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Heh, I don't have that problem anymore in Windows(on my own computer). I grew up using WordStar control sequences so I wrote an AutoHotKey script that lets me use the WordStar sequences on all the editors/word processors I use. I've also switched some keys to put the Ctrl key where the Caps Lock key is. Now if there was only an AutoHotKey clone for Linux I'd be stylin!
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I learned WordStar in the early 80's, and I have continued to use editors with WordStar key mappings ever since. My fingers know where to go. I once counted up that using Ctrl keys, I can do 14 operations that are one key or two (with the Ctrl key held down, of course). Currently I use an editor called joe which comes with a version jstar which uses WordStar key mapping. It is a great editor that runs on Linux. I don't know if it runs on Windows.
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I took a look and there is a Windows port. Though I don't know if it does jstar under windows. I will be taking a look at it for Linux though.
My favorite text editor is JEdit. It's got tons of plugins, many which are useful for programmers. It's also configurable enough to do the WordStar control sequences.
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I wondered why I've never had that problem before (didn't even know F4 is close, and as far as I can tell, it isn't).
Anyway, I have this keyboard[^].
Problem solved 
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Aside, I am forever thankful to the person who found out Ctrl + Z.
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Ctrl X next to Ctrl C
=)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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My IBM Thinkpad has the Power switch next to the Delete button. 
My ASUS laptop has all function keys doubled up with 'handy' functions (Delete is also Insert) 
My wireless keyboard has a Control-Function key. You need to press that key to make the function keys work.
I'm not sure who design these thing, but they stink.
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There was a model of Macintoshes which had a protruding power button RIGHT NEXT to the floppy drive, EXACTLY where the floppy eject button would be if that were a computer that manually ejected its floppies.
Truth,
James
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If Microsoft's intent with the new folder structure is that a user does everything under their user directory...
(and this has been true for quite some time now (Vista, I believe, after WinXP).
...then why is it that the default behavior of File Explorer is to open the user up to the [This PC] area?
why doesn't Windows File Explorer default to the %userprofile% folder?
It makes no sense at all!!
I actually create folders under %userprofile% (c:\users\>username>) but every time I open File Explorer it opens me up to [This PC] and I have to click down into my user folder.
Yes, there is probably a registry key I can hack to do this, but why not set this to the default?
Microsoft is probably working diligently on this and it'll be in Win13 release. They're busy working on a new set of icons so all their dev resoures are unavaiable.
EDIT
Look you can choose where File Explore opens up to, but only two choices!!!
This PC or quick access. Ridiculous!!
https://i.stack.imgur.com/M5Kx9.png[^]
CRISIS AVERTED
Here's what I did:
1. Created a new Shortcut which points to Explorer.exe with command-lin argument of %userprofile%
2. Added shortcut to my quicklaunch bar
3. Added shortcut to desktop
4. Added system-wide hotkey Ctrl-Shift-Alt-F which will open File Explorer and navigate to %userprofile% instantly.
modified 24-Jun-22 15:23pm.
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If you open "Documents" it opens to the default documents folder, which for unmanaged systems is %userprofile%\documents. Managed systems may be elsewhere.
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Hmmm? Windows 10 defaults to Quick Access which seems like a good choice. Does it change in Win 11?
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I switched to Quick Access but that still isn't correct.
The challenge is that the fastest way to get to explorer is:
1. Right-click Start
2. click File Explorer
I can create a new shortcut to file Explorer & pass in %userprofile% and that will do it.
However, there is no way to alter the Start...File Explorer so it will go to %userprofile%
even with QuickAccess, getting to %userprofile% is a few clicks. It's just silly to me.
thanks for your idea though.
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Quickest way is just Win-E
When (and why) did Windows Explorer revert to being called "File Explorer" (a term I'm seeing increasingly frequently here and elsewhere?)
For me, the rot set into Windows when instead of having "File Manager" in Win 3.x, they switched to "Windows Explorer" in Win 95. No longer was the user in charge, "managing" their system, but instead they were an explorer trying to find their way through an undocumented jungle. At that time I'd just started freelancing, providing general Windows system support. With the explosion in the number of files involved, and the complexity, of Windows it's when I decided that one person was never going to be able to keep on top of Windows, and I moved across to application development.
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I appreciate the help and discussion very much.
However, I am curious how the Quick Access gets me any closer to %userprofile%?
here's what I see[^] with Default set to QuickAccess & [Win]+E.
that's a lot of clicks away from c:\users\<username> (%userprofile%).
Thanks again for discussing.
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Navigate to "c:\users\<username>" (or any folder) in Explorer and then click "Pin to Quick access" (upper left). Then when you [Win]+E you're one click away.
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I tried it out. That is another good solution for this. Thanks very much.
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I still remember those first few days after updating my home PC from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95. Everything was shiny and new but after perusing the folder structure and system files for a while I said to myself "You just lost control of your PC!" To this day I feel the same way, I've just learned to accept it. 
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I solved it but it is a custom solution.
CRISIS AVERTED
Here's what I did:
1. Created a new Shortcut which points to Explorer.exe with command-lin argument of %userprofile%
2. Added shortcut to my quicklaunch bar
3. Added shortcut to desktop
4. Added system-wide hotkey Ctrl-Shift-Alt-F which will open File Explorer and navigate to %userprofile% instantly.
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FWIW, Win+E on the keyboard opens Explorer to the Quick Access folder, both in Win10 and Win11.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks for the help.
Just FYI [Win]+E actually opens it to the Default value you have set in File Explorer options (can be [This PC] also).
Also, quick access doesn't help me a lot because I still need to drill down into the %userprofile% folder.
thanks again for discussing this with me. Always appreciate the input. 
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Add the %userprofile% folder to quick access, easy peasy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think it would make sense to default to %userprofile% as you suggest...if only drive letters were completely abstracted away.
If I have a D: drive where I put a crapload of data, then Explorer defaulting to %userprofile% would mean I'd constantly have to backtrack to go back up (users), up again (C: ) and once more (This PC) to then be able to see the other drives.
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First, we started putting our stuff in the "My Documents" folder, and all was good.
Then, applications started dumping their stuff in the "My Documents" folder. (Of 33 folders in mine, I created 5.)
So we started putting stuff in our profile folder, and all was good.
Then, other applications started dumping their stuff directly in the profile folder. (30 folders, 1 created by me.)
I've given up on the profile folder. It's fine for user-specific app settings, but any files I want to manage have to go somewhere else to avoid being hidden in a deluge of crap created by applications which should know better.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Message Closed
modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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I find this pretty disheartening. Here in the UK I'm increasingly seeing kids coming out of school with ID lanyards.
WHY? Back in my day (I was in senior school from late 60s to mid 70s) the teachers knew our names (well, our surnames anyway) and we all knew everyone in our class. Forename + Surname + nickname (usually multiple versions of the last). We wore uniform so anyone in the neighbourhood knew which school we were from. I can't envisage any situation where I would have needed, as a schoolkid, to carry "ID".
I also know that - at my school at least - carrying anything "important" would result in older/bigger/stupider kids immediately "relieving" anyone of it and it ending up down the loo / up the flagpole / in the forge. You didn't even take your lunch in a lunchbox - just a paper bag, as there was zero chance of it lasting more than a few minutes!
What's the purpose of these IDs? I'm seeing them on younger and younger kids - seems to be just another way to rob children of their childhoods.  And then we (even in the UK, though not to the extent the USA does I understand) teach our kids how to cower in terror under the table if the school goes into "lockdown"...    (So much for "land of the free")
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