Idiot-resistant OS

Sometimes when you're browsing through various folders, you may find files that don't appear to be important, so you delete them, rename them or move them around-but then you find that XYY4jaykojackjam was an important part of the OS or an application that you use a lot when the computer or the application doesn't work properly afterwards. If you were doing a lot of "spring cleaning" or if the problem occured after someone else without a lot of computer experience messed up something, you then have no idea what made the computer go nuts, and if you're not computer-savvy enough to figure it out, you may need to have a computer tech come or use your "emergency disks" to restore the computer, possibly losing stuff from the hard drive in the process.

Don't touch this icons to the rescue! When anything is important to a specific application or to the OS, there will be an icon stating that the file should be left alone, and should not be renamed or deleted. Now, people with computer experience will know exactly what's actually important, but the fact is there's always people around who don't know quite what they're doing. The icons will only appear on files which are for applications that are actually installed-once the app is removed, the "don't touch" icons for it's supporting files and folders will disappear, allowing you to free up all the space that the app and it's files took up without having to track down what 444whatsthisthingfor is attached to, nor do you have to worry that something will go out of whack if you delete the MAIN%^^^#@(JAJAPOWOWPROJ) file in the VOIJASKY folder.

Also, to prevent files from getting accidentally dragged into the wrong folder just by holding the mouse down instead of double clicking by mistake, resulting in confusion when you can't find your file that you "swear" you always kept in the same place, clicking and dragging could be replaced by using the right click to bring up the menu, and then having to select "move folder" and then selecting the area to which the folder is moved. I know it may seem more tedious than just dragging it, but it's easier to do that than to have to search through a lot of files to find yours. I know, I know, there's generally a "search" feature, but if you have a lot of files with similar names, it'll be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Error boxes in this OS will have 2 parts-the general description of the problem half, and the half where the details are. For example, if your Email program crashes, the top half of the error box will say "Sorry, your Email program has frozen. Please click here to reboot the program, or click here to quit. If this is happening a lot, please call (insert tech support phone # here) for help or click show details to help you fix the problem." then the bottom half will have all the computer geek talk, and will only show if you click "show details" at the bottom of the error box.

Finally, to avoid accidentally closing out of a window and thereby losing what you typed on that document, (i've done it, as idiodic as that sounds): even attempting to close a window (not quit out of word, just close that document window) will bring up a "save/dont save" box. This isn't really neccesary with internet browsers, however, because all you'd have to do to get back to where you were is to use the "browsing history" thing.

These changes won't completely eliminate these kinds of problems, but should make things easier for people who have less computer experience. These functions all default to "ON" but can be turned off in the "help" menu, which is far away from anything else that would affect anything else on the computer. When you turn it off, it's only turned off for your user account. If a "guest" account is present, all these functions will default to "on" on every login, in addition to other limitations (cant access certain folders without a "real" user's password, for example)