You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
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mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
"easy only once you know where to look" is like the microsoft UI oeuvre
You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
"easy only once you know where to look" is like the microsoft UI oeuvre
they are also very fond of moving it or putting new layers of nonsense on top of the old, just because why not have us find out where to look anew
You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
"easy only once you know where to look" is like the microsoft UI oeuvre
It's all intuitive once you've taken the time to learn it
mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
latest windows I've used it much more than before
because at some point, either through me accidentally hitting it or just because, it's switched keyboards from norwegian to english, and I'm wondering why the fuck all the keys are wrong before I remember and hit windows+space
about four-five times a day
and I've given up finding out why it insists I should have two input methods to switch between; at no point did I tell it I had any other keyboard than the one I did.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
I can't think of a single microsoft UI change where I wasn't like stop changing it! it sucked before, and I learned your bullshit, and the new way also sucks, so fuck off
mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
mildly related, is there a way to disable the windows key without 3rd party software?
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
Is your home comp on Home or Pro?
home
Think for Home it'd be a registry hack
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
We're moving from Skype to Teams and Teams isn't integrated with our Outlook so I'm still at a loss as to why
skype is EOL and is being phased out in the next year
Then why not hurry up and integrate Teams into Outlook
yeah that's dumb, no reason not to
we were looking at teams last month (a lot of our clients have blocked their reps using zoom and we needed an alternative) but you need to have an exchange server and shit set up for it and honestly seemed like more hassle than it's worth for us
You can only protect end users from themselves so much
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
I just typed file extension into the search box on the taskbar and it's the first result! I know this wasn't always so easily findable but it's fine now.
Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
I use Window+X to get to the task manager now instead of Ctrl-Alt-Del
there are some other fun things in the Win+X menu too
And I lock my screen at home because otherwise my cat gets on my desk and types incomprehensible messages to people (and also inadvertently hits weird combinations of hotkeys that are a fun adventure to reverse engineer when I return to my computer and it's unusable).
I don't have anything useful to help you with disabling the Windows key, Chanus, I just wanted everyone to know these things about me.
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life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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that's a great feature
I think that's why they try hiding file extensions, to stem the tide of people who would try to convert a file to pdf by doing this
undeserved protection, I think, their shame should be seen
Sure, but a single setting you can toggle on and off seems like the best solution I can think of. The burden of altering one easily findable flag precisely once per install isn't an onerous one.
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easily findable is maybe overstating the user friendliness of windows settings a bit
i haven't checked in a while since the option was removed from keyboard settings years ago but i don't believe i have ever hit the windows key on purpose outside of screen locking which i don't ever do on my home computer
"easy only once you know where to look" is like the microsoft UI oeuvre
Then why not hurry up and integrate Teams into Outlook
my last laptop wasn't exactly stable at the end there but nothing was worse than skype
nevermind that it kept crashing, when it crashed so did half of everything else
they are also very fond of moving it or putting new layers of nonsense on top of the old, just because why not have us find out where to look anew
It's all intuitive once you've taken the time to learn it
Is your home comp on Home or Pro?
It's in the view tab on any explorer window
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
latest windows I've used it much more than before
because at some point, either through me accidentally hitting it or just because, it's switched keyboards from norwegian to english, and I'm wondering why the fuck all the keys are wrong before I remember and hit windows+space
about four-five times a day
and I've given up finding out why it insists I should have two input methods to switch between; at no point did I tell it I had any other keyboard than the one I did.
home
honestly I've never even noticed there was a view tab on any explorer window until you mentioned it now, or I've forgotten
how long has that been there
useful if my right click stops working, I guess?
Is your home comp on Home or Pro?
Think for Home it'd be a registry hack
yeah that's dumb, no reason not to
we were looking at teams last month (a lot of our clients have blocked their reps using zoom and we needed an alternative) but you need to have an exchange server and shit set up for it and honestly seemed like more hassle than it's worth for us
I just typed file extension into the search box on the taskbar and it's the first result! I know this wasn't always so easily findable but it's fine now.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
there are some other fun things in the Win+X menu too
And I lock my screen at home because otherwise my cat gets on my desk and types incomprehensible messages to people (and also inadvertently hits weird combinations of hotkeys that are a fun adventure to reverse engineer when I return to my computer and it's unusable).
I don't have anything useful to help you with disabling the Windows key, Chanus, I just wanted everyone to know these things about me.
no but also it would be effort and cost for minor benefit especially when google meet is free atm
My company moved us to Gsuite and I loathe it.
Slides and Sheets are just straight up inferior to Powerpoint and Excel.
I use win+E every day for the explorer, and stuff like
win key + <name> to launch discord
Huh, I never knew this!
Now to keep forgetting it every time I want the task manager...
...
Holy shit
https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
On average, this thread was blasting along at warp 1
@RMS Oceanic will create the new thread
@Tav is backup