>   Btw, that's another annoying feature of Windows. Even though Windows
> moved away from 8+3 characters long file names in 1995, most if not all
> DLLs and other system files still adhere to that convention, for no
> apparent or logical reason, so instead of getting a nice descriptive
> file name telling you exactly what the DLL is for, you get a crpyptic
> 8-characters-long name which could well be random for all you know.
> 
>   Why are they doing that? I understand it that they did it the first
> few years, but even today, 14 years later? That makes no sense.

I have no idea either, but it's pretty annoying.

The thing that makes me laugh is installers and splash screens and icons 
in glorious 256-colour dithered halftones. Um, WHY? We have 24-bit 
displays today, ya know. And *not* dithering the graphics makes it so 
much more compressible, while also looking much cooler...

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