After installing my printer drivers recently, I was faced with this:
I have to click so that my computer does not restart?
First, the line ‘You must restart your computer to finish the install’ is standard for many installations in Windows. While it would be great to not have to worry about the restart, I have been conditioned to expect it. What makes this line awful in this context is that I haven’t been conditioned to search for a check box to not restart.
While I love software, I do not love watching install. In fact, I will go out on a limb here and say most people do not like to sit and watch software install. Consequently, I imagine others multitask while software is installing, as I do. When the install finishes, I am ready to click finish or restart later and get on with whatever I am doing. Here, though, if I am rushing through, I get an unexpected restart.
Someone made a design decision requiring that the user check a box in order that the system not shut down. I can’t imagine a single user that would, when asked, say they preferred this method to restart now/later or having restart later be the default. So why is it in my driver, HP?