A bit of sense from Microsoft

philip.j.fry · 01-06-2005, 13:01

At last they are getting rid of the 'My' prefix in front of anything - sounds like they may be starting to listen to their customers. Now if they can just stop irritating folder creation (e.g. the Music, Photos folders etc) and kill the paperclip/dog/whatever they just might create a useable interface

Mr_love_monkey · 01-06-2005, 13:04

yeah, now they're just calling it '_our_ computer'

Russ · 01-06-2005, 13:05

Or even "Bill's Computer".

Millay · 01-06-2005, 14:29

it wont by my computer it will be, 'insert name of DRM company heres' computer

andygrif · 01-06-2005, 15:16

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Or even "Bill's Computer".

Or maybe they will set it to change names every 25 minutes to make sure you REALLY can't find anything on your computer!

simbr · 01-06-2005, 15:34

I thought since the release of win95 that, just becuase you can now have long file names and spaces, doesn't mean you should use them for important system folders like "program files" and "my documents" which can just be called "programs" and "docs", which also makes them easier to type.

ntl customer · 01-06-2005, 15:48

Hooray! It's long overdue too.

AndrewJ · 01-06-2005, 16:03

No they will make every program still look for My Computer or My documents when they have made it different names these programs will crash not being able to find a single directory, causing a crash.

They will then release a fix for this, which will search for c:/mydocuments. And of course the saga would continue.

Richard M · 01-06-2005, 16:06

Properly written programs use environment variables like %windir% and %userdir% anyway.

Bifta · 01-06-2005, 16:08

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Properly written programs use environment variables like %windir% and %userdir% anyway.

And even if they didn't I'm sure MS could patch their OS's to use the equivalent of symbolic links.

philip.j.fry · 01-06-2005, 16:16

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Originally Posted by Bifta

And even if they didn't I'm sure MS could patch their OS's to use the equivalent of symbolic links.

I wish they would!

Stuart · 01-06-2005, 16:46

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

No they will make every program still look for My Computer or My documents when they have made it different names these programs will crash not being able to find a single directory, causing a crash.

They will then release a fix for this, which will search for c:/mydocuments. And of course the saga would continue.

Seeing as Windows already (with a minor tweak http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/61/) supports renaming most system "folders" (including My Computer), and it is a relatively easy task (programatically) to obtain the current name & location of any system folder, then, frankly, any program that falls over when the name of a system folder is changed is bad,

AndrewJ · 01-06-2005, 17:16

I was taking the mick.

Stuart · 01-06-2005, 17:21

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Originally Posted by Saxodriver

I was taking the mick.

Fair enough.

Paul K · 01-06-2005, 17:29

Bet they keep the tellytubby decor though

Wish they would listen on that one and just leave the uxtheme file open so people can install their own styles without having to tinker with system files