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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
Keith Nuttle wrote:
I have a tablet with 32GB main storage. If I install the programs that I use on in the main storage, then Windows 10 will not update as there is no room in the Main storage. I have found from experience that for the updates to install without hassle, you need 16 to 17 GB free. The only way I can get that is to install everything in secondary storage. I have sought out portable version of the programs that I use so they can be installed in the secondary storage. I am constantly surprised when I look at new Window 10 computers and they have less that 10 GB of free main storage. I saw a computer the other day with 5 free GB free. What this means is that the new owner will constantly be fighting with MS updates. This is yet another reason for wanting the /choice/ of installing programs where you want to put them. Those who argue for taking away your choice are the ones who need to defend their arguments, not the folks who merely consider choice to be a good thing. |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
Mayayana wrote:
You must be using some pretty shady software. I don't remember ever seeing an installer that didn't provide an option to choose where to install. I'd remove any such software, assuming that such a bad installer doesn't bode well for the software itself. I generally load only freeware but I go to the trouble of finding the /best/ freeware, so the proportion of shady programs (we hope) is small. Even so, I see, every once in a while, a badly written installer that refused to give the user a choice, such as one today, from Google, that I deleted moments after installing it. It billed itself as an archival program, but it was so badly written that it didn't give the user any choices that they'd want for an archival program - it just did what Google wanted it to do - which meant that I deleted it the moment I realized that. Such shady programs exist that don't give the user choice (such as the iTunes assemblage of add-on software as another well-known example), but I agree with you that it's not many. Almost all programs give the user a choice of installation location, although in more and more I find that choice is hidden behind a separate click for "custom" or "options" or even, heaven forbid the term, "expert settings". |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
Mayayana wrote:
If an installer doesn't offer a choice of install location then the reason can only be one of two things. Either the author is not focussed on serving the end user (since they didn't bother to create a standard installer), or they're incompetent. Either way, I don't want that software. We have similar experiences, where I can't even think of a single instance in the past decade or two that I have NOT selected to put a program in a different location than the default. Programs that don't ask exist, but, as you noted, they're almost always, if not always, badly written installers, which is an indicator on the program, as very few well-written programs /need/ to be in any one given location. I can only think of, offhand, one program that was well written (AFAIK) that didn't give us a choice, which was cutePDF, where I'm not sure if the reason it didn't give a choice was because it was a printer driver or if there was some other reason. |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10(without MS Update bricking the system)?
On 03/05/2018 9:51 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:09:43 -0000, ultred ragnusen wrote: James Wilkinson Sword wrote: Both are pointless things to want or need to do. If I gave you a pair of pants that didn't fit, to you it means that pants are pointless. To me it simply means that this choice isn't the choice for you. It's the same as if I gave you a pretty pink dress. You'd say they're pointless simply because you don't wear them. But to a lady, they have a point that you can't seem to fathom since your mind is so limited in the possibilities it can comprehend. Some choices are more important than others.* Being able to have a blue or a yellow screwdriver is pointless for example and I wouldn't be annoyed if my hardware store only had one colour. Wrong again Robertson screwdrivers are associated with these color handles. #00 Orange #0 Yellow #1 Green #2 Red #3 Black #4 Brown You never have to guess which size you've picked up. :-) Rene |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:50:09 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:00:21 -0000, ultred ragnusen wrote: An advantage of NOT putting things in program files is the same reason teachers wipe the whiteboard after class. Anything that shows up afterward wasn't put there by the teacher. Funny, my teachers always wiped it BEFORE the class. As did mine, although they sometimes asked for a student volunteer. In my school, students were encouraged to use the board between classes, during study periods, and before/after school. There was kind of an implied understanding that we would use it productively, but it ended up being a place to play endless games of tic-tac-toe. |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:12:05 -0000, ultred ragnusen wrote: James Wilkinson Sword wrote: The police have been informed you're a paedophile. You're a creep. I have said nothing to imply this. We all know the truth. Can't get a woman, can you phucker. |
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Simplest way to get WinXP-style sliding cascading menu on Win10 (without MS Update bricking the system)?
Char Jackson wrote:
An advantage of NOT putting things in program files is the same reason teachers wipe the whiteboard after class. Anything that shows up afterward wasn't put there by the teacher. Funny, my teachers always wiped it BEFORE the class. As did mine, although they sometimes asked for a student volunteer. In my school, students were encouraged to use the board between classes, during study periods, and before/after school. There was kind of an implied understanding that we would use it productively, but it ended up being a place to play endless games of tic-tac-toe. In my school days, they still had blackboards, and ink holders on maple desks, and a map of the world with two names for the Asian countries that were still disputed but whiteboards are the modern invention (probably overhead screens nowadays). |
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