Deleting files on Vista

[Scott Kane]

From: "Shari" <shari at gypsyware.com>

> Like the user who couldn't find the Mac menubar because he was expecting 
> it in the same window as the app itself, as with Windoze :-)  Yup, most 
> users are not reliable to troubleshoot.

LOL!  I once had an angry Windows user who told me my app had re-arranged 
items in his Start menu and he was going to sue me.  I tried to explain that 
he'd obviously dragged some around by accident (which is easy to do) and 
that he could drag them back but he wouldn't listen.  Then one of my 
relatives accused me of formatting her hard drive with an app I wrote 
specifically for her.  It didn't of course.  I never did find out what she 
did to herself.  It's actually quite hard to accidently format a hard drive 
on Windows (short of booting into setup or running format or fdisk from a 
boot disk).

> Regarding signed apps... you mean the Verisign type signature itself to 
> turn off that nasty warning window?

Yep.  That's the one.  Works fine in all cases unless you install the signed 
app to the root diretory (e.g. C:\) and a few other weird places.  Which 
probably is a warning for those who have decided to create directories off 
the root on Windows.  A bug in an update might be coming your way soon.  :-(

> I feel sorry for the Vista support techs.  At least they have guaranteed 
> job security ;-)

Don't.  Have you ever spoken or emailed one of them?   It's like talking to 
somebody from PayPal support.  I was actually given instructions on how to 
defrag my hard drive when I installed Microsoft Outlook XP after I installed 
service pack 2 (I've since discovered on my own that was the problem) and 
couldn't boot into Windows - let alone run defrag.

Scott