Re: Brian's comments about WinXP, and I've changed the subject line.
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Robin Frost
Hi,
I’ve done just as Gene suggests below for many years and have used System
Restore with no ill effects.
Further I’ve even used Microsoft’s own folders and never interact with the
“library” feature under windows 10. I find, access and interact with files just
as I always have in prior incarnations of windows.
If things aren’t behaving or seeming to appear as they always have it could
be more an issue of how folder views are set than anything else which can be
completely defined by users specific to a given folder or general across
many.
I hope that helps.
Robin
From: Gene
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 10:39 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Brian's comments about WinXP, and I've changed
the subject line. I'm not sure if or to what extent it is more
difficult to organize files in Windows 7. I haven't used later versions
but I would think the same general principle would apply. If you find
problems regarding the library feature, one way to avoid such problems is to
organize files outside of this system. Why not simply create your own
folders? Instead of using the Microsoft Documents folder, for example, why
not create a documents folder on the c drive. If you wanted, you could
create a short cut on the desktop to the folder, thus accessing the folder in
the same way as you may have done the Microsoft Folder.
It may be that you would have to be careful when
using something like System Restore that you wouldn't lose folders or certain
files. I don't know what the case is now, but in the old days, System
Restore didn't monitor My Documents or any folders in it. So I would not
advocate creating your own folder structure unless you back things up properly
or don't use System Restore in the first place. But if libraries do cause
problems, there is a simple way around that which requires you to know nothing
about the library feature.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 8:39 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Brian's comments about WinXP, and I've changed
the subject line. I realize that some people hate change and that's where the discussion ends for them but there is at least one aspect of Windows XP that I preferred to what came after... That is the file organization, and how straightforward it was to organize files in meaningful folders and access files saved in folders keeping a library neat and manageable. For me, the file organization and file accessibility in Win7 and later are usable but not preferable. JMHO. (smile) Thanks for all that you contribute here. It's appreciated. -LM -------------------------------------------- On Mon, 4/18/16, Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote: Subject: Re: [nvda] This is the moderator speaking: Question Regarding Eloquence for NVDA from Code Factory To: nvda@groups.io Date: Monday, April 18, 2016, 6:27 PM Rosemarie Chavarria wrote, in regard to a friend of hers who insisted on staying with WinXP, "I asked him why and his answer was that it was simpler to work with."And I can't count the times I've heard this, about way more than Windows, and thought, "No, it's not easier to work with - it's what you're used to." Win XP was an OS I loved and Microsoft has the annoying habit of alternating "good" and "bad" versions of Windows. The number of things that require manual intervention from the user in XP is huge compared to later versions, particularly Windows 7 forward. And, when it comes down to it, even in the "ugly" versions of Windows the similarities to their predecessors is at least as strong as the differences, but the differences are where people are required to learn something new.David Moore's comments regarding those who live to be 100, or near it, really resonate with me. My grandmother died in the 1990s and was in her 90s at the time. When I think about what technology was at her birth and the amount of change she and her age cohort had to go through I am amazed. I don't know if I could be as flexible as they were. While the pace of change has picked up, particularly in the cyber world, the majority of changes I've lived through (I'm just short of 54 years old) feel to me much more like refinements on very familiar themes rather than complete divergences from what came before. That was not true for my grandparents at all, and my parents experienced more revolutionary changes than I have, too. I think my only two revolutions were the introduction of the personal computer and the ascendance of the internet.Brian |
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