Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=1LGDKhjj2fhTX3@\XA Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <9eicnZ7X-pC2qXD6nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@supernews.com> <67f02d7a$0$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 05 Apr 2025 16:35:47 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: <67f15be3$0$20$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1743870947 reader.netnews.com 20 127.0.0.1:43137 Bytes: 2770 On Fri, 04 Apr 2025 15:19:14 -0500, Char Jackson wrote: > On 04 Apr 2025 19:05:30 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:31:10 -0400, Paul wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>> The TaskBar today in Windows, has a feature that makes it descend >>> below the bottom edge of the screen, yielding more screen space. >>> Microsoft did not invent that, but the MacOS did at some point in the >>> past (perhaps MacOSX 10.1 or so). Since that's optional, you won't see >>> that happening on every user desktop here. >> >>I never liked UI elements that move when you try to click on them > > If you mean UI elements that are designed to be clickable, I appreciate > some kind of feedback telling me that it has registered the click. There > are many ways to do that, some better than others. I'm not talking about the feedback, but movement that happens when you're trying to click. >>or that make you click off the screen (Windows 8.0 did a lot of that). > > I can't think of an example of that, and I use Win 8 as my primary OS. > I'm not even sure how it would be possible to reliably clickck on > something that is off screen. It's been awhile since I used Windows 8 (note hat I said 8.0 not 8.1), but I do remember having to click off the screen for some things. IIRC, that was changed in 8.1. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle." [Robert G. Ingersoll]