Re: Apple-Q versus Apple-W is hard for beginners

matt neuburg wrote:

> My parents have no history with Windows but they find this difficult
> too. My mother never knows what program she is in or what program is
> running. And she doesn't distinguish between dismissing a program's last
> window and quitting the program. (Out of sight, out of mind, I guess.)
> Just another data point! I don't have a positive suggestion for a fix,
> but I do know that the window layering model is very confusing to some
> users. m.

Goodness, I'd hate to see what she'd do with a downloaded disk image, or
(as I once did on OS 9) not bother to empty the trash for 4 years on a
machine used daily - I got a lot of dialog boxes asking me for <volume
name of disk> when in fact those disks were long gone and ironically, the
floppy drive on that machine had stopped working a couple years back...

Possible fix is to buy her a PC or WebTV? ;-)


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