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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 05:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Andy Burns wrote in :

The sooner the likes of you go away, the better.

Says someone who blew into town little over a week ago ...

I know, by now, who...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 05:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Rene Lamontagne wrote in :

Did he really say he taught 5th grade or was a student in the fifth grade?
If he's a teacher I feel sorry for his students.

When I...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 05:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

J.O. Aho wrote in :

You missed that he added an unrelated usergroup to the thread, please
keep an eye on it and remove them when you reply so you avoid...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 05:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

J.O. Aho wrote in :

The question is where is it best (logically) to put the cascading menu?

The best place is where you can access it quickly with a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 04:45 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Rene Lamontagne wrote in :

Of course I have the answer but after your crude remarks I won
't give it to you.

Heh heh ... I had to laugh.
Even my fifth grade...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 02:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Good Guy wrote in :

The question is where is it best (logically) to put the cascading menu?

The best place is where you can access it quickly with a mouse...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 13th 17, 02:46 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Rene Lamontagne wrote in :

OK, I agree with your sense of order so in my case here is what I do.

1: Drive C: 128GB SSD, Windows 10, And NOTHING else
2:...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 08:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

mechanic wrote in :

Seems like a bit of an obsession, carried too far :-)

You mean a troll?

You've *never* answered a technical question yet.

And...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 08:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Big Al wrote in :

Okay so look at it from the most basic computer illiterate person.
They click a menu item and it opens!!! They don't care where the link
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 08:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

Rene Lamontagne wrote in :

Seems like a bit of an obsession,
carried too far :-)

As I had responded to Big Al, I completely understand your point of...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 04:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

J.O. Aho wrote in :

In Linux the GUI differs a lot, this for people like to do things in
different ways and you have the freedom to choose which one you...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 04:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Paul wrote in :

The latest versions, when I install, network manager seems
to find the hardware, and set up networking. The machine
gets a DHCP address....
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 03:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 268
Posted By John & Jane Doe
Advice on where to place menus in Win10+Classic? (%programdata%, %appdata%)

I simply ask for pragmatic advice, given Windows 10 philosophy mixed in
with reasonable human logic with the classic menu interface.

BACKGROUND:
The question is where is it best (logically) to put...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 12th 17, 04:24 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Gene Wirchenko wrote in :

The UI for an automobile is considerably more complicated, and
yet people manage.

It's a good point that every...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:18 PM Posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Bill wrote in :

And have not most of the people you are describing as desktop users
moved on to laptops, tablets and mobile phones as their primary
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:18 PM Posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Paul wrote in :

Lots of random
stuff, just sits in a big heap. I'm not a librarian.

While I treat a file like a football, that is, you don't just throw...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:27 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Paul wrote in :

We'd just ask you to justify your choices,
and show examples of things that you decided
didn't work.

Remember the iPod or the first...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:27 AM Posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Bill wrote in :

I'm totally on the same side in wanting a straightforward, sensible
interface, and use the "all data sensibly arranged on a second
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:08 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
Replies: 48
Views: 464
Posted By John & Jane Doe
What's the theory on how to effectively use the Windows 10 desktop menu?

Char Jackson wrote in :

Almost every
Windows application in existence uses a menu system to structure their
various functions, so do you think...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:08 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 48
Views: 464
Posted By John & Jane Doe
What's the theory on how to effectively use the Windows 10 desktop menu?

Dave Doe wrote in
:

Right-click on *everything* you don't know or want on the W10 start and
delete 'em. (They're only shortcuts).
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 11th 17, 04:01 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
Replies: 48
Views: 464
Posted By John & Jane Doe
What's the theory on how to effectively use the Windows 10 desktop menu?

mechanic wrote in :

I think you got this the wrong way round. It became obvious some
time ago that menus were becoming too large and difficult to
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 10th 17, 01:56 AM Posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Sjouke Burry wrote in :

I don't think I'm a genius but why am I the only one saying that there's
nothing different whatsoever between what any...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 10th 17, 01:56 AM Posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 160
Views: 1,134
Posted By John & Jane Doe
WinXP user bought first desktop Win7 - Win10 Pro

Char Jackson wrote in :

Welll.... I have 8053 executables on my system disk, I hardly think
I do the same things as you do......

If you zoom...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 10th 17, 01:56 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
Replies: 48
Views: 464
Posted By John & Jane Doe
What's the theory on how to effectively use the Windows 10 desktop menu?

Char Jackson wrote in :

I understand what you're saying and I don't disagree. I'm not sure if
I'll follow you down this road, (I might be *that*...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 10th 17, 01:56 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.os.linux
Replies: 48
Views: 464
Posted By John & Jane Doe
What's the theory on how to effectively use the Windows 10 desktop menu?

Wildman wrote in :

It is beyond comprehension why Canonical thought they could
turn a great 'desktop' OS into a fondleslab OS. They...
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