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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: Win11 explorer bug?
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:32:18 -0800
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:59:25 +0000, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

>On 11/12/2024 19:01, john larkin wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:22:51 +0000, Martin Brown
>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't find Win11 different enough to Win7 to really notice anything
>>> other than a few minor cosmetic niggles that are easily fixed like right
>>> click menus that by default don't include the features I use most often.
>> 
>> File drag and drop is the worst. If the destination file exists, you
>> have to enter a secondary dialog that itself makes no sense.
>
>I hate file drag and drop. I certainly wouldn't want to be able to 
>destroy files that already exist in the destination folder. YMMV
>
>> I have to read the file dates and times manually, before I copy.
>> 
>> I do have a little program that copies folders and only does the later
>> date files.
>> 
>> Another bad thing about 11 is that it likes to pop up ugly things that
>> make it hard to see what you are doing.
>
>I've turned that crap off.

That would be great. How do you do that?


>
>> And keeps changing folder views. I don't want to see cartoons just
>> because I'm copying a jpeg.
>> 
>> Why does the biggest programming team in history write such garbage
>> code?
>
>Probably because it is *so* bug.
>(typo for big but Freudian slip seems OK)

Software Engineering is an oxymoron.