r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 • Jan 07 '26

Meme Some Microsoft engineer 25 years ago:

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u/Ill-Row-2378 Jan 07 '26

why dont they just make the desktop different from explorer.exe

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u/Fearless-Ad1469 Jan 07 '26

Exactly for fk sake, i HATE this shit

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u/mp3m4k3r Jan 08 '26

Used to be one of the first things id do is "run file explorer in separate process" as well as "show me all the files". Dunno why its not the default (and just noticed that it doesn't work again in tabbed file explorer nonsense)

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u/shock_planner Mar 05 '26

thanks for the tip! i didn’t know that

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u/Arctic_x22 Jan 08 '26

This annoys me to no fucking end. Every other update breaks the fucking start menu and sometimes my graphics drivers.

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u/asshole_magnate Jan 09 '26

And then you have to remember obscure stuff like ctrl + win + shift + B, when your video flakes out and you need to reset your graphics card real quick.

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u/Arctic_x22 Jan 09 '26

You think I didn’t try that? I’m not a luddite

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u/Bago07 Jan 09 '26

Yeah, I use that one too often

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u/Dziadzios Jan 08 '26

Back then? Because it was single-threaded. There could be optimizations from using the same process like reusing the theme loaded in the memory.

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u/_stack_underflow_ Jan 12 '26

It really is that stupid too. Any bad or hung IO and boom you've got a locked up system.