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Unused Desktop Icons
How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop
icons, like Windows XP used to? Doesn't Microsoft care about its users anymore? |
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Piper wrote:
How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop icons, like Windows XP used to? Doesn't Microsoft care about its users anymore? In WinXP, the Desktop Cleanup Wizard, there was a tick box to cause it to run every 60 ways. And examine your icon situation for you. You could turn that off if you didn't like it, via the tick box. On the more modern OSes, Desktop Cleanup Wizard is part of System Maintenance Troubleshooter. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...-turn-off.html "Unused desktop icons - Icons and shortcuts on the desktop that have been unused in 3 months are removed. " So rather than give you a friendly reminder, instead you end up thinking you are losing your mind. As the unused icons on the desktop, can be removed for you, and without prompting. In the comment section of the Sevenforum thread, someone mentions a GPO to make the System Maintenance interactive, so the behavior will be a bit more WinXP-like. And to answer your second question, they care about customers in a "pay me" sense, as a source of revenue. They care deeply about revenue. But there's no Steve Jobs advocating for the user at Microsoft. Just dudes doing whatever it takes to get their bonus pay. Paul |
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On 03/10/2015 13:36, Piper wrote:
How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop icons, like Windows XP used to? Doesn't Microsoft care about its users anymore? Ask your question here, 'Piper'! www.answers.microsoft.com Post a link here when you have done so - I'll then support your efforts to secure an honest answer from the MVPs! |
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On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:36:03 -0400, Piper wrote:
How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop icons, like Windows XP used to? Doesn't Microsoft care about its users anymore? That question is right there with "have you stopped beating your wife?" Microsoft NEVER cared about its customers. Or, rather, it has NEVER cared about the end users because we aren't its customers. Its customers are hardware manufacturers, plus large companies that buy enterprise licenses for their own use. That's why enterprise users of Windows 10 have some control over updates. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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Unused Desktop Icons
On 03 Oct 2015, Piper wrote in
alt.windows7.general: How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop icons, like Windows XP used to? Are you unable to tell whether or not something that's right in front of your face is "unused" or not? Doesn't Microsoft care about its users anymore? What do those two questions have to do with each other? |
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On 2015-10-04 00:24:52 +0000, Nil said:
How come Windows 7 never alerts me to the presence of unused desktop icons, like Windows XP used to? Are you unable to tell whether or not something that's right in front of your face is "unused" or not? +1 |
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