Whenever I open up the Real media player on my Windows XP laptop I'm greeted with the following message:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicXzL7YvdMsbT_ZWYsOVoOMIKfmrI12SWVjE3BAuK5w8_0kFj-vV_ySWRE-XSGT7uBMsruOi6-SJlhlg4SNjHPB4eX9WSs19nJC36kDmt00a37YJdAcK0pbIw1YlasQ_7cYRvwRw/s400/worst-error-dialog-ever.png)
And it's not like this message is subtle in any way - it covers up the content, so I inevitably lose the first few seconds of a video staring at this dialog box.
And what's so bad about it? First, like I said, it's completely disruptive. I understand ActiveSync wants to help me out and get me started, but isn't there a way to do this that is a tad bit more subtle?
Second, and far worse, I don't have a device I'd like to sync with this program. That's right, it's showing me this even though I have nothing plugged into the USB port. And what are my choices? I can click Next to configure the device that I don't own, or I can hit Cancel which it interprets as "you'll probably want to come back to this later."
But I don't want to come back to this. EVER. And for the life of me, I can't make it stop.
What kind of product manager could allow this sort of ridiculous logic into their software?
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