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Vanishing Windows Explorer

Just had to restore several PCs, Windows PCs. The oddest thing is, even after all the waiting, register here & there, download update after update.

= Configuring the system, once it is up is?
= I can restore a Windows PC in a few hours. Getting all my old Apps, things setup, restore bookmarks, locate & create file folders (commonly used), install my personal Apps., find that fifth password for Google's gmail & such.

  • Why is Windows Explorer hidden on the side - in Accessories?
  • It is like, the "most useful thing," stuck in the whole OS, and it is stuck off on the side.
  • As if, it is a footnote application or something?
  • Secondly, what is this obsession with "my Music, my Documents, my Junk???"
  • Few persons are so vain, to label their file folders. my Music, my Home, my Car, my Agenda, and so on. Plus, the typical person has "multiple themes," such as: work agenda, home agenda, car repair, financial documents, bank statements, medical bills.
  • See, there is no simple pattern!
  • Have I seen this before? Why would MS second class Explorer?
  • They loved using the word Explorer. Why we are cursed with saying, Internet Explorer.

= Windows 3.11 had a MS "Calendar" App. There was also a "Cardfile" App.
= Windows 95, they took it out. Only way to keep it was? If you had an Upgrade 3.1 to 95 or figured copying over the program. (Why? Because, MS Outlook - something commercial replaced it. Even though, this is before Microsoft knew. How important the Internet Band Wagon was?) [There was an Outlook for MS-Dos, bundled with Exchange Server v 5.5.)

Can you tell, I use Windows too much?

Glen

  1. Sources: Surviving the Next Operating System
  2. Home > Screenshots > Windows 3.0

Update: Windows Calendar is back in MS Vista. Since the iCalendar format (and servers) have become so popular. (See Chandler!)

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