[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’d settle for the damn things being able to install 30 programs, run 5 simultaneously, and not crash all the time. That should have been accomplished 10 or 15 years ago. All the fancy bells and whistles are totally useless when compared to reliability.

Any how about the simple feat of being able to copy a directory listing to the clipboard?

[driftdiver]

Thats two.

So much for technical discussion.

[dayglored]

> I’d settle for the damn things being able to install 30 programs, run 5 simultaneously, and not crash all the time. That should have been accomplished 10 or 15 years ago. All the fancy bells and whistles are totally useless when compared to reliability.

Are you running Win7? I'd say it more than accomplishes those goals.

> Any how about the simple feat of being able to copy a directory listing to the clipboard?

Get Cygwin -- it's the free open-source Unix/Bash subsystem. Cygwin

[qam1]

I want the up one folder button back. Using the sidebar / ribbon or whatever the hell it is just sucks. Yes I know it takes only a few seconds more, but seconds become minutes, minutes become hours and hours become days and so on and so on.

Oh and I hope they fixed the search in Windows 7 or 8. The search feature worked great in XP, but it’s barely usable in Vista. In fact it’s hard to pick which new search feature is worse, Vista’s or Freerepublic’s.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

As for your first request, try Win7. I've got somewhere North of 300 programs installed, and usually have 10-15 open, including some with 500 MB FEA and 3D CAD files open.

As for the second request, here's a REALLY EASY way to do it:

Click the Windows Start button and select "Run..."
type "cmd" and
Type "dir > listing.txt" and

Done. Remember you have a full shell with all versions of Windows; there's a ton of functionality there. I still use some batch files I wrote for my older software configs, and they run great.

Or, if you want to stay in the GUI, there is Servant Salamander that will do what you want.

[Woodman]

hit the start button and type “cmd dir *.* /b/s > c:\dir.txt” you can change the directory command as desired, and the output file can go wherever you want to specify.

[tacticalogic]

Any how about the simple feat of being able to copy a directory listing to the clipboard?

If you do that sort of think a lot, check out Powershell and the PSCX extensions for it from SourceForge. Getting a directory list to the clipboard is as easy as:

dir c:\ -recurse | out-clipboard

To send it to the default printer, use out-printer, or use out-file if you want to save it to a file.