On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:49:03 +0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , T i m
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:03:00 +0100, polygonum
wrote:

On 28/03/2016 16:54, T i m wrote:
Strange though, in 20+ years supporting many Windows users, I can't
remember anyone (other than a *nix / Apple user) even mentioning, let
alone complaining about them? I mean, they may not understand what
they represent in a technical sense but they generally understand what
they mean to them (in most cases without any instruction).

I have heard complaints/questions.

Starting with "Why can't I use A:?". Having ill-advisedly used A: and/or
B:, "Why doesn't this work right?" (maybe A: and B: don't do odd things
now - they used to).

Nope, never had that ...

Going on to "Why is it Z: on that PC but Q: on this one?"

"Where has P: gone?" when the original P: is "over-mapped" by another
drive that wants to be called P:.

"Why can't I use my CD drive since someone set up the network drive as D:?"

Yeahbut they are network related questions and most home users don't
use networking and so those business / office users should have been
better trained and / or the network admin configured the shares more
consistently with a / the logon script).

You mean most home users only have one computer at their house?

That wasn't what I meant but may well be true (statically (where
'computer' doesn't mean smartphone or tablet, that also rarely make
use of any local shared services, other than the Interweb)). ;-)

Cheers, T i m