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#3481565 17-Apr-2026 13:27

I'd love to know A) why the path bar randomly drops down its "recently used" menu while you're trying to do stuff and B) why Escape doesn't close it again.

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#3481569 17-Apr-2026 13:58

Rikkitic:

This could have gone in the Windows thread but I feel it fits better here. I am really annoyed by the latest (10 and 11) OS upgrades to File Explorer which is now so chaotic and confusing that I can't use it at all anymore. Maybe it just me and everyone else thinks it is all just marvelous but all I see is a complete mess of incomprehensible bits and bobs all over the place with overlays and hidden elements that make no sense whatsoever. Even the file path has been truncated so you can't easily see where you are. I guess I could go to Microsoft University for four years to learn how it all works, if it does, but instead I have just installed a very old version of my favourite file manager Powerdesk. It is a gem of rational simplicity. There are visible windows, which can be adjusted in all dimensions, with clear paths that just show you where the file you are working on is located and context menus that give you all the tools you need with just a click. What a revelation!

This is annoying me RIGHT NOW.

Now I have some files in a folder, I can see them but can't easily work out which folder they are in!

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#3481573 17-Apr-2026 14:11

Right click the address bar and choose 'edit address' - magic

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#3481578 17-Apr-2026 14:40

gzt: Right click the address bar and choose 'edit address' - magic

Doesn't work anymore (Windows 11 build 26200.8037). Just shows me "Downloads"...

Oh yeah, and the snipping tool now hangs for 5-10 seconds after taking a snip, previously it was basically instant.

Windows has gone seriously downhill. Not my choice of OS.

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#3481579 17-Apr-2026 14:48

It works for normal folders but not "special" ones like Downloads or Documents. Same behaviour here with 22631.6783.

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#3481582 17-Apr-2026 15:14

If you have a subfolder and go into that it will work.

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#3481671 17-Apr-2026 18:04

What a monkey house!

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3481702 17-Apr-2026 22:26

Watties Sliced Peaches, with No Added Sugar ...

Check the ingredients....

Peaches

Water

Sweeteners cyclamate, saccharine.

Technically true, no added sugars, but come on, this is really pulling the proverbial..

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#3481899 18-Apr-2026 12:45

SepticSceptic:

Watties Sliced Peaches, with No Added Sugar ...

Check the ingredients....

Peaches

Water

Sweeteners cyclamate, saccharine.

Technically true, no added sugars, but come on, this is really pulling the proverbial..

Sounds a bit like the townhouse next door to me which the real estate agent is marketing as having "no body corporate". Whilst correct, this is incredibly misleading considering that we have a residents' association that collects fees just like a body corporate does.

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#3482038 19-Apr-2026 09:43

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

Today I asked the staff member on the door why they do it? She said “All our shops do it”. That’s not an answer so I asked again. “It’s so that Head Office in Sydney can see what’s been sold and know what needs to be re-ordered”.

“Wouldn’t data from the checkout tills be a better source for that?”

She said “Yeah I suppose so. I’d rather be back at my normal position in Paint”.

I don’t understand why they bother. If some people don’t stop to be scanned, the data collected is useless re turnover and inventory.

It has been said that it’s to do with customers returning stuff for credit. That’s not true either - there’s never any problem returning stuff where the original receipt was not scanned.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3482041 19-Apr-2026 09:55

gzt: Right click the address bar and choose 'edit address' - magic

Nice one.

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#3482045 19-Apr-2026 10:05

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

It is for several reasons in no particular order. It's a deterrent and prevention for shoplifting. It's relatively difficult to get a large item past and they have many large items. Another primary reason is audit/control for the self-checkout process. If I come from the self checkouts they are alert for that. The power tool area has its own till meaning the door must be alert to people walking through carrying power tools. If I pay at the info desk they don't need to scan because it's right next to the door.

Occasionally I see a dedicated security there too.

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#3482053 19-Apr-2026 10:26

I self checkout using the PowerPass app and show my phone when I exit. If they didn’t have someone checking receipts they’d soon be out of business due to shoplifting.

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#3482054 19-Apr-2026 10:27

eracode:

A minor gripe but it bugs me having to stop at Bunnings’ exit to get my receipt scanned - because it seems totally unnecessary. I often walk out without doing it.

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when you say scanned, do you mean actually scanned with a scanner or they just pass a glance over the receipt to ensure the items taken and the items purchased match? Someone on the way out usually glances over the receipt, but I'd assume to discourage shoplifting.

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#3482056 19-Apr-2026 10:30

Rikkitic:

What a monkey house!

Perhaps have a look in the windows store for the 'files' app. It had a bit of a rough start despite having good intentions, and the first load up is a bit slow, but once it's started for the first time, lots of people seem to think pretty highly of it.

I haven't found explorer a problem to use enough to seriously consider a third party app, but I like to play with third party alternatives.

There was an Ztree Gold Windows edition which was pretty cool.

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