Tech Habits You Can't Shake Off, That Might Not Be That Bad Anyway

[Sir Topham Hatt]

For me:

 

Right-Clicking and dragging things.
I think if you drag around the same hard drive, it moves the item but if you drag and drop using the left mouse-click to another hard drive, it copies the file instead?  I don't understand so just right-click and drag around to my heart's content.

 

Double spacing after a full stop (or period if you're American).
I've always done it, hard to break the habit,

 

Pressing SHIFT and RTN when I want to add a new paragraph.
In Teams for example, I'm sure if you just hit RTN then it'll send what you've typed.  So now it's a habit for me to keep a finger on the SHIFT key when I want to add text to a new line.

[hellowalkman Reporter]

This is probably a common one, but refreshing the desktop screen a few times for no reason 😄

[shockz]

Double clicking vs single click. Still catch myself sometimes randomly. Muscle memory from 90s I guess lol. Might be something to do with the one HVAC system I maintain for a client that runs Windows 3.1 still lol.

[Steven P. Administrators]

CTRL + Shift + V (paste as plain text)

CTRL select icons to delete from desktop (idk why).

CTRL is a magical button 😵

[Astral]

On 08/11/2022 at 10:50, hellowalkman said:

This is probably a common one, but refreshing the desktop screen a few times for no reason 😄

My life for 20+ years... OCD levels of refresh

[Astral]

On 08/11/2022 at 11:40, Steven P. said:

CTRL + Shift + V (paste as plain text)

CTRL select icons to delete from desktop (idk why).

CTRL is a magical button 😵

it's all about control

[cork1958]

On 08/11/2022 at 13:50, hellowalkman said:

This is probably a common one, but refreshing the desktop screen a few times for no reason 😄

Ok, have to ask this, but why in the world would you even do that? 😶

[Xenon]

How about some hardware. I only buy Logitech mice. 

 

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 08/11/2022 at 12:50, hellowalkman said:

This is probably a common one, but refreshing the desktop screen a few times for no reason 😄

I do that when I can't find a file on my desktop that I know I saved. After a right click and refresh, the file shows up.

[Astral]

On 08/11/2022 at 12:32, cork1958 said:

Ok, have to ask this, but why in the world would you even do that? 😶

Back in Win95/Win98, it was common to have UI errors present themselves as missing icons, or messed up file names. A desktop Refresh generally solved the issue.

[Skyfrog]

This is a strange one but I always open a run box and type "calc" to run the calculator, even though I could just click on the shortcut. I have no idea why I do this.

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 08/11/2022 at 15:38, Skyfrog said:

This is a strange one but I always open a run box and type "calc" to run the calculator, even though I could just click on the shortcut. I have no idea why I do this.

THIS! In fact I still use the run box for everything lol

[spikey_richie]

Win+R, typing CMD, then cursing myself when I get an access denied error on the command line.

Win+R, typing winword for Word. I also set the icon to the classic Office 97 icon set for all office applications (that are applicable)

Making my Outlook client look like it used to in 2005, which is getting harder and harder to achieve.

Forgetting about using ctrl+end/home to block-select text.

Visiting Neowin every day /s

[cork1958]

On 08/11/2022 at 16:06, Astral said:

Back in Win95/Win98, it was common to have UI errors present themselves as missing icons, or messed up file names. A desktop Refresh generally solved the issue.

OK, I can understand that. Can't say as I've ever refreshed my desktop, even back in the 95/98 days. Don't save squat to desktop either though.