Re: Windows; its way or the highway. (Was Re: RISC OS 6 - no shadow modes?)

John M Ward <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An officer comes in to consult the file. "Ah," says the filing clerk,
"If you want the photos they're in the "image files" cabinet,
correspondence is in /that/ cabinet, and fingerprints are over there."

But that's eminently sensible for what the polis most likely want to do -
compare some fingerprints they found somewhere with all their previously
taken dabs, or get a witness to look at a set of mugshots.

RO has the same problem; eg do you keep all your browsers together? Are they
in the same directory as every other internet-related application? Or do
you for example keep all R-Comp apps together? Or all the DTP ones?

Do you keep data near the apps concerned? Some people no doubt keep all
their OP documents near OP itself. I don't.

In RO I keep apps that are likely all to be needed at the same time, eg all
the image manipulation programs, in one directory. So they all get 'seen'
by the filer at the same time, only if any are needed. But I keep data
files according to subject area in most cases.

In XP I'm tending to ignore the Start Menu (unless I cannot find anything
any other way) and have sets of shortcuts kept elsewhere that allow me to do
subject-related things. For example in my VRPC shortcuts folder there are
shortcuts to start VRPC itself, open its disk root directories, look at the
manual, open the folder where I keep installation notes, and so on.


Someone mentioned that getting a shortcut from somewhere to the desktop was
tricky. It's probably the first thing I learnt how to do (right click on the
thing you want the shortcut to reach and choose 'send to desktop'). I
routinely do this - but having got them there immediately cut them off and
paste them into one or more other places where I really wanted them to be.
So the desktop is just a staging post for me. When newly installed apps put
shortcuts on the desktop I either move them to a subject-related folder or
delete them. I can't stand desktops with millions of icons spread over
them.


My desktop has very few icons on it. There are a couple more than usual
because I've regulary been issuing some telnet and traceroute commands and
I've got command-window icons for each of those (like TaskObey files in RO),
but once I've got to the bottom of that probem I'll remove them. There's a
shortcut to Run as well so I can get a command window up easily, mainly used
for commands like netstat, ping etc and that was customised early on so it's
got a decent buffer size, display font, character size etc.

I've also got "Disk C" and "HardDisc4" shortcuts because I need to start
hunting around both of those from their root directories pretty often.

Then there's the Recycle bin, a shortcut to the folder where I keep day-
to-day notes, one to a folder of common windows-related stuff, and one to
the VRPC folder, and that's just about it.


In essence the stuff that most users have on the desktop is one double-click
away for me, in the windows-related folder, and a lot of what is in there is
segregated into topics eg

~Regular maintenance tasks
Adware/firewall/maware/antivirus etc
Backups & system restore
Command window commands (ie more TaskObey-like files)
DrWatson (notes on using it and old dumps I'm keeping)
Hardware
Multimedia apps
System
ZZ stuff (stuff I think I can delete but am keeping for a while)

shortcut to folder where I put misc downloads
" " " RO downloads
" " " Win downloads

It's a bit of a mess at the moment because I'm still in transition moving
apps from my old RPC onto VRPC on the laptop, and getting used to Windows.
I'm trying to be methodical about what goes where, if only so that backups
of stuff can be discriminatory.


--
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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