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Many pieces of software have been known to make you go the long way round to do anything, but Windows Vista takes the biscuit. To delete a shortcut off the desktop takes SEVEN steps according to Neowin. However this big jumble of dialog boxes seems as if it will be corrected before the final release...{more}
You have an unwanted shortuct on your desktop, you want to delete it:
This is all intended behavious perhaps, but it is dialog after dialog and permission to do something you've already told it to five times. Let's hope Microsoft solve this for everything, possibly by only having the permission dialogs turned on as an option. Or, maybe only for big things like deleting sysem files or (un)installing programs.
That's what beta testing's for I suppose.
LINK: Screenshots of the seven-step process
SOURCE: Neowin
You have an unwanted shortuct on your desktop, you want to delete it:
- Right Click, select Delete
- Confirmation dialog pops up, click Yes
- Cant send to the recycle bin, asks to confirm full delete, click Yes
- Shortcut owned by 'SYSTEM', confirm authorisation, click Continue
- Permission for 'File Operation' required, click Permit
- It did go to the recycle bin, so go there and delete it
- Confirm permanent deletion from recycle bin, click Yes
This is all intended behavious perhaps, but it is dialog after dialog and permission to do something you've already told it to five times. Let's hope Microsoft solve this for everything, possibly by only having the permission dialogs turned on as an option. Or, maybe only for big things like deleting sysem files or (un)installing programs.
That's what beta testing's for I suppose.
LINK: Screenshots of the seven-step process
SOURCE: Neowin