The below screenshot is of what I believe is the World’s Most Annoying Dialog:
(Sorry this screen shot is so big - that's how big this dialog is!!)
It’s from the Windows SDK setup, when you click “Cancel” while it’s doing its thing. I decided I didn’t want to wait 5 hours for it to download after all...
Looks rather innocuous, right? Wrong! Here are the features of this dialog that make it the World’s Most Annoying:
- It stays up for a couple of minutes (who knows what is happening – there is no progress)
- It is system modal. If I switch to another application, it still stays on top. And finally,
- It can’t be moved! Try to move it off the screen where it’s less annoying, and it just jumps right back to the middle!
Oh, and to top it all off, once the dialog finished, I got this:
So not only were there dire warnings if I tried to kill the process or otherwise get rid of this annoying dialog, when it finish did finish on its own, it crashed anyway!!