Ironically,
when we began deploying W7, I made a point of NOT preloading a bunch of desktop shortcuts for users. I explained that I often installed shortcuts people wound up not using, that users were losing time minimizing all their apps to get to the desktop (despite repeated explanations of the 'Show Desktop' feature; users are driven by habit), and that I was tired of people who complained they didn't have a program because they couldn't find a desktop shortcut (like there's a reason to have Acrobat Reader or Visio Viewer on the desktop). I showed them how to pin apps to the Start Menu, accessible with a single click or keystroke; or to the Taskbar; or, if they insisted, to the desktop. Now MS has removed the Start Menu, but most of them opted to create desktop shortcuts anyway; apparently habits die harder than even I thought.
Man, that's a bunch of run-on sentences.
