{"id":9843,"date":"2011-08-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/08\/22\/you-dont-make-something-easier-to-find-by-hiding-it-even-more-deeply\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:00:00","slug":"you-dont-make-something-easier-to-find-by-hiding-it-even-more-deeply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110822-00\/?p=9843","title":{"rendered":"You don&#039;t make something easier to find by hiding it even more deeply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter rolfhub suggested that, to help people recover from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/03\/30\/103379.aspx\"> accidentally going into Tiny Footprint Mode<\/a>, the Task Manager could <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/07\/25\/4036123.aspx#4143739\"> display a right-click context menu with an entry to return to normal mode<\/a>.\n My initial reaction to this was Huh? Who right-clicks on <i>nothing<\/i>? Tiny Footprint Mode is itself already a bad secret hidden setting. Having the exit from the mode be a right-click menu on a blank space is a <i>double-secret hidden setting<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> If I had <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/03\/29\/9986468.aspx#9987023\"> dictatorial control over all aspects of the shell<\/a>, I would put a Restore button  <font face=\"Marlett\" style=\"border: solid .75pt black\"><!--[if IE]&gt;2&lt;![endif]-->&#61490;<\/font>&nbsp;in the upper right corner to let people return to normal mode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter rolfhub suggested that, to help people recover from accidentally going into Tiny Footprint Mode, the Task Manager could display a right-click context menu with an entry to return to normal mode. My initial reaction to this was Huh? Who right-clicks on nothing? Tiny Footprint Mode is itself already a bad secret hidden setting. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-9843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commenter rolfhub suggested that, to help people recover from accidentally going into Tiny Footprint Mode, the Task Manager could display a right-click context menu with an entry to return to normal mode. My initial reaction to this was Huh? Who right-clicks on nothing? Tiny Footprint Mode is itself already a bad secret hidden setting. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}