The blisfully newly-wed Wadester disclaims:

Disclaimer: I work for the mob who sell [link|http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/|Spyware Doctor].

You're quite right to *dis*-claim that; I, for one, certainly wouldn't want to *claim* it either!

You mentioned and linked to this app a while ago, and I downloaded it to check it out -- or, to be more precise, I *made the mistake* of downloading it to check it out. Seldom -- if EVER -- have I found a piece of trialware to be so frustrating.

To begin with, what the FUCK is the use of a trial version that doesn't *do* fucking ANYTHING? I mean, sure, if you're afraid of piracy, then by all means limit it so it doesn't remove "real" spyware *apps*, or something... But ferfuckssake, couldn't it at least have the frigging courtesy to clean up even the bleeding *cookies* it finds?!? This was not really a "trial", in the sense of letting you *try* anything... Rather, by throwing up lists of stuff it claims to be "harmful", and steadfastly refusing to do *anything* about *any* of it, it feels like it's fucking *taunting* you. Don't call it a "trial"; have the fucking honesty to call it a *tease*, 'coz that's what it is.

More importantly, don't these baboons have ANY frigging idea about Windows user interfaces???

For one thing, of those three buttons in the upper right corner of most application windows, the middle one is supposed to MAXIMIZE the window. "To maximize a window" means, to take into use all of the available screen area. That, in turn, means: If there is nothing to stop you, to size the app window to THE _W_H_O_L_E_ screen. It does NOT mean, "to size the app window to ALMOST the whole screen, EXCEPT the area where the task-bar WOULD be, if it weren't set to auto-hide". I mean, sheesh... How the fuck did they DO that? I was going to say this was the most amateurish piece of programming I've ever seen -- except, one suspects they had to *go out of their way* to make it behave so extraordinarily stupidly! (Which of course means it's by no means amateurish -- just plain idiotic!)

I also wonder, are your programmers slaves of some toy company, or something? Has NOBODY told them that some of us grown-ups are wont to adjust the appearance of our desktops to some settings other than the default Fisher-Price "theme"...? Somebody -- why not you, Wade? -- ought to tell them, further, that Windows applications are supposed to USE THE SAME APPEARANCE SETTINGS we set for the entire desktop!!! That's what we fucking well set them FOR; because we want our desktop to LOOK THE WAY WE _T_E_L_L_ IT TO! Any sensible development tool I know of generates applications that *automatically* do that; one is led to suspect, again, that your bozos went out of their way to make their piece of crapware NOT do so.

Now, before you try blithering something about how small an issue this interface thing is in the grand scheme of things, riddle me this: Why would anybody want to use *anything* from a bunch of programmers -- from a *company* -- that so obviously show they don't respect (ah, let's be honest: that so obviously show they *don't give a SHIT about!*) even the smallest of the user's -- the *customer's!* -- wishes?!? If they *actively go out of their way* to make sure the user *doesn't* get to say even what his own frigging desktop is like, what earthly reason would said user have to trust them with anything else -- like, actually removing spyware! -- either?!?

Finally, BTW, couldn't they even come up with a name of their own?!? To paraphrase whoeveritwas, "I knew PC Tools -- and you, sir, are no PC Tools."

There; do me a favour and report this back to your bosses, wouldja, mate?

Thanks.

No, Wade, not intended as a comment on your religiosity -- jes' plane missprelling. :-(