Posted on 03/01/2014 9:27:01 AM PST by dayglored
Microsoft is currently experimenting with a free version of Windows 8.1 that could boost the number of people using the operating system. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is building "Windows 8.1 with Bing," a version that will bundle key Microsoft apps and services. While early versions of the software have leaked online, we understand that Windows 8.1 with Bing is an experimental project that aims to bring a low-cost version of Windows to consumers...
We’re told that Microsoft is aiming to position Windows 8.1 with Bing as a free or low-cost upgrade for Windows 7 users...
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Again, you are advocating brute force, like the Comcast technicians when you experience Internet connectivity problems and they tell you over the phone to power off the modem (which doesn’t have a power switch), and disconnect the cable and then wait one minute, all this managing what should be intelligent devices running intelligent operating systems. (Even a Comcast technician who visited my house told me it’s all BS!) In the 1980s, running mini-computers I watched the computer company engineers diagnose and repair complex problems with the machine and with the disk and cluster servers, without having to power them off or rebooting. With the PCs we devolved, and the brute force search function of Windows 7 is one of the symptoms. I maintain that 100 or million files, a properly designed file explorer, and a transparent file system where files are placed in locations where the user’s common sense expects them placed, is the way to go. Windows 7 is opaque and confused. And quit assuming that I don’t know about file indexing, but thanks for your tips.
It’s simply illogical to compare a 30+GB W7 OS to a 1980s OS of say 30MBs. There are several orders of magnitude difference.
If you want you can structure Windows Explorer to expand all folders but with a million files you will remain lost. Do the math. It is hopeless until you get near the folder in question which will be one out of many, many thousands of folders so you practically already have to know the destination folder before searching.
I’ve been supporting Windows servers and workstations for over a decade. The last time I saw someone using, complaining, about searching via Explorer was with Windows 2000. Have you tried the “Search” function?
Speaking candidly using Explorer to blindly navigate W7 files is tilting at windmills. It’s wholly impractical. Obviously you’re discouraged. Change your search method for cripes sake. I routinely locate W7 files and folders in seconds via common search paths per file type and function. Try searching a 2TB network drive for someone’s “lost files” sometime and get back to me.
XP still has the more natural interface IMO.
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