TY for the FYI. I (hope) will never use a Vista machine, but I'm certain I will be called upon to help someone else with theirs in the future and every little tidbit helps. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Charles Jones wrote: > > Tuna wrote: > Charles Jones wrote: > > > Tuna wrote: > > > I went to Best Buy > and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding "Notepad" in the Start > menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal. > > > Don't take this as defending Vista, but just FYI in vista if you don't > know where something is, you can just click the Windows logo (used to be > the start button in XP), and in the search bar just type "notepad", and > it will run notepad for you, and also add a shortcut to it in the > shortcuts area above the search bar. This also works for things that are > not programs per-say, like "control panel". > > -Charles > > But how friendly is that to new users? > > I should be able to get a text editor by clicking whatever shiny menu > button the GUI offers and then clicking on an option that brings up Kate > or whatever. Why would you want to click something, then type something, > then wade through a few items to find something like a text editor? > > Oh I totally agree, like I said it was just FYI for the next time you are > in BestBuy or are forced to use a Vista machine in the future :) > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes through life." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss