.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for replying but there is not a lot of information in your post!

I've downloaded and installed the UPHClean utility but as of yet I see no
difference in my system. I log off and the Windows Welcome Screen appears,
but when I click on a user, the flashing cursor never shows up in the
"Password' box. So without being able to enter a password, I cannot log in.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete brings up the standard Windows Logon window where I can log
in.

As for having a something confict with the OS, well that's obvious! Many
people have made posts regarding the "MCI Command Handling" window appearing
during the shutdown sequence, but nobody has ever come up with an answer on
how to fix or prevent it. Everybody says "it's the Media Control Interface
...." but that does not say why it is happening or how to fix it. And it's
the fix I want!

 

[Guest]

Peter, no ZA is not installed. This is a Media Center PC from Sony with very
little software other than that which comes with the box installed. Office
is the only other big software load.

 

[Guest]

Frustration with Windows is the only trolling I do. The only reason I
indicated my experience was to let you know that I have tried many things to
try and fix these problems; all to no avail. I know what I'm doing, I know
my way around computers, but simple little problems like this seem impossible
to solve in Windows. I've searched the web high and low and see many people
posting the same problems, but NOBODY answering with the right corrective
procedure.

Why is in Windows it is so difficult to solve simple problems?

 

[Guest]

Been there, done that, bought the tee shirt !!

I've looked at the audit logs, event viewer. I've even turning on the
performance monitor to see if it would catch anything. But nothing. I've
downloaded and installed most of the SysInternals utiltites. Again I see
nothing.

It's hard to diagnose problems in either system shutdown procedures or
logoff procedures without proper logging of what the process is doing. All
other processes are being unloaded duing these events.

 

[Guest]

I'm only trying to indicate that I'm not a novice!

It seems most people here are more interested in criticising than helping.
Of the replies to my post that I've gotten so far, only one had a suggestion
to fix my problems and all the rest were critical of me!

You're supposted to be an MVP; doesn't that idicate a level of experience?
But you too were less than helpful of my problem and more than critical of
me. If you posted a problem and everybody told you that you are an "MVP"
therefore you know everything and don't need help, you would feel a little
frutstrated as well!

Thanks.

Greg ...

 

[Guest]

Ian, thank you for putting it so well.

While I like Linux less than Windows, I remember reading a quote from some
Linux user that went something like: "Windows makes the simple things easy
and the hard things impossible while Linux/Unix makes the simple things hard
but everything possible".

In truth, VMS was the OS that I liked best; everything documented. If it
wasn't in the documentation, it didn't exist.

Now, back to my original problems. Doesn't anybody know why I would get
this MCI Command Window during shutdown and how to get rid of it. Or how to
get the Welcome Screen logon to work properly ??

Thanks.

 

[Jim]

I'm only trying to indicate that I'm not a novice!

It seems most people here are more interested in criticising than helping.
Of the replies to my post that I've gotten so far, only one had a
suggestion
to fix my problems and all the rest were critical of me!

You're supposted to be an MVP; doesn't that idicate a level of experience?
But you too were less than helpful of my problem and more than critical of
me. If you posted a problem and everybody told you that you are an "MVP"
therefore you know everything and don't need help, you would feel a little
frutstrated as well!

Thanks.

Greg ...

A search on the internet for "MCI Command Window" revealed an interesting
discussion about this problem.
At
http://www.gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t31618.html.
You will need to read this for yourself.
From what I read, the problem may be malware or it may be a poorly written
program.

Jim

 

[HeyBub]

I'm only trying to indicate that I'm not a novice!

It seems most people here are more interested in criticising than
helping. Of the replies to my post that I've gotten so far, only one
had a suggestion to fix my problems and all the rest were critical of
me!

You're supposted to be an MVP; doesn't that idicate a level of
experience? But you too were less than helpful of my problem and more
than critical of me. If you posted a problem and everybody told you
that you are an "MVP" therefore you know everything and don't need
help, you would feel a little frutstrated as well!

Thanks.

Greg ...

Understandable. Rants from the disaffected are fairly common here.

Inasmuch as you did not ask a question, other than "Why are there no log
files create..." which everyone took as rhetorical, your post seems to be
more of a symptom of Microsoft Derangement Syndrome than a sincere request
for information.

As for an MVP being "less helpful of my problem...," an MVP is not really
qualified to assist with emotional issues.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that link Jim, but I have seen it before. Nothing in it has been
able to help me solve my problem. There has been talk about ZA having
something to do with it but I don't run ZA. Also talk about IE7, but while I
am running IE7, I cannot see it causing the problem. It does seem to happen
after running a program which displays video such as a DVD player or Windows
Media Player. I have backed out the latest version of WMP, but that also
does not solve the problem.

Thanks again for offering something constructive.

Greg ....

 

[Guest]

This is not an emotional issue; it's a technical one!

I'll admit there is a certain amount of Microsoft venom in my blood, but
that is because I cannot get it to do what I want it to do nor can I find a
way to get fix problems that I have. I think back to the days before I
retired when I was setting up Exchange or Checkpoint on a Windows server and
wonder why in God's green earth would I have to run Windows Media Player on a
Server. Or any of the other FLUFF that MS packages with their software.
Remember, the more crap that's loaded, the more likelyhood that something
will go wrong. We would never run more than one application on a MS server
box for that very reason; hence a server room holding 400 plus servers to run
a railway which had been run on a single piece of IBM big iron; but it did
run non-stop without failure !

So unless you have an answer to why I'm getting "MCI Command Window" at
shutdown or why my Windows Welcome Screen will not allow me to enter
passwords, why respond to my message.

Thanks.

Greg ...

 

[RA]

Thanks for that link Jim, but I have seen it before. Nothing in it
has been able to help me solve my problem. There has been talk about
ZA having something to do with it but I don't run ZA. Also talk
about IE7, but while I am running IE7, I cannot see it causing the
problem. It does seem to happen after running a program which
displays video such as a DVD player or Windows Media Player. I have
backed out the latest version of WMP, but that also does not solve
the problem.

Thanks again for offering something constructive.

Greg ....

Have you tried uninstalling IE7 to see if it makes the difference? You may
not see it causing the problem but isn't that what your complaint is about,
not being able to see what exactly is going on? What changes did you make on
your pc before you started getting the message? If Office is the only
software loaded, have you gone and got the updates for it?