What don't you like about Windows 7?

stew2 said:

So far i dont like what they have done to:

• still no easy way to make the user folder point to a different drive or partition

Stew, I agree with what you say, however, I have discovered this. Perhaps it will help to alleviate some of your frustrations.

Firstly, you can disable libraries (mostly). Though, if you do this, several startmenu items will disappear. (documents, personal, pictures, videos, etc). Here's the link.. How to Disable “Libraries” Feature in Windows 7? - Tweaking with Vishal

With the pointing personal folders, go to regedit and navigate to user shell folders... \hkcu\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\user shell folders.

Edit the personal key. Mine is set to a network location; a shared folder on a server. You can change most of them. Of course, you should consider taking a backup before you play with the registry.

If you have libraries enabled it will complain that the personal folder points to an unsupported location (M$ way of telling you they want you to do it their way, not your way). You can disable that nag tho.

It aint flash, but it works.

Please forgive if I should not have provided answers in this thread, of if you have already come across this solution.

Cheers Yanta but iv come to the conclusion that iv just got to put up with the libraries feature. If i get rid of it then my start menu entries etc go missing. Its not a big deal as i rarely use the start menu anyway but it just seems stupid that microsoft didnt give an option to get rid of this

As for the personal folder they have improved it however i still had to go into the registry when i installed 7 and change every C:\Users to D:\Users so that my app data etc is moved . I just dont get why they havent made moving it easier.

Have yet to really use Win7 through I had a whirl with the RC before.
Things I don't like are the circular back, forward and Start buttons.
Also the way the whole navigation change compared to XP, really need to get used to finding the things I want all over again.

But its not so bad, problem one can be solved with visual styles and problem two is just a matter of time.
Until I go into really using it then maybe more major stuff perhaps.

can fave flat thumbnails on folders

I just switched from Vista to Win 7. First of all, the language bar keeps popping out every time the UAC shows up. It's annoying! I set it to not dim and it fixed the problem. But the view button in the slide show gadget doesn't work. Tried everything and it still wouldn't work!!

cbleman said:

Uzi said:

Windows Explorer in my XP system was working fine.
I do not like the way Windows 7 farked it up by not allowing me to set it up
to operate in the same way as I could with XP.

Still searching for alternatives to Windows Explorer as the one in Win 7 leaves me less than
luke warm.

It is Different, and there have been minor issues brought up in this forum. Anything specific?

everything about it?

It is generally harder to navigate drives in the explorer replacement, certianly the new library system is aweful.

Some quick specifics.

1 - computer in the navigation window is nowhere near the top, microsoft deem favourites, libraries, network navigation all more important than accessing local hard drives as they all positioned above it.
2 - drives are only viewable when computer is expanded.
3 - the address bar where one could type the path in manually is gone, instead replaced by a cumbersome click bar which only shows a small part of the path.

Now if this stuff is fixed by configuration I would love to know how thanks.