Solved Does anyone actually LIKE Windows 7?

[Dabber]

Stay with what you have if it works for you.

That's what I want to do ! Windows XP

 

[Indianatone]

The one thing I have noticed about people in stores looking at new windows 8 machines, their first instinct is always to touch the screen because they just assume it's a touchscreen interface.

I may be weird but I have an aversion to anyone sticking their greasy finger prints all over my nice monitors.
I personally think that is a significant issue with touch screen, so many people have dirty hands and stick who knows what over their mouse and keyboard let alone the screen.

 

[Dabber]

In case you hadn't noticed the head of windows division has just "resigned".

And as someone in the know, you will know that Julie Larson-Green is "the new head of Windows". See, I can do it too .
I found that out by tiptoeing into the Windows 8 Forum! It's also on the Vista forum. Both courtesy of Brink.

 

[bigmck]

LET ME ADD (instead of creating a new post): If Windows 7 is so good and Windows XP so terrible, why did Microsoft create XP Mode in Windows 7? Did they realise they had been a little hasty in killing off XP?

I use Win XP at work and Win 7 at home. Both are good OS. I like Win 7 more but Win XP is fine also. Microsoft has to make money, hence a new OS.

 

[Dabber]

I use Win XP at work and Win 7 at home. Both are good OS. I like Win 7 more but Win XP is fine also. Microsoft has to make money, hence a new OS.

Yes, I agree about Microsoft having to make money. But can't some way be found for that to happen AND for us to have what WE want in OSs? Yes, I know. I'm being naive. Win XP is GREAT!
Are you not worried about the demise of Win XP - from a work point of view? Or do professional users have a separate professional system? OR . . . do you know something the rest of us don't?

[By the way, bigmck. That's my comment about XP Mode, not Bertison, in your previous post]

 

[Maguscreed]

XP mode was added largely to give support to ancient software people insist on using for no real reason.

Also there are people that use and praise xp to the walls having never actually tried anything since.
I'm not going to go into culture and how people needlessly hang on the past, it's a very real factor in things though.

It's like my uncle who constantly talks about how superior the recording quality was back in the 60's.
Despite the hiss coming out of the speakers.

...don't get me wrong I used xp for years and never had any significant problems with it outside of the fact creative labs can't make drivers.

That being said it got old, it's like 10 years old now and it seriously doesn't support many features I use on a daily basis.
Vista does, but I tried vista and wasn't a huge fan so went back to xp until 7 finally came out.

I see 7 as being the first real replacement for xp, I guess a lot of people are just having a hard time coming around. and/or don't even know about some of the features they are missing out on.
I suppose really old hardware might explain it as well, but in that realm its more out of necessity.

 

[bigmck]

Are you not worried about the demise of Win XP - from a work point of view? Or do professional users have a separate professional system? OR . . . do you know something the rest of us don't?

[By the way, bigmck. That's my comment about XP Mode, not Bertison, in your previous post]

I work for a small company and have an Owner in his late 60's. I can understand his reluctance to upgrade. In other circumstances, I would say he should upgrade. == Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

XP mode was added largely to give support to ancient software people insist on using for no real reason...

...other than no one made the equivalent software for Win7 or it's too expensive to replace with software that is Win7 compatible. It would have cost me $400 to upgrade the abandoned professional music notation software I used to use to one that would work on Win7 (I got lucky and got off cheaper).

 

[Britton30]

First of all Mr Moderator, apologies for (probably) putting this in the wrong forum. If there is a general comment forum, as opposed to asking general questions, I missed it. Please move me to the correct place. Thank you

My point - at last! - is that no-one I have spoken to likes Windows 7 and was much happier with Windows XP. I'm one of them. One of the people I spoke to didn't realise that XP was about to "die" (become unsupported).
Seven seems to be for people who want to get things done without too much thinking or expertise. Which is an insult from Microsoft for the more abler (and I'm not boasting) users who want to make top-notch DVDs and website and more . . .
So, here's a plea to whoever is left at Microsoft (the former top man had gone, I read): restore XP to the marketplace as Windows 9 (or 10 if version nine is too far underway). Yes, I would be happy to pay for it all over again just to be able to use it.
I seem to spend twice as much time trying to get Windows 7 to do what I want it to do as I actually do working on something.
The Library system is totally baffling to me. I once had something in SIX locations and deleted five as a waste of computer space and memory! I lost a DVD I was well into completing. I was left with just blank squares, some with question marks, where pictures used to be. No amount of trying to restore the files from the recycling bin brought them back.
Never had that problem with Windows XP.
Please Microsoft, give the more serious users a chance!

I used XP for, oh, about 7 years, I think, I loved it coming from 98SE. I have had w7 for nearly 3 years now and adore it!
If you're spending time trying to make w7 do what you want it to, stop. It doesn't need fiddling like XP did, and I did it a lot. All the same "fiddle points" are in 7 too but I don't need them so much. w7 can also fight back if the fiddling is not done correctly.
If you lost pictures trying to burn them to a DVD, you did something wrong, not the OS.
Libraries are a bit clunky though. If you showed something in 6 locations, you had apparently made copies/folders in those locations, a Library is a simple junction that point to locations and stores nothing in itself.

 

[Dabber]

By the way, bigmck. That's my comment about XP Mode, not Bertison, in your previous post.

"I work for a small company and have an Owner in his late 60's. I can understand his reluctance to upgrade. In other circumstances, I would say he should upgrade."

In his late 60s? Oh, you've no chance of getting an upgrade


"Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message. "

No problem. I don't mind - but Bertison might not wish to be associated with the sentiment . . . !

 

[Dabber]

I work for a small company and have an Owner in his late 60's. I can understand his reluctance to upgrade. In other circumstances, I would say he should upgrade. == Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message.

In his late 60s? Oh, you've no chance of getting an upgrade

"Sorry about messing up that quote in the other message. "

No problem. I don't mind - but Bertison might not wish to be associated with the sentiment . . . !

 

[Dabber]

He doesn't want to hear that.....he's just trollin.......

Not sure I know what you mean, indianacarnie, or I might reply!

 

[Dabber]

In answer to Britton30 . . .

"If you're spending time trying to make w7 do what you want it to, stop. It doesn't need fiddling like XP did, and I did it a lot."

No, I don't mean fiddling to change things to my way. I am trying to get things such as libraries to work.

"If you lost pictures trying to burn them to a DVD, you did something wrong, not the OS."
No, I was in mid edit and decided to have a clean out in the libraries. I hadn't got as far as burning to DVD.

"Libraries are a bit clunky though. If you showed something in 6 locations, you had apparently made copies/folders in those locations, a Library is a simple junction that point to locations and stores nothing in itself."
I had several versions of the video on the go at once, I think, using some of the scenes in different versions. Saving one version to go on to try something else.
However, I have brought the libraries a bit nearer to the old My Documents style of XP (visually) by selecting medium sized file icons. Don't think it has done much for the way libraries work for me. But I'll keep trying.

 

[DavidE]

from post #54 by Dabber

I wonder how far back in time the lovers of Windows 7 actually go?

I started with an Abacus, Stone Tablet, Hammer, and Chisel.
When i got Seven, I thought this is Heaven!

yea, i'm that old and started learning computers before MS had any OS.

 

[Dabber]

from post #54 by Dabber

I wonder how far back in time the lovers of Windows 7 actually go?

I started with an Abacus, Stone Tablet, Hammer, and Chisel.
When i got Seven, I thought this is Heaven!

yea, i'm that old and started learning computers before MS had any OS.

I believe you . . .

 

[bigmck]

However, I have brought the libraries a bit nearer to the old My Documents style of XP (visually) by selecting medium sized file icons. Don't think it has done much for the way libraries work for me. But I'll keep trying.

I think Libraries are really good and can't understand what problems you are having. == If you click on the Task Bar it takes you to "Documents", "Pictures" or what ever you might have installed in the Library. It is a shortcut to the place you want to go. What exactly don't you like about it?

 

[Dabber]

I think Libraries are really good and can't understand what problems you are having. == If you click on the Task Bar it takes you to "Documents", "Pictures" or what ever you might have installed in the Library. It is a shortcut to the place you want to go. What exactly don't you like about it?

If only it was that good I would not be taking part in a thread on Seven Forums. I have absolutely no idea where the Library - Pictures, Documents, whatever - is pointing me to. Not that it matters, I suppose, if I can see what I want. But I can't

If I was still in XP (sorry to mention thaty dirty word) I would open My Documents and move down, left or right, whatever until I found the folder I wanted. Where the pictures I want to work on are kept.

But it seems to be a constant battle between me and Windows 7 to get something done. I have a large file of pictures from one of my websites which I thought I would put on to a CD for safety/backup. As usual I felt I was going round in circles attempting what should be a simple task.

I gave the disc a name as told to by the disc burner and it popped up in the bottom of a list of files below the Libraries (in the lefthand column). But I couldn't open it. An icon/link to the CD had created itself without my help. But that was just a file name in the Library and wouldn't open when clicked on.

So I went for some lunch and when I returned to the fray I had an on-screen message (at the foot of tghe screen) saying "XX (the number) images are waiting to be burned to CD". So I clicked on it to start the process. The disc was burned but not what I thought I was getting. Very strange that.

It is clearly me and my incompetance as Windows 7 is so perfect. I mean, how can a programme dictate what the computer operator should do. Then again, it is usually telling me I can't do something.

If the libraries are just signposts to a particular file it isn't very useful as far as I can see. Maybe I have a different Windows 7 to everyone else.

I have five Windows 7 instruction books (the local book shop did well when I bought my new computer) and they all make working with Libraries (as an example) seem so easy.If only tyheir enthusiasm could be translated into achieving the task in reality. Have things changed since the books were written? Did Windows 7 appear in 2009?

 

[vaidas3]

If you dont like libraries that much dont use it you can use folders like in xp
open your user (same name as user name) folder and you will find all the pictures, documents, videos, music, etc. folders.. the only difference that in windows 7 it is in user folder not my documents.. that makes more sense because how is it that music, videos or similar files are documents?
dont like that?
create your own folders structure.

libraries by default use users videos , pictures , music, documents folders for storage you can add others if you want to have database of files from more locations.. you can arage libraries by folder so you know where is what.

 

[Dabber]

If you dont like libraries that much dont use it you can use folders like in xp
open your user (same name as user name) folder and you will find all the pictures, documents, videos, music, etc. folders.. the only difference that in windows 7 it is in user folder not my documents.. that makes more sense because how is it that music, videos or similar files are documents?
dont like that?
create your own folders structure.

libraries by default use users videos , pictures , music, documents folders for storage you can add others if you want to have database of files from more locations.. you can arage libraries by folder so you know where is what.

Yes, someone else said that.
Just two points (and I hope this isn't too naive) 1, the user folder is where? Already in XP?
2, I have many files (or signoposts to files) in various libraries - as the result of long battles. Presumably - as they are signposts - I won't need to move anything. Are the files in my XP user folder already or will I have to locate the files I want to work on and move them into XP?

I'm beginning to wish that having updated the hardware in my new computer I had deleted Windows 7 (sacriledge) and reinstalled Windows XP from the CD/DVD that I had originally put on my previous computer. I only needed more powerful hardware for video editing, etc, not a new OS, when I moved to a new computer. I did attempt to add XP in a dual boot arrangement but got the message (to the effect of) you cannot install XP as the current operating system - Windows 7 - is a newer version of Windows. (Never!?) And there were dire warnings that I could lose already-installed programmes if I attempted it.
The demise of XP was still in the furture - a little nearer now.
Yes, I have the article on dual boot installation from this forum.

 

[Solarstarshines]

This thread makes me Laugh my DAD is 75 and uses Windows 7 like a champ only thing to my knowledge he ever ask me about is Video encoding software that i buy for him

He does all his Westerns and put them from VHS to DVD but not once was he baffled by the interface hell he uses software i don't use and can give me lessons on it

This is a simple OS if you have used any other version of windows in the past this is just the same as past version

To me this is just a way better version of what Vista was supposed to be