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To hate Microsoft for trying to make Windows more 'user friendly'?

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unlucky83 · 20/06/2014 11:11

Long term Windows user...from 3.1 days.
Think there have been some improvements over the years but some things give me the rage -
Like Libraries - have found a workaround that only causes minor irritation now...
At the moment I'm archiving/sorting out stuff - moving files between different folders -so several windows open. (And no using libraries wouldn't mean I didn't have to do this ...about getting stuff off my PC not hidden somewhere!)

I have it set up double click to open a file from a folder - but every so often as soon as I select a file to drag and drop it opens it... so I can't move it...and once it has done it with a file it keeps wanting to do it again and again and again Angry. I have to move another file and then come back ...

But the thing that really gives me the rage is when it maximises a window when you are trying to move it on the screen - not even sure when it does it - near the top of the screen or something?
You minimise a window, size it to fit, move it so you can have another open window visible next to it and bosh -its maximised again...so you minimise, try to move it and it maximises it again ...and again and again...
This is in Window 7 but on my mum's Windows 8 there is a similar thing when you try and access the shut down bit from the touch screen.

So am I being unreasonable thinking MS should stop trying to make Windows 'user friendly' and just let us do what we want to?

(And before someone says Macs are fantastic - have used them too and they have their own irritations....)

OP posts:
5Foot5 · 20/06/2014 16:56

And despite all the annoying "improvements" they insist on making nobody ever seems to think it is worth doing anything to improve the way you change environment variables. Trying to change a long path environment variable through Computer Managemnt properties is excruciating.

I have written my own path manipulator now that allows you to do it in a way any sensible person would

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