Sunday, April 12, 2015

Windows 8 more gripes

Lacking anything useful to do, the Microsofties have degraded Explorer, the navigate and operate tool from its XP days.  First they invented a new undocumented concept of "libraries"  which as far as I can see merely mess things up by displaying the same file icon in multiple places at the same time, making you wonder if you have multiple copies of the same file. 
   The XP explorer would display two windows,  file directories on the left, files within a selected directory on the right, and you could drag the window separator left or right to make room for deep directory structures or long filenames.  Well, the draggable window bar was too much trouble, so the Micorsofties dropped it.  The fixed width directory pane only shows the first two levels of directories.  If you have anything deeper, finding it is a pain. 
   And "Magnifier" has activated itself and I cannot kill it.  Dunno how that happened. 
   Lord preserve us from Windows 10. 

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