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>You can set the Programs folder in Start menu read-only, after which no
>apps can add their junk there.
... including yourself... ;) A bit clumsy solution, but...
> > BTW, the reason why Mac aliases are so clever is because of file
>> ID's. Every file has an ID number. So, if you move the target of the
>> alias, it doesn't matter because the ID remains the same.
>
>i suppose they've a patent on this, as MS haven't copied it to Windows
>yet?
Hmmm... Maybe... then again, maybe it's a feature of the Mac's HFS
file system. Maybe Microsoft designers don't _know_ how Mac aliases
work... Maybe they think that it's better to do it another way...
>probably along IE4 & active desktop. another funny detail: back then i
>obviously chose not to install active desktop w/ IE4. having since
>upgraded to IE5, you can only re-activate the Active Desktop by
>uninstalling IE5 and reinstalling IE4... (this on Win95 ORS2).
This is another point for Mac: You can get rid of any element you
don't want to keep. You can trash Quicktime, for example. Just go to
the Extensions folder, drag Quicktime extensions out and restart.
You'll lose a lot of functionality of your Mac after restart, but you
can easily do it. You can easily get unwanted parts back, too.
(There _is_ a separate Extensions Manager application for organizing
a large number of extensions easily, but you can do all those
functions directly in the file system too.)
BTW, this is one of the features that will be lost by OS X, it seems... :(
>anyway, Japi you made me remember all the cool bits about working w/ a
>Mac... about time to get a Mac again and throw away those blood pressure
>pills ;)
Haha! ;)
But beware, they're going to abandon some of the great Mac UI
features in OS X... :( They're going to make a great leap forwards
_technically_ (multitasking, networking, look and feel, pdf
clipboard, etc...). But in terms of GUI functionality I fear they've
forgot _us_ Mac users! The new finder hasn't convinced me yet... It
looks like polished Windows to me...
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