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Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

149 points · 56 comments · ClydeN

  1. xp84 · · focus · HN ↗
    Reading the first half or so made me think, "Wow, they should really fix this."

    The second half made me think, "Wow, what a gross format. Really glad we have no use for these anymore!" (Not that they should leave the Explorer crash unfixed, of course).

    It's bananas to me that a CD-ROM cost like $400 in 1990s money at one point; then I spent $150 on my first CD burner around 2002, and now you can buy a USB Blu-Ray/DVD/CD recorder drive for under $40.

    1. hulitu · · focus · HN ↗
      > Reading the first half or so made me think, "Wow, they should really fix this."

      They don't care. It works like this for copying over a network (i.e. copying speed goes to 0) but then recovers. They rewrote explorer and now it needs twice the clicks to achieve something. Microsoft at its best.

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