Not that this has direct bearing on the subject material, but I need to vent. I feel compelled to offer an opinion as this subject is near and dear to me (I have two books published on how to set up all the expert options so Windows is NOT so dumbed-down)... Someone, somewhere in management (okay, a number of someones) think that systems have to be dumbed-down because users are stupid. I always thought, in my earlier years, in my naivety, that as we embraced the era of high tech people would get smarter. That we would be heading toward a wonderful "Star Trek" future, where everyone gets an expert education, intelligence is cultivated, and even teenagers could pilot starships. Instead we have today's world: Tabloid journalism, reality TV, and operating system writers in competition to see who can dumb things down more thoroughly. Then decisions to deprecate features like "backup" because people don't use them. Grrrr!!! -Noel
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