What don't you like about Windows 7?

Alot of the things in the control panel were renamed because they didn't make sense anymore. 'Add/Remove Programs' was renamed to 'Programs and Features' because no-one adds programs through that dialog anymore. It was a relic from before XP, and they changed it to reflect that in the new version.
Actually that's the most notable example of shifting. All the others have pretty much stayed the same.. Sound > Sound, Folder Options > Folder Options. A lot of it was changed just to reflect how the operating system works now. You don't need 'Add Hardware' anymore, it's automatic.
But you are true....this is about what you dislike about it.

I dislike that a picture can look awesome as my logon background, but when set as my desktop background it looks rubbish!

cbleman said:

Memory.. Win 7 uses more memory to run, and it does not release memory for background processes that are still running.

Actually it does, it does it very well too. First thing to go is the cache, then low priority applications (background processes, sleeping processes). It will either overwrite or page out depending on the nature of the process. Cache for example is just overwritten. Depending on your computer and how much the hardware reserve portions of your RAM Windows will free up as much RAM as it can to let your current resource hungry application in.

It is really tiring talking about the same thing as we did with Vista. Neither Windows 7 or Vista are "resource hogs", just mis-informed people.

@cbleman, Just stick with Windows XP then for the rest of your computing life if you are unable to adapt to change. Nothing is going to go backwards for you. Things are the way they are and they are no going to go back. So either just stick with XP or move on and re-learn.

Sven said:

I don't like that the library icons don't make use of miniimage in it as in XP. F.i. the Music-library, I used to have the CD-cover as icon for that album, but not all I got is a big yellow ugly folder wrapped around my miniimage.

Change the Arrangement to "Album" or "Artist" or how ever it is said in your language. You'll just get pretty pictures.

I miss Outlook Express, Windows mail and Windows live mail has this bad behaivour, that they store EVERY single email as it's own file, making the email-hd fragmented quite fast. OE did make some sort of database over it, at then it was onle very few files to backup, now it is a lot. Howcome that it is so difficult for Microsoft to handle emails i a crompres

They did that for a reason. That one large file you were talking about was easy to corrupt losing ever message you ever got. Multiple files do not have the fragmentation problem as a single growing-larger files does.

DocBrown said:

Networking works great if you set it up as as work network, NOT HomeNetwork

" Doc "

Tell me about it, I have 2 PC both running W7, however only PC1 has full access to PC2 and whenever I tired to access PC1 from PC2, I got "you don't have permission......blah blah...". I'm the only Admin on both PC, what you mean I don't have permissions...?

Sharing under Network/WorkGroup is much easier, I just right click - Advance Sharing and allow All users, that's it!

It's confusing, homegroup needs to belong to Workgroup before one can share....