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.

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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).