This happened to me the other day too, at work. There I am, trying to get my new tabbed interface for the AMES Quality System working, and consolidate a whole bunch of pages into a simpler system, and this funny scratching noice keeps niggling at me. Normally when Windows makes funny noises at me, it’s because I’ve pressed ‘shift’ five times in a moment of indecision and enabled ‘StickyKeys’.

On this occasion, it was not me at all, but just the fact that I had previously done a search of a networked drive. Clearly, this is something I needed to be reminded of by the sound of a dog scratching himself. Even though I’d already looked at the results.

Ah, the Windows XP searching dog. I’ve, uh, turned him off.

Just to mention something nice about Windows — I don’t know how long it’s been doing it, but the folders in the Windows Explorer ‘folders’ sidebar are now spring-loaded: i.e. you can drag a file onto a closed folder and it opens up to show you what’s inside. Macs have been doing this for several years now, and I’m glad to see the innovation get into Windows, too, as it’s super useful.

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