What don't you like about Windows 7?

[Dzomlija]

I don't like these nested folders and subfolders, like subfolder of a subfolder of another subfolder e.g. Users > Kari > Pictures > 2009 > November etc.

In Windows 3 it was so nice when you could only have one level of folders, no need to put a folder inside another folder.



Kari

Yeah, and what's up with all these colors? Nobody really ever needs more than 16 colors anyway, right?

Hi there
What about pro photography or really high quality colour printing.

Calibrating a decent monitor to get realistic colours on a high quality printer is definitely NOT a trivial job - and I'm sure if you were doing a wedding shoot for clients etc you'd DEFINITELY want more than 16 bit colour on a monitor.

Just visist a Pro photogs studio if you can and you'll probably DIE when you see the very high quality monitors used in these processes.

Cheers
jimbo

I think he was being sarcastic by mentioning 16 colors (4 bit for the uninformed)...:sarc:

 

[Howzits]

These are the early days for this thing so we all must exercise a lot of patience.

But, How many "BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH" HAVE YOU HAD?? i HAVE HAD THIS THING FOR TWO MONTHS AS AN upgrade and had nine so far.

 

[Barman58]

I hate to tempt fate - but have been running full time for over a year and have not seen a blue screen

 

[AntiSilence]

These are the early days for this thing so we all must exercise a lot of patience.

But, How many "BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH" HAVE YOU HAD?? i HAVE HAD THIS THING FOR TWO MONTHS AS AN upgrade and had nine so far.

I've been running Windows 7 since the official launch in October and I've not had a single blue screen. I also never had a single blue screen in all the years I was running XP.

But, I've also never done an upgrade from one version to another by using an upgrade version. I have always (since Windows 95) done clean installs as I've always been a little bit weary of what could be left behind of the previous version. Never had a problem.

 

[gregrocker]

RC has a ton of monitoring software on top of the bugs. I would upgrade to RTM asap.

These are the early days for this thing so we all must exercise a lot of patience.

But, How many "BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH" HAVE YOU HAD?? i HAVE HAD THIS THING FOR TWO MONTHS AS AN upgrade and had nine so far.

Not one yet here in a year.

From what we are seeing here, I wouldn't advise an in-place Upgrade for anyone. There seems to be some level of corruption no matter how successful.

If there was ever a special occasion calling for a clean install from boot with formatting, now is it with the greatest OS yet.

 

[Kari]

I hate to tempt fate - but have been running full time for over a year and have not seen a blue screen

+1

Installed beta first time on January. Had one BSOD but that don't count, it was my own stupid mistake (installed old software I knew is not compatible).

At the moment I have Seven on six computers at home and office. Three clean installs, two in-place upgrades from Vista and one from XP "via Vista" (first in-place upgrade to Vista and then directly Vista to Seven).

All working fine. No sleep or hibernate problems, all devices working, not a single problem with connecting to network. All fast and reliable. All Hewlett-Packard, laptops and desktops.

Kari

 

[saze]

I am sure this has already been said in this very very long thread, but I hate how W7 chooses a video thumbnail from literally the first few seconds of the file. Even Vista was less annoying in this respect. Minor niggle, I know, but had to be said and am quite disappointed to see that you still can't change where the thumbnail capture occurs!

 

[Frostmourne]

I am sure this has already been said in this very very long thread, but I hate how W7 chooses a video thumbnail from literally the first few seconds of the file. Even Vista was less annoying in this respect. Minor niggle, I know, but had to be said and am quite disappointed to see that you still can't change where the thumbnail capture occurs!

For mkv files, try the Haali Media Splitter and adjust the milliseconds for thumbnail extraction. The option to display thumbnails should be "yes" too.

 

[paliometoxo]

really because at the wwdc whatever its called when they released new macbooks and iphone 3gs apple mention an advantage to windows is that you have to defrag with windows still but macs you dont have to.

Defragmentation takes place in the background on a Mac. This defragmentation only works on files under 25 MB. While on Windows, Microsoft attempted to do the same thing but obviously "some" users didn't like that. Fragmentation is unavoidable on any file system.

Now if you are the type of person to be obsessive over defragmentation, there is a whole eco-system dedicated to it, just for Windows!

no one i know bothers to defrag anyway..

i let tune up utilities do it automatically... so i guess the only advantage to the mac is that they officially lEt you install windows and also the 7 hour battery life on the macbook pro 15inch and 8 hour with the 17 inch but 17 inch is to big for a lap top

 

[gregrocker]

Don't look now, but your Win7 Disk Defragmenter is scheduled to run by default (if your machine is turned on at 3 am Wednesdays).

 

[Yanta]

These are the early days for this thing so we all must exercise a lot of patience.

But, How many "BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH" HAVE YOU HAD?? i HAVE HAD THIS THING FOR TWO MONTHS AS AN upgrade and had nine so far.

Again, clean install, running 7 ultimate on 7 computers and not a single bluescreen on any computer since the beta was released. But despite that I am persisting with 7, I still think it is a major disappointment. One of my kids is begging me to let him go back to Vista (seriously :shock coz of compatability issues with steam games. And I spent many hours struggling with compatability issues myself, but it's about 90% working now.

 

[wabbo]

that thinstalled apps don't work anymore........

 

[gregrocker]

These are the early days for this thing so we all must exercise a lot of patience.

But, How many "BLUE SCREENS OF DEATH" HAVE YOU HAD?? i HAVE HAD THIS THING FOR TWO MONTHS AS AN upgrade and had nine so far.

Again, clean install, running 7 ultimate on 7 computers and not a single bluescreen on any computer since the beta was released. But despite that I am persisting with 7, I still think it is a major disappointment. One of my kids is begging me to let him go back to Vista (seriously :shock coz of compatability issues with steam games. And I spent many hours struggling with compatability issues myself, but it's about 90% working now.

I had to put Vista dual boot back on one box here for a roommate who didn't want to give up his 1701AD game. He only goes there to play the game. Something to consider. It doesn't affect your Win7 at all, just add a partition and install Vista. Keep a backup image and you never have to reinstall either again.

 

[AntiSilence]

that thinstalled apps don't work anymore........

That's more the fault of the applications developers who have had plenty of time to get their stuff working with Win 7.

Even the software I'm working on now has Windows 7 support, including actual Windows 7 features such as Jump Lists. See...

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[Barman58]

So much of the incompatibility we see is simply caused by developers not following the rules when writing the applications.

Microsoft provide information on the methods for interfacing with the operating systems and where the OS expects certain files to be stored.

Certain developers ignore this and write things their own way - it works with the OS so no problem.

Until the next OS:sarc:

When Microsoft develops a new Operating System and needs, for technical reasons, to change these entry points or locations, It includes code to handle the older locations. Of course the badly written software assumes everything is where it used to be and promptly crashes

A similar situation exists with the need for programs to run as admin - it is easier to write a program assuming that it will have access to everything. On XP, where most uses were admin and security wast basically not used on files and folders, this worked.

When vista arrived you end up with the need to run a something like a desktop publisher as admin - causing the UAC prompt to trigger. This was of course "all Microsoft and Vista's fault".

Unfortunately we also have some developers who treat a change of operating system as a chance to make money by choosing to not supply updates for their products but new chargeable products. This applies to both software and hardware (which explains a lot of driver problems )

 

[IggyAZ]

So much of the incompatibility we see is simply caused by developers not following the rules when writing the applications.

Microsoft provide information on the methods for interfacing with the operating systems and where the OS expects certain files to be stored.

Certain developers ignore this and write things their own way - it works with the OS so no problem.

Until the next OS:sarc:

When Microsoft develops a new Operating System and needs, for technical reasons, to change these entry points or locations, It includes code to handle the older locations. Of course the badly written software assumes everything is where it used to be and promptly crashes

A similar situation exists with the need for programs to run as admin - it is easier to write a program assuming that it will have access to everything. On XP, where most uses were admin and security wast basically not used on files and folders, this worked.

When vista arrived you end up with the need to run a something like a desktop publisher as admin - causing the UAC prompt to trigger. This was of course "all Microsoft and Vista's fault".

Unfortunately we also have some developers who treat a change of operating system as a chance to make money by choosing to not supply updates for their products but new chargeable products. This applies to both software and hardware (which explains a lot of driver problems )

Well said and true statement about developers not updating so they can sell the new and improved version.

Iggy in the cool part of Arizona.....

 

[1Bowtie]

Well said Barman58

I have a HP scanner, probably seven years old but like new. I use a scanner maybe once a month. HP will not support it with a driver, and i tried everyway i new to install it with no luck. They expect me to through the scanner away and buy new. We are in a through away society anymore. My little mini rant

Smitty

 

[fseal]

I don;t buy HP anything any more because if that. I had a ONE YEAR OLD Hp color printer when Vista came out and they refused to support that.

I /almost/ gave up on M-Audio fo rthe same reason, they even argued with me on their forum. But when I pointed out that MUTO and other manufacturers already had Vista drivers that worked during the beta they shut up. Now this time around they have been MUCH more proactive about drivers, supporting most everything they have, including years old stuff. (Though oddly not the ONE midi box I own and that has to be the easiest driver to maintain Grr....)

 

[muralikrishna]

Start Menu option can be improvized more ! Also booting time . ( i know booting time depends on the system specs ) , however they should come up with some solution . .

 

[antt]

So much of the incompatibility we see is simply caused by developers not following the rules when writing the applications.

Microsoft provide information on the methods for interfacing with the operating systems and where the OS expects certain files to be stored.

Certain developers ignore this and write things their own way - it works with the OS so no problem.

Until the next OS:sarc:

When Microsoft develops a new Operating System and needs, for technical reasons, to change these entry points or locations, It includes code to handle the older locations. Of course the badly written software assumes everything is where it used to be and promptly crashes

A similar situation exists with the need for programs to run as admin - it is easier to write a program assuming that it will have access to everything. On XP, where most uses were admin and security wast basically not used on files and folders, this worked.

When vista arrived you end up with the need to run a something like a desktop publisher as admin - causing the UAC prompt to trigger. This was of course "all Microsoft and Vista's fault".

Unfortunately we also have some developers who treat a change of operating system as a chance to make money by choosing to not supply updates for their products but new chargeable products. This applies to both software and hardware (which explains a lot of driver problems )

I remember reading that many developers were being lazy and referring to HKLM registry calls instead of HKCU calls. Apparently that is one of the reasons that was causing many of the UAC prompts when the programs were run on Vista.