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ditto
After the screen goes black, when it's been sitting for awhile (I have a Dell laptop) I swipe my finger across the mouse pad and wait a bit and if the machine doesn't revive I tap the power button to get it out of hibernation. Starting about two days ago that quit working. I can tell the machine is on, but it won't wake up, so I have to hold down the power button and count to ten. Now I've got applications that are freezing, randomly. Winamp just froze for no apparent reason and I'm going to have to reboot to clear it from the system. Task manager is unable to remove the dead app. What's worse is that it's on the screen but not in the applications list, although it's still in the process list.
Yeah that's pretty common when apps die before the UI threads are up or after the UI threads are closed but the app is not completely out of memory (One thread or dll is locked up and still hung)
Completely random behavior like that, especially deadlocked apps or OS with no bluescreen or reboot is possibly caused by memory issues. Possibly the motherboard itself if not a memory module specifically. Could be other things but is seems like most of the time it's hardware that's having a problem.
Hate to rain on 'can't think of anything' parade, but...
2 things I HATE.
1. Folder windows (unlike program windows) do not remember their size and position
2. While I love pinning program icons to taskbar, I hate that when more than one window open under one and you right click on icon, there is no MINIMIZE ALL choice.
oops, I only read the first page before I posted this, I am sure there must be some negative stuff in these 179 pages besides my contribution, but doubt I'll have time to read through this massive thread.
Last edited by drumtrucker; 11 Jul 2010 at 03:30. Reason: additional comment
Have you set Windows Explorer to "Run: Maximised"?
I have my windows set to maximised and most of the time they open full screen (sometimes they don't).
I also maximised my windows, before I saved the "view" template (I don't know if that makes a difference).
You can click on the "Show desktop" button (far right of the Task bar) to hide all the windows.
You can also press the "Windows logo key + D".
I'm not sure if that was what you meant or not.
I'm in that same boat. I think HP wants to sell new printers instead of making our older ones compatible with Win 7.
HP screwed their customer with the move to Win2k, XP and Vista. I wouldn't expect W7 to be any different.
I had a 6 month old HP printer that they would not upgrade the drivers for once.
Never bought from them again and it looks like they are no better today than they were 10 years ago.
1. I dont like that some of the new features are not easily customizable, IE the tab in folders, thats why I created a tut to get rid of it I hated it so much.
2. You dont have as much control as you used to over folders. I miss the days when you said to delete something it would unless it was in use. If you wanted to delete a program without running uninstall you could!
3. Bloated, I remember the days when the operating system wasnt over 100mb, so 2 gigs are you serious? (Dont get me started on games)
Other than those I love it. I just really hate the lack of easy customization, that always really drives me up the wall.