Copmom, the end of my "day" apparently arrived prematurely. It's a time when my spasming braincells begin to grab incorrect words out of thin air to construct spoofs of FwF's maniacal quest for games. Rather than "UNinstalled", I should have used "not yet installed", as it'd be rather stupid of me to keep games I'd uninstalled, eh? :-)
The count is easy enough. I keep a folder for zips and "need2downloads", and only move them to individual folders under Games right before installing. The placeholder provides a tally of files inside.
As for forgetting what all the installed appls do, well, that's becoming an increasingly irksome vexation for me, too. As kindly forum folk continue to provide links to interesting software, and I keep installing interesting software, I am now forgetting what interesting software I have and what it will do. Although I've always partitioned everything into folders aptly named Games, Music/Sound/Vid, DTP, BizProgs, Security and Uts, that's no longer sufficient. I can stare at an icon and filename and have absolutely no idea when or why I installed it or what it does. This is my brain on overload. Blaming the confusion on others helps cover up the real culprit... AGE.
For reasons unknown, a nifty little spell appl disappeared from my tool bar. I had to wade through over a hundred nifty little UTS and BizProgs before finally locating the right folder and executable, cause I couldn't remember the bloody name - TinySpell.
