Windows annoyance
Jan. 28th, 2007 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienI do wish Windows wouldn't lie about what the directory tree looks like. The lies are fairly transparent, but it can be confusing all the same.
I noticed something just now: if I view my Desktop as a folder by navigating up from a folder that's sitting on it, I see the 'system' shortcuts to My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, and IE. I don't, however, see any way to navigate up from the Desktop folder. On the other hand, if I open the C disk in My Computer and navigate down through Documents and Settings, none of those system shortcuts show up in the Desktop folder; they also don't show up in a DOS prompt directory listing of the folder. (Neither do about half of the software shortcuts I have littered around, but those are in the folder for the "All Users" desktop.)
The really weird thing about this is that I carefully removed the IE icon from my actual desktop a long time ago. (I don't want to actually uninstall the thing, I just want not to see the icon.)
(Please don't try to convert me to your operating system of choice. Linux is OK for real work, but the whole idea of having a laptop is to be able to do standard MSOffice stuff, and Macs give me the heebie-jeebies!)
I noticed something just now: if I view my Desktop as a folder by navigating up from a folder that's sitting on it, I see the 'system' shortcuts to My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, and IE. I don't, however, see any way to navigate up from the Desktop folder. On the other hand, if I open the C disk in My Computer and navigate down through Documents and Settings, none of those system shortcuts show up in the Desktop folder; they also don't show up in a DOS prompt directory listing of the folder. (Neither do about half of the software shortcuts I have littered around, but those are in the folder for the "All Users" desktop.)
The really weird thing about this is that I carefully removed the IE icon from my actual desktop a long time ago. (I don't want to actually uninstall the thing, I just want not to see the icon.)
(Please don't try to convert me to your operating system of choice. Linux is OK for real work, but the whole idea of having a laptop is to be able to do standard MSOffice stuff, and Macs give me the heebie-jeebies!)
