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

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.

zetolas said:

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

Try this:

Personalization Shortcut - Create

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

Cheer

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:

There is no way to change the background in Windows 7 Starter Edition. The image is locked to the BetaFish, locked by a hash and refered to in Shell32.dll so there's no way around it.

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.

pparks1 said:

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:

There is no way to change the background in Windows 7 Starter Edition. The image is locked to the BetaFish, locked by a hash and refered to in Shell32.dll so there's no way around it.

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.

CowPieSoup said:

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.