What don't you like about Windows 7?

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Thank you for this information. I have been pulling my hair out over this since I installed windows. This was very beneficial.

MitchellEve said:

After using Windows 7 since the first build, being a real beta tester for Windows 7 I'm a little disappointed with Microsoft as some stuff they just didn't bother changing or fixing etc.. so heres my list.

1. Icons: Icons in the system it doesn't matter where I go but I will usually find an icon that is from Windows XP or before. It really just makes the system look out dated and inconsistent. I was hoping for a completely new set of icons in Windows 7 - all the current ones scraped.

I agree that this is a shame. This has been an issue with recent Windows releases and is annoying though not a deal breaker

2. Search: Search is better than Vista and XP but its not really instant and I hate it how it shows system files.

System files and / or the system locations may be removed from the Search index to fine tune the search output

3. Libraries: This is a great idea in Windows 7 but sadly the customization for it is really bad, you can't change the icons without using a 3rd party application.

Another oversight that although not a major issue is again annoying, can be done without 3rd party tools but the editing of system files is a little bit XP (Check out tutorials section for how to change icons)

4. UAC: user account control still doesn't have remember these settings.

This would be easy to implement but as has been said a very bad idea, the information would need to be stored somewhere and it would not be long before the very malware we want to stop would be reading this information and impersonating "remembered" apps to defeat security.

5. Screensavers: A lot of my favourite Windows screensavers are gone

the list goes on.

Again an unfortunate fact but as many of these were shipped with xp and before keeping them would tend to date the OS look and feel

DutchBigEd said:

I have a mp3 player, and in XP I opened a map with mp3 files, did Ctrl A, Ctrl C, opened the mp3 players map and clicked Ctrl V (or: select all, copy and paste) and than the pc started copying until the mp3-player was full.
In 7 I do the same, but if I select to much mp3's the pc will not start copying until I select less that the size of the player.

Thats a hassle...

I feel for you in your clever use of an oversight in XP but this sort of functionality is just as likely to result in someone not copying an important file assuming that they had selected it

BunBun said:

I don't appreciate my screen space being wasted thank you. I'll take my nice and tidy toolbars any day.

Right-click on the tab section of the ribbon, minimize.
Also hitting "ALT" will bring up keyboard shortcut indicators.