In Windows 3.1....	I used the Program Manager  and File Manager.  Ah, elegant in their simplicity.
In Windows 95....	I met the Start Bar  and was immediately repulsed! Aaiiee, scads of superfluous icons flooding my senses! Is hideous! Then I met Windows Explorer.  Eew, bulky! Long filenames!! Slow loading! No sort by icons!! No likee!! Frantically I sought out my little retro friends and used them for the next few years. Aaahh, neat.
In Windows 98....	Still there huh? That's okay, I'll just use these guys again....  Uh-oh. Something funny here. Progman isn't working properly. It's useless! NOOOOOO!! Damn you Microsoft!!
What now??	Okay, sod you then, I'll just make my own. And thus was born H3's patented Progman simulator! Why the big tech brains never included such a device in their new systems, I can only imagine. As long as you have your folders set to open in the same window as their icon instead of spawing their own, there IS no neater and easier way to arrange your applications in Windows. And more, if you add a shortcut to your Taskbar's Quicklaunch folder, you can have it to hand whenever you like.

And ya know what? I even started using Explorer.  Still no sort by icons.  Sod it.

	Oh, right. Back in Windows 3.1  the two directories I used most often were collect - for storing random collections of files - and utils (utilities), where I kept all my gadgets. How did I find these fast in a loooong list of directories? I put them at either end of the alphabet.
	And look! I'm still doing it today. And aacolect still has only one 'L' in a sentimental nod to the old 8-character filename limit. Yeah, that is nuts. So sue me. (Oh, and 'orphans' are sad little files with no parent directories. Aaaaaww.)