Hardare/softare features you could do without

[Sysman]

Don't know the point of Alt Gr though..

Foreign keyboards like the one wot I 'ave got 'ere.

On this Winders keyboard I need it for [ ] | { } @ # \ ´~

And that's easier than the Apple version where for some of those I need ALT+shift. I bought an Apple US-English keyboard to get away from that, The salesman must have been a developer himself, for he wanted a look at the thing and immediately understood why I wanted it.

[d000hg]

But a keyboard is a general device that can be removed and attached to any PC with the correct port, hardly as tightly coupled as the Ipod is to its OS.

Well many keys are now generally supported but probably always weren't...
- print screen
- volume
- sleep/off
- function keys F1-F12
- caps lock, num lock

[KentPhilip]

Ctrl-Z

Oh I don't know; Ctrl-Z and Esc are quite useful IMHO.

Don't know the point of Alt Gr though..

[russell]

The windows key is very useful on Macs. Which also have an OS-specific button. Hardware and software are supposed to overlap and complement each other, that's why iPod was so popular.

But a keyboard is a general device that can be removed and attached to any PC with the correct port, hardly as tightly coupled as the Ipod is to its OS.

[d000hg]

The windows key is very useful on Macs. Which also have an OS-specific button. Hardware and software are supposed to overlap and complement each other, that's why iPod was so popular.

[russell]

The Windows Key not much use on non windows systems, hardware should be OS agnostic, talk about bad design.

[d000hg]

Caps Lock.

i USE IT ALL THE TIME.

Sadly the habit of capitalising 'I' is hard to unlearn.

[TimberWolf]

Caps Lock.

[d000hg]

2) The whole My Documents thing where everytime you you want to save or open something from an application you are (by default) in some subfolder nested 50 levels under the My Documents folder.

That's never happened to me. By default you might be in the My Documents, but why would you be in a random subfolder of it?

[wurzel]

Oh Dear. Laughed off the board

[doomage]

Is your "w" key broken?

He has decided that spell-check is one software feature he can do without.

[AtW]

1) The insert button - nothing more annoying than to be typing away only to realise that you've inavertently hit the insert button and have subsequently typed over something you want to keep.

Ctrl-Z

[wurzel]

1) The insert button - nothing more annoying than to be typing away only to realise that you've inavertently hit the insert button and have subsequently typed over something you want to keep.

2) The whole My Documents thing where everytime you you want to save or open something from an application you are (by default) in some subfolder nested 50 levels under the My Documents folder.


3) The way Excel saves the scroll state of a spreadsheet - happened to me the other day - had to run some ad hoc queries based on the contents of a spreadsheet. When I opened it it was vertically scrolled 75% to the end and I only looked at what was immediately visible downwards.