Re: Stealing a Great Idea from the 6600

On 7/30/2024 12:41 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) writes:

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 9:24:05 +0000, Michael S wrote:

 

In corporate environments people are forced to run virii software
mistakenly called "antivirus". It's not their own choice.

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Ahh, another advantage of retirement.

 MS tends to break things.
 Executable email content?  WTF?
Invisible file extensions?  WTF?
HTML in usenet messages?   WTF?

If anything, a good reason not to use MS Outlook, ...
I tend to always have Windows set to show file extensions since, as far as I am concerned, this is a fairly relevant and important piece of information to know about a file.
Though, one other annoyance I do have is that if:
A folder contains a broken video file (such as a broken ".mp4");
The view is set to one of the "icons" views;
Windows Explorer will tend to bog down endlessly trying to extract the thumbnail (and failing).
Say, for example, if one has a 0 length file with an ".mp4" extension, and the Explorer window set to "Extra Large Icons".
Like, better if it would realize that it is not getting a thumbnail, and then give up on that file.
Well, also:
Windows Photo Viewer likes to sit around running the GPU at full power (apparently, it uses the GPU for rendering, but does not have any sort of framerate limiter, so basically sits around redrawing the window as fast as it can go).
Before disabling various graphical effect settings, programs like "Windows Calculator" would also bog stuff down (with default settings, Windows tries to use a "frosted glass" transparency effect, that seemingly besides what little aesthetic value it has, tends to bog down the whole Windows GUI).
Apparently, using these effects also causes the programs to redraw themselves at implausibly high refresh rates.
And, I have better things to be going on than having the whole Windows UI bog down and GPU running at 100% because Calculator wants to use a frosted-glass translucency effect.
But, OTOH, I kinda miss "Windows Classic".
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