What don't you like about Windows 7?

[smarteyeball]

The way Seven caches it's icons is starting to get a little annoying.

I'm noticing icons and some customised folder icons sporadicaly disappearing and re-appearing everywhere

 

[oidicle]

..... @cbleman, Just stick with Windows XP then for the rest of your computing life if you are unable to adapt to change. Nothing is going to go backwards for you. Things are the way they are and they are no going to go back. So either just stick with XP or move on and re-learn.

I think.... I second that....

 

[Sven]

Change the Arrangement to "Album" or "Artist" or how ever it is said in your language. You'll just get pretty pictures.

How do I do that? Just write the solution in English please, as I change the written language to English while following your guide .
I have tried looking in folder options, but no luck here.

 

[logicearth]

How do I do that? Just write the solution in English please, as I change the written language to English while following your guide .
I have tried looking in folder options, but no luck here.

In the same bar above the files, where it says "Music Library" There is a control on the far right where you can pick different views.

 

[lordofbahamut]

Networking works great if you set it up as as work network, NOT HomeNetwork

" Doc "

Tried that and nothign change FTL >.<

 

[Barman58]

New thread created for specific issue and attempts to solve here ....

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/23985-ie8-not-remembering-window-size-moved-general.html

Just to keep main flow of thread pure

 

[cbleman]

I have backed up my CDs into folders along with the cover art. In XP, the cover art displayed flat and clear by making a folder.jpg file. I cannot seem to find a way to do that in Win7 or Vista. It's also one of the things I dont like. Thanks for the reminder sven.

The previous post wasn't about change. It was about change for no reason. I know I'm not alone in that line of thought. My friends and I don't sit around all day, and be bitter about it; It's just to trivial. This forum asked for dislikes, and that's one of mine.

antt. Great response! That was very clear, and relevant. It makes sense, and answers a question. Thanks

If you don't want to hear about it. Dont ask.

 

[cbleman]

Change the Arrangement to "Album" or "Artist" or how ever it is said in your language. You'll just get pretty pictures.

Tried that. I changed the folder to Music, and sorted by Album. It didn't seem to work for me. The folder view didn't change. Each file in the folder however does display the cover art. What I would like to do is post the album art clearly on the (Closed) folder, or just the cover art by itself. I don't see a way to do this without creating a .ICO file for each folder, and changing the icon. I DID make folder.jpg files for each one; but I did it as I ripped each of my disks. I don't feel like making .ICO files, and changing each folder for over a thousand albums.

 

[logicearth]

I have backed up my CDs into folders along with the cover art. In XP, the cover art displayed flat and clear by making a folder.jpg file. I cannot seem to find a way to do that in Win7 or Vista. It's also one of the things I dont like. Thanks for the reminder sven.

Change the Arrangement to "Album" or "Artist" or how ever it is said in your language. You'll just get pretty pictures.

Tried that. I changed the folder to Music, and sorted by Album. It didn't seem to work for me. The folder view didn't change. Each file in the folder however does display the cover art. What I would like to do is post the album art clearly on the (Closed) folder, or just the cover art by itself. I don't see a way to do this without creating a .ICO file for each folder, and changing the icon. I DID make folder.jpg files for each one; but I did it as I ripped each of my disks. I don't feel like making .ICO files, and changing each folder for over a thousand albums.

The instructions were for the Music Library, not for just any folder. [See attachement below.]

The previous post wasn't about change. It was about change for no reason. I know I'm not alone in that line of thought. My friends and I don't sit around all day, and be bitter about it; It's just to trivial. This forum asked for dislikes, and that's one of mine.

There was a lot of good reasons for the change, nothing was done just for the sake of change. Microsoft goes though a lot of testing, usability testing, research, etc. Something as big and as used as Windows doesn't get a change out of the blue without a reason.

 

[cbleman]

Sigh.... It sometimes seems that way.Without reason that is. I've often had a picture in my head of a person behind desk rolling up a fatty with a smirk. saying "Wait till they see this one!" I've often wondered how much actual research actualy goes into something like this; and how much is just a unilateral decision made by one or two people on a whim.

 

[cbleman]

Win XP supported a folder view that showed covers. any chance of a workaround to see my folders like I did in XP? there are sometimes instances where I would like to explore and listen to music without pulling it into my library.

I like the music lbrary. It takes a long time to populate the screen in the artist view mode. Minutes under each directory (A-Z) in fact. Is this a one time thing? I keep my music on a seperate drive, that I sometimes disconnect to move to the laptop.
Love the graphics, Love the IDEA. Since I use a third party player, I was more interested in running Media monkey through the wringer to see if it worked OK in win7 than exploring this feature (Silly me!). The more I play with it, the more I find out; the more I like it. It even opens up my default player.

Something else that has bothered me for a while, is setting a global view. I don't like going folder to folder to set the view. Can someone educate me?

 

[Mistral1]

NOT happy about this taskbar having to pin items its really stupid a real step backwards whatever were they thinking? . Why no Dreamscenes ?

Its ok but not the best they could have done.

 

[Barman58]

If you would prefer your icons on the taskbar to behave more like vista or XP simply set the taskbar to "never combine" and unpin any items pinned by default - looks similar.

The dreamscenes I think can be classed as a failed experiment - it could be made to operate with the Beta versions of Windows 7 but I believe additional changes in the RTM has now prevented this - to be honest I think that the lack of users running this in Vista made it not viable to continue development.

 

[Barman58]

   Note

In order to keep this thread as a location for odd issues that may not warrant a full thread, I will if a topic expands to more that a post or two create a new thread where the subject can be given individual attention.

I hope this will meet with everyone's approval - as I think it will also allow other members to find the subjects more easily in future

 

[Mistral1]

   Note

In order to keep this thread as a location for odd issues that may not warrant a full thread, I will if a topic expands to more that a post or two create a new thread where the subject can be given individual attention.

I hope this will meet with everyone's approval - as I think it will also allow other members to find the subjects more easily in future

Good idea

 

[Mistral1]

If you would prefer your icons on the taskbar to behave more like vista or XP simply set the taskbar to "never combine" and unpin any items pinned by default - looks similar.

The dreamscenes I think can be classed as a failed experiment - it could be made to operate with the Beta versions of Windows 7 but I believe additional changes in the RTM has now prevented this - to be honest I think that the lack of users running this in Vista made it not viable to continue development.

Hi Barman

Thanks for the reply and the tip I did try your suggestion but the issue for me is why if I want a shortcut to a word doc on the taskbar I have to pin it to it (ok fine) BUT if I click it I get a blank doc WTF ? I have to right click it and scroll to the top to get the actual item (pinned). This right click scroll is ridiculous and as such drives me mad, If I am missing something here please enlighten me.

As for the dreamscenes I do not think it was a failed anything It worked very well on my laptop and to puting an "upgraded" product out there (some may say) and then removing bits off it is not on, I doubt many will miss it LOL - but thats not the point.

Whilst I'm having a major moan where has the classic start menu gone the programs menu on the Vista style one is awful.

I use Stardock desktop x to create a second start menu similar to classic and beta deskscapes for moving wallpaper both run well in 7 so all is not lost LOL.

There are many many good points on 7 its as some may agree the Vista we never had I for one never had many issues after SP1 and never supported the long running hate campaign.

Great site keep up the good works

 

[Danilo]

I don't like control panel it is messy ...

 

[win7noob]

Thanks for the reply and the tip I did try your suggestion but the issue for me is why if I want a shortcut to a word doc on the taskbar I have to pin it to it (ok fine) BUT if I click it I get a blank doc WTF ? I have to right click it and scroll to the top to get the actual item (pinned). This right click scroll is ridiculous and as such drives me mad, If I am missing something here please enlighten me.

can someone who uses windows 7 answer if there is a way around the above situation? i haven't used windows 7 yet, but i have a excel document that i like to keep in vista's quicklaunch. if i install windows 7, i don't want to have to click on the document and then scroll up to something else to open it. reading things like this make me question if i should stick with vista.

 

[Zidane24]

Thanks for the reply and the tip I did try your suggestion but the issue for me is why if I want a shortcut to a word doc on the taskbar I have to pin it to it (ok fine) BUT if I click it I get a blank doc WTF ? I have to right click it and scroll to the top to get the actual item (pinned). This right click scroll is ridiculous and as such drives me mad, If I am missing something here please enlighten me.

can someone who uses windows 7 answer if there is a way around this? i haven't used windows 7 yet, but i have a excel document that i like to keep in vista's quicklaunch. if i install windows 7, i don't want to have to click on it and then scroll up to something else. i'm trying to decide if i should stick with vista or not.

Quick Lanuch is not enabled in Windows 7 but there are some things you can do...

1) Pin the Excel icon to the Superbar and pin the workbook on the excel icon. YOu can right click the excel icon and choose the workbook that way
2) You can make a dummy look-alike Quick Lanuch: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html...that might be more to your fancy

If this is all that holds you back from 7...than welcome to Windows 7 sense their is no reason to stick with Vista now

 

[win7noob]

Thanks for the reply and the tip I did try your suggestion but the issue for me is why if I want a shortcut to a word doc on the taskbar I have to pin it to it (ok fine) BUT if I click it I get a blank doc WTF ? I have to right click it and scroll to the top to get the actual item (pinned). This right click scroll is ridiculous and as such drives me mad, If I am missing something here please enlighten me.

can someone who uses windows 7 answer if there is a way around this? i haven't used windows 7 yet, but i have a excel document that i like to keep in vista's quicklaunch. if i install windows 7, i don't want to have to click on it and then scroll up to something else. i'm trying to decide if i should stick with vista or not.

Quick Lanuch is not enabled in Windows 7 but there are some things you can do...

1) Pin the Excel icon to the Superbar and pin the workbook on the excel icon. YOu can right click the excel icon and choose the workbook that way
2) You can make a dummy look-alike Quick Lanuch: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/888-quick-launch-enable-disable.html...that might be more to your fancy

If this is all that holds you back from 7...than welcome to Windows 7 sense their is no reason to stick with Vista now

what about this? would this work?

http://**************.com/tutorials/how-to-pin-any-item-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/

edit: windows 7 center dot com is being filtered out for some reason.