Things I dislike about Windows 7... What about you?

[wh666-666]

My biggest gripe is the crappy taskbar. I HATE it with a passion. It is the worst design crap ever!

First the taskbar should allow shortcuts and it does. But its not the same as with XP to Vista style. You can Pin to bottom. Now if you click it, it will launch and make that icon larger. You cannot click it again to launch another copy. For example with FireFox....

I would normally have 3 - 5 copies for FF running with 6 - 10 windows in each. This is how I like it and no I will not change it. So if I add it to the taskbar, and click to launch it. If I click it again it does not open another copy but bring it forward. LAME!

Exactly! Someone else who agrees!

I spent the other day arguing with a colleague the other day over the taskbar and how they stole the interface from KDE and did a piss poor job at it.

Why screw around with quicklaunch either?






One thing that annoys the missus is windows 7 advertising campaign. You know, the fudgepackers and lesbians saying "windows 7 was my idea".

Absoloutely cringeworthy adverts and what annoys her the most is they list selling point that have been around since win2k, such as home networking/printer sharing/media sharing and then trying to make out certain features like parental control are new when they are just aspects knabbed from AD.

On the second point though, I did say to her it was making things easier for retards to control their computer without using other apps. But the point remains the same that these capabilities have been around for ages and if you really care about user logon hours, you would lock down their profiles using AD anyway.

What makes us both laugh is how they try to make out that microsoft does exactly what the customer asks. The first time we heard "I told MS what to do, and they just did it" we almost wet ourselves.




I just cant believe the amount of sheeple that go on in public "oooo windows 7"



Baaaa baaaaaaaa

[James]

I like a lot of the small enhancements in Windows 7. I'm glad that a lot of the software revisions they made in the vista kernel stack have now been around long enough to be refined and stabilized. I don't like that they had to cut out support for older systems. I understand why (you can't have infinite backwards compatability with old hardware) but some of the decisions upset me. (mostly because they directly affect me.)

In general though I like it. Still gotta take time to install it on my main rig though.

*Edit: For HTPC use, I wouldn't use any other OS at this point. The Media Center experience in 7 is one of the best out there. Maybe I've been brainwashed, but I dig it. Then again, HTPC's by default aren't easy to setup and configure...

[Kramer]

I re-enabled the classic quicklauch menu that you have in XP. I dont have the link on me but try googling it. That way you dont have to mix your pinned stuff with the stuff currently open.

[ua549]

I don't pin anything to the start menu. I use the quick launch bar instead. It keeps things separated.

[Colossus]

I have done the re-enable of the classic quick launch and I am much happier now.

I do not use any other buttons on my mouse besides, Left, Right and back buttons. The other 5 are not used. I also use the scroll mouse but not the button, that is just awkward for me.

I have used windows since Windows 3.11 -> Win 7. Before that I was all dos! Anyway...

I personally loved Vista, not a single headache with it, hiccup or any problem. I do not understand why one can love Win7 but hate Vista. That makes no sense to me as they are pretty identical except with some GUI changes. But performance so far and memory usage is the same with my setup.

The main problem with Win7 is driver support. My camera and keyboard didnt come out for support until this month.

[Steve R Jones]

I personally loved Vista, not a single headache with it, hiccup or any problem. I do not understand why one can love Win7 but hate Vista. That makes no sense to me as they are pretty identical except with some GUI changes. But performance so far and memory usage is the same with my setup.

DITTO
Many to most of the people that hate Vista - NEVER USED it.

[Learux]

The scroll wheel button is handy, start using it, in no time it will feel natural.

[Freddy part deux]

Well I loved XP pro, Vista Ultimate and Now I really love 7 Ultimate and what a way to launch a OS. 1 Year free trial Wow, I thought Bill Gates retiring would be a bad thing but this was a brilliant idea.

[MrDigital]

I've been middle clicking for years to open new tabs.

[wh666-666]

I thought you'd torrent a chinese cracked copy freddy?

After all, isnt torrenting your right as a canadian?

[Geforce255]

DITTO
Many to most of the people that hate Vista - NEVER USED it.

Exactly.

Though I do think 7 is a bit better - an evolutionary advancement over Vista.

BUT I think they messed up super-fetch in order to gain boot speed, IE it caches less on boot to improve boot time, but hinders application launch as a result.

[Freddy part deux]

I thought you'd torrent a chinese cracked copy freddy?

After all, isnt torrenting your right as a canadian?

It is. I recently ugraded to 4x1 terabyte hd's because I'm sick of burning all the crap I download. BUT when Americas Army 3 came out on STEAM... next thing you know I'm buying games like crazy on it. I even bought Company of Heros and expansion packs from STEAM even though I already had bought them from Future shop. I couldn't get them to register with STEAM for some reason.

I love steam games, how they load and patch etc. I'm going to have to buy quick books again.. not going legit but I'm sick tinkering with cracks. I even began to use the FRee version of Avast as anti virus. I'll buy 7 ultimate when it comes out as long as it's under $500. I can't find out how much it costs, only upgrade prices.

edit: and thanks to whoever mentioned the quicklaunch thing. I was wonder why they cut that out, I've always loved it now I'll re-activate it.

[MrDigital]

It is.

I'm not gonna derail this thread but how about you start a new thread about what your reasoning is behind how torrenting is your "right" as a Canadian? I live in Canada again and I'm dying to hear your revelations.

At best, _BEST_, you can say that downloading music is legal because of taxes on blank CDs. But that is only on CDs classified as Audio CDs. I'm incredibly curious how you think the rest of your piracy is a Canadian right.

[Freddy part deux]

I'm incredibly curious how you think the rest of your piracy is a Canadian right.

Well maybe you could provide a link to how the laws are enforced regarding torrenting in Canada? Has ANYONE ever been convicted?

I supposed video taping your tv shows would be illegal if Americans said so.. or how about taping songs off the radio? or how about library books? We actually have our own set of laws in Canada you know. So you tell me who was convicted of torrenting?

In Canada, they won't even turn off your internet lol... so yeah, I say it's legal.

[MrDigital]

Well maybe you could provide a link to how the laws are enforced regarding torrenting in Canada? Has ANYONE ever been convicted?

I supposed video taping your tv shows would be illegal if Americans said so.. or how about taping songs off the radio? or how about library books? We actually have our own set of laws in Canada you know. So you tell me who was convicted of torrenting?

In Canada, they won't even turn off your internet lol... so yeah, I say it's legal.

Unenforced laws are still laws, guy. Legality and illegality have nothing to do with whether the laws are enforced. If something is a law it only takes one person making a ruckus for them to enforce it.