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I feel like Microsoft is putting a really nice hardwood tabletop on a wobbly, mismatched set of legs. $5 says that when Windows 8 comes out, if you want to cha
by georgieporgie 15y ago
I feel like Microsoft is putting a really nice hardwood tabletop on a wobbly, mismatched set of legs.
$5 says that when Windows 8 comes out, if you want to change your personal path, you still have to go Start | Computer | Properties | Advanced System Properties | Environmental Variables. And if you go to Advanced Appearance Settings to set a different title bar color for inactive windows, it will still be ignored by Aero.
- kenjackson 15y ago$5 says that when Windows 8 comes out, if you want to change your personal path, you still have to go Start | Computer | Properties | Advanced System Properties | Environmental Variables. Curious, why wouldn't that be the way you do it? How do you change your personal path on the iPad? You don't. In Metro you shoudln't be concerned with the personal path. You should only care in legacy mode. And in legacy mode you use Control Panel (or this other route you noted).
- contextfree 15y agoOr type Windows key, "env", enter. The real problem is the bizarrely small and unresizeable dialog.
- georgieporgie 15y agoYou should only care in legacy mode. That's exactly my concern. That they'll slap on a Metro UI layer and leave the abhorrent system of UI kludges intact beneath. Microsoft has more than enough engineers, PMs, etc. to solve this. But they're more interested in things like adding thin UI layers, reinventing data access for the nth time, and making a mediocre search engine. Maybe they need to form a committee to have a meeting about forming an initiative to consider this. (I'm not just MS bashing for the sake of it; I use and like their products, I just see the company continuously avoiding tough decisions and doing rebranding/repackaging exercises that shaft their users)