Is this list active

Is this list active!
 
I upgraded recently from W3.1 to W2000 and miss some of the
capabilities
of the old 3.1. For example I now have a screenful of icons
on the
Desktop! I've been looking for ways to subgroup some of
them so I don't
have to have them all showing! Gate's and company have not
really
improved Windows, but merely making it more difficult to
use.
 
A 1989 retired Computer Systems Analyst!
 
rfs
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why on earth Win2000 why not WINXP. I prefer a clean desktop
and run a
small utility that hides all icons on desktop

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 13:20 -0600, Richard F. Strait wrote:
> Is this list active!
>  
> I upgraded recently from W3.1 to W2000 and miss some of
the capabilities
> of the old 3.1. For example I now have a screenful of
icons on the
> Desktop! I've been looking for ways to subgroup some
of them so I don't
> have to have them all showing! Gate's and company have
not really
> improved Windows, but merely making it more difficult
to use.
>  
> A 1989 retired Computer Systems Analyst!
>  
> rfs
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>>I upgraded recently from W3.1 to W2000 and miss some
of the capabilities
of the old 3.1. For example I now have a screenful of icons
on the Desktop!
I've been looking for ways to subgroup some of them so I
don't have to have
them all showing! Gate's and company have not really
improved Windows, but
merely making it more difficult to use.<<
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Richard,

Wow, Windows 3.1 to Windows 2000. You missed all the fun in
between with
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME and Windows
NT 4.0, all of
which used the interface you are now facing with Windows
2000.

Yes, the interface is considerably different. Just think of
Program Manager
as what you get when you click on the Start button and
highlight the
Programs item on the menu. Each folder inside the Programs
area is
essentially the same as a Program Group was in Program
Manager. Anything you
see on the Desktop, which is actually another folder stored
at C:\Documents
and Settings\user_profile_name_here\Desktop, is just a
shortcut to access
installed programs on the computer. Anything you see with a
little arrow in
the lower left-hand corner of the icon can usually be safely
deleted. Just
check to make sure the icon exists in one of the Program
Groups on the Start
Menu.

Once you delete these icons, they go to the Recycle Bin, so
they are not
really deleted from the computer yet, just
"hiding" out of sight until you
empty the Recycle Bin. Windows copied this feature from
Apple (Trash can on
the Mac) back with Windows 95.

If you want to subgroup the icons, right click the Desktop,
highlight New,
then select Folder. Give the folder an appropriate name,
then drag and drop
the icons from your Desktop into this new folder, which will
also live on
the Desktop, because that is really just a folder in the
file system of
Windows. <confused yet?>

It really isn't that hard to get a hang of the new look
once you are on it
for a few days. When I changed to Windows 95 11 years ago, I
too thought
that using progman.exe would be better. But, after about a
week of the Start
Menu, I never turned back.

Hope this helped a bit.

Mark Fields
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