Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:16:37 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:53:52 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:
In many ways, XP was better than 7

Really? I remember when I got my Windows 7 laptop, how much easier
Windows 7 was to use than XP. What are some of the things you
consider to be steps backward in Win 7?

That's a valid question, but for me it comes quite a few years too late.
It's hard to answer with specifics, but I do remember a couple of things
related to file management.

XP's Windows Explorer never tried to be smarter than me and jump
(scroll) the folder display. Classic Shell fixes that in 7 and 8, and
probably 10. Also, in XP I could delete a few thousand files in 2-3
seconds, likewise with emptying the Recycle Bin. Starting with 7, it can
take 30-60 seconds to do the same, but at least I get to watch a green
bar slowly move across the path display at the top of the screen.
There's lots more that I'm forgetting now, each of them probably minor
by itself, but all together they add up.


But del works a treat.

If you have an issue like that, the Command Prompt
may be one way around it.

And comparatively speaking, "dir" is lightspeed
compared to Explorer, when dealing with large directories.
"dir" can seemingly read a 40GB $MFT in maybe 30 seconds
or so. It's fast enough, I was checking for "violations
of physics" :-)

If you know trouble is brewing, head to the Command Prompt.

I've had Explorer consume 10-15GB of RAM doing something,
then just sit there and spin its wheels (because it seemed
to have hit some sort of internal limit). I don't think the
command line tools have nearly as bad table manners.

Paul