RE: OT: Win-10 gripes

[Harry Binswanger <hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip and Flash:

This is an interesting debate. My first reaction is to ratify what Flash
is saying, but I'm interested in Philip's perspective. Maybe he knows
something we don't.

But allow me to give you, Philip, just one of many frustrations with
Windows, and hope to learn from your answer. The search field near the
start button (used to be inside the start pop-up menu) doesn't retain a
stack of previously searched for items. Well, it's worse than that,
actually: it doesn't retain even just the last thing you typed in.

The Run field does have a stack facility. I think previous version of
Windows had it for the Search field. How on earth did they drop out this
super-obvious feature?

Oh, all right, I'll add one more: there are times you can't do something
with a file, like save it, because the file is being used by another
program. Okay, what program?! Would it be so difficult to have the error
message include what other program(s) are using the file? As it is, those
of us with 12 or 24 different programs open cannot determine which
program is using it (sometimes I think it's Explorer---which should not
count as a use!). I end up closing almost all my programs before I can
save the damn file.

I'm holding off the next one that occurred to me.

--Harry