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Ads always annoy me, especially when they get in the way of what you're doing. If they were unobtrusive I would just let them be, but they always progress to more and more annoying to gain attention. Skype Ads are no different.

First there were none, now there are some. And now they change colours, blink on and off, and remove focus from the message window in the middle of typing. They make a workable program frustrating to the point of looking for an alternative. Let's not even get into the ridiculous memory usage of the program.

Disk Cleanup on Windows XP asks the user if they would like to compress all files on drive to save space. While it does what it advertises, it also makes the computer run significantly slower as it has to use the CPU to decompress each file as it is access before it can be used. A lot of files on a modern computer are already highly compressed - think mp3, ogg, avi, dll (a very relevant one to slow computers) - so drive compression doubles up on the work needed to access their contents for no advantage.