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Your Top 10 Most Annoying Tech Products

You have spoken. More than 1300 of you answered our survey, and these were the products that bugged you the most.

10. Apple QuickTime for Windows (2001 to present) 10 of 10

What is it about media players that makes them think they own your PC? Install QuickTime, and it immediately sets up camp in your Windows system tray, drops icons on your desktop, and loads the qttask.exe applet every time you power up--no questions asked. You can kick it out of the tray, but the next time you upgrade or reinstall the program, it sneaks back in. Worse, if you want to use iTunes, you have to take QuickTime along with it. Plenty of programs are looking for a home in your system tray, but most of them ask politely first.

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