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Actually I like almost everything in Windows 7, but maybe startup time could be faster, although I am pleased to my current startup time, but I would like it to be under 10 sec.
Another thing actually doesn't involve Win 7. I just miss Win XP but Windows XP time is over for me, Windows 7 makes things so much easier, for example, homegroup.
I can't play the latest games, because my PC doesn't have enough grunt (CPU & Graphics).
There is more to a good game, than just pretty graphics.
A lot of new games are like new Hollywood pictures; great graphics, garbage story.
A lot of new games seem to be designed for consoles (i.e. they require chaotic button "mashing" for no reason).
If you want to run old games, I suggest you try DOSBox.
It can be a little bit tricky to set up sometimes, but the very first time I tried it, it worked without a hitch.
It only takes about 55 seconds to boot up, on my "piece of junk" PC.:)
That is about 10 seconds longer than XP.
Unless you are using a laptop, why not just put your PC to sleep instead of shutting it down?
Some of the control interfaces are poorly/strangely designed (i.e. the earlier complaints about the network access/interface).
The Network is a pain to setup, if you have a mixed OS setup.
The XP "Network Wizard" created our connections, in the time it took to click on the various "Next" buttons.
Windows 7 took about an hour of random button clicking, before it mysteriously set itself up.
The Help instructions were useless, they just said to do, what we had been doing anyway.
After basically doing the same thing 6 times in a row, the Network just came on!
Once it was working,I took screenshots of all the relevant settings (screenshots are so handy) and stored them in my personal help files.
I would recommend that everyone do that (experts excepted, of course).
However, when my friend ran Windows 7 in a virtual PC (on his Linux box), it did automatically set itself up first attempt.
Last edited by lehnerus2000; 05 Jul 2010 at 07:05. Reason: Layout
Battlefield 2 does not play on windows 7 64 bit at all even with compatibility mode. I have tried and tried to no avail. I would just use WINE in Linux, but the securerom thing doesn't work in Linux.
I dislike the fact that i am unable to view a dll's "Driver revision" in the properties dialog.
XP used to have it in the default properties dialog under the version tab.
Windows7 simply does not allow you to view this. First of all, it doesn't have a "version" tab. The closest we get is "details". There is absolutely no way of selecting and viewing a column called driver revision.
Quite annoying...
I hope i'm simply missing something somewhere, as i now need to run XP on a VM in order to check this with clients...
Actually, Windows 7 does report version information of EXe and DLL files: IF that file in question contains version information.
The following two screenshots show this (one for "shell32.dll", and the other for one of my own applications).