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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Wed, 5 Feb 2025 10:12:47 -0500, Newyana2
<newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>On 2/5/2025 6:33 AM, micky wrote:
>> In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 3 Feb 2025 10:30:22 +0100, Herbert
>> Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> wrote:
>> 
>>>
>>>> starting the program.  The win10 task bar let you see each of multiple
>>>> instances of the program, as with Chrome or Firefox, so you couuld click
>>>> on the one you wanted.
>>>
>>> You can change this in the taskbar settings. But if the taskbar is full,
>>> then this doesn't help.
>> 
>> Why does MS mess things up that work well?
>> 
>
>    Sometimes designs are well intentioned but just fail to
>work well. For many people, managing the "badges" for
>open windows on the taskbar is not something they do,
>so ganging them up together, while impractical, looks less
>cluttered. The worse thing to my mind is that ganging up,
>without QuickLaunch, makes it hard to open a new instance.
>I find that I have to have a shortcut on the Desktop for
>things like FF because the FF shortcut on the taskbar
>turns into a badge under the "pinning" model.
>
>   So what's the point? It looks nice to people who don't
>know how to use a computer anyway. MS have always been
>very competent about making software. But there's also
>greed, paranoia, and the need to support numerous usage
>scenarios.
>
>   Many changes have been based on a dual motive of keeping
>up with fashion while looking for a new revenue stream. Those
>incude Active Desktop, Passort, Hailstorm, SPOT watches,
>Copilot, MSO 365, etc.
>
>   Many other changes seem to be based more on paranoia
>combined with cost saving strategies. They thwart customers
>trying to use the product as they see fit. Any functionality
>that hasn't been published as an official API is deliberately
>broken on a regular basis. A good example of that is folder
>view options. The whole mess has been needlessly broken
>since Win98. In Win98, preferred folder window view didn't
>take because Explorer didn't save the settings to the Registry
>correctly. MS never fixed it!
>    In the following years and versions, every version of Windows
>changes the arrangement of the notorious "Bags" Registry
>keys that control the whole thing. So any tweaks to fix it in
>one version must be rewritten for the next. Each change has
>been frivolous but breaking.
>
>  On Win10 I had to come up with obscure tweaks just to get
>32px icons. Small is now 16 or so and medium is 48. No more
>32! My tweak works, but only so long as I don't change the view
>in a given folder. So every once in awhile I have to run a script
>to delete all folder view memory from the Registry and reset
>the 32px view.
>
>   The ribbon menu? I expect that was well intentioned and
>based on some kind of research and focus groups. The fact
>that it doesn't work well (and what's with the random File
>menu to nowhere??) is simply misjudgement. Probably they
>wanted to show that they're improving things, so they figured
>it was time to change it up. The Share menu reminds me of
>those silly Internet and Email buttons on "Internet keyboards".
>It's about fashion, not functionality. None of it even works
>unless you configure the options, which no one is going to do.
>Sort of like the jet engine shaped tail lights on cars in the 50s.
>They didn't turn cars into jets, but, hey, cool or what? :)

Hey, my '50 Olds had an air intake under the headlights just like the
WWII Lockheed P-38 -- but I couldn't find any close-up pictures. )

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  Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-02 19:58 -0500
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        Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Shinji Ikari <shinji@gmx.net> - 2025-02-03 14:55 +0100
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          Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-10 19:16 +0000
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          Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-10 17:14 -0500

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