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From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Some complaints about Windows (3.0) - any solutions?
Message-ID: <266AD90F.8969@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 4 Jun 90 21:56:31 GMT
Sender: Carl Riehm, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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 I like the new Windows, but there are a couple of things that bother me. 
Perhaps they can be changed - if so please let me know.

1.  Whenever I use the notepad, the default file specification is *.txt instead
of *.* (which I would prefer...).  Can this be changed?  It's a nuisance to 
always have to change it.

2. When one uses the clipboard, a carriage return and line feed is added to 
the end of what is copied.  This is also a nuisance; for example when I send 
email, I often copy the address with the clipboard; when I then use it in our 
mailer, I have to edit it by adding in%" at the beginning and " at the end.  
But if a carriage return is appended, I don't get a chance to do it.  Any
suggestions?

3.  Is there any way to configure Windows so that on starting up, the File 
Manager occupies one half of the screen, and the Program Manager the other?
Why on earth were not the functions of the two integrated into one utility?

4. In copying from one directory to another, I first get one of the 
directories on the screen using the directory tree, move it over to the other
 side
(after possibly resizing it), then get the  other directory....   Wouldn't it
be nice if the 2 directories decided on their own to share the screen 
without any intervention from me?

Signed, Frustrated in Hamilton, Ontario.    (aka Carl Riehm).