From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/11/23 3:36:59, Paul wrote:   
   > On Sat, 11/22/2025 10:05 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> On 2025/11/22 23:17:19, jaugustine@verizon.net wrote:   
      
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   >>>    I consider "This PC" ("My Computer")  a very important Icon.  Why   
   Microsoft   
   >>> designed Win10 without it on the Desktop is way beyond my compression.   
      
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   >> What does that icon do that Win+E doesn't? (I'm genuinely asking; I   
      
   Frank has explained that you can change what Win+E does (and how); have   
   you, jaugustine, changed it? If not, you might find it a useful   
   alternative to the "This PC" icon, especially when it's obscured, or on   
   PCs that don't have it. (I personally would use it anyway, but then I   
   tend to use the keyboard instead of the mouse more than some people do.)   
      
   >    
   > I use Disk Management for a steering wheel :-)   
      
   Not sure what you mean by Disk Management in the context of This PC or   
   Win+E.   
      
   >    
   > And if your screen is covered up, at least on W11 there is the "show desktop"   
   > bar in the extreme lower-right corner. You have to be holding your mouse   
   > pointer over it, to see it. Click it once, minimizes the desktop windows.   
      
   It's there on 10, though more hidden than previously; it was there on 7.   
      
   > Click it again, un-minimizes them (but not necessarily in the same stacking   
   order).   
      
   (Are you familiar with the "Mr. Preview" sketch, concerning the Grieg   
   piano concerto?) Yes, that restoration is sometimes weird. Another such   
   restoration that has caught me out lately is using Switch User from   
   Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which was suggested (and yes it works) when my system   
   goes into the simulate-ctrl-key-stuck mode: most windows come back as   
   they were, but the main Thunderbird one comes back postage-stamp size,   
   and recently when I also had a compose window open, that was there   
   (alt-tab showed it was), but nowhere to be seen - but I remembered the   
   alt-space menu, and got it back via that. (IIRR the menu popped up in a   
   random position.)   
      
   >    
   > Linux has seen a similar kind of change, in that disk partitions don't have   
   > the same graphical exposure. And I've been using the Gnome-disks application   
   > (a look-alike to Disk Management) for steering there.   
   >    
   > I expect this is all part of a "smartphone play". The changes being made to   
   > things, are not for user convenience, they're part of business plans.   
      
   I thought Windows 8 was the attempt to direct us to 'phone thinking, and   
   has failed, not least because touch screens haven't caught on as much as   
   they perhaps expected, for desktop users. (And laptops - I haven't been   
   into a "Currys/PC World" for ages, but I think the majority of new   
   laptops still don't have touch screens.)   
      
   >    
   >    Paul   
   John   
      
      
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