CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Pet Peeve: The Windows 7 Recycle Bin

Monday, August 22, 2011

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This pet peeve might only apply to me, and maybe it says something about some inert anal retention, but it still bugs the shit out of me and it is inexplicable.

The computer I currently own and am typing this on has been owned by us for nine months; it's a Windows 7 laptop. The computer we used for the previous ten years was an old machine using Windows ME, which was released in 1999.

Yes, I know Windows ME is shitty-- you're not the one that had to live with it for ten fucking years. But when I went to Recycle Bin and I emptied it, it told me how much it was deleting. It would ask something like, "Permanently Delete these items? (X Megs)", where the X was how many megs it was deleting.

My previous computer only had 20 Gigs, so it never had more than 2 gigs free on it. And when it would be too close for comfort, I used to take great pleasure in going through and freeing up harddrive space. Some porn files here, some TV shows we'd already watched there, a movie we were never going to get around to watching on occasion. And I'd click "Empty Recycle Bin" and it would inform me that I was right about to delete-- gasp! one and a half gigs! Awesome!

Then I get this Windows 7 Machine and it refuses to tell me how much I'm freeing up when I "Empty Recycle Bin". Sometimes when I highlight all the files it'll tell me at the bottom of the screen after I click "more information", but when there are more than, say, 20, 30 files, it just does not tell me. I'm told Windows has done this ever since Windows XP.

What I don't get is why this would be the case in the first place. Why wouldn't you want to know how much memory you're freeing up? And you can say, well Chris, you no longer have that 20 gig harddrive, why is space even an issue? Well, believe me, it is. Even though I have 500 gigs now, I frequently hover around the 20 gig mark-- by the way, it amuses me when the computer warns me, "CAUTION! LOW DISK SPACE! YOU ONLY HAVE THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR LAST COMPUTER AVAILABLE"-- and need to free up space. But unless I keep a mental count of how big each file is I'm deleting, I have no idea how much space I'm freeing up. Maybe those 30 files added up to some massive amount-- maybe one of the movies I deleted was a massive 9 gig 720p file, or maybe it was only 640x 480 and was just 700 megs. There's no way to know for sure without continually checking "My Computer" and seeing if I'm at a reasonable size.
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with love from CRS @ 7:06 AM 

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