[dayglored]

> Know what? Embrace the blocks. Sure, they look infantile, like the people they're aimed at. That doesn't mean you can't configure them to your advantage.

I took the Luddite approach. Once I got to the desktop, I defined a new Toolbar on the taskbar, which appears on the right end, next to the System Tray.

Filled it with shortcut icons for the programs I use most often.

It's the poor-man's Quick Launch Bar.

Not perfect, but I just cannot embrace the blocks. You can have all of my blocks, free. Please, take them... :-)

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You can have all of my blocks, free. Please, take them... :-)

They are repulsive.

MS has an existential problem. Office is dead. Operating systems are continually hacked. Dead.

Windows 8 and 10 are their attempts to make computers like cellphones: very restricted applications, protecting their licenses.

They will only push us all to open source, leaving them with nothing.

[rockrr]

I took the Luddite approach. Once I got to the desktop, I defined a new Toolbar on the taskbar, which appears on the right end, next to the System Tray. Filled it with shortcut icons for the programs I use most often.

Hey, I remember doing the same thing....in Windows WFW311.

Everything old is new again ;')