Windows 7 - Windows 7 Starter

Hello guys,

i just pick a new netbook with Windows 7 Starter on it, but im a bit confuse how can i put the desktop icons there (my computer, network, my docs).
personalize isnt there and i dont find nothing in control painel about it.

Just make shortcuts for all that or any other solution ?

Thanks for help

If you right click on the desktop you'll pop up a menu, click the personalize tab.

A box should pop up, on the left of the box there is a option, change desktop icons. Click that and you can change the icons on the desktop.

Thanks for your reply, but if you read what i post, in Windows Starter personalize isnt there and i dont find nothing about in control painel.

Can you right click each one in the start menu and either send to-->desktop or show on desktop

Try this:

Personalization Shortcut - Create

Thanks for your help guys, i just made the shortcuts (faster way)

Cheer

Does this allow you to change the desktop in Windows 7 starter edition?

From my understanding you cannot change the background in Windows 7 starter....which is just plain stupid in my opinion and pretty much the sole reason that I am not buying a netbook right now...since all of them come with Windows 7 starter on them.

According to an MSFT on Microsoft blog site:
It's garbage like this which irritates me to no end that Linux was more or less eliminated from these devices in retail chains. I don't want these ridiculous limitations on my OS simple to drive down price. And I don't want to cough up another $79 to anytime upgrade it...as that drives the netbook price up to just about a laptop price.

There's absolutely nothing stopping you from downloading Ubuntu or something.

Yes, that is always an option. However, for this particular device, I was just hoping to pick up a device and simply use what's on it rather than be a nerd and upgrade, modify, change, etc with the device.

Oh well, for the time being, I'm just going without the Netbook. I have a work laptop that I can keep using and it doesn't cost me anything.

I think overall it's just a bummer that the netbook market just flocked to the MS offerings and to keep costs down...they all have this artificially limited version of the OS that won't meet a lot of peoples needs and then by time people upgrade the devices...they cost as much as a full laptop with less power, less features, etc.