Annoying default settings

I have never quite liked the way Microsoft wants me to use Windows Explorer. The standard settings are quite annoying to me, but I understand why they are as they are on end user versions of Windows. Joe User is stupid, usually more so than you might imagine possible, so it is important to protect him against himself. On a server on the other hand, I would think we should anticipate some minimal knowledge about the file system. A server user should be able to look at a system file without thinking: “Hmm, bootmgr is a file I haven’t seen before. I should probably delete it. And that big windows folder just contains a lot of strange files I never use. I’m deleting some of those too, it will leave more room for pictures of my cat!”. But no, it has the same stupid defaults as the home editions. Because of this, I have had to create a list of all the stuff I have to remember to change whenever I log on to a new server, lest I go insane and maul the next poor user who want’s me to recover the database he “forgot” to back up before the disk crashed. Smilefjes som rekker tunge

 

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