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From: dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Editor...
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Date: 8 Oct 90 01:09:13 GMT
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spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:

> >It would have to be a "control panel" type display like the pif editor. 
> 
> Oh, that would be cool. It would have to know a LOT though.

It's true that a WIN.INI control panel editor would have to know a lot, but 
really it is the most non-intuitive part of the whole system. The rest of it 
is point and click, but it is jarring to have to go into an editor to edit 
WIN.INI whenever you want to change anything, and you even have to know what 
you are doing. I think it would dramatically improve people's view of Windos 
if this were available. I can't imagine a first-time computer user, who 
liked the Windows interface and bought a machine because of it, and then to 
have to go in and edit WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI and so on...