Solved Does anyone actually LIKE Windows 7?

First of all Mr Moderator, apologies for (probably) putting this in the wrong forum. If there is a general comment forum, as opposed to asking general questions, I missed it. Please move me to the correct place. Thank you

My point - at last! - is that no-one I have spoken to likes Windows 7 and was much happier with Windows XP. I'm one of them. One of the people I spoke to didn't realise that XP was about to "die" (become unsupported).
Seven seems to be for people who want to get things done without too much thinking or expertise. Which is an insult from Microsoft for the more abler (and I'm not boasting) users who want to make top-notch DVDs and website and more . . .
So, here's a plea to whoever is left at Microsoft (the former top man had gone, I read): restore XP to the marketplace as Windows 9 (or 10 if version nine is too far underway). Yes, I would be happy to pay for it all over again just to be able to use it.
I seem to spend twice as much time trying to get Windows 7 to do what I want it to do as I actually do working on something.
The Library system is totally baffling to me. I once had something in SIX locations and deleted five as a waste of computer space and memory! I lost a DVD I was well into completing. I was left with just blank squares, some with question marks, where pictures used to be. No amount of trying to restore the files from the recycling bin brought them back.
Never had that problem with Windows XP.
Please Microsoft, give the more serious users a chance!

No offence meant for the upcoming but it's just my 2 cents.

7 is feature packed and as far as I'm concerned the address you're pointing out can simply be overcomed by having a dedicated partition or drive and point all saves and back up there. I have not had any problems and yes I do work with the Adobe master suite Cs 6 from pics to videos to Web design and programming. The optimisation on 7 is great and I don't see myself upgrading unless dx 11.1 offers much more than its stock 3d capabilities. Instead of spending 10 minutes deleting stuff from every pocket why not spend 2 creating a dedicated pocket? You can also link that pocket in your favorites on the left panel so you don't have to click more than twice when saving

Windows 7 is a great operating system, you shouldn't let a few problems probably caused by user error, hinder your likability for Windows 7; Windows 8 is the operating system which people tend not to like.

" . . . you shouldn't let a few problems probably caused by user error, hinder your likability for Windows 7; . . ."

If only it was a case of user error. Perhaps the loss of DVD images wasn't the best example of my problems. I just can't understand it. All new systems take time to get used to. I can't see me ever being happy with Windows 7.
Or maybe I'm just too "thick" to try to use Windows 7. Perhaps the simple approach is the best.
I didn't mention Windows 8 because I have dismissed it as being there just to create multi platform use. Someone told me: "If you don't like Windows 7 you will hate Windows 8". So I haven't even looked at.
The trouble with buying any OS is that sales count as positive votes. If we could return the ones we don't like and have it count as a No vote, or reduce the "positive" votes, things might be different.

Dabber said:

First of all Mr Moderator, apologies for (probably) putting this in the wrong forum. If there is a general comment forum, as opposed to asking general questions, I missed it. Please move me to the correct place. Thank you

My point - at last! - is that no-one I have spoken to likes Windows 7 and was much happier with Windows XP. I'm one of them. One of the people I spoke to didn't realise that XP was about to "die" (become unsupported).
Seven seems to be for people who want to get things done without too much thinking or expertise. Which is an insult from Microsoft for the more abler (and I'm not boasting) users who want to make top-notch DVDs and website and more . . .
So, here's a plea to whoever is left at Microsoft (the former top man had gone, I read): restore XP to the marketplace as Windows 9 (or 10 if version nine is too far underway). Yes, I would be happy to pay for it all over again just to be able to use it.
I seem to spend twice as much time trying to get Windows 7 to do what I want it to do as I actually do working on something.
The Library system is totally baffling to me. I once had something in SIX locations and deleted five as a waste of computer space and memory! I lost a DVD I was well into completing. I was left with just blank squares, some with question marks, where pictures used to be. No amount of trying to restore the files from the recycling bin brought them back.
Never had that problem with Windows XP.
Please Microsoft, give the more serious users a chance!

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I know what you mean, since Windows 2000 and to some extent XP the operating systems have been dumbed down to support the unwashed masses. The features and tricks are all there. You have to dig around for registry tweaks and some freeware to get things how you like them. I don't use the libraries system. I already have my own places for files so I point all the explorer shortcuts at those locations. One of the best freeware tools you can get is Classic Shell Welcome to Classic Shell
Yes it adds the classic start menu back but is does so much more. The explorer functions are superb and you can get XP type functions with 7 64 bit stability.
I think I waited 1 year before installing my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and was not that impressed. I spent a lot of time fiddling around getting it how I like it and I can now have all those settings sorted out in a new install in a couple of hours.
Windows 7 is very good, XP is old, I used it for a long time but hackers know there way around it too well. Do some research and tweak it the way you want it. As usual M$ default is best for the computer illiterate.

I am relatively new to Windows 7 since I only installed it in late May of 2012 AND I LOVE IT!

I still have 3 XP computers and compared t 7, they are pathetic - slow to boot up, hourglasses, "failing to respond", windows stuck all over my screens requiring reboot, only 2G of memory, etc, etc.

If the hardware wasn't so expensive, I'd have ALL Windows 7 machines.

Dabber said:

First of all Mr Moderator, apologies for (probably) putting this in the wrong forum. If there is a general comment forum, as opposed to asking general questions, I missed it. Please move me to the correct place. Thank you

My point - at last! - is that no-one I have spoken to likes Windows 7 and was much happier with Windows XP. I'm one of them. One of the people I spoke to didn't realise that XP was about to "die" (become unsupported).
Seven seems to be for people who want to get things done without too much thinking or expertise. Which is an insult from Microsoft for the more abler (and I'm not boasting) users who want to make top-notch DVDs and website and more . . .
So, here's a plea to whoever is left at Microsoft (the former top man had gone, I read): restore XP to the marketplace as Windows 9 (or 10 if version nine is too far underway). Yes, I would be happy to pay for it all over again just to be able to use it.
I seem to spend twice as much time trying to get Windows 7 to do what I want it to do as I actually do working on something.
The Library system is totally baffling to me. I once had something in SIX locations and deleted five as a waste of computer space and memory! I lost a DVD I was well into completing. I was left with just blank squares, some with question marks, where pictures used to be. No amount of trying to restore the files from the recycling bin brought them back.
Never had that problem with Windows XP.
Please Microsoft, give the more serious users a chance!

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im sure there is a saying about workmen and tools :huh:

I like Win7 even though I've been using it only since late June of this year when I bought a Win7 notebook to replace my aging netbook (I still have a desktop running XP). I stuck with XP as long as I did because Vista was a dog, which is why I bought another XP desktop to replace my aging one, and I would have had to replace my printer, scanner, and some of my software, all of which added up to shelling out some serious shekels. I've since replaced my old POS scanner with two of them, one which is Win7 ready and the other one only needs a new driver downloaded. The printer is going to be replaced due to old age soon and will be Win7 compliant (it's also a newer model so it should be supported for some time to come). So, I'll be replacing the XP desktop machine early next year (it's not fully compatible with Win7 and, being the cheap, old bi...broad I am, I wanted to get my money's worth from it) with a Win7 machine (instead of Win8 which is another dog).

I had only four programs that I used on XP that wouldn't run on Win7, which pleasantly suprprised me (I was expecting far worse). Three were freebies that were easily replaced with ones that were just as good or better. The fourth was professional music notation software that had become abandonware that wouldn't run on Win7. It would have cost me $400 USD to upgrade to a product that was Win7 compliant but, when I made a comment on the program's user forums that, if I was forced to upgrade to a more expensive product due to an OS change, I was going to "go to the dark side" (the forum's term for buying the competitor's product). That got me an offer from the company to upgrade to the more expensive (and much better) product for only $210 which I accepted).

I had no trouble being able to use Win7 productively right from the very beginning, which was a very pleasant surprise. There were a few changes I had to learn how to deal with or get used to in both Win7 and IE9 (I had been using IE8), some of which required help from forums like this (How to Geek is another good forum like this one). I love many of the new features, such as Aero (although I did turn off AeroGlass to save RAM on this machine since it's just window dressing, pardon the pun). Win7s advantages far outweigh its disadvantages. The only two things I do not like about Win7 are the photo viewer and the way it handles downloading pictures from a camera or camera card. The stock photo viewer is worthless as...it's worthless, the worst "feature" being many pictures get compressed vertically. I replaced it with the M$ Office 2007 Picture Manager. It's only downside is one can't change format (.tif to .jpg, for example) like one could in XPs photo viewer. Since I can do that, both singly and in groups, in IrfanView, a program I already use, that wasn't a problem. The wizard for downloading pictures from a camera or camera card doesn't have the renaming flexibility the one in XP does. I use IrfanView for that now. It worked just as well once I got used to it.

You were speaking about not understanding the Libraries. On XP, you put your items that you used a lot on the Task Bar. It made a convenient way to access them. I am sure you liked that. The Libraries are EXACTLY the same thing. You put your favorite ones in it and just go to them. == You should Bookmark Seven Forums and spend some time here either asking questions or just reading others questions. It help a lot to understand how Windows 7 works.

On the lighter side, the morning I installed Windows 7 on my freshly made computer, I had never even seen Windows 7. I had visions of it working like Win XP - "It will take 48 minutes to install" and the countdown proceeds. No No, it was only a few minutes to install. And at the time, my computer held 8G of memory. Like being in heaven!

Dabber said:

First of all Mr Moderator, apologies for (probably) putting this in the wrong forum. If there is a general comment forum, as opposed to asking general questions, I missed it. Please move me to the correct place. Thank you

My point - at last! - is that no-one I have spoken to likes Windows 7 and was much happier with Windows XP. I'm one of them. One of the people I spoke to didn't realise that XP was about to "die" (become unsupported).
Seven seems to be for people who want to get things done without too much thinking or expertise. Which is an insult from Microsoft for the more abler (and I'm not boasting) users who want to make top-notch DVDs and website and more . . .
So, here's a plea to whoever is left at Microsoft (the former top man had gone, I read): restore XP to the marketplace as Windows 9 (or 10 if version nine is too far underway). Yes, I would be happy to pay for it all over again just to be able to use it.
I seem to spend twice as much time trying to get Windows 7 to do what I want it to do as I actually do working on something.
The Library system is totally baffling to me. I once had something in SIX locations and deleted five as a waste of computer space and memory! I lost a DVD I was well into completing. I was left with just blank squares, some with question marks, where pictures used to be. No amount of trying to restore the files from the recycling bin brought them back.
Never had that problem with Windows XP.
Please Microsoft, give the more serious users a chance!

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Give the more serious users a chance? What, to be stuck with an 11 year old system? What are you going on about? Everyone I talk to thinks Windows 7 is great. How long have you been using it?

I've been using Windows since, well, the beginning, and in my opinion, Windows 7 is the pinnacle. I started out in this business in the late 1970's, and (I'm not boasting), I'm sure I'm a more serious user than most people, certainly than you.

Most serious Windows users think that Windows 7 is the best Windows ever. You seem to be fighting it rather than learning anything. You call yourself one of the more able users, but yet you say the Library feature baffles you. It is simplicity itself, but look, just ignore the Libraries feature if you can't wrap your head around the concept.

sgage said:

...It is simplicity itself, but look, just ignore the Libraries feature if you can't wrap your head around the concept.

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It took me awhile to wrap my mind around Libraries (hey, I'm old and senile) but it isn't really that difficult. I can see them being advantageous to many, if not most, people but, for me, they weren't really any advantage, especially since I am the only user on this machine and I would have had to reorganize all of my data that I imported from XP to take advantage of the Libraries, so, for the most part, I don't use them. I use the Document, Pictures, and Music Libraries links in the Start Menu to go directly to the content only in the My Documents, My pictures, and My Music folders (and deleted the other default folder from each library). That's one thing nice about Win7; you aren't forced to use most of the new features.

Put your stuff where you want it and you`ll never have an issue.

Just normal computing procedures.

I dual booted XP and the first 3 months of Win 7 beta's and new right then Win 7 was the way to go. Have been only on Win 7 since and loving it. Have Win 8 on it's own hdd to test, so far not liking it at All. It will have to do alot of growing on me for me to keep it.

To the OP: the answer to your question, is yes.

Well, not sure if this is the right way to say it but I LOVE it! Can't stand even looking at my Stepmothers xp installation when she needs help. Was on xp for years too, 7 is so much easier to actually use..... to take care of...

So I guess the answer to your question is "yes" I like it just fine.

Windows 7 needs a another Service Pack, there are so many loose updates which need to be combined into one Service Pack, this will help OPs so much when needing to completely clean install Windows 7 again.

Windows 7 Service Pack 2 - Release Date?

I reserve the word LOVE to living things.

I built a new desktop computer in late 2010 to early 2011, not sure as I don't remember, and installed Win 7 on it. Didn't care for at first but then what was I going to do with the 16GBs of RAM that was installed without a 64 bit OS. Since then I have installed Classic shell and it looks and feels like XP but has all the adavntages of the newer OS.

So try Classic Shell.

In my opinion after 3 months of getting acquainted w/win 7 on my new laptop from XP OS and a very old Gateway laptop. I'm impressed and very pleased w/win 7... win 7 is a great OS... disk clean/defrag on win 7 versus XP is no comparison, meaning win 7 does not require cleaning/defrag every day. Everything in the win 7 OS as I move along is a learning experience and interesting.
Conclusion: I love win 7 and all the great help/support here on Seven Forum!
Dennis

I wasn't going to comment, but...

Have I woken up, and discovered that the past three years have been a dream?

Is Bobby Ewing about to start contributing to this forum?;)

People are still having teething problems on Windows 7?

Pfui. (Pronouned "phooey".)