PC's are no longer protected from us...

[coolnewyorker]

When I first started computing a decade ago, I could not do much harm to my PC because it was set up to NOT enable me... to do harm. Obviously, programmers realized most users were new to computing and PC needed to be so protected. For instance, I could not possibly delete the Recycle Bin icon from screen because there was no "delete" option. Now, two friends contacted me frantically because they could not find the icon...obviously, they had right-clicked and then clicked the "delete" option instead of "empty" option.

As I peruse the threads in the Forum, I wonder how many problems did we create because we are enabled too many options, making PC's more vulnerable... no longer protected from us.

Do programmers now presume we must know better, hence the liberal options we are enabled with..since computers have been around this long?

 

[Adamd]

I noticed that as well.

I wanted to delete the recycle bin in XP Pro and yeah there was no option, and kind of upset me, but in a little know how user I can see like little stuff like this is a big deal.

 

[johngalt]

The problem lies in the moving of NT code into the mainstream - it was bad enough with no security for the Win 3.1 and Win 9x series, but as soon as someone got the wise(!?!) idea to build an OS off the NT kernel, all hell broke loose - because it followed the same installation procedure as a normal NT install would, with the installer assumed to be the administrator.

When we unleashed this into the hands of the unwitting public, we unleashed a juggernaut of a problem.

 

[dmex]

Do programmers now presume we must know better, hence the liberal options we are enabled with..since computers have been around this long?

We assume the User has no idea what there doing, If we have to make an option like "delete recycle bin" then we make an option to undo it...You can do this by right-clicking the desktop and going "Personalize> Change Desktop Icons(top right)" to restore the recyclebin..Microsoft fixed that problem by renaming the option on Windows 7

Users have no idea how a System is designed let alone what a application is programed todo...Programmers like myself and others must therefor "Do" and "undo" (its very easy doing and undoing something on Windows) so they can "do" something and later "undo" it if they **** something up or change it when they didnt originally want it changed...

This is the same with all operating systems...except Linux, Their programmers are too lazy to have good documentation or ways of "Undoing" something once its been done and that makes Linux an unrelenting and massive problem for IT support making it unusable for anyone who doesnt know what was done by the app making them have to manually undo it witch is something Home-Users or IT Support shouldnt ever have todo...One reason why most companys and poeple hate Linux

 

[johngalt]

BTW, he's trying to start a flame war...

...except Linux, Their programmers are too lazy to have good documentation or ways of "Undoing" something once its been done and that makes Linux an unrelenting and massive problem for IT support making it unusable for anyone who doesnt know what was done by the app making them have to manually undo it witch is something Home-Users or IT Support shouldnt ever have todo...One reason why most companys and poeple hate Linux

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