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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword |
| Date | 2025-02-05 10:12 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vnvv3s$2ebll$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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? :)
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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 Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-03 08:37 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-04 11:21 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-04 09:29 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 10:11 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-04 15:20 +0000
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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 09:57 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-02-03 10:30 +0100
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Shinji Ikari <shinji@gmx.net> - 2025-02-03 11:57 +0100
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-02-03 12:25 +0100
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-03 13:03 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Shinji Ikari <shinji@gmx.net> - 2025-02-03 14:55 +0100
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 13:56 +0000
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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 13:19 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-05 06:33 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-05 10:12 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-10 12:02 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-10 13:23 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-10 14:38 -0700
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-06 13:19 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-02-10 11:35 -0500
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-10 19:16 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-02-10 15:13 -0700
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-11 11:02 +0000
Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-10 17:14 -0500
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