[GRLUG] ritual complaint re Windows

[Don Ellis]

Well, that's a lot more convenient than XP, I guess. I keep getting
these prompts asking if I want to delete the unused icons on my
desktop, and I have to keep clicking the NO button. That's all fixed
in Win7 now!

--Don Ellis


On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Joseph Workman <joseph.workman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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