Elmer BeFuddled
Resident eejit
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Old habits, and Bruce Willis, as they say, die hard.
After making my own skin for WinXP, changing all the system icons to my own designs, renaming and redirecting folders etc. etc. I just can't stop.
Now I've moved up to 7 I still can't resist the urge.
I now have a Quick Launch toolbar to replace what I would call the XP style "All Programs".
I only ever hit the "Start" button if I want to shut down/restart Win7.
The Win7 search has long been dumped, I don't need a search engine (first removal on install!!) to tell me where what I know is there, I'm looking for something that tells me about what I don't know about, hence the name, search.
The "library" has long ceased to be, now contains only a long list of favourites plus (My)Computer (Elmers 'puter).
I'd rather be dropping a file in a real** folder, not a virtual one.
** OK, OK, we all know there's actually nothing real about this, in fact, I'm talking to myself here., Ha Ha, years ago I'd have been cast as a heretic (shut up mother, eat ye porridge).
Imageres.dll looks nothing like M$ intended it to. But it's just how I like it.
Sadly when I visit my daughter down Brum and hear the dreaded words "Can you have a look at my lappy 'cos....." I'm lost!! I can't find my way round a "straight" Win7 set up anymore! Where's my Elmers 'puter? My Toons? Skin Flix?
o), Ahem, sorry, Artistic Vids?
So, if Fred Bloggs, the well known computer snarker, walked into your humble abode, do you think he'd be able to find his way round your PC and actually open a file/web page???
After making my own skin for WinXP, changing all the system icons to my own designs, renaming and redirecting folders etc. etc. I just can't stop.
Now I've moved up to 7 I still can't resist the urge.
I now have a Quick Launch toolbar to replace what I would call the XP style "All Programs".
I only ever hit the "Start" button if I want to shut down/restart Win7.
The Win7 search has long been dumped, I don't need a search engine (first removal on install!!) to tell me where what I know is there, I'm looking for something that tells me about what I don't know about, hence the name, search.
The "library" has long ceased to be, now contains only a long list of favourites plus (My)Computer (Elmers 'puter).
I'd rather be dropping a file in a real** folder, not a virtual one.
** OK, OK, we all know there's actually nothing real about this, in fact, I'm talking to myself here., Ha Ha, years ago I'd have been cast as a heretic (shut up mother, eat ye porridge).
Imageres.dll looks nothing like M$ intended it to. But it's just how I like it.
Sadly when I visit my daughter down Brum and hear the dreaded words "Can you have a look at my lappy 'cos....." I'm lost!! I can't find my way round a "straight" Win7 set up anymore! Where's my Elmers 'puter? My Toons? Skin Flix?
o), Ahem, sorry, Artistic Vids?So, if Fred Bloggs, the well known computer snarker, walked into your humble abode, do you think he'd be able to find his way round your PC and actually open a file/web page???
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