At 8/18/2005 03:58 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
It was a bad design, in my opinion, and the vast majority of PC users
can't use it reliably, and therefore don't.
There are too main reasons for this:
1. they don't understand files and folders -- there is no conceptual
model in their heads for it.
At 8/17/2005 11:54 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
.While I am writing about Explorer, the two-pane, click to open a folder in
the other pane, click that folder, etc to be quite tedious, especially when
using an application to open files in one folder and then save them in
another where the source and
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From: Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Richard Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...
At 8/17/2005 11:54 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
.While I am writing about Explorer, the two-pane, click to open a folder
At 07:47 AM 8/18/05 -0400, Phil Daley wrote:
With NUMLOCK ON, select a drive or directory in Explorer, press the
asterisk key on the numerical keypad.
I didn't know that one. I did it with Arby (my computer) selected and it
took only 3 minutes to open up every drive and directory on the machine
On 17 Aug 2005 at 20:54, Richard Yates wrote:
And I'm criticizing the hierarchical view that is in the folder pane
because it groups at the same level in the hierarchy things that are
not by any stretch of the imagination the same things (except
insofar as Windows Explorer's presentation
On 18 Aug 2005 at 7:47, Phil Daley wrote:
At 8/17/2005 11:54 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
.While I am writing about Explorer, the two-pane, click to open a
folder in
the other pane, click that folder, etc to be quite tedious,
especially when using an application to open files in one folder
On 18 Aug 2005 at 5:04, Richard Yates wrote:
Wow! How long has that been there? . . .
It's always been there. The - on the keypad collapses a tree.
I don't use these much in Explorer, but I do use them a lot in the
Registry Editor (but most people don't have much call to use
RegEdit).
. .
David W. Fenton / 2005/08/18 / 04:16 PM wrote:
I don't use these much in Explorer, but I do use them a lot in the
Registry Editor (but most people don't have much call to use
RegEdit).
I just hit F3 in RegEdit :-)
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Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
On 18 Aug 2005 at 16:30, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
David W. Fenton / 2005/08/18 / 04:16 PM wrote:
I don't use these much in Explorer, but I do use them a lot in the
Registry Editor (but most people don't have much call to use
RegEdit).
I just hit F3 in RegEdit :-)
Well, FIND works well
At 8/16/2005 05:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
When I got my first Win95 PC, I was very disappointed with Windows
Explorer in the beginning and tried using File Manager for a while,
but once I started accumulating long file names, it became impossible
to use. I eventually got used to the single
On 17 Aug 2005 at 6:46, Phil Daley wrote:
At 8/16/2005 05:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
When I got my first Win95 PC, I was very disappointed with Windows
Explorer in the beginning and tried using File Manager for a while,
but once I started accumulating long file names, it became
At 8/17/2005 01:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
No. My Computer is an Explorer view without the Folder Pane. You can
make it look like what you get when you run Explorer.exe by going to
the View menu and choosing to display the Folder Pane (under the
poorly-named Explorer Bar menu choice).
I mean
On 17 Aug 2005 at 14:42, Phil Daley wrote:
At 8/17/2005 01:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
No. My Computer is an Explorer view without the Folder Pane. You can
make it look like what you get when you run Explorer.exe by going to
the View menu and choosing to display the Folder Pane (under
And I'm criticizing the hierarchical view that is in the folder pane
because it groups at the same level in the hierarchy things that are
not by any stretch of the imagination the same things (except insofar
as Windows Explorer's presentation forces you to treat them as though
they belong at
At 09:59 PM 8/15/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 15 Aug 2005 at 21:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:28 PM 8/15/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=124053
For some of us Windows users, can you explain the funny bits?
Well, if it were a
On 16 Aug 2005 at 8:56, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 09:59 PM 8/15/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 15 Aug 2005 at 21:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:28 PM 8/15/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=124053
For some of us Windows
On 16/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no real analog to Program Manager in Win95 and all later
versions of Windows, which would perhaps make my Windows analog even
more wrong than the Mac example.
Well, none that is intended to be used, anyway. progman.exe still
http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=124053
Johannes
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At 10:28 PM 8/15/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=124053
For some of us Windows users, can you explain the funny bits?
Dennis
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On 15 Aug 2005 at 21:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:28 PM 8/15/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=124053
For some of us Windows users, can you explain the funny bits?
Well, if it were a Windows error message with correspondingly out-of-
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