I've two folders assigned to the taskbar, the area directly next to
the Start Menu, a discrete area next & between, to the taskbar's
docking, i.e. for changing various temporary programs running and
initiated...
IOW - Such That the two folders are accessible At All Times.
MS would possibly call that area, (wherein exist my two folders): the
Quick Launch Area. Formalistically.
Between the aforementioned two folders are maybe 50, 75 program
shortcut entities I've assigned (sic) inside those two folders.
I keep both folders - hence affiliated, though DOS folders, full of
Windows' shortcuts - **off** of C drive, (where Windows best does its
thing), and on another drive -- also formatted in FAT, FWIW. (A lot
to me.)
The shortcut arrangement (inside the folders) is everything Windows
will (try and) prevent (subsequently by apparently, whimsically,
rearranging the icons) -- apart from and negating any painstaking
personal arrangements, I've defined, to said icons inside from
Non-Standard Windows folder "columns" and definitions.
Imagine, if at all possible, columns of programs running at angles ,
say, grouped according to a common function. The "geometric" aspects
are your call: Run your programs from icons arranged to a maze,
gigantic circles, as you wish.
Indeed, as such, they're assignable to Microsoft, although understand
that will be in some manner of unaccountability for reverting to
up-&-down only columns. This is Microsofts' way of saying screw you.
How **you** see program control is a part of the desktop interface to
how **you** are apt to harness a computer (hotkeys, macros and
scripts, you can't see -- as visual reinforcements of what you must
first remember then to initiate).
But, back to Microsoft screwing with you.
In storing those folders another drive and making a binary backup of
Windows (as an integral to making those folders), I stop any further
rearrangements initiated by Microsoft Windows programmers.
Cold. It's the best I've found to rid myself of that particular
disease Microsoft is fond of propagating by rearranging my goddman
folders into its goddamn idea of columns.
The two programs folders never, ever again, get messed with by Windows
(short of changing desktop resolutions from an initial resolution I
setup the shortcut arrangement, or installing a different video
driver/card).
It wasn't easy to figure out, but I'd just about _Had lt_ with the
Windows Scheme of Hell, as the topic suggests. So I addressed, took
care of the matter to my own satisfaction. Yes, very good and problem
solved. Forever and ever.
(Please do remember, though -- take a JPG snapshot of any such
folders, I'm using, in case you're building from scratch, or somesuch
contingency is encountered -- It's the first principle, even before
Micorsoft, to operating any Digitally Revolutionized Computer: that
is, to cover your ass from a stench when shit happens.)
