What don't you like about Windows 7?

[Dasumianco]

Outdated? Well, most of the industri is outdated. When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's then when we saw science fiction about year 2000, then we all walk around in silver-clothes, we have robots, to wash our cars, make our dinner, cleaning the house, and some special robots to take care of our sexlife.

In reallity, all we got is a robot vacuum cleaner, that is not very good at cleaning, and it hurts if it has to take care of my sexlife .

Other than that, I hate that I have the green squares in the bootscreen instead of the new "orb", that nobody seems to be able to solve, and I know I'm not the only one with this problem.

I might be odd, but I don't like, that Outlook Express don't come along Windows 7. Windows live mail, is a big slow program compared to it. WLM can do a lot more tahn OE, but I don't need that! I want my OE back.

Check your inbox m8, have sent you the solution.. not sure if posting the link on the forum was allowed..

 

[chuckr]

What don't you like about Windows 7?

The default 'girly-girl' desktop in RTM.

Improper 'octal' display in Calc.

Other than that, not bad, not bad......

 

[Sven]

Check your inbox m8, have sent you the solution.. not sure if posting the link on the forum was allowed..

If this is the solution to the green squares you have sendt Burgurne, may I also recieve "something" in my inbox, please?

Like Burgurne, I also really hate this green square bootscreen, especially since you guys told me, that it is because I have a crappy PC.

I miss OE very much!

I would love to be able to switch place and look of the "start-orb" (START-button in XP) on the taskbar in different themes and/or colorchanges.

I don't like, that it is so hard (or me being stupid) to disable all prefetch and superprefetch as I have a SSD as system-drive.

In reallity, all we got is a robot vacuum cleaner, that is not very good at cleaning, and it hurts if it has to take care of my sexlife .

:roflmao: Is it you or the vacuum cleaner that's get hurt?

 

[pwr]

I'm so annoyed by the pin issue that I'm thinking about using objectdock instead of the superbar =(

 

[Dave Hedgehog]

Call me old fashioned but i do miss the classic control panel. I'm sure it's just a case of 're-learning' where everything is exactly, but that really does grind my gears lol.

Oh and the occasional BSOD of course; but that's just standard ...

 

[FullyLoadedMan]

The shocking framerates in steam games, Particularly the Episode 2 engine games eg.. Team Fortress 2, L4D, Portal

 

[geometrikal]

UAC needs a permit list. "Always Allow" Some hacker should be able to figure this out.

Not sure if anyone has replied but there is one for Vista... might work in 7 dunno... http://www.symantec.com/norton/theme.jsp?themeid=labs_uac&header=0&depthpath=0

 

[Bumpus]

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.

I can relate to this one. Had the same issue finding stuff and it drove me nuts! (not a long drive tho )

Anyway, pparks1...click on 'details' (I think) in the upper, right corner. This will bring up ALL the typical Control Panel icons instead of that "helpful" grouping that shows by default.

 

[kdogg]

I don't like how thick the new tool bar is. I ended up doing this to make it more like Vista/XP'ish though:

How make Windows 7 task bar to look like Vista - Members Adventures - The Digital Lifestyle.com: Windows Media Center news, podcasts, videos, forums and wikis

 

[Mixelangel]

I miss the mini bar mode and "search in library" from WMP...
I love the thickness of the taskbar... but I do agree that the older one was more stylish.

 

[Antman]

I really do not like the system stability. The smoothness of the transition is a real let down, also. All of my drivers work well and that certainly detracts from learning anything new about the hardware.

I can say that I am glad that damned up arrow is gone. And the default Control Panel layout is a thing of beauty.

Oddly, I have a new found fondness for our Hoover.

 

[Dogz]

I can't think of anything bad about it although it doesn't seem to have that glory of XP. One of the best things is that it is so small XP took up 2 gigs.

 

[peterevo]

The way the icons stay orange once I've clicked the a program on the taskbar.

 

[rudifer]

1. The taskbar could be a tiiiiny bit smaller. Plus, I'd like icons to magnify, like the Mac OS dock.

2. MS left in a lot of GUI elements that (by now) should be changed.

3. Lack of a "Gaming Mode", in which explorer.exe is killed when playing a game.

4. Gadgets are still ugly, and annoying to use. I'd rather it be like Mac OS X, where you push a key, and gadgets come up.

I've noticed that when i go into Windows Color and Appearance > (item)Caption Buttons and decrease the size, the superbar icons get smaller as well. Might just be my copy(although it happens to work on three different RC's) but you should give it a shot. Makes it look a bit off at times.

 

[Firestrider]

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For me some annoyances are that I can't disable tap-to-click on the touchpad natively in windows, and every time I enter a flash thumbdrive windows media player wants to switch back to library view

 

[Exodus]

I dont like the way the windows in the taskbar are coloured according to relevance if you know what I mean. For example I have two instances of WinRAR open, they both highlight red when I mouse over.
I know its only small but I can read, I can see the icon next to the label and I can clearly see that theyre both WinRAR. I dont see the need for ugly colours.

 

[Everlong]

Only thing that I can't stand is the Control Panel layout. It's just a mass of icons now.

 

[rudifer]

Only thing that I can't stand is the Control Panel layout. It's just a mass of icons now.

You can click on 'View by' and select small icons. This way is waaay less annoying.

 

[Exodus]

Its still annoying though I find, I preferred the old classic layout.

 

[Bumpus]

Blue Screens

It just didn't like my hard drive and blue screens were a daily occurance. Had to go back to XP x64 on this box.

(works GREAT on my Lenovo x40, p.o.s. )

I'll second the "access to Network Properties" mentioned by several others. It IS a nuisance to drill down to network and wireless network properties.