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Microsoft open sources original File Manager from the ‘90s so it can run on Windows 10
The Verge ^
| April 9, 2018
| Tom Warren
Posted on 04/09/2018 7:50:16 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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For the Windows 10 haters..
To: RitchieAprile
Why?.................................[we still have it on some of our old computers].....................
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posted on
04/09/2018 7:59:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: RitchieAprile
Wait until people see what a cluster your file system has become! Complexity for the sake of confusion.
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:00:03 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Truth comes in few words; lies require more.)
To: RitchieAprile
Thay was for 16-bit dos file systems with limited address spaces. You would have to do significant mods to make sure it could handle 32 and 64 bit file systems and be able to access much larger hard drive address space today.
Would Windows 10 security even let you install and run it?
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:05:06 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: RitchieAprile
File Manager was never as good as the replacement that came with Norton Desktop.
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:08:00 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
To: RitchieAprile
If I can’t run Leisure Suit Larry, then forget it!
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:08:18 AM PDT
by
HombreSecreto
(They never thought that she would lose - God had other plans)
To: RitchieAprile
I’m awaiting the return of Microsoft Bob. /s
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:15:57 AM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: USMCPOP
miss this guy -
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:34:09 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: stylin19a
My favorite "clippy"....
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:35:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
that’s funny right there. is that real ?
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:39:34 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: stylin19a
I think the “Pastry” option is a dead giveaway.
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:44:30 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: RitchieAprile
Count me as a MS10HATER !! I’m still Waiting for MS 10 to go away and MS12 to come.
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posted on
04/09/2018 8:46:24 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: RitchieAprile
If only it would allow us to play our old 95 and XP games.
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posted on
04/09/2018 9:02:56 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Aevery_Freeman
I use XYplorer as a replacement. You can adjust the text size and spacing and font and thumbnail image size etc.
https://www.xyplorer.com
To: minnesota_bound
Thanks, but being an old UNIX system programmer, I like the old way of viewing my data - in my mind's eye.
BTW, having lived in Minnesota for over 40 years, I am definitely Minnesota_out_bound (snow this morning, more this weekend).
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posted on
04/09/2018 9:37:37 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Truth comes in few words; lies require more.)
To: dfwgator
Hooray! The return of Clippy? I loved Clippy. (That little dog, too.)
To: SandRat
<>" Im still Waiting for MS 10 to go away and MS12 to come."<>MS13 is already here.
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posted on
04/09/2018 9:41:53 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(Truth comes in few words; lies require more.)
To: bgill
And the good Print Shop versions. And Broderbund Architect. And earlier WordPerfect programs. All that and more.
The smartest thing MS could do is re-release XP and call it Windows 11.
To: Aevery_Freeman
Is there an om-line address for it?
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posted on
04/09/2018 9:46:09 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: RitchieAprile
Now they should implement SED, FIND, AWK, GREP ... that entire family of programmer tools. Microsoft STILL doesn’t have a way to directly enumerate serial ports from an application or display a JPEG file in a window without jumping through hoops. Did I mention getting a text file containing a list of files their attributes of a folder without using the CMD shell? CMD is usually prohibited to students in a high school, so sometimes even the most mundane things cannot be accomplished even with the billions of bytes of Windows software.
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posted on
04/09/2018 10:06:12 AM PDT
by
GingisK
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