What don't you like about Windows 7?
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I use Windows, always was indifferent to it... Was a Linux snob a little.... But 7. I don't know if it is subconscious because they pre-released it for beta, but it has got a flow, a non-specific feeling of quality, and in my opinion, that maybe MS this time, put thought into making the best OS for people beyond those who don't know or don't care to learn what the control panel is or does.
Of course, I know open source is for communists, but I never thought MS encouraged people to learn how to make the most out of a tool which is there OS...
To support my sentiments, I'll just finish with my favorite quote on the matter....
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day.... teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime." But unfortunately, the share price in fish accordingly plummet.
People/knowledge/empowerment vs. corporate/capitalistic avarice.
I am a fan of both, so I certainly don't sleep at night.
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I have had a couple of problems with dead icons in the "Games" folder. I couldn't delete, change, or move them, and had to go into the registry to remove them. Scary...
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I wonder why you bothered to install Seven, you obviously want an 98/XP/VISTA.SEVEN OS, I'm sure if you ask M$ nicely they'll knock one up for you, after all such a special customer as yourself they'll drop everything, one month, you haven't broke the suface yet, and your on your soapbox.
This is a negative thread. Please play nice. It's my soapbox too.
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@periboob - I agree about the reg edits- and most of what you said in your "Long" post, were good and valid points.
I don't like libraries either. Most of the solutions I have seen simply hide them. I don't WANT to get used to them.There needs to be an easy way to make them totaly go away for people who would rather not have them. One that does not involve reg edits. Not only are they something I dont want or need, and an annoyance (To me), There is something just plain scary about something that snoops across my hard drive(s) and delivers a list of filies in one "Convenient" place. Big brother anyone? (I have indexing turned off too. I'll wait a few more seconds for a search.)
I don't have anything to hide; and lets face it, if some entity wanted info off a hard drive connected to the internet, they can still get it. I like my privacy though. Lets not make things TO easy. :) Don't get me wrong.... Just because i'm paranoid dosn't mean everyone has to be also. I'm not saying get rid of libraries, Just make them easy to get rid of for people who don't want or need them. I too, do not lose files on my hard drive, and like the way I have things organized. I rather resent someone "helping". (Although I DO realize there are people out there that appreciate the help.)
Summary:
1.To many reg edits that need to be a menu option in the GUI.
2. Keep libraries for those that like them, but make them easy to get rid of, (Totaly gone. Not just hidden.) for those that don't want or need them.
I'll step down for now... anyone else want up here? :)
Last edited by cbleman; 09 Aug 2010 at 15:37.
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The few probs i did find has been fixed by the Beta of SP1 i am using
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HA....i'll wait till "SP" 7 comes out....LOL....maybe they'll call it...Windows WMATSOB (we're moving at the speed of boring)... maybe then MS would be at the level of simplicity as Apple and the level of flexibility as Linux.
......NAH.....
that'll be impossible...cause their motto is and always will be "one step forward and two steps back"
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This is a Vista & 7 dislike (I skipped Vista): On Recording Devices, the Stereo Mix or sound card is no longer allowed to record audio. I am certain Microsoft gave in to the Digital Rights Management and Intellectual Property arguments, but not everyone wanted these features to pirate software.
i-Sound Recorder for Windows 7 will allow me to work around this, but I hate adding third party tools. Also, I still can't capture the Visual Studio applications that I create to provide demos with sound to my end users.
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This is a Vista & 7 dislike (I skipped Vista): On Recording Devices, the Stereo Mix or sound card is no longer allowed to record audio. I am certain Microsoft gave in to the Digital Rights Management and Intellectual Property arguments....
Nope you are wrong. I have StereoMix on my card. It is up to the manufactures to implement it into there drivers. Microsoft does not block it.
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Nope you are wrong. I have StereoMix on my card. It is up to the manufactures to implement it into there drivers. Microsoft does not block it.
I'm not 100% sure I believe this, but I'll go with it since I can't prove the contrary on your system.
So most older PCs, that were built prior to Win7, would likely not be able to support this.
Correct?
When shopping for a new PC (not this year, of course), is there a way to verify that StereoMix is supported on them?
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Any REAL sound card like someting from m-audio or anything like that has full in/out/mix/monitor recording. Built-in audio is fine for beeps and boops and maybe listening to mp3s but if you care about actually recording audio or making music you'll be getting a real sound device anyway anyway. I'm not sure that any motherboards come with any decent audio built in. I do believe that such devices were pressured into not supporting monitor/mix recording actually. But there is NO WAY they can get away with that wholesale as PCs for DAW work would completely die.
If you can get your hands on a demo model you can try going into the control panel or audio settings and rying it out maybe, playing the built in music "sample" files and using the built in sound recorder... But if audio recording is important, buy a cheap Delta 44 or something and be golden.
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Just to state that that my audio is a simple on-board realtek chip and I have "what you hear" as an input device - though it is a hidden device by default
