BUG! Try to open an url from the trash window!

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Thierry

Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the desktop). Try to
type any address in the address bar :-)

:-P

Thierry

P.S.: You can reproduce in WS2003.
 
Thierry said:
Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the
desktop). Try to type any address in the address bar :-)

:-P

Thierry

P.S.: You can reproduce in WS2003.
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What happens for you..?
I went to Home Depot with no problem.
 
Thierry said:
Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the desktop). Try
to type any address in the address bar :-)

:-P

Thierry

P.S.: You can reproduce in WS2003.
Click to expand...

I have neither tried to haul 10 yards of crushed rock in my Kia Specta, nor
have I tried to use the Recycle Bin for Exploring the Internet . When one
uses the tool appropriate for the task, one does not experience "bugs".
Steve
 
| Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the desktop). Try
to
| type any address in the address bar :-)
|
| :-P
|
| Thierry
|
| P.S.: You can reproduce in WS2003.


Opened Recycle Bin from Desktop.

Typed www.google.com in the address bar. Went to Google.

Thanks for the thrill ride. :-))

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Shenan Stanley said:
What happens for you..?
I went to Home Depot with no problem.
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Hmm, the address box didn't want to accept certain characters / combinations
for me (W2003). For example typing w the first time it reset to recycle bin.
Next attempt I got to www. but then when I typed the letter t it reset. I
can't really say this is a bug, can't see why one would try to do it in real
life, but there was some odd behavior.

Charlie
 
Thierry said:
Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the desktop). Try
to type any address in the address bar :-)
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I don't know if I'd call it a bug but it is very odd. Windows (actually it
seems to be Search) accepts characters from a dropdown list of what seem to
be grab-bag entries. So long as the string of characters you enter begins an
entry in that list, all is well. The moment you enter a string that's not,
the Address Bar reverts to "Recycle Bin".
 
Bug! If you microwave your install CD it will be destroyed.

BUT, why would you want to do either???

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Thierry said:
Open the content of your recycle bin (from the icon on the desktop). Try to
type any address in the address bar :-)

:-P

Thierry

P.S.: You can reproduce in WS2003.
Click to expand...

Why? There's no point to it. The Recycle Bin exists for one reason only
and that's not it.

Steve N.
 
I have neither tried to haul 10 yards of crushed rock in my Kia Specta, nor
have I tried to use the Recycle Bin for Exploring the Internet . When one
uses the tool appropriate for the task, one does not experience "bugs".
Steve
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wookie. Have an assortment of items in your recycle bin, deleted at various
dates in the past, have the detail view selected. Click on the Date Deleted
column to sort by that. It sorts. Close it. Open it again. The same
Date Deleted column is shaded. The same little triangle is at the top of the
column showing that this is the sort column.

And the sort order has been lost.

Click the top of the column, it reverses and correctly sorts in opposite
order, click again and it gets the sort order back correct. Leave. Return.

And the sort order has been lost.

Pushed all the way through the chain of Indians, each of whom were able
to replicate this. The Indians were able to find other things that did
this. Finally pushed up to Microsoft. Where it died and was never heard
from again.

I THINK, but haven't been able to consistently replicate this, in other
of the multitude of things that are all Windows Explorer doing one task
or another, that this same bug can appear. But post SP-2 the Recycle
bin detail view date deleted sort order appears to do it for everybody
every single time.

Maybe I'm just not supposed to be seeing any details or looking in the
recycle bin? Or this isn't a "bug"?
 
Richard Urban said:
Bug! If you microwave your install CD it will be destroyed.
BUT, why would you want to do either???
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Dunno... maybe because there was what looked like a perfectly
reasonable thing titled "Address Bar" and supposedly Windows
is supposed to be consistent and act the same way with the
same tool?
 
Because it's an Explorer window. But it still begs the question: why use
the Recycle Bin to enter an internet address? You have Internet Explorer
for that.
 
Noozer said:
So... It's an explorer window. Why CAN'T I put an URL in there?
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It is odd, and I had never noticed this before. What happens here is that if
I start typing www, it immediately reverts to Recycle bin. But if I type
just that first w and very quickly move the mouse into the dropdown list
that appears, I can choose a URL and it will open the website.

The same is true if I try to a type a local address like C:\windows. I can't
finish typing it, but I can get the first character, and if I can find it in
the drop-down list, I can get there.

Yes, it appears to be a bug, but not a very significant one. I can't imagine
wanting to use the address bar in the recycle bin in this manner. The reason
I never noticed this before was that I never wanted to do it.
 
Ken Blake said:
It is odd, and I had never noticed this before. What happens here is that
if I start typing www, it immediately reverts to Recycle bin. But if I
type just that first w and very quickly move the mouse into the dropdown
list that appears, I can choose a URL and it will open the website.
The same is true if I try to a type a local address like C:\windows. I
can't finish typing it, but I can get the first character, and if I can
find it in the drop-down list, I can get there.
Click to expand...

It seems to be related to Windows Search. If I type "h" then "t", a 'Search
for "ht"' frame opens.
 
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