Windows 7 Perceived Bugs & Glitches List

chev65 said:

Another big problem for me and I'am sure many others is that the favicons keep vanishing from my favorites list in Explorer. Every 12 hours or so they just vanish for no reason at all.

No it is not because I was delating temp files or using CCleaner. None of that happend and yet the favicons keep vanishing into thin air. This never happend once in Vista.

I have to go back to the sites to get them back. this has gone on with a new install with no other programs installed so it's not a compatiblity problem.

There are so many program errors and bugs I can't even count them all anymore.

To clear all your custom gadgets out go to task manager, close sidebar.exe and go to this folder C:/Users/User name/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows Sidebar/Gadgets/ and delete all the folders in there.

You may also want to delete the the settings in the folder up one level.

Your welcome chev65, can't help with IE8 I don't use it, I have always used Firefox and never had any problems with it, hopefully they will release an update for IE8 soon that will fix the problem for you.

Desktop icons disappear when you rename them (f5 brings them back)

If DWM can't start the system basically locks you out, not even Task Manager starts

Windows Media Player does what looks like some kind of pixellated dissolve transition from an old version of PowerPoint when you open a video and consecutive videos (vista didn't on my same gpu, geforce 7600, and no I've never had to download new gpu drivers for vista at all )

And I've mainly been on YouTube so far

Edit: Search in Explorer is still really bad.. seriously..

I did a search for a line of code I knew was in at least 1 file in that dir, I got no results so I trimmed it down to everything but normal characters and () ->, but it gives me only 6 (other) results. I thought maybe the search feature in Vista was bad because I hadn't been getting updates

rockerdoofus said:

I got this bug where i delete some files out of a game folder to generate the old files and remove all of the mods but after i delete the files and restart the game, it loads all the files like i didn't delete them. Any ideas why this is happening?

It depends really on which game you are talking about.

I'm going out on a limb here by guessing that the game is installed to the "C:\Program Files" (or "C:\Program Files (x86)" on 64 Bit) folder? The thing is, "Program Files" is considered a protected folder, and most operations are restricted. Usually only system tools and installer programs have the ability to modify the contents of "Program Files" and any sub-folders.

One solution that you can try when installing games would be to follow the installer program carefully, and then when you get to the screen that asks where you want to install to, change "Program Files" to something else. For example, when I install Diablo 2 to Windows 7 64 Bit, I change "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blizzard\Diablo 2" to "C:\Games\Diablo 2". That way, my games install into a non-protected folder. This also has the advantage of resolving alot of compatibility issues that some older games may have with Vista or Windows 7.

How do you think I got the original Diablo 1 to work?