On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:17:21 -0500, Paul wrote:

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.

Definitely agree that Command Prompt is faster, but I'm usually
multitasking so I tend to start an operation, mass copy/move/delete, for
example, then flip to another window or to a VM and work there while the
first one chugs through.