yeah, I think he heard the shortcut thing somewhere and completely misunderstood it.
tbf, this is now 25 years ago, so computers were still quite a novelty in regular schools, let alone have teachers that know about them. I think he was just a math teacher before
I think there are games that are simply a single .exe file, so copying that does work, I think I have one in Windows XP era and just left it on the desktop for easy access lol
lol I remember copying game shortcuts on desktop on my flash drive thinking I’ll get the game at home
My computer class teacher did the opposite
He claimed that you can delete all the big exe files, as they are not needed as just take up space
He’d love demonstrate it on the school computer, but it didn’t boot right now, “for some reason”
He was not a good CS teacher
lmfao, I wonder if the school even check the teacher’s background
I think he meant the installer files, not the actual
.exethat launched the game, but who knowsyeah, I think he heard the shortcut thing somewhere and completely misunderstood it.
tbf, this is now 25 years ago, so computers were still quite a novelty in regular schools, let alone have teachers that know about them. I think he was just a math teacher before
There is a folder on your PC containing lots of junk from the old 32 bit era that you don’t need on modern PCs:
system32.So if you need some disc space …
Thanks for reminding me, I did that on a floppy disk once and was so proud at first…
Thats how you learn I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kind of relieved to see I wasn’t the only one who did this!
TBH didn’t it work at some point? Boots up Rodent’s Revenge
I think there are games that are simply a single
.exefile, so copying that does work, I think I have one in Windows XP era and just left it on the desktop for easy access lolI did that for a friend when he asked me to share my copy of Minecraft with him, holy shit