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Old January 9th 19, 07:52 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
pyotr filipivich
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Default references for changing to Win7 from XP?

Ken Blake on Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:59:56 -0700
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:42:30 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Ken Blake on Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:57:08 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:27:05 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Ken Blake on Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:43:07 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:58:50 -0800, pyotr filipivich
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Ken Blake on Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:28 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
But when I'm having to stop what I've done for a long time, to
find out where/how to do it "here" - it throws me out. Very much like
getting a new car, and the light switch and wiper controls are
"backwards." Do not tell me that it is 'better'.
Better or not, to me, it's the same thing. Every time I've gotten a
new car, it took me only a few minutes to learn the difference from my
old one. Even if I rent a car, I get comfortable with its controls
very quickly.

And muscle memory - where you automatically reach (because for the
last ten years, that is where it was), and in the new car, it isn't
there. Ever stall a car out, because you forgot about the clutch
(Your regular car not having one), and in the 'emergency' you didn't
have time to think about it?

No, but I've stalled rental cars in Europe simply because it had been
so long since I drove a car with a clutch.

Exactly, you'd "forgotten" abut that 'detail'.


No. I hadn't forgotten about anything. I was way out of practice and
lost my skills at changing gears. I still knew exactly how to do it.


Right. In this case you were going back to an older version of
"car interface", so it came back to you.



Wrong. Nothing "came back" to me. It was never gone. I was still able
to do it. Nine times out of ten, I did it with no problem, but every
once in a while, being out of practice, I did it somewhat clumsily and
I stalled.

That was completely different from what you said: "But when I'm having
to stop what I've done for a long time, to find out where/how to do it
'here' - it throws me out. Very much like getting a new car, and the
light switch and wiper controls are 'backwards' " and "you forgot
about the clutch (Your regular car not having one), and in the
'emergency' you didn't have time to think about it?I knew exactly
where the clutch pedal was and exactly how to use it."

I haven't driven a car with a manual transmission in ten or fifteen
years. But put me behind the wheel of one right now, and I could still
do it without a problem, since I've forgotten nothing about how to do
it (although I probably would stall every now and then because I
switched gears clumsily--*not* because I "forgot about the clutch").


Sigh. I'm not sure why, but you seem to keep missing the point.
The actions I took on a daily basis in using Windows XP _do not work_
in Windows 7.
- The icon I am looking for, is not there.
- The navigation window I look for, is not open.
Call it better all you want, but if I swap out your keyboard for a
different layout "because it is 'better'" and "you can easily pick it
up", doesn't change the fact that the way which did work is no longer.
"It wasn't broken, it didn't need fixing."


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