Let's get negative [2] - Windows 7 Minor annoyances

[Barman58]

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[Darician]

One thing I don't like about Windows 7 is that after a while, for apparently no reason, Live Window Previews in the taskbar stop working. Instead, all I get the color hovering over a window and nothing showing up unless I click on a taskbar item and drag it up. In Vista I never had a problem with these Live Previews. I can fix it by restarting explorer.exe but that's still rather annoying. Regardless of the video card, the video card driver version, 32-bit or 64-bit, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate, I get this issue no matter what.

I hope they fix this issue in SP1.

 

[wysiwyg]

What I find most annoying is people who are never satisfied, with M$'s best system ever.

 

[logicearth]

One thing I don't like about Windows 7 is that after a while, for apparently no reason, Live Window Previews in the taskbar stop working. Instead, all I get the color hovering over a window and nothing showing up unless I click on a taskbar item and drag it up. In Vista I never had a problem with these Live Previews. I can fix it by restarting explorer.exe but that's still rather annoying. Regardless of the video card, the video card driver version, 32-bit or 64-bit, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate, I get this issue no matter what.

I hope they fix this issue in SP1.

What are you doing when the thumbnails disappear? Usually this happens when the buffer (video ram) holding the information is cleared, either sleeping or a game for example. Or when the application in question no longer updates itself and its cleared from the buffer. This is a side effect of using WDDM 1.1 drivers, previous version held two copies of the buffer-data one in System RAM the other in Video RAM. Now with 1.1 drivers only one copy is kept in Video RAM.

It will likely not be fixed, because its not actually broken. You only need to open the minimized applications to refresh there thumbnail after it was cleared from the buffer.

 

[Phone Man]

Errors in Event Viewer and when you check the online link the error has no information. Really have to dig sometimes to find the cause.

Jim

 

[Barman58]

Errors in Event Viewer and when you check the online link the error has no information. Really have to dig sometimes to find the cause.

Jim

This is not just a win7 issue - I use one piece of management software that maintains an on-line Wiki style error message database.

Quite often I get "there is no information on this error?", "do you know this error?", "would you like to add an explanation for this error?"

 

[tuckeratlarge]

There is only one annoyance I can think of...

When I have windows explorer open and have the contents of a folder open in list view. The list of folders in the right pane obviously goes into several columns. The first column is fully visible and then the next is slightly obscured by the boundaries of the window, no problem in that, but when I then double click on one of the folders that is slightly obscured instead of opening it shoots to the left. Then I have to re double click to open it. Why can't it just open?

 

[ZaLiTH]

I have one minor issue with Windows 7, no idea if this happened in Vista as well (never really used it)... It's a bit tricky to explain though.

When browsing any folder list (best example I can think of is the "Copy To Folder" option), clicking once on a folder name auto expands the list of sub-folders, and then scrolls up the list so the cllicked folder is at the bottom of the list. From there you need to scroll down to see the sub-folders.

Although, if you click the small arrow next to the folder instead of the folder name, then it behaves as XP does with showing the sub-folders without the user having to scroll.

So far that's the only problem I have with Windows 7...

 

[Forwox]

Seven is fantastic. Microsoft did a great job.

But there is one thing for me. Why I can't place folders in order like I want and save it just like it does when it gets auto arranged by names?

 

[Darician]

One thing I don't like about Windows 7 is that after a while, for apparently no reason, Live Window Previews in the taskbar stop working. Instead, all I get the color hovering over a window and nothing showing up unless I click on a taskbar item and drag it up. In Vista I never had a problem with these Live Previews. I can fix it by restarting explorer.exe but that's still rather annoying. Regardless of the video card, the video card driver version, 32-bit or 64-bit, Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate, I get this issue no matter what.

I hope they fix this issue in SP1.

What are you doing when the thumbnails disappear? Usually this happens when the buffer (video ram) holding the information is cleared, either sleeping or a game for example. Or when the application in question no longer updates itself and its cleared from the buffer. This is a side effect of using WDDM 1.1 drivers, previous version held two copies of the buffer-data one in System RAM the other in Video RAM. Now with 1.1 drivers only one copy is kept in Video RAM.

It will likely not be fixed, because its not actually broken. You only need to open the minimized applications to refresh there thumbnail after it was cleared from the buffer.

I think you misunderstand my issue. That was the same deal in Vista that if I minimized some windows, the thumbnail was not accurate. That's not the problem. The problem is after a while if I go through the open items I have, instead of getting live previews, all that will show is the name of the program (like XP). I'll try to get a screenshot of the problem so you can get a better idea of what I'm saying as it's a bit difficult to explain.

 

[Thorsen]

I have seen an issue with themes. I set up my own theme with backgrounds colors and screensaver and then name it. It is named "ExampleA". I am using ExampleA, and want to change something and save it. If I change the wallpapers (or color or any other component), it creates a new "Unnamed Theme". I then have to save this as ExampleA, but it doesn't overwrite it. Instead I have two ExampleA themes listed. I then have to delete the first "ExampleA" theme that I initially just wanted to edit....

Does this make sense or am I doing it wrong?

 

[Barman58]

Thorsen,

No it doesn't make sense but it's the way it happens for me to

BTW your description made perfect sense it's Microsoft's implementation that doesn't

 

[merkat106]

What annoys me is how easy it is for the taskbar to disappear and only leave the start menu orb behind. This has happened to two different pcs running different flavors of Windows 7. This has never happened in either xp or vista.

Kudos to Brink who told me how to fix this

I just want to know what causes this out of curiosity? I know that one laptop that does it was loaded from a 7 disc that I had used vlite to tweak and add drivers. Vlite must do something that causes this...

 

[ZaLiTH]

Seven is fantastic. Microsoft did a great job.

But there is one thing for me. Why I can't place folders in order like I want and save it just like it does when it gets auto arranged by names?

Try these steps:
1- Right click on Start Menu and select Properties
2- Click on Customize
3- Scroll all the way down and uncheck the "Sort All Programs menu by name" item
4- Click OK on the Customize Start Menu window, then OK on the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window

Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for, but after this you should be able to re-arrange the items inside All Programs by drag/drop.

 

[Forwox]

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that. Well, that's pretty close to that what I'm looking for. The same thing with re-arrange but not in the All Programs menu, I'm looking that for folder like for example "Pictures", where I got 128 folders and in each folder 100 photos. I want to arrange those folders by the dates (dates are wrong and missing), that's why I want manual arrange for one folder. It would be so great.

 

[ZaLiTH]

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that. Well, that's pretty close to that what I'm looking for. The same thing with re-arrange but not in the All Programs menu, I'm looking that for folder like for example "Pictures", where I got 128 folders and in each folder 100 photos. I want to arrange those folders by the dates (dates are wrong and missing), that's why I want manual arrange for one folder. It would be so great.

Oh... I see now. Sorry about that, I misread your other post.

 

[KremmenUK]

It's annoying that I have to create a BAT file to play all my AOE games otherwise the game colours are all to pot.

The BAT file kills of Explorer.exe prior to launching the game which then doesn't mess with the colours.



It's also annoying that I cannot get at some files to delete them, even under full Admin mode.

 

[RST101]

What I find most annoying is people who are never satisfied, with M$'s best system ever.

I remember saying this in the first thread that was initiated many months ago, for some there is just no pleasing them.

 

[Forwox]

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that. Well, that's pretty close to that what I'm looking for. The same thing with re-arrange but not in the All Programs menu, I'm looking that for folder like for example "Pictures", where I got 128 folders and in each folder 100 photos. I want to arrange those folders by the dates (dates are wrong and missing), that's why I want manual arrange for one folder. It would be so great.

Oh... I see now. Sorry about that, I misread your other post.

It's okay, thanks for your tip anyway. It means that the thing what I want is not possible?

 

[ZaLiTH]

Thanks for the tip, didn't know that. Well, that's pretty close to that what I'm looking for. The same thing with re-arrange but not in the All Programs menu, I'm looking that for folder like for example "Pictures", where I got 128 folders and in each folder 100 photos. I want to arrange those folders by the dates (dates are wrong and missing), that's why I want manual arrange for one folder. It would be so great.

Oh... I see now. Sorry about that, I misread your other post.

It's okay, thanks for your tip anyway. It means that the thing what I want is not possible?

That I'm not sure about; you might want to start a new thread in the General Discussion - Windows 7 Forums section of the forums. I might be wrong, but I suspect certain users avoid this particular thread, so they may not see your question in here...