From: "Frank Haber" 

These will show you how hard interface design is, when you've got several
ancestral generations of users to contend with:

I can't use the start menu all that much, because I keep it auto-hidden, to
get back the precious screen real estate.  Instead, I festoon the borders
of my screen with icons upon which I can dragondrop, and run all programs
just a scosh smaller than full-screen.  You can imagine how much I love
desktop-state save programs, and how excited I get when Win98 loses its
mind^H^H SHELLICONCACHE every fifty or so iterations of somethingorother.

The most important things in my quick-launch are the CMD prompt, an icon to
goose my %^#{at}%$ wireless connection, and a little program that forces a
VESA monitor standby, to save power and keep my office from turning into
more of a sauna than it is already.

Here's an old one:

Q: Why did God take only six days to create the world?

A: No installed base.

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