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#1181
Wasn't Windows 7 supposed to be faster and easier to use? Then why are all the useful features of Windows XP still missing? And why do people have to search for a guru to learn how to almost hack stuff 'Mc Gyver style', in order to get something as simple as a QuickLaunch bar that has the Show Desktop shortcut right next to the Start button where it always belongs in the first place? I even start to wonder why the gurus can't be indexed instead of the files on my harddrive that I can usually find where I've put them myself, without the need to index them. Half of the new features that are claimed to make Windows 7 easier, are making it slower. And vice versa: making it faster can be difficult and results in people not finding the things that will make it easier for them, because those are the ones they have to keep disabled in order to make Windows go faster. Worse still, the things people like about XP because they are so easy, are NT — Not There. Last but not least, if I tweak my Windows XP SP3 to the same extent you have to tweak your Windows 7 to make it go faster than a clean XP, then my tweaked XP will still be fastest. It's easier to tweak XP than 7, even: people have learnt how to tweak XP over the years, but not 7 yet. So much for 'Windows 7 is faster especially if you have an older computer'.
As a whole, all the white background hurts my eyes on my 42 inch HDTV and icons look ugly, especially the ones that were actually promised to look nice (my good old and all worn Logitech MX518 optical mouse being the sole exception, as long as I don't left-click on it that is). Config Panel is JABOI — Just A Bunch Of Icons. Last but not least, unless I lock my taskbar, Windows 7 shuffles my shortcuts on my bars almost like it's Casino Royale and it also can't align the bar's title and the '»' button with the shortcut buttons properly when Small icons is checked. I can imagine hardly anyone has even noticed you can move a bar to the left hand side of pinned programs without unpinning first, all because it takes precious time and predisposition to become the Yawning Pixel Grabber that I already am.