Frankly, my dear, I'd rather celebrate Windows XP rising from the dead....

[captainsblog]

Why, oh why, does it take 20 minutes, five different drives and an old XP computer to change the name of a file?

c:\> ren dw501.ppt dw501.avi

THIS. IS. NOT. HARD.

While we're at it, BILL, if you're so concerned about computer security that I can't change a name of a file on my own freaking computer, why do you insist on popping up traybar items in the middle of all this that basically offer to share music files between Eleanor's Media Player and Emily's Media Player when neither Eleanor nor Emily ASKED IT TO?

Sigh.

Oh well. I'll just retreat to the standard greeting for this sacred day:

HE IS RISEN!

BRAINNNNNNNS!

Comments

[drbear.livejournal.com]

*dropping you for a few days*

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

He is risen indeed!

So you haven't been able to watch yet? *sadface*

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

No, it's fine, once you change the file extension.

Changing the file extension just shouldn't be something requiring a DEFCON-6 security clearance, is all.

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

Huh. Mine lets me change extensions just by right-clicking on the file, highlighting the extension and typing over it. Weirdness.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you're still on XP. Or, even better, a Mac.

Vista thinks changing file extensions is evil. But then, this is the company that thought that Clippy was a good idea.

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm on Vista. It does give me the "OMG R U SHURE U WANT2 DO THAT THE EARTH MAY CRACK OPENZ?!" message, but clicking yes does the trick. I wonder what's going on. I'm sorry it's being such a pain!

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Vista≠ Vista. Probably yours is set up differently. Usually, I'm the one giving the tech support to the friend on the other end of Teh Interwebs, and it is so much more fun when the same commands you're demoing on your own screen don't work when they do the same things on the same system on their end.