What don't you like about Windows 7?

[Sir John]

I once was installing a Game and I got the Blue Screen of Death but I ran System Recovery and Rebooted it to Yesterday >_>.

 

[cbleman]

The fact that I can' manually rearrange folders or files in Windows Explorer.
and being forced to use Windows Media Player 12, which is very glitchy. Given the choice, I'd switch back to WMP 11.
I have not been able to find a WMP 11 downgrade yet that is fully functional on Windows 7 64-bit.

Forced? Media monkey is also good for audio files, and handles large libraries well. There are plenty of Media players out there. Some free, Some not. Every one has a favorate, a lot of them are very good!

WMP 11 - Download details: Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP. I don't know how well this works with Win 7, It's a download link for (XP) WMP11. You have probably tried it already. Since I don't use it, I don't feel like experementing with it. I am curious however to know if the XP version will work in 7. Try this one if you just want to play.

WMP 11 Vista Version which aught to work. I'm curious about this one also. -http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/mediaplayer/default.mspx

WMP 11 - Not a Microsoft site, but promises to work with Win 7. No flags went up when I went to the site.
http://devrexster.googlepages.com/wmp

This site looks promising also - http://www.joejoe.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18633. It's an instructional guide for WMP 11 in Win 7. No flags here either, and didn't pick up malware.

I don't guarentee these sites, but the research didn't take long. Good luck.

 

[RA5C]

Yea, coming from XP this was a real pain in the @$$ for me too. Here's a handy little hack that will add "Take Ownership" to the right-click context menu, thereby saving you from having to delve into properties:

Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista :: the How-To Geek

Oh yea, just thought of another annoyance: the network icon in the system tray had a red X through it even though the network was active. Updated ethernet driver and now it's only an intermittent problem.

Thanks.

 

[RA5C]

I was a die hard windows user for nearly all my life, grant it that windows 7 has fixed a lot of issues that previous version came with. It still lacks a lot of productivity software built into the OS. I mean if you are going to pay the price for this OS why doesn't Microsoft included some extra stuff that you don't have to install.

It looks to me like the only productivity lost in Win7 was e-mail. I have no idea why it was pulled, but I hope it does for MS what New Coke did for Coca-Cola.

 

[composer]

That it gets a bad rap from apple fanboys on macrumors or appleinsider when Pple still
doesn't make a mid range headless, system and care more about iPhone than the pros.

But seeiusly. The only thing I wish it had was something that competed really well with iLife. iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand and so on. I think micro shoul buyout Aonys, once sonic foundrys, acid and bundle that with a really cool iPhoto
and iCal
solutions. The othervthing is the
regestry. When you delete something unless you
wipe your drive, it leaves straggler files. There should be a program that snapshots the registy and when you delete, it's really gone. No more hidden files so
in theory you could reinstall the same demo you just deleted then your system won't slow down and truly know that a program is deleted. The developer could put some sort of database windows serial to know if you tried it.

Thats my two cents b

 

[jimbo45]

Hi all
Although I use and like OUTLOOK I really can't understand why Outlook express was pulled -- it was brilliant for loads and loads of people and simple to use.

Windows mail in VISTA was short lived - and Windows Live mail isn't universally liked.

A Free OE "clone" would really be appreciated by a lot of people I'm sure.

Maybe W7 SP1 will re-introduce an e-mail client. It makes sense as MS has its own security (MSE).
MS could of course incorporate this into the email client as well.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[logicearth]

..The othervthing is the
regestry. When you delete something unless you
wipe your drive, it leaves straggler files. There should be a program that snapshots the registy and when you delete, it's really gone. No more hidden files...

Ehh....the Registry doesn't have anything to do with files. The file system maintains files. Now if you are referring to keys, and entries in the Registry, well that is the fault of the application (un)installers for not cleaning themselves up. (They do the same with files too.) But honestly, it really doesn't matter, those extra entries in the Registry have no effect on performance.

 

[Howzits]

I don't get the way win7 handles the registry. I use a program to check for fragmentation and it shows a few entries at the top and scattered entries at the bottom with a big hole in the middle of the file. Does not seem right. Reg entries seem to written poorly "empty or invalid" - there sure are a lot of them

 

[cbleman]

..The othervthing is the
regestry. When you delete something unless you
wipe your drive, it leaves straggler files. There should be a program that snapshots the registy and when you delete, it's really gone. No more hidden files...

Ehh....the Registry doesn't have anything to do with files. The file system maintains files. Now if you are referring to keys, and entries in the Registry, well that is the fault of the application (un)installers for not cleaning themselves up. (They do the same with files too.) But honestly, it really doesn't matter, those extra entries in the Registry have no effect on performance.

Off Topic -
Programs not cleaning up the registry and files after themselves (Dirty uninstalls), has long been a sore spot with me. You are right about the responsibility falling on the app to clean up after itself (Norton/Symantec 4 1!). The programs put the files, and registry entries there. They should clean them up! I would like to see some sort of laws passed requiring this. What do these left in files/entries do??? Do they still report back to the manufacturers? Paranoid? Maybe...

Allow me however, to disagree on the performance issues. To many dangling pointers and entries in the registry, CAN affect performance. The computer still goes over every line.

There are many third party programs that will scan the registry. None of them are perfect, but some are realy worth running. Editing the registry can even be daunting for the experienced; and the software companies make it hard sometimes, to delete all the entries manualy.

 

[logicearth]

Allow me however, to disagree on the performance issues. To many dangling pointers and entries in the registry, CAN affect performance. The computer still goes over every line.

Actually no, the computer doesn't still go over those entries that are left behind. Windows does not constantly scan and go over the entire Registry. The Registry is a highly optimized hierarchical database, very fast to pull data from. Only entries that are in used are ever called upon. Those left behind do not slow down that process.

 

[cbleman]

Allow me however, to disagree on the performance issues. To many dangling pointers and entries in the registry, CAN affect performance. The computer still goes over every line.

Actually no, the computer doesn't still go over those entries that are left behind. Windows does not constantly scan and go over the entire Registry. The Registry is a highly optimized hierarchical database, very fast to pull data from. Only entries that are in used are ever called upon. Those left behind do not slow down that process.

Thank you. I was told, during the boot, every line is evaluated, and either acted upon or discarded, and pointers to programs that no longer exist, or have rem's left, take longer. I was also told pointers to programs that have not been properly/completely uninstalled can slow the computer. This information were it correct, would at the least, slow the boot. It made sense at the time. I guess that was misiformation.

Something that is bothering me: When I make multiple copys of a picture disk, that I am burning to CD, I have to re input the title every time. Am I missing something?

 

[SevenUser09]

I CANNOt stand libraries. Stop telling me how to organize. I want to have links to the real folders, not a general label to it.

 

[antt]

I CANNOt stand libraries. Stop telling me how to organize. I want to have links to the real folders, not a general label to it.

They are links to the real folders? 'Pictures' is a link to 'C:/Users/...../Pictures'. What advantage would having to dig through a file tree to get to the same folder have?

 

[Kari]

I CANNOt stand libraries. Stop telling me how to organize. I want to have links to the real folders, not a general label to it.

They are links to the real folders? 'Pictures' is a link to 'C:/Users/...../Pictures'. What advantage would having to dig through a file tree to get to the same folder have?

Actually, it is not. Pictures Library is, as the name says, a library with a collection of folders:




You can add as many locations (folders) as you want to this library.



Kari

 

[steve6]

OE

I miss OE as well. Thunderbird is the closest in look and feel and works fine (although I miss the control/m shortcut for manually checking for mail).

I had little or no use for windows mail or live mail.

 

[mushroomboy]

Well since we brought up links to files, why don't we also state that every file is a linked file to another location?

I'm just lazy so I went and used google as an easy way out.

:: Shell-Shocked :: Windows Symbolic and Hard Links

Really, they just decided to make symbolic links a little more easier/unique since all of this has been done in linux for years. =P Though linking has all been done in windows since NT started. All we are doing now is making one directory have multiple symbolic links. You could really do the same just by linking all the files in those folders or run a cron (for linux) script so that it automatically links any file in dir X to dir Y, or multiple dir's X/Z/F to dir Y. Pretty simple really.

 

[antt]

I CANNOt stand libraries. Stop telling me how to organize. I want to have links to the real folders, not a general label to it.

They are links to the real folders? 'Pictures' is a link to 'C:/Users/...../Pictures'. What advantage would having to dig through a file tree to get to the same folder have?

Actually, it is not. Pictures Library is, as the name says, a library with a collection of folders:
You can add as many locations (folders) as you want to this library.
Kari

Yes, but you can set the default save location. So for all intensive purposes, they function like links to the pictures folder. Only difference is that you can see other folders in the same library. Much better than a folder tree, and having to juggle multiple locations.

 

[composer]

Two things. I use mac and PC and while I am more of a pro user as in audio picture, I can't figure out why Microsoft with it's millions can't figure out an iLife competitor. You can do some really REALLY cool stuff with that free software and for $79, iWork is a great program. Equally, some third party software is pretty doembut my number ine complaint is the finder. Apple spotlight searches all FireWire, USB, sata drives in seconds. Windows still takes time. Yes it's fast than win xp but nowhere near the speed of spotlight and from what i've read, even though apple fanboys will
deny, is that mucrososft invented it by Apple
released it first, as spotlight. Very fas.


Peace.

They are links to the real folders? 'Pictures' is a link to 'C:/Users/...../Pictures'. What advantage would having to dig through a file tree to get to the same folder have?

Actually, it is not. Pictures Library is, as the name says, a library with a collection of folders:
You can add as many locations (folders) as you want to this library.
Kari

Yes, but you can set the default save location. So for all intensive purposes, they function like links to the pictures folder. Only difference is that you can see other folders in the same library. Much better than a folder tree, and having to juggle multiple locations.

 

[logicearth]

Two things. I use mac and PC and while I am more of a pro user as in audio picture, I can't figure out why Microsoft with it's millions can't figure out an iLife competitor....

Why in the world would Microsoft need to do that? Microsoft Office sales more copies then iLife could ever imagine. Office is also seeded in most cooperate and households environments. There are more features packed into Microsoft Word then the entire iLife suite.

 

[marx666]

just my 2 cents. i'm still using xp pro until directX 11 only games come out. don't even start talking about directx10. they skipped right over that banana.

I've used win7 and honestly i cannot find a reason to upgrade. it's prettier. but i don't use a PC to admire the O/S. from the legit comparison tests between XP and Win7 it comes out as a wash.