hey guys,
ive had this couple of annoyances with windows xp for a long time but they are hard to explain and search for, so they never get resolved. i finally thought id take a stab.
first:
windows xp does this thing to the pulldown menus at the top of the screen where it doesnt show you all of the options in it until you hit the little expander arrow at the bottom of the menu. i really dont understand any logic behind what it decides to show you and what it doesnt, but its damned annoying because things im used to being there arent there when you pull the menu down at first and it can send you on a wild goose chase for some function which is just hidden (until you remember this annoyance of course.... argh!) how do you get it to stop doing that?
second:
this one i think goes all the way back to windows 95!!!!
ever have a line of text, where you just want to select that one sentence, and ONLY the characters/spaces in that sentence, but instead when you highlight the section you want and you hit the last character, all the sudden the highlighted color jolts all the way over to the right side and selects the entire line including all of the empty space after it? do you know what i mean? i can further explain if necessary..... its just really annoying when you want to accurately select text and you find windows making some decisions for you what it wants highlighted and what it doesnt.
like i said........hard to describe, but probably easy fixes :]
thanks for reading
ive had this couple of annoyances with windows xp for a long time but they are hard to explain and search for, so they never get resolved. i finally thought id take a stab.
first:
windows xp does this thing to the pulldown menus at the top of the screen where it doesnt show you all of the options in it until you hit the little expander arrow at the bottom of the menu. i really dont understand any logic behind what it decides to show you and what it doesnt, but its damned annoying because things im used to being there arent there when you pull the menu down at first and it can send you on a wild goose chase for some function which is just hidden (until you remember this annoyance of course.... argh!) how do you get it to stop doing that?
second:
this one i think goes all the way back to windows 95!!!!
ever have a line of text, where you just want to select that one sentence, and ONLY the characters/spaces in that sentence, but instead when you highlight the section you want and you hit the last character, all the sudden the highlighted color jolts all the way over to the right side and selects the entire line including all of the empty space after it? do you know what i mean? i can further explain if necessary..... its just really annoying when you want to accurately select text and you find windows making some decisions for you what it wants highlighted and what it doesnt.
like i said........hard to describe, but probably easy fixes :]
thanks for reading
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