Re: Windows 3.1 to Windows 95

[Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

The thing I miss about file mangler is that it allowed me to limit the files I'd see by entering, for example, *.gif.

And I still can't for the life of me figure out why Windows Explorer doesn't allow one to print a listing of a directory's contents <sigh>.

Mike
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Chris Morton wrote:
> Let me point out that Win95 did not generate BSODs. It was WinNT that
> generated BSODs and, if you knew how to interpret the info being displayed,
> it was very useful in immediately knowing the cause of the error -- memory,
> an errant video driver, or what have you. User-friendly, no...but they did
> serve a purpose. And yes, Win98 was quite an improvement over 95, just as
> W2K was over the fledgling WinNT.
> 
> Like Gene, I was one of those who hated the Explorer file management tool,
> until I learned--from complaining in a forum such as this--that it's very
> easy to run two instances side-by-side (with WinBatch making this a
> one-button operation). Once I learned *that* trick, there was no going back
> to File Mangler (sic).
> 
> As for the Apple vs. Microsoft battle, I won't be baited. Not here, not now.
> I will say that I have no sympathy for a company (Apple) suing another
> (Microsoft) over intellectual property it copied from a third (Xerox). I
> will agree that M$ seems to have lost their way in relation to a GUI
> designed for the populus, making me wonder why they even bothered funding
> their usability labs.
> 
>> Chris
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> 
>> I was a Windows 95 beta tester, and my recollection is
>> that the consensus among 3.1 users was theat 95 was
>> a major improvement.  The one exception I recall was
>> that many people copied over the 3.1 File Explorer
>> because they preferred its layout.
>>
>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Hanson" <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>
>>> I'm wondering... were any of you on a list back when Windows 95 was
>> released
>>> on users that were used to Windows 3.1? Was there an outcry of complaints
>> from
>>> users? Or do people think that 3.1 ==> 95 was not as big of a change as
>> Office
>>> 2003 to Office 2007?
>>>
>>> I didn't know email even existed when I made the switch from 3.1 to 95 so
>> I
>>> really don't know.
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