[GRLUG] ritual complaint re Windows

Joseph Workman joseph.workman at gmail.com
Sun May 8 16:10:18 EDT 2011


Ha! That is awesome.

So how are you fixing this little issue ?

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com> wrote:

> I rolled out a few win7 machines lately and 2 users called last week to
> report that most of their desktop shortcuts had been deleted mysteriously.
> It turns out Win7 scheduled maintenance automatically (by default) deletes
> any broken shortcuts for you. So if your mapped network drives go offline..
> all your shortcuts get deleted for you.
> Awesome. Good job M$.
>
>
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, that's consistent at least. They decide what you should want to
>> do and how you should want to do it, and do it for you. Lots of
>> surprises, and keeps you on your toes.
>>
>> And, each new release of Windows does it differently. Lots of innovation!
>>
>> <end sarcasm>
>>
>> --Don Ellis
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Eric Beversluis
>> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
>> > I was messing with OneNote when somehow it went and re-arranged all the
>> > carefully arranged and grouped icons (60-some) on my Windows desktop.
>> >
>> > Thanks, Bill Gates.
>>
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