Win 7 - build 7022 has been leaked!

Studulike said:

Just forgot what I was typing why I was typing. lol Hell I am getting old. lol

lol, it could have been worse. You could have been replying to a different topic on a completely different forum

smoaky said:

Now if we can have an option to show or not to show icons instead of the option to show desktop items that would be nice.
As it is currently if you uncheck show desktop items your gadgets dissapper also along with your icons.
Should be an option for icons only

That's what the feedback button is for :)

smoaky said:

Now if we can have an option to show or not to show icons instead of the option to show desktop items that would be nice.
As it is currently if you uncheck show desktop items your gadgets dissapper also along with your icons.
Should be an option for icons only

You better install 7022 then -- it's in there!

win7 said:

Your in luck you can now tick icons/gadgets:

Yeeehaw !!!!!! Awesome.. Isn't it amazing how some of us can be excited over such a trivial thing? But important to me though.
I am sure we all have our annoyances but to others seem insignificant.
Good ole freedom of speech huh?:)
Beta testers rule!!!

win7 said:

I would never of noticed if you did not say, i still fail to see the point of hiding icons? But yes i see the problem with how they had it set up before :)

Simply because if you choose a particular nice desktop background ....... kinda hard to enjoy it if you have to look at it thru all your desktop icons.
That is what a desktop toolbar is used for.

Ha! I had sent feedback telling them exactly to add this feature the first time I saw that disabling desktop icons removed also gadgets! Perhaps the actually listen to us after all!

limneos said:

Ha! I had sent feedback telling them exactly to add this feature the first time I saw that disabling desktop icons removed also gadgets! Perhaps the actually listen to us after all!

There ya go !!!
All the more reason to always...always... send your feedback. No matter what..... you just might make a difference
Good job limneos

I just finished the install and I'm running 7022 now...

A few things I noticed:

-- Its faster!!!

Control Panel has updated the sorting method....There is no "Show all control panel items" anymore, just a View by->Category, Small Icons, Large Icons

UAC doesn't ask for restart anymore when you turn it to the last level (off)

Gadgets work with UAC off by default, no tweaking needed.

The coloring of many windows such as Windows Update, Personalization, Computer properties etc has slightly changed

Action center has a few visual (for now) updates, including some activity to the taskbar icon

A Desktop Gadget Gallery icon has been added to the All programs start menu. It just opens the gadgets normal window.

Homegroup and Network windows have visual improvements.

That's it... Sorry if in my excitement I didn't read previous posts where all these could have been mentioned already...

Off to find more new thingies...

Limneos