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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...
but if you insist on adding everything there by hand, it's not a big
thing to switch it off & back on while there (in explorer mode). well
it's still clumsy i've to admit.
> >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...
like "shit we cannot grow a tree like that, but let's paint a huge
picture that looks like it"... ;)
> 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.
This was a VERY easy way to locate a crash problem; just move all the
extensions some place else (!) and put them back one by one.
with Windows, the best thing is to install only the stuff you really
need and keep out all the "this might be cool some day" stuff. that way
i've managed to keep my home gear (win95) up & alive for days, involving
heavy-ish use of sound & gfx apps.
(i can hear the unix users laugh...)
> >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! ;)
actually i was promised i'm gonna get one pretty soon... hmm.. do they
have those weird cubes in public already?
> 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...
hmm... i saw an OS X presentation on a fair in Germany last Spring, and
the overall feel was, heh, cool & funky. made me drool...
but as a power-user you usually try to weed out all the "cool" stuff
that gets in the way, so... i don't know really. but i think they
promised one can use it like OS 9. might help a bit in keeping the users
happy. :/
niko
