Reply to post: Re: Aw, Bless

'Windows 10 destroyed our data!' Microsoft hauled into US court

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Re: Aw, Bless

That is uniquely dreadful and seems a strong candidate for Worst Offender regarding the 'law of least astonishment'. Back in XP, it would choke on their half-baked idea of symlinks in NTFS (made with NTFSlink-- 3rd party thing for making/deleting/etc), but they sorta fixed that in Vista (maybe not only so they could make \Documents and Settings also link to \Users, a name that finally made any sense)-- so now it chokes on dot folders, realnice. OTOH I never needed that particular Send To nonsense-- in the Win95 days I would put shortcuts in that folder to use as an "Open With..." substitute before Open With existed, but the Windows compressed folders are Somebody Else's Problem. It was always easiest to just do it with WinRAR or 7zip or anything that would add itself via "Add to archive..." to all folders' context menus. That 3rd party things do infinitely better than Windows' official internal functionality is just the opposite: no surprise.

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