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Unfortunately (for your argument), I've done that much less often than I've needed caps lock on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So often I remap it to a SHIFT key
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I never even knew that Backspace takes me back. I always click on the back button.
Marc
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It works in most file explorers, too. I actually use it there, because there's nothing to destructively backspace.
I suppose on Linux, some knee-jerker has assigned rm -rf to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Always something to learn in software development 
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It is one of my favorite shortcut - I use it all the time. In the browser, in the win explorer to go one level up, especially in the "Save as " dialogs, in Total commander, etc...
I can't remember having ever clicked on a back button in a browser.
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I build sites that correctly handle the back button, and save state going backward and forward. If I could do it, Google could.
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I packed my bags and as I walked out the door she screamed
"I hope you die a slow and painful death!"
I replied "Oh so you want me to stay now do you?"
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Exes, can't live with em and can't shoot em!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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If I would have shot her when I first thought about it I'd be out on parole now!
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I hear ya, the only saving grace is that she's been miserable.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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It's other people's missuses who kick me out.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's other people with missuses who kick me out!
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So I'm out of town and my son calls and asks if he can install this game on my wife's PC. I said OK.
Well it turns out he was logged into her account, and installed in on the Desktop.
So she calls and says can you help, there's files all over the desktop.. I remote in and sure enough it's a mess. But I do see a Steam Uninstall. So I fired it up. Took a few seconds. Done.
Except that it completely wiped EVERYTHING off the desktop.. AND HOSED HERE PC ACCOUNT. She cannot run anything. Can't even open files.
Some files can be accessed under My Docs, but for the most part her account is useless.
Wifey's not happy.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Ha! My kid has installed so much Steam crap on my wife's laptop that the drive is filled and she can't even log into Facebook. Well, OK, there's a silver lining there, but really?!
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You should teach your kids about safe software installations 
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Got a backup? Hope so...
Steam is a virus. A particularly nasty virus...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had a similar thing many years ago (Win 3.11 long ago), with the Select SSADM diagram tool.
I wanted to just try it out, so I created a new project (I remember it being hideously unintuitive, using all the wrong words for the options -- I can't remember what you had to select for "Create Project", but it wasn't anything like those two words).
Anyway, it defaulted to creating the project in the root dir of C:, which wasn't so unusual, in those days, so I just let it carry on.
After playing with it for a while, I found the option to delete the project, and everything was bon.
... Until the next time I tried to boot the machine, which, wonder of wonders, wouldn't start, because there were no files at all in the root dir.
I had to boot to DOS from a floppy, and copy the COM files back into the root.
It was that day that I started keeping back-ups of autoexec.bat, config.sys, and win.sys files. It took me forever to remember everything that I'd added to them.
Most big installers these days run System Restore before starting the install, so you should be able to get back to normal easily enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ya I think the Steam installer just removed everything from the desktop folder.
The jackass that wrote that should be severely beaten
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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It's pretty normal. Most uninstallers simply remove the installation dir, because people get pissed of with "We couldn't remove everything; you'll have to do it manually" messages.
What most installers don't do, though, is install directly into the dir that you assign. They create a subdir inside it -- so it was the guy who wrote the install script who wants his donkey kicked; the uninstall script was probably generated by a routine written by someone not so stoopid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmmm... it's not so easy to change the destination folder in steam - it's in the local settings... it doesn't change as accident. and the default is *not* the desktop.
steam is very safe for kids and people with minor technical knowledge (most don't change the defaults at all)... so normally it would just install in x86\steam\steamapps\...<some sub="" folder="">
So you, your kid, or your wife must have set the "default installation folder" manually to the desktop folder... never heard about anyhting like that before --- who has configured the steam installation? (i mean not the game - i mean steam itself)
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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Commiseration is ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Hope you have a system image or backup.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I had a problem recently with TagSpaces[^]. Fortunately, things were backed up.
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and/or Gin!
I am fixing a problem low down in one of the base classes. I have applied a fix and an 'allow old stuff to still work' cludge. I am slowly removing all the old code and replacing it with the working solution; it's used in around a hundred places. Then I will remove the cludge and accept the failures. It appears to be okay so far but I fear I am about to hit the problem blocks real soon.
The code is in Matlab. 
I do not know Matlab. 
veni bibi saltavi
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Nor does anyone asking about it in QA, so you're clearly not alone!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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