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For the most part, I love Win 7. I work with Linux all day long at my jobby job, and though there are some general percs to Linux (IE: Always knowing what is running, what it is for, and just generally having more control), I must say, I feel more in control in Win 7 than I did even back with Windows xp.
My machine runs constantly, never restarts, never bogs, never grows tierd or sluggish. When I come back to it in the morning, it is just as snappy as when I left it, and it is even pretty to look upon. I enjoy the new monitors that come built in as well as some of the other features. Libraries are really starting to take off in my system, as I have over 7 hard drives, and more files than I know what to do with. Even though I have spent hours re-organizing, I like the fact that with libraries, I can go to one central place to look for things.. Cool..
Home groups are a potential complaint. For instance, I had a friend bring his 7 laptop over to my house last weekend, and for the life of us, we could not get his machine joined to my homegroup. It was not a huge hassle, as we were able to network the machines in other ways.
I have also had some trubs networking 7 with xp, but I am sure that was just my own ignorance on the subject. Still, I spent 30 minutes trying to join workgroups, etc.. and still could not access all files.. I solved that one, by installing 7 on the xp laptop, and I gotta tell yah, it runs better with 7 than it did before with xp..
I would change some things about explorer.. For instance, I wish I could prioritize the order in which the folders on the left are listed.. IE: Favorites, Libraries, Homegroup, Computer, Network. As Homegroup is next to useless, I sort of wish it could go Favories, Libraries, Computer, Network, Homegroups.. Also, I wich there was a way to open dual view in Explorer.. two locations in one window. Don't get me wrong, snap is nice, and makes resizing windows to get both locations side by side a bit easier, but I still wish Microsoft would catch on to this feature, that is gettable only through 3rd party apps like Directory opus.. Pasting files into an open crowded folder is not as easy as it should be. I like to run with check box next to files turned on, and that small space between the folder view and the check box is the only place one can right click and paste in order to make Win7 not try to paste to one of the files/folders in the directory.
I think copying and pasting of big files, or big bunches of files is slower than it should be, or than it is in other OS's, and this has remained true even with 3rd party apps like Teracopy installed.
I am attending a developer seminar in Minneapolis tomorrow, and will be receiving a free copy of 7 as an attendee. For the most part, I love this OS more than any other.. Those are my only gripes..
