Going Too Far
Okay, Microsoft have officially gone too far now.
That’s my C drive, it’s where I put my stuff. It’s mine. It is not, has never been and should never be a Windows system folder. Not to mention the fact that hiding files like this does not make the interface easier to use, it just introduces another mode that confuses users and makes users panic because they’re in some cryptic part of the OS that they shouldn’t be in.
Fix the damn OS so it’s not so easy to inadvertantly break - don’t just hide the entire hard drive from the user.
April 18th, 2004 at 10:35 am
quirky interfaces
Adrian complains, and rightly so, about a particular windowsism found in Windows XP, and to a lesser degree in Windows 2000. The quirk involves Windows “hiding,” behind a big warning screen, certain parts of the system volume (nominally C:), including …
April 18th, 2004 at 5:38 pm
“now”? I thought you’d used XP before. This is nothing new, and becomes just another item on the list of things to turn off after a fresh install of XP.
I do agree however that it hinders more than it helps.