Relearning Microsoft, with bonus keyboard adventure!

Before we came over I bought a new Apple laptop and loaded all of my documents and programs onto it from my desktop at work.  Theoretically I would have a seamless transition here, as my new laptop would work just like my computer back home.  The complication?  Indya desperately needs a laptop for teaching, so she's taken mine.

It's not that big a deal, my office at the faculty of law has a relatively new Compaq desktop running Windows.  The main problem is that I abandoned Windows for a reason, I hated it.  Here's a great example why:

Yep.  When I do a search for files I get some "help" from "Power Pup," a super hero dog.  It's not bad enough the stupid search did not find what I wanted, I needed power pup to deliver the news to me, while wagging a nonsensical flag (with LSU colors no less) and grinning at me like a moron.  I still like the dog better than the talking paperclip though.

The adjustment is also slightly slowed by the Slovenian keyboard I'm using.  See if you can spot the differences:

The biggest problems are that the Y and the Z are transposed, presumably because Z is a much more important letter in Slovene than in English.  As far as I can tell the Slovenian "y" is almost completely useless, as they use "j" for the "y" sound.  Further, they've hidden the @ sign on the "v" key, requiring the use of control and alt to use it.  But at least I have easy access to č and ć and ž and š, all favorites in my scholarship.