LOL That is great. I suppose that if you did the voice command thing to your computer, you could make it respond that way to that question 
I haven’t misplaced my keys or phone in years, they both always go to the same places when I am done using them. [keys get clipped to my purse which is hung on the back of my desk chair beside my bed so I can get stuff out of my purse if I need it, phone stays with me unless i am in the hot tub or shower, then it sits next to my glasses.]
To quote you: Uh, what?
Words mean things.
If you don’t want things to be deleted, then don’t place them in Deleted Items.
When you say “if you don’t want things to be deleted”, which deleted are you referring to. First I deleted them so they would end up in Deleted Items, but later someone else deleted them so they would be removed from Deleted Items. So I’m confused, when you say delete, do you mean the processing of adding to Deleted Items or do you mean the process of removing from Deleted Items?
Does it really matter? It’s still weird to have a problem with things in the “Deleted Items” folder being - wait for it - deleted. That’s like throwing rubbish in your wheelie bin and then being upset when the council comes and empties it for you.
I manage an IT department and part of that consists of phone support to users around the country. I could write pages of complaints.
One is people who don’t use the address bar in their browser. Sometimes I’ll need the user to go to a certain URL. I’ll tell them the URL, then I’ll hear typing, then they’ll say something like “it says, did you mean blah blah blah” indicating that they had entered the URL as if it were a Google search.
I then have to get them to understand that I need them to type it into the address bar. When they finally get it, sometimes they’ll say “I didn’t know you could do that”. :smack: How many years have you been using a computer?
Sometimes they know how to use the address bar but automatically add “www.” to the front of any URL I tell them. So if I tell them app.company.com they’ll type www.app.company.com (without, of course, mentioning it to me) and we then waste time trying to figure out why the site won’t load.
Another thing that bugs me is when they store all of their files in the root directory rather than in their account’s documents folder. We use an automatic backup solution so that their files are recoverable, but it doesn’t always find stuff that isn’t either on their desktop or in their documents folder.
Some people have all kinds of useless toolbars installed on their browsers, often accompanied by difficult to remove malware.
There is no address bar on many setups, as they use Google instead to enter URLs.
And…“What’s a browser?”
I set up the computers so that the address bar is visible. Using Google to enter URLs is adding an unnecessary third party into the interaction, it makes no sense. Plus it adds confusion when they don’t get the page I’m trying to get them to.
Google likes it because they can display ads, but that’s not the purpose of a computer.
What’s a browser? I know you know what a browser is, so what’s your point?
That some people answer “what’s a browser?” to “please open your browser”.
I’ve had to learn to say “open the internet” when I run into one of those.
Okay. I usually say, open Internet Explorer.
Many people don’t know, so “open your browser” doesn’t mean anything to them. Neither does “enter this URL” or “navigate to this folder” or “where did you save the file” or “what program do you use to read this file”.
Mac user here with limited Windows experience, but didn’t earlier versions of Windows (say, 98, ME) put a shortcut to IE on the desktop and, by default, label it “The Internet”?
I seem to remember a spoof “news” article from some years back (on The Onion, maybe?) about some random guy “deleting the Internet” by dragging that shortcut to the Recycle Bin and emptying it.
I could sort of understand a non-so-computer-literate person seeing that icon name for years, and as a result understanding “go to the Internet” better than “open/launch your browser”.
My brother and I use the same computer. He fills the desktop with useless files and shortcuts. He uses 1 firefox window to open all webpages and doesn’t close the pages that he doesn’t need. So there are upto 30 tabs open in his single firefox window.