What don't you like about Windows 7?

[harpua]

Yes, it leaves the Test Mode watermark bottom right. I don't mind that but if it bothers anyone, I believe it can be removed with DSEO's watermark remover or another watermark remover. Personally, I don't like to mess with the watermarks though as I think it might lead to future problems and I don't even notice the Test Mode watermark anymore. (I'm running with two unsigned, but signed by me, drivers, so Test Mode is enabled on my system.)

 

[galo71]

cpu fan at full speed when returning from sleep

When returning from sleep, my cpu fan goes full speed. It takes a reboot to give back speed control to the settings in bios (Abit AMD MB). No big deal, though, for I set the computer to sleep after 2 hours, just in case I forget do turn it off when I go out. But It'd be good to have a fix for this problem.

 

[dan7777]

sleep mode on rtm dont work for me thats my only gripe oh! and GTA 4 i cant get to work either apart that its god dam awsome

 

[tannim]

Task/Super bar... I don't like the task bar popping up the group of windows when I move my mouse over it. Such as for an IM program with many message windows open. If I accidently move my mouse over it, a window popus up blocking my clicking on the active window under it.
Tool Tip popups don't go away sometimes for a long time, other times, they just keep popping back up again and again until you click a different program and back on the bar.
Cannot make the Shift right click menu the new default right click menu and have the old right click menu the new shift right click menu.
Cannot disable the taskbar popup that shows the open windows for each program with an X to close them.

Safely Remove Hardware - Does not offer a "Close Open Files" option to allow you to remove a drive that SOMETHING is supposedly accessing but nothing you are running.

Don't like this stuff in Windows Explorer-
Cannot turn off Remember Folder Views to force all folders to be like the last one no matter what.
Cannot disable Compressed files as folders view without registry hacking.
Related to Remember Folder Views - Folders with MP3 have different details displayed and have to be changed one by one and they do not seem to be remembered.
Seems to be impossible to display file size in bytes instead of KB and MB
Defaults to that stupid Hide Known Extensions
Does not focus well
Shows folders at the bottom of lists instead of at the top

With Calculator - History should show more than the last operation
scientific calculator should show Hex along with everything else

Network -
No modem lights to show when data is sent or recieved
Cannot Auto Serve Ad-hoc networks
Ad-Hoc networks will not save security code
Will not automatically connect to ad-hoc networks
Clicking on a network does not give an option to open properties where you can change the network's details.

Start Menu - No second chance Shutdown. You press it and YOU ARE SHUTTING DOWN whether you accidently clicked it or not. XP gave a nice second window to verify.
I feel the old Classic start menu works better for me, but I don't open it that often anyway.

UAC - is a joke that I shut off. It can't remember selections for each program or action, so it's of no value.

Direct X and a few dll libraries Compatability - It does not come with msvcr71.dll which is required for paintchat and a few other things.
Is incompatable with some Direct x commands and games/programs that use them will not work. Survival Crisis Z for example
I'm sure there are more, but this is enough for now.

 

[mickey megabyte]

Task/Super bar... I don't like the task bar popping up the group of windows when I move my mouse over it. Such as for an IM program with many message windows open. If I accidently move my mouse over it, a window popus up blocking my clicking on the active window under it.
Tool Tip popups don't go away sometimes for a long time, other times, they just keep popping back up again and again until you click a different program and back on the bar.
Cannot make the Shift right click menu the new default right click menu and have the old right click menu the new shift right click menu.
Cannot disable the taskbar popup that shows the open windows for each program with an X to close them.

Safely Remove Hardware - Does not offer a "Close Open Files" option to allow you to remove a drive that SOMETHING is supposedly accessing but nothing you are running.

Don't like this stuff in Windows Explorer-
Cannot turn off Remember Folder Views to force all folders to be like the last one no matter what.
Cannot disable Compressed files as folders view without registry hacking.
Related to Remember Folder Views - Folders with MP3 have different details displayed and have to be changed one by one and they do not seem to be remembered.
Seems to be impossible to display file size in bytes instead of KB and MB
Defaults to that stupid Hide Known Extensions
Does not focus well
Shows folders at the bottom of lists instead of at the top

With Calculator - History should show more than the last operation
scientific calculator should show Hex along with everything else

Network -
No modem lights to show when data is sent or recieved
Cannot Auto Serve Ad-hoc networks
Ad-Hoc networks will not save security code
Will not automatically connect to ad-hoc networks
Clicking on a network does not give an option to open properties where you can change the network's details.

Start Menu - No second chance Shutdown. You press it and YOU ARE SHUTTING DOWN whether you accidently clicked it or not. XP gave a nice second window to verify.
I feel the old Classic start menu works better for me, but I don't open it that often anyway.

UAC - is a joke that I shut off. It can't remember selections for each program or action, so it's of no value.

Direct X and a few dll libraries Compatability - It does not come with msvcr71.dll which is required for paintchat and a few other things.
Is incompatable with some Direct x commands and games/programs that use them will not work. Survival Crisis Z for example
I'm sure there are more, but this is enough for now.

apart from that, how are you finding your new OS?

 

[tannim]

It's... better than Vista : )

Sadly, I've been in Operating System Limbo for a while
I needed a new one. Linux is a joke for most things, XP is too old to buy, I'm not going to waste money on vista beyond the one that came with my laptop(which I installed Linux on after giving Vista a few months).

I installed Windows 7 beta on the laptop and it runs better overall. video drivers are not effective for Windos 7 but an old vista driver works better in some things and not in others.

 

[Kari]

apart from that, how are you finding your new OS?

:roflmao:

 

[Dazeon]

My main issue with Windows 7 is the severe lack of 'fit and finish' present in the OS.

From a performance, stability, usability perspective, the OS is near perfect.

Sadly from an aesthetic perspective, I feel it is extremely lacking.

I appreciate that it isn't the most important area of an OS but as an official beta tester for Vista, 7, and a member of the Windows Early Feedback team, it is something I have been passionate about for some time.

I feel a new/replacement (complete, as in totally complete, as in every single one) icon set is long overdue, and I honestly did believe we would get one for RTM.

The current hybrid set we have is IMHO just plain disgusting. There are the icons from 95 and 98 that look dire and extremely old, icons from XP that don't scale correctly and look (I'll get shot for this ) like something from Fisher Price! Icons from Vista that look OK, but with the general shift in overall UI colour, the yellow just doesn't fit. Adding insult to injury they teased us with some lovely blue ones and never followed up on them. Just look at the icons in the Start Menu, or User folder, especially the Start Menu being one of the first things you see... They don't match, and there's nothing uniform about them. The whole UI is utterly inconsistent.

Again, but perhaps not as important, is the lack of any new screensavers, and any new visualizations for Media Player (and themes) and Media Center. They even removed some screensavers and we haven't had any new visualisations since XP, possibly even ME!

As we all know the supposed Aero Diamond was nothing more than a mistaken rumour, however I think an XP/classic theme would have instilled greater confidence with corporate users and those who wish to cling on to XP.
Plus an alternative theme for those that dislike Aero, perhaps even allow unsigned themes as a default, although this isn't so important for me.

OK, so had they done that, which I really don't think is a lot to ask after the Ultimate Extras debacle, the cost of the OS, and the amount of time they've had (Vista included), then I would be 100% pro Windows 7.

Don't get me wrong, I love the OS, I really do, it has come on leaps and bounds and MS are to be admired for its performance and stability over Vista, I just think, as with all Microsoft beta programs, they truly do wonderful things then fall at the last hurdle.

 

[dmb219]

sleep mode on rtm dont work for me thats my only gripe oh! and GTA 4 i cant get to work either apart that its god dam awsome

Try going to device manager-network adapter-properties-power mgt and uncheck allow this device to wake the computer. That worked for me.

 

[harpua]

I just thought of something (albeit minor) that I really don't like and that is the green download bar with its synchronized flashing that has nothing to do with the speed of the download or its progress. This is a hold over from Vista that I was hoping would get changed, but alas no. I would much prefer just a plain green progress bar with no fancy flashing light effects, but I don't want to give up the rest of the aero UI just for this one minor annoyance. If anyone knows how to change this, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

 

[fakeasdf]

@LordBob Just out of curiosity, what issues do you have with L4D and steam? I play L4D all the time in Win 7. Granted I'm at 7229 now, but I don't remember having any issues from the 7000+.

 

[Lordbob75]

@LordBob Just out of curiosity, what issues do you have with L4D and steam? I play L4D all the time in Win 7. Granted I'm at 7229 now, but I don't remember having any issues from the 7000+.

It was mostly on my laptop in Florida, but I have been freezing on certain servers, as well as other random freezing.
Also, the Half-Life 2 demo won't launch. Nor would EVE launch from steam on my laptop. :/

~Lordbob

 

[pparks1]

1 major disappointment for me is the lack of "classic mode" within the Control Panel. That new system is a PITA to find anything. I have to use the darn search thing all the time just to find simple things...and I'd rather not find it that way. It's really my only significant complaint.

 

[akramh]

not that it's microsoft's fault, but some vendors like creative are too lazy to make new drivers that are compatable with windows 7, one of my PCs has a creative SB Live! and it doesn't work very well with windows 7, the driver that windows 7 uses for it, seems to work but not if I raise the volume, then I start to hear strange noise and some sounds interruptions while playing music or video, the sound seems to stop for a fraction of a second then contunie and so on. it was working fine on XP, so I returned to XP on that PC. my main PC that runs windows 7 has a realtek built-in audo that comes with the intel motherboard and seems to work fine but not 100%, sometimes if the volume is very high I get light sound interruptions as well, not sure if it's a windows 7 issue yet though I have installed XP as well on my Main computer and will try to see if the issue is still there or not.

another issue is memory, my old PC has only 512MB RDRAM ( Or rambus ) which can not be upgraded easily, for now I run XP on it, I tried windows 7 before on the same PC but it was kind of slugish compared to XP, I presume because windows 7 still eats more memory than XP.

other than those two issues, everything seems to work fine under windows 7.. I love it, I also installed it to my friend on his laptop who only has 512MB of ram and he said he loves it , despite the slow load times since he only has 512MB of memory.. he says the interface is much easier to use than XP

 

[zambz]

Hey all,

I think that Windows 7 is indeed a huge step forward, but I do unfortuantely still have a few gripes These are more general Windows annoyances rather than W7 specific items.

- There are too many places where settings can be saved for software, Users, registry, ini files .etc, it is hard to clean-up completely after an application is uninstalled.
- The registry is still a mess, why didn't they move to a full XML system instead? I realise it's a huge change, but I think it would be worth it.
- There is very little consistency with the GUI if you look into the details. As soon as you start adding 3rd party applications, things get even worse. Now with the addition of the "Ribbon" UI, you have yet another style of interface.
- There are still a few tiny bugs in the final RTM, e.g., Documents, Music .etc have the "My" prefix in Explorer. This can be fixed easily, but it is a bit annoying.
- The Intellipoint drivers & issues with Microsoft mouse scrollwheel since Vista are insanely bad, I can not believe they let this happen!! Final RTM has the same issue, for more detail, check out my post: http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/11562-microsoft-lazer-mice-scroll-wheel-problems-vista-w7.html

I have been playing around with OSX for the last 2 days after being on Microsoft products since DOS 5, and the things I mentioned above were the main things that were much better in OSX. Application interfaces are extremely consistent in OSX, menus all look the same, dialogs all look the same .etc I have installed maybe 100 apps on OSX to try out and the OS doesn't get slower, which is something I still find in Windows 7, even though it's so much better than XP in this regard.

Overall though, I think Microsoft are onto a winner with Windows 7. Windows 8 might be a great time for an overhaul though, strict GUI standards, 64-bit only, a better solution to the registry, a more unified application update system .etc

Cheers
Zambz

 

[Antman]

apart from that, how are you finding your new OS?

:roflmao:

:roflmao:

 

[Tepid]

The Intellipoint drivers & issues with Microsoft mouse scrollwheel since Vista are insanely bad, I can not believe they let this happen!! Final RTM has the same issue, for more detail, check out my post: Microsoft Lazer Mice Scroll Wheel Problems in Vista/W7

You need to realize that this is not a problem with 7 the OS.
It is a problem with the driver.
If they have not updated or fixed the driver you will have the problem.

So, this is not a negative on the OS, it is a negative on the Mouse Driver.

 

[staknhalo]

I have a shortcut on my desktop for Media Center. Everytime i try to right click>pin to taskbar, explorer crashes :/ I can drag and drop it no problem though. Oh silly Windows.

 

[DJG]

sleep mode on rtm dont work for me thats my only gripe oh! and GTA 4 i cant get to work either apart that its god dam awsome

Are you using hybrid sleep? If you are, try without it.

 

[zambz]

You need to realize that this is not a problem with 7 the OS.
It is a problem with the driver.
If they have not updated or fixed the driver you will have the problem.

So, this is not a negative on the OS, it is a negative on the Mouse Driver.

I would agree with you mate, but the issue occurs with the built-in Windows 7 drivers too, and the issue occurs with applications included in Windows 7 (e.g. Photo Preview).

End of the day, the thing should work with MS mice.