The most useless desktop icon of all time.

SEGnosis · 7 months

The same fucking picture too.

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
The most useless desktop item of all time :-)	93^coms	650^pts	16^dys	pics
The most unneeded desktop shortcut of all time.	991^coms	2437^pts	8^mos	pics

source: karmadecay

Veggietech · 7 months

Wait... You guys use desktop icons?

TheRealJohnMatrix · 7 months

Adobe Acrobat - 300MB installation and 3 updates a week - Just to read PDF files.

I've used Foxit for years but even that has gone from a 2-3Mb download to 20.... ಠ_ಠ

Computing power & memory has just made developers lazy!

Bifros7 · 7 months

Your votes for moony_toons : -25

I guess we had an encounter in the past.

MrHermeteeowish · 7 months

And why the hell does Reader need to be updated every 3 days? I don't exactly need up-to-the-second updates to read a goddamn .pdf.

iLuVtiffany · 7 months

Delete that shit. My desktop only has My Computer (only because my gf doesn't know the Windows+E shortcut), Recycling Bin, Firefox and a shortcut folder to my games/movies/music.

joyork · 7 months

I believe the Briefcase icon which came with Windows 95/98 was probably the most useless.

Did anyone ever use that thing?

lovelydayfora · 7 months

As if you're gonna open reader before you have something you wanna read

shakensunshine · 7 months

Mine is "Internet Explorer"

SpinalX · 7 months

How did you manage to get almost 2000 negative karma points?

TeCuervo · 7 months

I think QuickTime is also up there.

fireseed_ · 7 months

it maybe useless to us, but trust me, working in it-user-support I know people using this icon, starting acrobat reader, going file - open, browsing for their pdf file, not finding the document, calling me that someone must have deleted it, remembering that it was a .doc file not a pdf, clicking on "all files" instead of "adobe pdf files", not understanding why they cannot open a doc with acrobat reader, starting word, going file - open,..(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

LincolnshireSausage · 7 months

This is the one time I agree with the Cybermen.

boringnamehere · 7 months

You need to update. It's a security risk... or something

lessonplan · 7 months

Try Evince

monkeymasher · 7 months

I would say IE is pretty useless too

TheWhitCat · 7 months

I beg to differ http://i.imgur.com/C4Tr8.jpg

hornycactus · 7 months

I've worked in Tech support for many years.

Some people do use the icon.. the only beneficial thing about it that I have seen is the fact that it stores "recent document" data so that they can open them easily without having to browse to the location (often a network drive).

As far as frequent updates: this is definitely for security reasons. There are many many features in adobe reader that most people don't know about, such as a mail server. It's unnecessary, especially at my department, since everyone here only uses it to read PDFs.

[deleted] · 7 months

Especially considering that chrome's pdf preview is both more efficient and easier to use.

Sandbox47 · 7 months

I've always wondered what the point of that icon was...

capt_slippy_fists · 7 months

It's the e one, whatever the fuck that's for.

WhitePostIt · 7 months

Only if you keep it on the desktop...which is why I use a dock and then use Camouflage to hide any folders I have on my desktop.

Eventually though the folder thing was still an ugly problem. So what I did was create a desktop background, and then custom folder icons that fit with the background. My favorite is an ocean scene, and so I have folder icons that are seagulls, sea turtle, sail boat, pelican, coral, fish and so on. So even when I don't use Camouflage to hide my folders, most people aren't even aware that what they're looking at isn't a plain wallpaper. I call em' Desktop Arenas.

The only problem though is changing the folder icon. You have to select each folder and change it manually. I couldn't find a program that would simplify this, and I couldn't find a programmer to help me develop one :/

mark445 · 7 months

Is it that time of the month again?

MadModderX · 7 months

Desktop icons? You use those?

Tebasaki · 7 months

I like fox it because I can maximize the screen, and it takes a fraction of the time to load.

iamdougdanger · 7 months

Seriously. I bet I've deleted this more times than I've thrown away AOL CDs.

maniccow · 7 months

IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU AN OPTION TO NOT HAVE THE DESKTOP ICON!!! every update!!!

justthrowmeout · 7 months

What about the old "Microsoft Exchange" icon?

Paultimate79 · 7 months

moony_toons, the most useless redditor of all time.

spongemandan · 7 months

I actually use this icon every day and it's one of 5 icons on my desktop atm! My laptop just died and with it all my awesome programs. Adobe reader is the best way of reading ebooks that I have installed on my ancient desktop, so I use it every night.

bearseatbeets · 7 months

Not for me! I use it all the time.

CheddarWombat · 7 months

This is better.

gsxie · 7 months

And don't forget the fact that they release a patch each day to set the new date.....

Yage2006 · 7 months

Also one of the most bloated piles of code ever released.

There are better options like Foxit reader which is free and like 3mb and allot safer.

[deleted] · 7 months

Completely agree. Mine is open right now.

seabiscuit5 · 7 months

i read pdfs all the time... many shortcuts r useles. i don't know why this one stands out

catahac · 7 months

The most useless repost of all time?

dakrisht · 7 months

Kill this with fire

arkmtech · 7 months

Seriously, fuck this shit.

Google Chrome has a PDF reader built-in nowadays, so I just associate all of my PDF files with that and call it good.

Unless you're working in print production or with specialized documents (e.g. interactive forms, digitally-signed stuff, etc.) there's honestly no reason to bother with Adobe's app.

edit: For Windows XP/Vista/7 users, the Chrome application is located at %HOMEPATH%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application

robodale · 7 months

Adobe!?! Uninstall that malware and install Foxit Reader

matty0289 · 7 months

Sorry, but I must totally disagree. I pirate almost all my College textbooks. I use Adobe all the time.

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