Have Comments about Windows 7? (Part 3 - Do not post questions in this thread)
I have just downloaded the beta yesterday, haven't gotten a chance to install it yet. However I have been reading up and nothing Ive seen has indicated anything of this natureThere is a plugin/modification to Windows Explorer that I have recently falling in love with and dearly hope gets integrated into the native code. It is called QTTabBar. Esentially what it does is add multi-tab support for the Explorer windows. It does it in a very smooth and logical way, and my only complaint with it is that it can be a little buggy sometimes. Occasionally it hits an error and gets some nice popup illegal operations. I think it would be a wonderful addition to the new interface, as I am sure that a team of programmers could come up with something a littlem ore stable than a single hobbyist. Heck, Microsoft has enough money to just buy rights to his code and bug test it. Please o please o please someone important read this :D
January 16th, 2009 6:12pm

It would be a good idea to improve the look of the task bar. At the moment it look unsightly it needs to be a bit like Vista's task bar all curved. Windows 7 task bar is just a bar running along the bottom of the screen.
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January 16th, 2009 7:24pm

I hadn't heard that. If not, they should.
January 17th, 2009 4:06am

I've got a list of issues with Windows 7 after serious testing although I think it is a clear step above Vista. I like Windows 7 but I have some concerns that I'd like addressed before final release First thing - EVERYONE I spoke to even at the MS booth at CES said they want the UP FOLDER back in explorer - yes there are other ways to go back one folder but the up folder was convenient. Classic start menu - not an option - classic start menu makes it easier to support clients if they have key components such as network properties and my computer on the desktop. I'm not saying it should be the default but why not make it an option as it was in Windows XP and Vista? I realize you can put some icons on the desktop (not IE) using personalize. Search works well but it would be great if the search in the start menu had a drop down just like run has in the start menu so you can repeat a search from your search history. Aero interface stops working without message so flip 3d stops with alt-tab - using the troubleshooting fix sometimes solves it by enabling desktop manager - sometimes it can't - how do you manually enable Windows desktop manager - personalize desktop works but nothing to control the aero interface Winver does not tell you if you are running 64 or 32 bit - computer properties would be improved if 64 or 32 bit was listed in the top section. It never states if you are installing the 32 or 64 bit version during installation. It would be nice if it was easy to see what version and build of windows you were running by going to computer properties or by running winver - currently it tells you Windows Version 6.1 - Build 70000 - it doesn't say 7000 x64 081212-1400 There is no desktop icon for IE - this was very handy for clear items and change settings etc before going into IE. Do something with the 200 MB partion in disk manager so it is clear that it is a restore point or whatever - change the color of it, just make it more clearly defined.
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January 17th, 2009 4:29pm

a few more from my part..1) Easy way to make the clock to hour / 12 hour (showing date and time is good )2) During the booting, the small windows logo as it glows, the border is shown which loses the reality of the logo.3) Still uses pretty much of RAM (nearly 1.2GB) even though not as much as Vista. Booting also not that fast as i expected even though it is faster than Vista4) Taskbar can be improved. It looks (I feel) incomplete, not so friendly and looks very bad in classic theme5) When many windows are open, there is a small lag in doing 3d Flip and switching between windows6) ShutDown button can be changed to a better one, I love the Vista buttons7) Gadgets dont work when UAC is turned off8) There should be an option to stop the Wallpaper changing on rightclicking the desktop just like we turn off the DreamScene in Vista 9) Why does my computer has an option to show Preview pane ? I dont see any use with that.10) Media player is good, but a better button to switch to Now playing and library would be great11) The left side bar in Control Panel home page looks bad. The idea of showing up when clicking an option is good, but it dont look good like this.12) When clicking the Start Button, the glow still remains a little, it would be better it the glow goes off and just shows a pressed Windows Logo13) Classic start menu should have been an option..14) No Email application ?? Havnt found any..15) If the firefox is open and minimized, and when the theme is changed, the Firefox just popsup... I have to minimize again to see the beauty of the wallpaper ;)16) After the installation, if there was a drive with drive letter C, it should be given another letter by default. Most of the users dont know that by going to Disk Management and giving the drive letter to the old windows drive gives access to their old files.. My System is Dell XPS 1530m having Core2duo 2.4ghz pro, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GF 8600m 256mb. and I have all softwares installed on Windows 7 as in Vista so that I can make a better review comparing both.I will post here if i get more suggestionsThanksVishnu
January 17th, 2009 8:25pm

Well its with much regret that I come back to say that QTTabBar seems to be broken. After closing a window and opening a new one then the filepaths and tab names come back blank. Not much I could do for it. This was on 64 bit with the latest Qttab release (from like 4 days ago)
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January 23rd, 2009 12:53am

I see that therearemany improementsin UI, but I want to point out some drawbacks in W7. Tabbed file manager is a feature weexpect from MS. I was expecting it in W7. The Backspace key functionality change is a big drawback. I have been using it for around 15 years. It shall be switched back or it shall be configurable somehow. Thanks in advance.
June 27th, 2009 12:56pm

I have no need, want, nor use for tabs. I like multiple separate windows and I have opted instead to use dual big monitors. HOWEVER... I STRONGLY SUPPORT other peoples' desires to use their computers the way they want. Ifyou like tabs, that's great. It is a reasonable way to manage limited desktop space. All I ask Microsoft is that if tabs are added to Explorer that the feature be made CONFIGURABLE, as has been done with Internet Explorer. Rest assured some of us won't want to use them.>The Backspace key functionality change is a big drawback. What do you mean? Can you elaborate on this? As far as I can see one can still use the Delete key to navigate to a higher folder in Explorer - though I'm stumped as to why you'd WANT to usea keythat's normally associated with DELETING something for navigating instead. Personally I've always avoided usingthis particular key in this mannerprecisely because there's always a chance I havethe wrong windowcurrent and I'll accidentally delete something I didn't intend to. And now, with Aero Glass (Vista and newer) and multiple subtle levels of gray it'sas hard as ever to tellwhichwindow is current without looking quite hard...-Noel
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June 27th, 2009 9:39pm

I respect your opinion about Tab support. More configurable usage brings better usability for all. :) About Backspace, in XP, Backspace key navigated to upper folder. A lot of people, including me, are used to it. If I remember correctly, it was Microsoft's approach to add Backspace "navigate to parent folder" functionality in Windows Explorer and "navigate to previous page" in Internet Explorer. Even in Linux file managers, "navigate to parent folder" is being supported these days. I do not like using a delete-oriented key, either. However, I do not want to leave my mouse to navigate to parent folder. (I am using Turkish keyboard layout, so my right Alt key functions are slightly different, I can only use left Alt+Up arrow to navigate up.) Another alternative is opening folder tree and clicking on parent folder, but it is not usable, either. zgr
June 29th, 2009 9:46am

To be clear,you're saying your Backspace key - the one at the upper-right of the main part of the keyboard - doesn't navigate to a higher folder for you? That works just fine on my Win7 installation, exactly as in prior versions. Perhaps it is a quirk of the Turkish keyboard layout. I doubt it was removed on purpose.-Noel
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July 2nd, 2009 1:15am

I'd like to see a tab bar that gets you multi-paned browsing when you hold ctrl while selecting tabs.
July 2nd, 2009 2:14am

To be clear,you're saying your Backspace key - the one at the upper-right of the main part of the keyboard - doesn't navigate to a higher folder for you? That works just fine on my Win7 installation are you sure? Here's the way it works on mine: If the focus is on Nav pane (left one) then indeed, backspace takes you up the folder link structure If the focus is in Content pane then backspace takes you "back" to the previous folder, which may not necessarily be the one above it. And I must say, since MS decided to bless us with the new selection cues, it is hard to tell and frustrating to quickly go where one needs to go using various shorthands.
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July 2nd, 2009 3:02am

You're absolutely right, I hadn't noticed that. If I'm in the right pane it goes back to a previous folder, not the folder in the tree above this one.Thanks for pointing that out. I stand corrected!-Noel
July 3rd, 2009 1:36am

I'm really missing my tabs. :(
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July 30th, 2009 9:02pm

yeah, tabbed explorer is DEFINITELY required. and I hope that I can have a button or shortcut to start console at current folder. that will be very very useful for me.
October 2nd, 2009 7:23pm

yeah, tabbed explorer is DEFINITELY required.and I hope that I can have a button or shortcut to start console at current folder. that will be very very useful for me. Hold the shift key down and right click the folder. Look for "Open command window here".-Noel
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October 2nd, 2009 7:29pm

So, I've had W7 for some 3 days or so. Thanks MS. Great job! Everything works like it should. Can you read the sarcasm?I would ask how to fix this problem, but before I even say what it is, I already know you can't do that. No one can. We aren't capable of modifying (fixing) MS source code, and MS can't do a good enough job in the first place, and now it's too late to fix it, after all, who's going to actually go through the code? Not MS, obviously. So now we're all going to be stuck yet again.Oh, it's not beta.And now for "the problem" that no one can and/or will fix (even thbough money is in MS pockets), ever. Just sharing for the hillariousness of it all.Windows 7 likes to get into a state where even though you click on a very-fancy-looking taskbar button, all it does is color that fancy button yellow, with a few blinks. This then goes for all programs and/or documents. (Taskbar buttons). Must resort to alt-tab to switch. HANDY! Thanks.Before we all laugh at MS for being so rediculous, let's first consider that switching tasks and/or windows (Who knows what we're talking about? Tasks? Windows? Documents?) is a very difficult and technical task, and that work on it had not begun until very recently. As a matter of fact, GUI development, including task switching,was started not until the early 70's. In comaprison, the wheel, for instance has been around since the 5th millennium BC. And even the wheel still has technical difficulties, such as a flat tire! So cut MS some slack, because when you do some simple thing like click a button, behind the scenes all kinds of complicated and technical messages fly back and forth between applications and the windows subsystems. And, who's to say it's not those 25 different applicacations that mess it all up? By being non-complient and disobedient? Bad baby, bad baby! It's actually more likely to be a conspiracy by the Joint Application Development Association to undermine the windows taskbar buttons.Everybody knows that.I bet I'll see a "security patch" in a few years. Or maybe we'll have a windows 8 that features:"NEW! Switching task without blinking!! New technology innovations have enabled us to create NEW non-blinking buttons that actually do something besides blink!"And, no, I don't feel like spending $60 on a three hour phone call that won't resolve anything, when I already spent $$$$$$ on a product for which MS feels no responsibility to fix.Just shoot me.Let me guess: No money back?
November 14th, 2009 8:52am

To all forum users:Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7. Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - it is just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues that require an answer, createa new thread.PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THREAD TO DISCUSS WINDOWS 7 BETA OR WINDOWS 7 RC.This thread is a continuation from Have Comments about Windows 7?(Part 2).Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums, Windows Client Forum Owner
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November 18th, 2009 10:39pm

-I was surprised how better Need for Speed: Undercover played in Windows 7 than how XP played it on the same machine, I thought XP would do better than win7....But this was the one selling point of win7 to me, that it could play games better than XP could. -I also was surprised that I got a few XP drivers to work on win7 (specifically the XP driver for the Intel 82810 onbaord graphics controller, and some obscure PS2->PC game controller converter box out of China)... -You really made some performance tweaks with win7! I have been able to run win7 on a old Pentium 3 that doesn't meet the system requirements (which was the whole reason for putting win7 on there in the first place) and it actually is a pretty good net surfing machine (but sucks at playing DVDs). Great job guys! JoelbX's favorite threads | Space | ----- | Contact me | 'Gadget' programs
November 18th, 2009 10:56pm

Please go through the features from XPremoved in Windows Vista as well as (not fixed in) Windows 7and again features from Vista removed in Windows 7and request MS to fix them in SP1. SP1 is the only chance.Anonymuos
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November 18th, 2009 11:38pm

Magnifier tools, back to Windows XP/Vista style? actually I prefer the magnifier tool that was in Windows 7 Beta, the one that don't show the zoomed area in a panel (usually top of desktop), but zoom the screen like a tutorial video.. which zoom right on the spot (mouse focus/keyboard focus) the problem: imagine you're in a middle of a presentation, zooming a text would be very difficult, people got confused, because there are 2 screen (zoomed panel, and normal screen). sory for bad english I hope you change it on SP1.. a lot of presenter think same as me [edited] the note on gadget like vista is better than sticky notes on 7 this is a little bit personal matter
November 19th, 2009 8:18am

. 9) Why does my computer has an option to show Preview pane ? I dont see any use with that. . Vishnu Hello, 'show Preview pane' is maybe good for fast preview of some text in txt, bat, cmd etc. files. But my question is, why it doesn't work for pictures? Especially, why it's impossible to show multiple thumbnails? Lukas EDIT: It's nice to have a total commander! :)
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November 20th, 2009 11:02am

Just came off of replying to this thread.. (http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7desktop/thread/0f2805f8-3499-4483-b8a4-7fac13413451) Why do when you save custom themes in win7 and then save it again with some changes under the same name it creates a duplicate theme? I see this behavior in the RC and RTM/GA. JoelbX's favorite threads | Space | ----- | Contact me | 'Gadget' programs
November 20th, 2009 10:09pm

Please return the ability in Explorer(e.g., through a configurable option) to display file dates / times(e.g., Modification Time) down to the second, without the "3 minutes ago" type of simplification.Some of us really need to know the time down to the second (ideally even finer than that - down to the millisecond in the details pane perhaps?).Thanks.-Noel
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November 21st, 2009 8:02am

Magnifier tools, back to Windows XP/Vista style? actually I prefer the magnifier tool that was in Windows 7 Beta, the one that don't show the zoomed area in a panel (usually top of desktop), but zoom the screen like a tutorial video.. which zoom right on the spot (mouse focus/keyboard focus) the problem: imagine you're in a middle of a presentation, zooming a text would be very difficult, people got confused, because there are 2 screen (zoomed panel, and normal screen). sory for bad english I hope you change it on SP1.. a lot of presenter think same as me [edited] the note on gadget like vista is better than sticky notes on 7 this is a little bit personal matter Hi GlennYou can turn the panel view off and just use the 'Lens' option in the View drop down menuin the Magnifier options. This looks just like the previous versions of the magnifier.Does this help?Thank You for using Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP
November 21st, 2009 9:56am

Hi Glenn You can turn the panel view off and just use the 'Lens' option in the View drop down menuin the Magnifier options. This looks just like the previous versions of the magnifier. Does this help? Thank You for using Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP Sorry, It doesn't work for me.. the menu is grayed out thx, I'll go to other thread..
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November 21st, 2009 2:31pm

I agree with the date/tiem request, but I found more important to return to the size info. This "more info..." way is really a bad idea. More: most of the time the "more info" doesn't show the size.
November 21st, 2009 6:46pm

First of all, I love Windows 7. JMHO but this is, by far, the BEST OS ever released by Microsoft. So far, it's worked flawlessly on my dual core computer - sleek, polished and rock solid. There are only twominor issues that are bugging me. I've done some reading and these same two issues seem to be bugging a lot of other people too so thought I would mention them here. 1) Getting the Quick Launch bar to work in Windows 7 is a bit cumbersome and if you uncheck it,the option disappears from the available toobarsmenu. I love the Quick Launch because it takes less space than than pinning programs to the Windows 7 taskbar. Pinning spreads the icons out and takes up valuable real estate. Also, it will not allow the Recycle Bin to be added to the taskbar which is an option with Quick Launch.I have a programmable keyboard so I don't need the other desktop icons visible.Actually, there are no visible icons on my desktop. It's magic! :-) If there is a simple registry tweak available to solve this, I would love to have it but making the Quick Launch a permanent option would be wonderful and greatly appreciated by a lot of people. 2) The small taksbar icons are very small but the"not small" (large)icons are huge. They are actually too big. It would be very helpful to either scale down the large icons or offer a medium size icon option like there is for the desktop icons. Again, if there is a simple tweak to accomplish this, I would appreciate it if someone posted it. Great job in Windows 7! Thanks for any info you might care to share.
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November 22nd, 2009 5:04pm

Cameochi : what is great in win 7? The beautiful wallpapers? OK, some innovations like peeking and snapping, what else?
November 22nd, 2009 11:12pm

Cameochi : what is great in win 7? The beautiful wallpapers? OK, some innovations like peeking and snapping, what else? For me I was originally going to just use the RC till it expired, since there wasn't any big selling points of win7 to me, including the UI (since I use Aero alternatives in XP that was one thing I wouldn't miss when the RC expires...), then a couple months later I realized I had replied to a thread where they couldn't get Need for Speed: Undercover running on win7, and I had just bought that game... I tried it in win7 and it ran better than XP did it...so that was the selling point of win7 for me. My point: Win7 is one of the best (not the best since MS did a good job with XP too) OSes MS has made, good job guys... JoelbX's favorite threads | Space | ----- | Contact me | 'Gadget' programs
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November 23rd, 2009 1:14am

I'm sorry but I am appalled that Windows 7 is not compatable with either Office 2007 or Microsoft Update.Having put up with this problem in build 7100 and promised this problem would go away in the full version, which I am now running, I cannot believe that the only way to update any other Microsfot problem is to revert back to XP.How on earth could Microsoft leave all its Office users so vulnerable by using windows 7?I think it is totally shamefull. Ray
November 23rd, 2009 4:05pm

I really don't care about the "beauties", so, I use Aero, even I downloaded beatifull wallpapers from the internet, BUT I love W7 because it is faster and more stable than any other OS I tried, included XP.I really don't understand the kalrx campaign against W7. Do you prefer Vista o XP? I prefer XP over Vista, but I repeat, W7 is faster and stabler than XP. I'm using W7 since the very first beta version.
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November 23rd, 2009 8:50pm

Sometimes I am awed by the comments up here but unfortunately not because of the individuals intelligence. First I typed this message in Word, Office 2007 to accomplish three things. 1) Not to have any mistyped words that obviously lower the impression of the competence of the one who leaves a message 2) So that I could reply that indeed office does run on Windows 7 and yes I am using Office 2007. 3) Lastly so that I could pause and reflect on what I typed you might say so that I could think before I spoke. Do not tell us it is broken when it is not. Every OS since Windows 95 has always had the gloom and doom comments. I am always awe struck by the ignorance of the users who say it does not work when it obviously does. No OS is perfect I think that Microsoft did an excellent job and should be applauded. Yes there are a few features that I wish would work differently, but that is true of the other operating systems I use too. I personally find the Mac OS to be a very kluge OS. That does not mean it is for everyone. Nor does that mean it is a bad OS. Yet many of the very comments made here could be made about OS X.
November 23rd, 2009 8:50pm

I'm sorry but I am appalled that Windows 7 is not compatable with either Office 2007 or Microsoft Update.Having put up with this problem in build 7100 and promised this problem would go away in the full version, which I am now running, I cannot believe that the only way to update any other Microsfot problem is to revert back to XP.How on earth could Microsoft leave all its Office users so vulnerable by using windows 7?I think it is totally shamefull. Ray I use Office 2007 with Windows 7 and I haven't any issues, I don't understand.
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November 23rd, 2009 8:51pm

DrGerry: you think that my comments are a campaign? Sorry thats not a campaign, I just describe the MS "programming andimworsing art" !I have no intention torepeat the details again. Facts are facts.I told some weeks ago that I prefer Vista! But I would still more prefer an osthat includes all the goodies of xp, vista and win7, WITHOUTthe sh.. and annoying"features" of v and w7
November 23rd, 2009 11:40pm

Have you tried to format your PC and reinstall 7? When you installed it, did you perform a clean install or was it an upgrade from Vista?
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November 23rd, 2009 11:57pm

I'm sorry but I am appalled that Windows 7 is not compatable with either Office 2007 or Microsoft Update.Having put up with this problem in build 7100 and promised this problem would go away in the full version, which I am now running, I cannot believe that the only way to update any other Microsfot problem is to revert back to XP.How on earth could Microsoft leave all its Office users so vulnerable by using windows 7?I think it is totally shamefull. Ray I use Office 2007 with Windows 7 and I haven't any issues, I don't understand. maybe the issue is from running office 2007 on a 64bit OS, when it it a 32bit product? the same thing happened to me when i ran office 2007 on vista 64bit or Win7 64bit. the only issue that office 2007 has with Win7 32bit is this bluetooth add-in and that issue went away once HP came out with Win7 drivers and software for their computers. at least with every driver and software update, either by my OEM or Microsoft, another issue seems to be fixed.
November 24th, 2009 2:52am

DrGerry: you think that my comments are a campaign? Sorry thats not a campaign, I just describe the MS "programming andimworsing art" !I have no intention torepeat the details again. Facts are facts.I told some weeks ago that I prefer Vista! But I would still more prefer an osthat includes all the goodies of xp, vista and win7, WITHOUTthe sh.. and annoying"features" of v and w7 I'm sorry. I don't wnat to insult anybody (well, maybe there's a lot of people in the world who I want to insult, but not you or anybody in this forum:D)I have seen a lot of posts wroted by you blamming W7, and I am confused because I found W7 is the best windows till now.I'm sorry. My english is not good enough and probably I used the wrong words.
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November 24th, 2009 7:02pm

Taking ownership still sucks. I've been waiting over 15 minutes to gain access to an old docs&settings folder. Couldn't I have been given access to at least the top level by now? On a side note, you can still end up with 5 simultaneous attempts to access the folder and Win 7 is oblivious AND won't give you back the folder windows you've tied up for browsing other locations.They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works?
November 25th, 2009 3:38am

Sometimes I am awed by the comments up here but unfortunately not because of the individuals intelligence. First I typed this message in Word, Office 2007 to accomplish three things. 1) Not to have any mistyped words that obviously lower the impression of the competence of the one who leaves a message Nice try, but Word doesn't tell you that you need an apostrophe to make a noun possessive instead of plural ("individuals [sic] intelligence").
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November 25th, 2009 4:30pm

Pehaps when computers wake up in twenty or thirty years, they will be better grammarians ( in all languages ).
November 25th, 2009 4:58pm

Hi Deronsec & BubbaFirst, Thanks for the comments on my intelligence although I must admit my typing is not so good.The comments I made relate to a problem I have had in updating Office 2007 from Windows 7. Basically I cannot get it to do so.Having had many long converstaions with Microsoft on line and by phone it would appear that Windows 7 users cannot use Microsoft Update but can use Windows update.At present there are no W7compatible updates for Office 2007 (don't believe me, just go to the office 2007 site and you will see which OS's it works with, W7 is not listed) Should you try to update a file directly from the Office 2007 website, such as SP2, then it will tell you thatit is not compatible.For me this means that I cannot install any security updates either leaving me vulnerable.I spent the better part of 6 months working with MS, editing the registry, replacing and updating dll's, replacing services in Beta, RC1 and 7100 before MS finally admitted that sorry but we haven't got round to providing W7 compliant updates for 2007 and I would just have to wait. Sure I can use 2007 but if I want the latest version and all the security updates then MS's OWN SUGGESTION is to revert back to my previous OS, in my case XP.As yet they cannot tell me when W7 updates will be available. So I am annoyed that they obviously knew the problem and the answer but never told anyone of the many, many people on the W7 forums with the same problem OR if what they have told me is not true ( and I have no reason to think this) then why won't they tell me the answer to the problem?So I stand by my comments. I don't think I am biased, (I certainly am not generally biased against MS having worked with them to solve other problems in the past) but I am disappointed and somewhat annoyed.If you bear in mind that I have just purchased 12 copies of both W7 and O2007 for the charity I work for, I dont want to have the problem of installing W7 and then having to purchase 12 further copies of XP just so I can make sure the PC's are safe.And anyway, it was only 3 spelling mistakes and I found 12 spelling and grammatical errors in Bubba's post. So we all make mistakes but we don't all assume we are superior.Ray
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November 25th, 2009 9:03pm

wow, win 7 still worse than I thought. Incredible! Thanks for this information Ray! MS DO FEEL ashamed! Best os ever? Perhaps best play station ever!pis s-take of customers??????
November 25th, 2009 11:47pm

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!! Let me start by saying that in the past I have really tried to find REALISTIC reasons NOT to like Microsoft. I tried Linux, and hated it. I tried Macs, and disposed of both of them. That being said, I have also been a MS collector, of sorts. I have every OS that MS has released...with the exception of Windows/286. So, when Windows 7 came out, I had to try it. (I was a House Party winner) 7 Ultimate runs AMAZINGLY well on my Acer TravelMate 2200 laptop that I use daily for work. What has amazed me to no end is how well Windows 7 Ultimate is running on my 667 MHz Celeron. I experiment at home in my office, because, the more I know, the better off my customers are (I am a PBX Technician). I loaded another copy of 7 onto this 667 Celeron with 384 MB of RAM...and it is faster than the XP SP3 PC (its identical twin) in my office. YES...667 MHz. It is flawless. I am thrilled. Great job, MS! jm
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November 25th, 2009 11:50pm

I loaded another copy of 7 onto this 667 Celeron with 384 MB of RAM...and it is faster than the XP SP3 PC (its identical twin) in my office. Install a fresh copy of XP and then do the comparison.They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works?
November 26th, 2009 4:38am

Uh...that is what I'm talking about. Both PCs were without OSes when I received them last week. Don't assume.
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November 26th, 2009 3:45pm

Andtwo more1) Add "always on top" button to accompany minimize, maximize, close buttons for top level windows.2) Virtual dvd-drive to mount iso images
November 26th, 2009 5:27pm

I loaded another copy of 7 onto this 667 Celeron with 384 MB of RAM...and it is faster than the XP SP3 PC (its identical twin) in my office.Install a fresh copy of XP and then do the comparison. They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works? Well, I installed XP SP3 and W7 on a 800 Celeron (800 more or less, I have it turned off right now :-D) and W7 is faster (notoriously faster) than XP.It's a simple wayof boot with one or another and use the same programs. Of course, if I try to use Adobe Premiere on a 800 Celeron with 512 Mb RAM I need a lot of patience, with W7 and with XP :-D
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November 26th, 2009 6:22pm

Hi Deronsec & BubbaFirst, Thanks for the comments on my intelligence although I must admit my typing is not so good.The comments I made relate to a problem I have had in updating Office 2007 from Windows 7. Basically I cannot get it to do so.Having had many long converstaions with Microsoft on line and by phone it would appear that Windows 7 users cannot use Microsoft Update but can use Windows update.At present there are no W7compatible updates for Office 2007 (don't believe me, just go to the office 2007 site and you will see which OS's it works with, W7 is not listed) Should you try to update a file directly from the Office 2007 website, such as SP2, then it will tell you thatit is not compatible.For me this means that I cannot install any security updates either leaving me vulnerable.I spent the better part of 6 months working with MS, editing the registry, replacing and updating dll's, replacing services in Beta, RC1 and 7100 before MS finally admitted that sorry but we haven't got round to providing W7 compliant updates for 2007 and I would just have to wait. Sure I can use 2007 but if I want the latest version and all the security updates then MS's OWN SUGGESTION is to revert back to my previous OS, in my case XP.As yet they cannot tell me when W7 updates will be available. So I am annoyed that they obviously knew the problem and the answer but never told anyone of the many, many people on the W7 forums with the same problem OR if what they have told me is not true ( and I have no reason to think this) then why won't they tell me the answer to the problem?So I stand by my comments. I don't think I am biased, (I certainly am not generally biased against MS having worked with them to solve other problems in the past) but I am disappointed and somewhat annoyed.If you bear in mind that I have just purchased 12 copies of both W7 and O2007 for the charity I work for, I dont want to have the problem of installing W7 and then having to purchase 12 further copies of XP just so I can make sure the PC's are safe.And anyway, it was only 3 spelling mistakes and I found 12 spelling and grammatical errors in Bubba's post. So we all make mistakes but we don't all assume we are superior.Ray I am confused!Just rolled out a large number of PC's here running Windows 7 and Office 2007. Before I let them loose on our users I ran Microsoft update and it downloaded and installed Office 2007 SP2 and a load of other updates!It does work! Rob
November 26th, 2009 7:09pm

I wonder if anyone notices this, in Windows 7 (7600) explorer, select nothing and make note of the thickness(Height) of the Command Bar. Now select a folder or a file, you see that the thickness of the Command Bar increases by 1 pixel shifting the contents area downwards. It should have consistent thickness across any display either with icon or without in the Command Bar. It is highly annoying when especially the 1 pixel shift cause the entire file list display to shift forward. I'm surprised to see such an obvious UI glitch got out to the final release of Windows 7 (7600). Really hope it could get fixed in the coming updates. Things like this just makes Windows UI looks and feels unpolished. Please check the screenshot
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November 26th, 2009 7:09pm

Two more flaws: In Windows Server 2008 R2 (= Windows 7 without Desktop Experience enabled) two things are bad: When using keyboard combination FLAG+{number} in order to start a program, W2k8R2 doesn't give any visible cue on accepting the keyboard combination in the Quick Launch area if Desktop Experience is not installed. Many programs still take 10 - 20 Seconds to start (*sigh*) and without such cue you never know whether the program is starting or whether it's not... I strongly suggest to add some button-like visual cue to the Quick Launch links in the taskbar when Desktop Experience is not installed. (If Desktop Experience is installed or in Windows 7 the corresponding link blinks when pressing above keyboard combination.) The activation bug I've mentioned here causes another problem: If starting two programs using the FLAG+{number} keyboard combination, the finish of starting the first one isn't reflected in the Task bar. The Quick Launch link keeps showing the icon - but it's not expanding to show the program's title bar text. (This may be true only if grouping is disabled in Task bar properties.) Thus, if both programs start maximized the user never knows that the first program can be used... Its window is hidden behind the second program's window and the Task bar doesn't update the first program's link's visualization. I suggest to fix the activation problem soon.
November 26th, 2009 7:49pm

Forgot to mentioned, this will only show up if your windows title bar size is set to 17 or less. (In Window color and appearence)
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November 26th, 2009 8:01pm

Rob,Please, please tell me you are a UK user?Because no-one I know in the UK can tell me how to do this (including Microsoft who tell me it is not currently possible)Ray
November 26th, 2009 10:26pm

Well, I installed XP SP3 and W7 on a 800 Celeron (800 more or less, I have it turned off right now :-D) and W7 is faster (notoriously faster) than XP. All I can do is disagree again, after running W7 on a P3 667 with 384 megs (vs XP on the same machine). But then again, who wants to work on that machine, regardless of the OS! :-)They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works?
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November 27th, 2009 12:48am

Well, I installed XP SP3 and W7 on a 800 Celeron (800 more or less, I have it turned off right now :-D) and W7 is faster (notoriously faster) than XP. All I can do is disagree again, after running W7 on a P3 667 with 384 megs (vs XP on the same machine). But then again, who wants to work on that machine, regardless of the OS! :-) They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works? ...because as a PROFESSIONAL technician, rather than a hobbyist, I need to be able to answer REAL WORLD questions honestly, rather than regurgitating fanboy drivel, or opinions in forums...get it? And, yes, "freqy", it IS faster...even on a "sub-par" machine.
November 27th, 2009 6:52am

Well, I installed XP SP3 and W7 on a 800 Celeron (800 more or less, I have it turned off right now :-D) and W7 is faster (notoriously faster) than XP. All I can do is disagree again, after running W7 on a P3 667 with 384 megs (vs XP on the same machine). But then again, who wants to work on that machine, regardless of the OS! :-) They have your money, and you have this forum. Can you see how that works? ...because as a PROFESSIONAL technician, rather than a hobbyist, I need to be able to answer REAL WORLD questions honestly, rather than regurgitating fanboy drivel, or opinions in forums...get it?And, yes, "freqy", it IS faster...even on a "sub-par" machine. PROFESSIONAL, REAL WORLD qestions? The only questions you answeredare : w7 is fast and it runs well. Wow, what an ingenious os! How much faster?One second from 100? Forget about it! No comment from you to the annoying imworsement of everyday usability, which SLOWS working!!
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November 27th, 2009 10:45am

Rob,Please, please tell me you are a UK user?Because no-one I know in the UK can tell me how to do this (including Microsoft who tell me it is not currently possible)Ray Ray,Indeed I am.Setup: Windows 7 professional. Installed Office 2007. Ran Windows Update and then selected the option for it to tell me more about getting updates for other programs. This opened a new window which needed an activex plugin which I installed. This then opened another window which then searched for updates.Results were about 39 important updates adn 3 or 4 optional. Included were Office 2007 SP2 and some individual office application updates in the important set.Just clicked install and off it went!!Rob
November 27th, 2009 3:17pm

Karlx=troll
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November 27th, 2009 3:32pm

Windows 7: What Vista should have been.It's an excellent product. Really quick. In fact, moreso than Windows XP was for me running the same hardware! It makes me think that if Microsoft had delayed the release of Vista, maybe it would have been like this. One can only wonder.The little things are what seals it for me. The little mouseover in the corner that shows the desktop, the vivid backgrounds, the relatively painless installation. I can say this has been the best Operating System that Microsoft has ever produced. If they could be tempted to build on a more secure environment (probably not UNIX ;)) and viruses didn't affect it, I would switch permenantly!
November 27th, 2009 6:06pm

oh (John) JR: you are professional, indeed! WOW, join the win8 team and we will have a lot of fun!
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November 27th, 2009 6:39pm

Another issue:When copying files, if these files already exist in the destination directory, there is noAccelerator key defined to execute any of the three options (Overwrite, Skip, Rename).
November 27th, 2009 7:07pm

Rob,Please, please tell me you are a UK user?Because no-one I know in the UK can tell me how to do this (including Microsoft who tell me it is not currently possible)Ray Ray,Indeed I am.Setup: Windows 7 professional. Installed Office 2007. Ran Windows Update and then selected the option for it to tell me more about getting updates for other programs. This opened a new window which needed an activex plugin which I installed. This then opened another window which then searched for updates.Results were about 39 important updates adn 3 or 4 optional. Included were Office 2007 SP2 and some individual office application updates in the important set.Just clicked install and off it went!! Rob Thanks for this Rob,I really don;t know where to go now. Seraching the web I found a whole load of people with the same problem and no-one seems to know how to solve it. It does seem that some users can update but it would seem that just as many can't. If there was an easy solution you might have thought that the moderator might give a hint.I wonder if the problem relates to those who can update are W7 Professional and I am using W7 Enterprise. On just Checking the MS windows 7 site I have noticed that enterprise is no longer an option. I wonder why that is?Ray
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November 27th, 2009 8:10pm

Agree with Tajino's comment above, things shifting on the screen are bad. Microsoft, if you do revisit the command bar, please make it possible to hide it entirely! I prefer to turn on the menus and turn off the Command bar.-Noel
November 27th, 2009 8:30pm

To RayMC: I am in also in the UK and my copy of Office 2007 Enterprise is currently at SP2. I have Win 7 Professional. Although this info doesn't provide any sort of solution, it does confirm that the updates can/do work. I have the automatic updates switched on and the latest updates for Office 2007 were on the 11.11.09. Regards: Anthony.
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November 28th, 2009 2:14am

To RayMC: I am in also in the UK and my copy of Office 2007 Enterprise is currently at SP2. I have Win 7 Professional. Although this info doesn't provide any sort of solution, it does confirm that the updates can/do work. I have the automatic updates switched on and the latest updates for Office 2007 were on the 11.11.09.Regards: Anthony. Hi What I was saying is that I have Windows 7 Enterprise and Office 2007 Professional.I was wondering if there is a difference between W7 Enterprise and W7 Professional that is causing this problem.Ray
November 28th, 2009 3:59pm

To RayMC: I am in also in the UK and my copy of Office 2007 Enterprise is currently at SP2. I have Win 7 Professional. Although this info doesn't provide any sort of solution, it does confirm that the updates can/do work. I have the automatic updates switched on and the latest updates for Office 2007 were on the 11.11.09. Regards: Anthony. Hi What I was saying is that I have Windows 7 Enterprise and Office 2007 Professional. I was wondering if there is a difference between W7 Enterprise and W7 Professional that is causing this problem. Ray Hello Ray: You may be right about W7 Enterprise vs. W7 Professional - there is no apparent logic to it, but when has that counted for anything? Anthony.
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November 28th, 2009 11:50pm

Comments I have about Windows 7 1. I would like to be able to enable "What you Hear" and my mic at the same time. Which I could do in XP Pro SP3 2. Change the refresh rate back so it reads 60Hz. This is what my monitor's OSD displays. This has caused conflict with some games. It was this way with XP & Vista. 3. I would like Explorer's status bar or window pane to show the same hard drive information (space left, file size, etc) as found in XP. Also, explorer should be able to show the same information from the "Computer" pane (space used, free space with the inclusion of file size, folder size, etc). 4. Network Internet Access Icon (lower right of screen) doesn't remove the yellow triangle icon when you are reconnected to the internet. However, it does disappear when you click on the web browser. Please fix this.
November 29th, 2009 9:54pm

Rob,Please, please tell me you are a UK user?Because no-one I know in the UK can tell me how to do this (including Microsoft who tell me it is not currently possible)Ray Ray,Indeed I am.Setup: Windows 7 professional. Installed Office 2007. Ran Windows Update and then selected the option for it to tell me more about getting updates for other programs. This opened a new window which needed an activex plugin which I installed. This then opened another window which then searched for updates.Results were about 39 important updates adn 3 or 4 optional. Included were Office 2007 SP2 and some individual office application updates in the important set.Just clicked install and off it went!! Rob Thanks for this Rob,I really don;t know where to go now. Seraching the web I found a whole load of people with the same problem and no-one seems to know how to solve it. It does seem that some users can update but it would seem that just as many can't. If there was an easy solution you might have thought that the moderator might give a hint.I wonder if the problem relates to those who can update are W7 Professional and I am using W7 Enterprise. On just Checking the MS windows 7 site I have noticed that enterprise is no longer an option. I wonder why that is?Ray Interesting Ray.We are using Windows 7 pro at the moment with Office 2007 Pro.Enterprise is only available for users with a Select agreement and as we have one we will be upgrading to enterprise soon. Will still be using Office Pro though.Will let you know how we get on with it!!Rob
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November 30th, 2009 4:16pm

Hi, I have always loved the classic start menu as it easy and quick to be accessed with the keyboard. The new startmenu introduced with vista looks nice and the search field is a good thing. But so many good things that worked with the classic starte menu, do no longer work! And in Win7 the classic start menu no longer exists! Why does MS reduce (good) functionality? 1. How can I add folders and items in the start menu itself as it was possible with the classic start menu. E.g in the classic start menu I had a subfolder with shortcuts to all drives. With that I could use the key sequence ctrl+esc, d, c eg. to open an explorer window with drive c or ctrl+esc, d, m to open drive m. That was very fast. This is not possible with the new start menu 2. With the old start menu I could press e.g. ctrl+esc, p, i, o to start Outlook (p to open the Programs folder, i to open the 'Internet' folder and the o to start Outlook. With the new start menu I have to press much more keys: ctrl+esc, <up>, <Enter>,<up>, i, <Enter>, o, <Enter>. That is very unconfortable. again: classic start menu: ctrl+esc, p, i, o new start menu: ctrl+esc, <up>, <Enter>,<up>, i, <Enter>, o, <Enter> Or with the classic start menu I could start e.g. my Antivirusprogram with ctrl+esc, q. This is not possible with Win 7! Why? That is not very user friendly! And using the mouse takes much more time. Well, now you can say I should use the search field. Yes, but with this I have alwas to check what wil be found and select the appropiate item => to slow 3. Why a folders no longer expands when pressing the 1st char, e.g. t for Tools as this is the case with the classic start menu? 4. The new start menu is not resizable! Why not?? It is much too small, it is VERY unconfortable grabbing the mouse, moving the mouse, cliocking the mouse and moving the mouse again to scroll the scrollbars. this all was not required with the classic start menu. 5. Search field: a: how to turn off, that my emails are searched as well. I just want the start menu to be searched and not my 10000 emails! b: how to turn off the search field completely? Why is this not configurable? Would be fine to turn it off by default and have a shortcut to enable it. b: when I enter 'PC', the item 'PC-Bibliothek' is not found, but e.g. 'd PC-Bibliothek Direktsuche' is found. I have to enter 'PC-B' or 'PC B' so that 'PC-Bibliothek' is found => BUG c: When I enter 'PC-B' the 1st item is always 'Benutzerhandbuch fr Nokia PC Suite' why is this found 'it does not contain 'PC-B' => BUG why is 'Benutzerhandbuch fr Nokia PC Suite' always the 1st item, although I never selected it. I think the last item clicked/selected should be the 1st in the list! The new start menu is fine for new users, but for power users who prefers using the keyboard instead of the mouse the classic start menu was much mihc better. Using the keyboard is much faster as the mouse. Same as with many other things that were introduce with Vista and Office 2007. Only optimized for Mouse users and then made the interface usable by keyboard as well, but it is not optimized for keyboard and though Win XP and Office 2003 is much better for keyboard users. Using the mouse for things that can be done much easier and faster with the keyboard is not ergonomic. The mouse is good for drawing, selecting pixels etc. With Vista, Win 7 and Office 2007 MS forces the user to use the mouse as keyboard support has been reduced or made complicated! Why? I my opinion this is a big step back, as this was much better in Win XP/Office 2003. How to get back the clasic start menu in Win 7??? I tried the tootls csmenu and VistaStartMenu but they do not fit my requirements and the developpers seems to ignorant to proposals. Chris
December 1st, 2009 10:18am

ok so first off, i attended the new efficiency seminar, got my copy (only 32 bit laaaame) but luckily my dad has a technet subscription, so i got a 64 install image from him. i have previously been using the RC and loved it, no problems whatsoever besides having to find newer video drivers. i install my retail copy of 7 ultimate, everything boots up fine, i install chipset, audio, lan and other drivers, but when i go to do things on the internet like download firefox or chrome, firefox setup won't run because windows says its an unknown publisher and chrome reports back that "it didn't download properly" every time. so what the heck, RC worked fine for soooo long, no issues until i install a retail version???? this is the biggest disapointment i've had in a long time, ubuntu is sounding pretty nice right now
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December 2nd, 2009 6:06am

1. How can I add folders and items in the start menu itself as it was possible with the classic start menu.Type "shell:start menu" into the Start Menu (common start menu for "All Users") and fiddle to your hearts content.2. With the old start menu I could press e.g. ctrl+esc, p, i, o to start OutlookTry typing "o-u-t".4. The new start menu is not resizable! Why not??Increasing the number of recent programs the Start Menu displays will increase the size of the Start Menu up until it reaches the top of your desktop.CPL \ Taskbar and Start Menu \ Start Menu [tab] \ click the "Customize..." button.Shortcut:Type "Start Menu" into the Start Menu, what you want should appear as "Customize the start Menu" or "Organize Start menu".5. Search field: a: how to turn off (Full index searching, not the Search field itself)Go the the above mentioned applet and within the Customize start menu window you'll find "Search other files and libraries". If you use Outlook it should have a node in the CPL\Indexing options applet.b: Would be fine to turn it off by default and have a shortcut to enable it.This makes no sense at all. It's fine to not like a feature but asking for it to be off by default? Most people I've found that are remotely interesting in their computing tend to like instant search.b: (again?) when I enter 'PC', the item 'PC-Bibliothek' is not foundOdd. You've probably noticed but search results are grouped, if you click on the header (it might say "Files (4)") it will take you to a full WDS window. What might be happening is the Start menu is prioritizing other items over the file you want and it is not showing.c: why is this found 'it does not contain 'PC-B' => BUGThe indexer ignores special characters, like dashes. It basically sees "PC-B" as "PC B", or "Benutzerhandbuch fr Nokia PC Suite".why is 'Benutzerhandbuch fr Nokia PC Suite' always the 1st item, although I never selected it.I don't know exactly how the Start menu prioritizes items but frequency plays a roll, over time the Nokia suite should fall down the list.Hope this helps, Chris.---this is the biggest disapointment i've had in a long time, ubuntu is sounding pretty nice right nowThen go use Ubuntu.
December 3rd, 2009 5:51am

Windows Update in its own little control panel applet is nice, takes away about 90% of my IE usage. Windows Explorer has some bizarre behavior: In the folder tree view, if you select a folder and expand it, it jams the selected (parent) folder at the bottom so everything you just opened is out of view. If you DON'T select/highlight it then expand, it works as you'd expect. The behavior (for folder selected) seems strangely intermittent, about 50/50 as I'm going through my folders right now, I don't see any real pattern. Additionally, the strange preference for going to the bottom also exists when going Back (why is there no "Up"?), as it always places the folder you were selecting on the bottom, given ample room. It appears to simply remember what you were selecting and scrolls down just enough to show it and does not store your actual view ("where the scroll bar was"). Windows Media Player 12 has problems. It has terrible logic holes behind how it organizes music that causes all sorts of annoying problems, e.g. multiple disc albums get interleaved. Albums with multiple artists are not recognized as the same album (e.g. I have 15 "O Brother Where Art Thou" Albums of 1-3 tracks each). The only way to edit the tag data seems to be in the library "Details" or "Expanded Tile" mode by clicking on the individual text for each field, which again seems daft anyways due to "partial support" (disc number, etc). Album art looks like a joke in the "Now Playing" mode; a tiny postage stamp in the center of a huge screen. Can you open an arbitrary video/audio file not in your library without right clicking (to bring up the File menu)? Can you do it at all in "Now Playing" mode without dragging and dropping the file from explorer? It seems like a reasonably common function has been well hidden. I would of loved to see some real ways to organize the videos on my computer, but the just takes their file names and dumps them all into one bin essentially. (This may be because the several video container formats don't have very standard metadata storage rather than a WMP12 problem) Audio Control ... Being able to switch audio devices on the fly is nice, where it will dynamically move streams between hardware, however there is no way to be able to send specific programs to given outputs as you could kludge in XP. (I'm talking standard, audio-naive programs like 99% of them are, not comm programs like Skype, etc) See http://superuser.com/questions/73921/assigning-programs-to-specific-audio-outputs-in-windows-7 Also, why does the "Set Default" button set both the default device AND default comm device? Compatibility Mode sometimes falsely detects "problems" with how a program was run and impresses itself onto said program next time it launches. Then the program complains that it's being run in compatibility mode and it doesn't/shouldn't be, but the file properties of the executable don't reflect this at all, so you have to go digging around in the registry to find the relevant key and kill it. (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=798511)
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December 3rd, 2009 8:49am

Thanks for your answers >1. How can I add folders and items in the start menu itself as it was possible with the classic start menu. >Type "shell:start menu" into the Start Menu (common start menu for "All Users") and fiddle to your hearts content. This will a a folder in startmenu -> programs but not in the start menu itself. >2. With the old start menu I could press e.g. ctrl+esc, p, i, o to start Outlook >Try typing "o-u-t". That is one more key as I have to press Enter as well, and i does work properly as I cannot be shure that Outlook is the 1st item in the list, though I have to check the list and may be have press n times the down button -> not an option for fast workers >4. The new start menu is not resizable! Why not?? >Increasing the number of recent programs the Start Menu displays will increase the size of the Start Menu up until it reaches the >top of your desktop. Well, I know that and this helps a little, but still scrolling is required and resizing is still not possible >5. Search field: >a: how to turn off (Full index searching, not the Search field itself) >Go the the above mentioned applet and within the Customize start menu window you'll find "Search other files and libraries". If >you use Outlook it should have a node in the CPL\Indexing options applet. I do not want to turn off the full indexing, but only hide the search field by default. >b: Would be fine to turn it off by default and have a shortcut to enable it. >This makes no sense at all. It's fine to not like a feature but asking for it to be off by default? Most people I've found that are >remotely interesting in their computing tend to like instant search. May be this makes no sense to you. As I wrote it, it makes sense to me. I know there are many othjer people who likes tro have it by default, but I DO want to have optionally and not as default. I am still looking for a good tool that really emulates the classic start menu- Chris.
December 3rd, 2009 6:20pm

There is something I've missed to comment about Windows Explorer: with XP I like to customize the tools bar, and add a few buttons like Properties, and some other, and to use small icons. I don't know why this feature was out in Windows 7.I know it is not a fundamental issue, just a comfortable habit.
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December 3rd, 2009 7:23pm

Sorry for the double-post.Why Windows Explorer is sooooo sloooooooooow. I lost a lot of minutesmovinga folder between two partitions: 2.31 Gb. I can't try right now, but I'm sure XP is a lot faster.I had to deal with the jokes of my mac and linux friends... grrrrrr!
December 4th, 2009 2:36am

This will a a folder in startmenu -> programs but not in the start menu itself. Drag and drop the folder on the Start button.
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December 4th, 2009 8:57am

Where has all the Start Menu functions gone? In XP's Taskbar Properties you could manually "add" programs to "All Programs", "remove" programs from "All Programs" and quickly access the location of your Start Menu to manage it with Windows Explorer via "advanced" Reference image. http://www.courses-online.co.uk/getimage.php?Key=1&File=Objects/03000037.png&width=307&height=360 edit: <url> and </url> tags fail. Though I don't really know HTML at all.
December 4th, 2009 10:32am

You can right-click the "All programs" button to pull up the start menu in Explorer, or draga file onto the start button, then onto "All programs" and drop it there too. For all the new start menu haters, it takes some getting used to but the type-search function is really nice, rather than sifting through folders. Not sure why Chris G is complaining about [Start key], o, u, t, [Enter] not working for his needs because it's "one more key", and that he has to check it. You would have to check that [Start], p, i, o was the correct combination at first as well; installing new programs could disrupt it. I'm intrigued why hitting enter is big time use as well, especially given you're typing to get there anyways; Outlook takes about 100x times as long to load as it does for me to hit enter after typing some paragraph. The one modification that would be nice though is that pinned programs get "priority" in the search function, e.g. if I pin Windows Media Center in the start menu then go type "Windows" that it be the first, not after explorer and media player. (If I type "Center" it's first however)
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December 4th, 2009 4:35pm

You can right-click the "All programs" button to pull up the start menu in Explorer, or draga file onto the start button, then onto "All programs" and drop it there too. For all the new start menu haters, it takes some getting used to but the type-search function is really nice, rather than sifting through folders. Not sure why Chris G is complaining about [Start key], o, u, t, [Enter] not working for his needs because it's "one more key", and that he has to check it. You would have to check that [Start], p, i, o was the correct combination at first as well; installing new programs could disrupt it. I'm intrigued why hitting enter is big time use as well, especially given you're typing to get there anyways; Outlook takes about 100x times as long to load as it does for me to hit enter after typing some paragraph. The one modification that would be nice though is that pinned programs get "priority" in the search function, e.g. if I pin Windows Media Center in the start menu then go type "Windows" that it be the first, not after explorer and media player. (If I type "Center" it's first however) Yeah I learned soon after my above post about right-clicking "All Programs". Very unintuitive if I do say so myself. I was complaining about lack of functionality (though as pointed out the most important function is still there, just hidden). I find the new start menu and Pinned shortcuts handy, auto alphabetizing ftw!.
December 4th, 2009 4:49pm

I am lovin' it..........omg, Windows 7 rocks!First, I'd like to thank the developers,engineers,et. all!Well done, Microsoft.Windows 7 is so fast and robust; I can hardly contain my enthuisiasm!Be well...........MikeMeehowski
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December 8th, 2009 4:00pm

uups, is there another windows 7 released?
December 8th, 2009 9:33pm

Yes it is known as the Arrrr Edition, featuring pirates and pirate ship wall papers etc. Every 5 minutes it phones the police and reports your awesome activity too.
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December 9th, 2009 7:21am

Yes it is known as the Arrrr Edition, featuring pirates and pirate ship wall papers etc. Every 5 minutes it phones the police and reports your awesome activity too. where can i get it?
December 9th, 2009 2:11pm

karx: I really can't see what is your point. You say you are not making a campaign against W7, but I don't see no aportations from you.
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December 9th, 2009 6:44pm

Please further expand on the uninstall feature(s) of Windows 7. At one time it was recommended to use the programs uninstall process and not the OS to uinstall programs. Now that times have changed with windows 7 it shouldn't be as good as XP from my point of view. Simple game demos are still showing dwords (IE: GameDemo.exe) which are easily found using a manual search. It is my opinion that win7's uninstall process should make sure that major dwords are removed from the registry when a program is un-installed even if the program itself omits it. My reason for this train of thought is that I want the registry as close to the original install of it as possible. This may include the programs I've currently installed.
December 10th, 2009 9:44pm

Windows 7 still is suffering from a darned font restriction. On my graphics computer I have 533 fonts installed. Whenever I open Word or click on the font list in CorelDRAW 13, the system hangs for half a minute! We have 2009. I suggest to finally overcome this restriction if MS doesn't want to lose more graphics people to Apple. What's required is that the font list incl. font preview in the font list is always quickly available.
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December 14th, 2009 10:27am

1) The uninstall process in Windows 7 (add/remove programs) simply launches the programs uninstaller. Blame the program for not fully uninstalling it self, not Windows. MS shouldn't have to clean up sloppy developers work. 2) They need to make it only render the fonts currently visible in the list instead of all of them at once, even ones you can't see.
December 14th, 2009 10:33am

Hi!Well I've given up with Windows 7 Enterprise. I've gone and reformatted the HDD and installed W7 Professional. Office now updates perfectly.Now all I've got to do is find where W7P is hiding my icons!!!You might like to know that I passed this prblem on to PCPro (aUK PC Mag) and they asked MS but they were ignored as well.Thanks for those who tried to helpRay
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December 18th, 2009 8:13pm

Windows becomes overwhelmingly slow if more than 400 fonts are installed. For instance, Word takes 30 secs. to start, dropping down the fonts list in CorelDRAW takes 20 secs. as well. On my graphics machine I've installed about 500 fonts, many of them coming with Windows 7 and Word, the remaining fonts are fonts I'm using to create documents. The font limitation of approx. 400 fonts is a remnant of good ald Windows 3.1 times.... Here's a suggestion to overcome this limitation adequately ...
December 19th, 2009 1:35pm

I just went to the Costco web site to order two Windows 7 Family packs only to discover it is no longer available. What the ______?I wanted one for my family's PC's (All currently running Vista) and one for my brother's family for a Christmas present.It only became available a short while ago. I immediately ordered a free upgrade for my most recent computer purchase to check it out and see if I wanted to upgrade. After the Vista fiasco and all the CRÂP I put up with with Vista's shortcomings I was leery to upgrade to another disaster. Well it took over a month for my free upgrade to show up and when it showed up last week I installed it from scratch on one of my many PC's (we have 5 desktops and 4 laptops) to see if it was worth the upgrade. Well after playing with it for a few days I decided it was a bit "snappier" than Vista, but not really that different in any practical respect. Since Windows PC's need to be rebuilt from scratch every year or less as a matter of course just to get rid of the crud that seems to make them slow to a crawl for no apparent reason, I thought I might as well upgrade to Windows 7 at the same time.And now there is no Family Pack. How stupid is that? In my opinion everyone that bought into Vista should get a free upgrade to Windows 7 and a letter of apology from Microsoft for putting us through the Vista beta testing process. This was in fact really a Windows 7 beta testing process because Windows 7 appears to me to be everything Vista claimed to be but wasn't.Anyway, this is Microsoft's loss because there is absolutely no way I am going to pay full price for Windows 7 for any of my PC's.Now I have to go find a present for my Brother and his family.Microsoft never ceases to amaze me with their selfishness and stupidity.BTW, 3 of my PC's and two of my laptops were purchased in the last 17 months and I only buy high end PC's with fast processors and loads of memory (4-8GB) and I found all the Vista machines to be slower than my older XP machines. So I don't buy this argument from Microsoft that people that had trouble with Vista were running it on older slower machines. I have been a computer geek since I bought my first computer in 1980 and my first IBM PC in 1985. I have used Windows since version 1.0 and I guess I should not be surprised with Microsoft. They have always delivered what was promised in one version of Windows about two versions later, but Vista was the worst "upgrade" they ever put out. Being the family computer expert always helping everyone with their computer installations and troubleshooting, I can tell you that Vista has cost me hundreds of hours of headaches trying to deal with all their problems. I feel that Microsoft should pay me for all I have done to make their product work. I have seen a few family members get so frustrated they switched to MACs even though I told them it would cost them my help.Sorry for the rant. I needed that. by Microsoft again!
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December 19th, 2009 10:42pm

Family pack was a limited offered, just as with MANY other vendors, and just how is it microsoft's fault that you failed to purchase when you could have???There are still vendors who have the family packs, you just needed to look a little.And most folks have no issue with vista running, the bad press is ALWAYS read / passed around by more than good press. And no windows do not need to reloaded ever year (this PC is windows XP 8 years now with no wipe and load)It is the person behind the keyboard who is the problem NOT THE OS.
December 19th, 2009 11:17pm

The Windows 7 Taskbar Live Preview feature is nice, but it is not a new idea. Vista had Taskbar thumbnails. Frankly I find this a useful feature.The difference is that the Windows 7 version seems to be more full of itself - more "in your face", and the extra "chrome" can't be deconfigured. Even the Taskbar Live Preview feature in total cannot be deconfigured (which I suppose is just a UI bug that we'll see fixed some time down the line). I would keep it, but I know there are those who find it annoying and would like to turn it off entirely. Of course, they might not find it so annoying if it weren't so BIG!I have the benefit of being able to easily and directly compare multiple operating systems owing to the magic of virtual machines.To wit, this is a Taskbar thumbnail of an Explorer window from Vista:Now compare the above to a Taskbar Live Preview of a similarly sized Explorer window in Windows 7:There are two layers of extra "chrome" around the edge in the Windows 7 Live Preview, and why is it now so far from the Taskbar?You should know I have deconfigured all of the Border Padding (set it to 0) for both systems. Apparently the Taskbar Live Preview doesn't follow the desktop setting for Border Padding.Microsoft: More chrome does not a more useful system make! I know you really love those visual effects - you must have put man-months into the "morphing" effect between adjacent Taskbar buttons, but please try to remember that the operating system is supposed to facilitate getting work done, and not be so full of itself!Please make it possible to at least have the Live Preview follow the desktop settings for Border Padding if nothing else. Ideally, make it possible for the Live Preview to look clean and without a border, like it does in Vista. Please?-Noel
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December 20th, 2009 1:45am

In my opinion, VISTA was a rush job which had many errors, even with SP2. I would have stayed with XP if it had built in support for AHCI and a few other features. Back to the main topic, I would agree with ArJunaBug as I feel that Microsoft has indeed been selfish and cunning by pulling the Family packs just before the hols.. Not that they can't do it, but I believe its not ethically right. Anyways, it's Microsoft's customers, not mine, so cant really complain. I had a similar feeling with Dell, was a die hard Dell supporter for many years and even recommended 15 - 20 friends to buy laptops from Dell. But as the quality of their products and technical support dropped, so did my support for Dell. My next laptop, with is to be bought in Jan 2010 would be a HP..
December 20th, 2009 4:25am

Wish you luck with HP, but I'd never buy one (done support for many years, I'll stick with Dell) HP was more horrible than Dell, you just got to know how to dell with them. I no longer have any problems with Dell support ;-) but as for the family pack, hey, it is what it is and they said limited so that should have been a flag so you can't blame the messanger. MCSE, MCSA, MCDST
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December 20th, 2009 6:35am

Buy Dell business class PC's / laptops so you get REAL support if you need..I never call support unless it is for an RMAHP / Gateway / E-Machine (all the same company now days, built by the lowest bidder) are all dollar store computers they are junk just waiting to to tossed in the trash.I can login gthr dell site and get a tech or part sent out over night just by using the online chat, try that with the dollar store computers...
December 20th, 2009 3:28pm

Considering that there are now 3 (maybe 4 if you count W2K) actively used MS OSs (not counting all the flavors) out there and MANY users who have good reason to use more than 1 and maybe all 3 or 4 of them, it is UNBELIEVABLE that MS still doesn't have a centralized multi-boot Support Group to address the MANY problems which are encountered DAILY by uncounted thousands (maybe more!) of frustrated users! Is anyone at MS listening??? No wonder 3rd party multi-boot software is growing like weeds! I recently contacted MS Support and was forced to select ONE OS to handle my issue. The W7 folks in Bombay threw in the towel because the specific boot problem involved XP. In a multi-boot environment which includes Vista and/or W7, their Boot Loader is incompatible with the XP (and W2K) Boot Loaders (boot.ini, etc.). There are a multitude of issues involving the MBR, the BCD Store and earlier files and programs that conflict with each other. MS is leaving a HUGE VACUUM of unsupported and frustrated users. And that's not counting all the non-MS OSs out there that run on the PC platform! In this growing area of multi-OS systems, CHAOS prevails. I'm posting this in the W7 section in the hope that some MS folks are paying particular attention to what is being posted here. Unless addressed by MS, this rapidly growing issue will get out of control as untold millions of XP and Vista users try to migrate to W7 but want to retain their other OSs and programs/files/data without doing a massive and troublesome migration.
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December 22nd, 2009 5:25am

I would like the moveable quick launch bar from XP put back in Win 7. Moving the whole task bar to the right hand side does not work well. The way that quick launch is implemented on the task bar in Win 7 is pretty screwed up. When you have one instance of IE open, for example, the quick launch IE icon goes away. The quick launch icons that are left are shifted in position to the right. The quick launch icons should be stationary all the time and should not move around or disappear depending on which applications are open. The old XP dockable quick launch bar was the best system. You could move the quick launch tool bar out of the task bar and dock it on the right hand side of the screen and leave it on top of all applications. This saves you from having go back to the desktop or hit the start button and wade through a bunch of ____ to get to the app you want to load. I probably use 10 different applications a day so having the quick launch tool bar in a location that is actually useful saves me alot of time. Perry
December 22nd, 2009 4:57pm

You can restore the old quick launch toolbar (see win7 tips in fav threads), but MS took out the ability to undock it from the taskbar. favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs
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December 22nd, 2009 7:47pm

The way that quick launch is implemented on the task bar in Win 7 is pretty screwed up. When you have one instance of IE open, for example, the quick launch IE icon goes away.SHFT-LMBMMB
December 22nd, 2009 11:24pm

What's so wrong with Icons on the desktop? All this silly hoopla about launching things from the Taskbar has me shaking my head. If I wanted a "dock" I'd have bought a Mac. I don't WANT my running and non-running programs all mixed up.Why do you (Microsoft) believe we want Windows to be more OSX-like? Just ignore Apple and LEAD, don't follow! John Hodgman in those silly commercials representing the PC is always wearing a suit because Apple thinks the PC is more respectable than their system!-Noel
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December 23rd, 2009 1:45am

Another flaw: The Calculator applet doesn't calculate correctly (incredible, but true): If set to Standard mode, the Calculator applet doesn't consider operator precedence! Example: Calculator applet: 3+4*5 = 35 correct result: 3+4*5 = 23
December 26th, 2009 1:59am

The standard mode works the same as a pocket calculator: if you write 3 + 4 * it calculates the result (7) before you write the 5. Just like a pocket calculator.If you do the same on scientific mode it wrote the formula and calculate the final result fine (23)
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December 26th, 2009 9:40pm

Which pocket calculator should that be? I've never seen any to ignore mathematically correct operator precedence... Not even my old Texas Instruments TI-30 from the early 70s...
December 27th, 2009 6:06am

When you write a number, an operator, another number and another operator all of the pocket calculator (I mean the basic calculators) calculates the answer in this moment:You write 3, you see 3you write +, you see 3 (maybe + too)you write 4, you see 4you write *, you see 7 so, the precedence is death :-Dyou write 5, you see 35
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December 28th, 2009 9:04pm

Reading all the Windows 7 APPCRASH blogs in EtherWorld, it is blatantly apparent that this problem is an inbuilt BUG generic to Windows 7 and Vista.I run most applications, including games, media and networking on both XP and W7. As for reliability, you can kiss Vista and W7 goodbye. When they work, they are brilliant compared to XP, but for some unknown explanation, a vast majority of programs just CRASH for no apparent reason that are otherwise fine using XP.My kids play their games, I like to chat and the missus likes her music.The kids are fed up, I'm peeved at being cut off and the missus won't cook me dinner anymore until I put XP back on the Computer so she can stream reliably.So, all the people telling you to reload windows, check for viruses and reload your drivers have got absolutely no clue, including the "Techies".In short, IT'S A VISTA/W7 PROBLEM! IT'S NOT YOUR SYSTEM OR PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 30th, 2009 2:47pm

One more thing: When starting a setup program, it takes a couple of seconds (sometimes up to a minute) for Windows 7 to scan the executable for malicious content and to finally show the UAC Continue dialog to the user. During this scanning process no visual hint is displayed at all informing the user about the progress taking place. Windows 7 just seems to hang before it finally becomes darkened... No particular mouse pointer is displayed, no progress bar, nothing... This is very irritating. I'd like to suggest to provide some visual cue to the user. Preferrably at least a dedicated mouse pointer, like the Cursors.AppStarting cursor. A second thing: When activating another application during the scanning process mentioned above, Windows 7 doesn't darken the desktop at the end of this process to display the UAC Confirm dialog but just displays a blinking anchor in the Taskbar. Having Desktop Experience activated, Windows 7 has become so colourful, shining, blinking, moving, irritating, vivid, that it very often happens to me that I just don't recognize the diffidently swelling UAC anchor at the bottom because my recognition has already filtered out all the colourfullness of Windows 7, allowing me to concentrate on the information I'm actually working on... So I'd like to suggest to have the UAC Confirm dialog anchor not only swell at the bottom but perhaps give it some more visual enforcement, like having it flash instead of swell on and off.
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January 1st, 2010 3:55pm

So, I've had W7 for some 3 days or so. Thanks MS. Great job! Everything works like it should. Can you read the sarcasm?I would ask how to fix this problem, but before I even say what it is, I already know you can't do that. No one can. We aren't capable of modifying (fixing) MS source code, and MS can't do a good enough job in the first place, and now it's too late to fix it, after all, who's going to actually go through the code? Not MS, obviously. So now we're all going to be stuck yet again.Oh, it's not beta.And now for "the problem" that no one can and/or will fix (even thbough money is in MS pockets), ever. Just sharing for the hillariousness of it all.Windows 7 likes to get into a state where even though you click on a very-fancy-looking taskbar button, all it does is color that fancy button yellow, with a few blinks. This then goes for all programs and/or documents. (Taskbar buttons). Must resort to alt-tab to switch. HANDY! Thanks.Before we all laugh at MS for being so rediculous, let's first consider that switching tasks and/or windows (Who knows what we're talking about? Tasks? Windows? Documents?) is a very difficult and technical task, and that work on it had not begun until very recently. As a matter of fact, GUI development, including task switching, was started not until the early 70's. In comaprison, the wheel, for instance has been around since the 5th millennium BC. And even the wheel still has technical difficulties, such as a flat tire! So cut MS some slack, because when you do some simple thing like click a button, behind the scenes all kinds of complicated and technical messages fly back and forth between applications and the windows subsystems. And, who's to say it's not those 25 different applicacations that mess it all up? By being non-complient and disobedient? Bad baby, bad baby! It's actually more likely to be a conspiracy by the Joint Application Development Association to undermine the windows taskbar buttons.Everybody knows that.I bet I'll see a "security patch" in a few years. Or maybe we'll have a windows 8 that features: "NEW! Switching task without blinking!! New technology innovations have enabled us to create NEW non-blinking buttons that actually do something besides blink!"And, no, I don't feel like spending $60 on a three hour phone call that won't resolve anything, when I already spent $$$$$$ on a product for which MS feels no responsibility to fix.Just shoot me.Let me guess: No money back? Would some one please give me a gun :-) I whole lot of whining for a very little issue. Go back to Linux !
January 4th, 2010 9:42pm

I'm sorry but I am appalled that Windows 7 is not compatable with either Office 2007 or Microsoft Update. Having put up with this problem in build 7100 and promised this problem would go away in the full version, which I am now running, I cannot believe that the only way to update any other Microsfot problem is to revert back to XP. How on earth could Microsoft leave all its Office users so vulnerable by using windows 7? I think it is totally shamefull. Ray I use Office 2007 with Windows 7 and I haven't any issues, I don't understand. maybe the issue is from running office 2007 on a 64bit OS, when it it a 32bit product? the same thing happened to me when i ran office 2007 on vista 64bit or Win7 64bit. the only issue that office 2007 has with Win7 32bit is this bluetooth add-in and that issue went away once HP came out with Win7 drivers and software for their computers. at least with every driver and software update, either by my OEM or Microsoft, another issue seems to be fixed. I run Win7 64 and use office 2007 which is a 32 bit version. It's been running fine; I mostly use just Word and Excel. Also, I use Outlook a lot.
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January 6th, 2010 2:09am

What's so wrong with Icons on the desktop? All this silly hoopla about launching things from the Taskbar has me shaking my head. If I wanted a "dock" I'd have bought a Mac. I don't WANT my running and non-running programs all mixed up. Why do you (Microsoft) believe we want Windows to be more OSX-like? Just ignore Apple and LEAD, don't follow! John Hodgman in those silly commercials representing the PC is always wearing a suit because Apple thinks the PC is more respectable than their system! -Noel I would like to second this emotion. Leave the fact I'm a gamer aside because I'm also an IT pro, but I really do not want my windows looking like a Mac, either. I also have no need for my Windows desktop to be "cool". When I need some eye candy I'll fire-up one of the many, many PCs games I have or go and watch a movie. When I'm working, I want my tools on the desktop so I'm not constantly having to click start and go up and down all those menus to hit one app. Additionally, I would also love to get rid of the search window on the start bar. I already know what I'm looking for on the start menu; no need to search. If I need to search I'll call up the Find Files ( yes, which is gone ) and take care of it myself. I've felt since Win95 was big that Windows was like a child trying to help daddy (or mommy!) change the oil in a car. "Please don't touch that." "Put that down." "I asked for the wrench and that is a chainsaw."
January 6th, 2010 3:10am

Reading all the Windows 7 APPCRASH blogs in EtherWorld, it is blatantly apparent that this problem is an inbuilt BUG generic to Windows 7 and Vista.I run most applications, including games, media and networking on both XP and W7. As for reliability, you can kiss Vista and W7 goodbye. When they work, they are brilliant compared to XP, but for some unknown explanation, a vast majority of programs just CRASH for no apparent reason that are otherwise fine using XP.My kids play their games, I like to chat and the missus likes her music.The kids are fed up, I'm peeved at being cut off and the missus won't cook me dinner anymore until I put XP back on the Computer so she can stream reliably.So, all the people telling you to reload windows, check for viruses and reload your drivers have got absolutely no clue, including the "Techies".In short, IT'S A VISTA/W7 PROBLEM! IT'S NOT YOUR SYSTEM OR PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been having the same problems and it appaers that bluetooth products can cause the problem. In my case it is my MS Elite KeyboardRay
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January 6th, 2010 5:56pm

I'm sorry but I am appalled that Windows 7 is not compatable with either Office 2007 or Microsoft Update.Having put up with this problem in build 7100 and promised this problem would go away in the full version, which I am now running, I cannot believe that the only way to update any other Microsfot problem is to revert back to XP.How on earth could Microsoft leave all its Office users so vulnerable by using windows 7?I think it is totally shamefull. Ray I use Office 2007 with Windows 7 and I haven't any issues, I don't understand. maybe the issue is from running office 2007 on a 64bit OS, when it it a 32bit product? the same thing happened to me when i ran office 2007 on vista 64bit or Win7 64bit. the only issue that office 2007 has with Win7 32bit is this bluetooth add-in and that issue went away once HP came out with Win7 drivers and software for their computers. at least with every driver and software update, either by my OEM or Microsoft, another issue seems to be fixed. I run Win7 64 and use office 2007 which is a 32 bit version. It's been running fine; I mostly use just Word and Excel. Also, I use Outlook a lot. I have solved the problem by uninstalling W7 Enterprise and installing W7 Pro.Ray
January 6th, 2010 5:58pm

I have tried, I really have, to use Windows Search (i.e. the little box in the upper-right corner of an Explorer window). I've had it since Vista x64, which I have been using for several years, and now I have it in Windows 7. It's just plain flaky.I tried searching some old Word documents for the word "video" embedded in the document text... Windows Search could not find it. I futzed with the syntax, I tried various wildcards. I could get it to find some words in some documents but not others. I tried disabling the indexing, regenerating... No improvement.The 3rd party freeware grepWin tool I have installed in desperation found the word "video" in the .doc file, no problem, in about 3 seconds.When did it become OK for a search to return less than perfect results? It's all or nothing here, Microsoft: If you can't find everything in every file, don't make like you can. This ain't horseshoes OR hand grenades!And what IS the syntax for searching for a string only INSIDE a file (but not in filenames)? I can't find it. It's not with:xxxx or contains:xxxx or contents:xxxx or string:xxxx or anything I can think of, nor find in the documentation: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspxNot only has Microsoft obfuscated the interface for performing a search, but they've made it so unpredictable to run that you can't possibly know whether you've entered the proper syntax anyway.In summary: The Search function available on a right-click in XP prior to the latest updates provided prompts and made it possible to search for specific things fairly clearly. The Windows Search function in Vista and Windows 7 is both difficult to figure out and flaky in its results.To anyone preparing to jump in and defend Windows Search, I ask you this: Would you trust Windows Search output well enough to use it to fill out your tax return?We need a search facility that simply searches files on demand (none of this pre-indexing baloney) and returns trustworthy results. The grepWin tool I mentioned above gets some of the way there, but the interface is way too geeky for most people who wouldn't know a regular expression from a common insult.-Noel
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January 7th, 2010 1:03am

Windows search really sucks. I can't understad Microsoft people: since some things are too Mac, others are obscure like console-Linux commands. I can't understand the goods in Windows Search.If it works, dotn't fix it. Why the he11 "fixed" windows search? I suggest give a look to TotalCommander search (or even Windows XP search)I think a textbox and a few checkboxes with options like: contens, name, extension, binnary, etc (multiple) can be a very good search way, not the cryptic search. Worst: the commands are different in different languages, i.e., the content:xxxxx command, in spanish windows is contenido:xxxxx. It can be good but in every place the command are listed in english, so if you have a non-english Windows, you must guess how can be translated (some words have a lot of possible traslated). I can't see the point.Anyway: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/bdc2e0f6-bbfb-41ab-9aed-b7e606bc5f0e ;)
January 7th, 2010 6:45pm

And now today it works on some files but still not others in which the string is known to exist, where the exact same search string (e.g., "kind:docs contents:video") used yesterday is supplied.I'm sure with sufficient incantations and group policy settings and registry modifications on my system Windows Search could be convinced to rebuild indexes or whatever is needed to fix this, but (and I hate to use a phrase made by the other guys), if it doesn't just work (especially on this, a clean and well-run system) it doesn't work. Period.Less "gee whiz" and more "to work" please.-Noel
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January 7th, 2010 7:54pm

Windows search really sucks. I can't understad Microsoft people: since some things are too Mac, others are obscure like console-Linux commands. I can't understand the goods in Windows Search.If it works, dotn't fix it. Why the he11 "fixed" windows search? I suggest give a look to TotalCommander search (or even Windows XP search)I think a textbox and a few checkboxes with options like: contens, name, extension, binnary, etc (multiple) can be a very good search way, not the cryptic search. Worst: the commands are different in different languages, i.e., the content:xxxxx command, in spanish windows is contenido:xxxxx. It can be good but in every place the command are listed in english, so if you have a non-english Windows, you must guess how can be translated (some words have a lot of possible traslated). I can't see the point.Anyway: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/bdc2e0f6-bbfb-41ab-9aed-b7e606bc5f0e ;) whoever took out the XP style search from Windows should be fired because that style of searching was really easy to use. the way they have it setup in Windows 7 is way to hard to figure out, even for me and i'm a tech geek. and even if you do figure it out it does not work as well. maybe we will get lucky and Microsoft will put the Windows XP style search in Windows 7 once SP1 rolls around. at least then it can have another gread feature other than its great performance, all that aero stuff which is over rated, its new security features, and XP mode. if Microsoft wants to keeps its promise on it being a great OS, they will add the XP stype search into the OS.
January 8th, 2010 2:23am

I think this would be awesome: "Hide File Extentions for known file types, except when renaming"Wouldn't that be sweet! If you rename file types much, but like the clean look of not showing them, this would be great!What do you think?If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
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January 9th, 2010 6:50am

Suggestion:Can we have a "vote as totally inane, irrelevant, and useless" button too? I paid good money for this subscription and I'd like to see real, professional, competent comments here.Re: The continuing "Microsoft sucks donky-wind" comments.1. Every operating system that has ever been released has had "teething problems" - especially if there is a major paradigm shift. I remember when XP came out everyone HATED it. . . Now everyone talks like it's the answer to a maiden's prayer. . . .2. No piece of software - not even the stuff that goes into outer-space - is absolutely 100% bug free.3. If you *DO* have a problem, or issue, or even a suggestion, about a particular piece of software, please ask a detailed question about the *PROBLEM* and not just rant, OK?4. Every operating system - even Linux (which *IS* open source) has it's problems: (a) If you try to upgrade from Fedora Core 10 to Fedora Core 11 - and you have a RAID array somewhere in your system, the update crashes. Fedora's comment was that they were working on trying to fix that for Fedora *12*.(Literally, the developer's comment was that "the installer for Fedora 11 does not support partitioned MD [RAID] devices".) (b) In Ubuntu 8.10 desktop, if you inadvertantly set your desktop resolution to something your monitor could not display, you were just plain-'ole-hozed. There was *no* "revert to previous settings in 15 seconds" - you had to boot into a command-shell (or 640x480 if you could), and edit the XINIT file by hand.5. Allow me to suggest that you get (and read!) a copy of Understanding the Linux Kernel (O'Reilly, by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati). It will be a real eye-opener into the complexities found in a modern operating system. The picture on the front of the book says it all - a man holding a giant bubble - a perfect illustration of the kind of very careful dance on a knife-edge that operating system designers have to do. And will multiple cores runnning at multi-gigahertz, the room for error is becoming smaller and smaller.Like I said, I paid good money for this subscription. I come here hopeing to get questions answered and problems solved, not to have to wade through a whole bunch of whining 2 year olds complaining that Mommy didn't give them exactly what they wanted.Do I have issues and suggestions for the folks at Microsoft? Absolutely! Are there times when I feel like I'd like to wring someone's neck because of something "stupid" I discovered? Darn right! But that's also true on the Mac, in Linux, and in every other operating system I have ever worked with in the last 30+ years.So, please, either grow up or go play with the other kiddies on Twitter.</rant>What say ye?Jim
January 9th, 2010 8:00pm

Ray,Have you considered the possibility that you might have a blown install? Or, if you downloaded the ISO and burned your own DVD, has it "faded"?I had a problem with a Win-7 Ultimate install I just did here, where there was major functionality missing from IE-8. Once I determined that there was not a (relatively) simple fix - resetting IE to defaults, etc. - I started checking integrity back through my files. I discovered that, though the original ISO I downloaded matched the published SHA-1 checksum, a test-ISO I created from the burned DVD did *NOT* match! (and, yes, when I burned it back in August, I "verified" the burn.)So, I am going to re-burn and re-verify a test ISO from that burn to make sure the copy I'm installing is totally OK, re-install, and see what happens.Maybe there's a problem with Ultimate? Maybe my install just was crappy? It's not like I've never seen either one of these issues before. ( :-D )What say ye?Jim
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January 9th, 2010 8:11pm

Here's my list:=========================Suggestion:A way to verify the integrity of a CD/DVD prior to install.Many of the Linux distributions have a pre-install menu that has as one of it's selections a self-validation of the burned media. This would permit the person doing the install or upgrade to absolutely verify - *at the time if installation* - that the CD/DVD is not defective.========================Suggestion:Use some property within a folder's "desktop.ini" file to track what the current view settings for that folder are, and have those settings be retained even if the folder is moved or re-named.Steps to reproduce:1. Launch Vista / Win-72. Create a folder somewhere - and fill it with objects that can reasonably have "thumbnails" (for example, pictures or avi/wmv files)3. Change the folder's icon view attribute to "thumbnails" and let all icons convert.4. Close the folder.5. Re-open the folder and verify that the thumbnails still appear.6. Close the folder and then re-name it.7. Re-open the folder.Desired result:The icons are still thumbnails - or whatever they were set to (list, details, etc.)Actual result:The icons revert to the default icon style.8. Reset the icons to thumbnails (or whatever) again, close and then re-open the folder to verify that the change is still there.9. Move the folder to some other location.10 Open the folder and view the icons within it.Desired result:The icons remain as specified.Actual result:The icons revert to the default icon style.Note that this behavior is the way it was in XP and before as well. However it would be nice if the user's preference for the presentation of a folder would persist even if the folder is renamed or moved.================Bug:(Note, this was also true in Vista as well)Setting a particular window's view settings - particularly with respect to hidden files - is automatically global to all windows, even if you do NOT select "Apply to all windows".Steps to reproduce:1. Start Vista / Win-7 (assume that windows are set to "hide" hidden and system files)2. Navigate to an interior folder somewhere on the system.3. Change the window's view settings to "not hide" both hidden and system files and folders.4. Click OK.Expected Results:The particular window you selected has its attributes changed and no other.Actual Results:Every window in the system automagically inherits the applied settings. This includes the desktop which will now show two hidden "desktop.ini" files.Note to developers: This behavior was handled correctly in Windows XP and previous versions.===================Bug:(Note that this is also true in Vista as well.)The "Desktop" folder should be handled differently than all other folders - even when universal folder attributes are selected. Note that in XP and previous versions of Windows, this is what happened.Steps to Reproduce:1. Launch Vista / Win-72. Navigate to any non-desktop folder, (inclulding the root of the filesystem)3. Set some non-default attribute, such as "show hidden and system folders" or change the icon style.4. Select "Apply" to make the change.5. Select "Apply to all folders" and select "OK" to close the window.Expected Results:Changes in folder attributes with respect to icon style or hidden/system folders are applied to all folders *EXCEPT* the desktop folders for each user.Actual Results:The desktop folder is treated as a "normal" folder with respect to global attribute changes - particularly as regards to hidden/system files - instead of being excluded. This results in extraneous files being shown on the desktop.====================What say ye?Jim
January 9th, 2010 8:48pm

Change the window's view settings to "not hide" both hidden and system files and folders....Note to developers: This behavior was handled correctly in Windows XP and previous versions. The last sentence is not correct. The show hidden and system files setting in Explorer was always global and applied to all windows, in XP and previous versions.I agree with your request that the desktop be considered "special" and managed separately from file folders. In fact, I would go so far as to say that there is no good reason for having the desktop be managed by Explorer; there should be a completely separate desktop manager.Consider that it is now already special in Windows 7 in that you can arrange your icons on the desktop the way you like, but not in any folder window.I never understood Microsoft's reason for making the desktop manager and the file manager one and the same application. That was a bad decision for Windows 95 and it appears we are stuck with it forever.-Noel
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January 10th, 2010 6:42am

I never understood Microsoft's reason for making the desktop manager and the file manager one and the same application. That was a bad decision for Windows 95 and it appears we are stuck with it forever. That´s it !!!!
January 10th, 2010 2:45pm

Windows 7 overall runs well, but while testing within our company, I came across a major issue for us as a data company. The search by content does not find any hits unless the file extension you are searching is added to the list. It would be nice if Win7 would find all extensions containing the data in the search window even if unknown in file type of the win7 system.
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January 14th, 2010 1:14am

After installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a ok running Vista Biz laptop for the past two weeks, I can say the longer I am trying to use 7 the more I regret changing my OS. Intially my laptop did boot up and run faster. Not impressed that you need to buy outlook or subscribe to Windows Live to get what at first seems like a great email program which will download all your email accounts in one place. Some days I get email from my added account and some days I don't. Yet if I go on my webmail account thru my ISP I have mail in my inbox. Disappointing. Now I am trying to work out Homegroup and Network Sharing Center issues. Why IPv6 shows up in one list as checked off and then the status says"No connectivity" is frustrating. If you use the troubleshooters you get locked into a loop with no real answers. Then when I think I want to contact Customer Service directly you find out you have to use forums and if someone can answer your question great if not be prepared to pay another $50.00 to have a real conversation or email loop to get your personal problems addressed. I paid over $300 for this OS and I am not impressed at this point and wish I had kept Vista which was working, slowly but at least it was working and saved my $$ to buy an Apple or Linux system. I have checked off Alert me if someone responds but I have before and never get the alert so what to heck is going on at Microsoft?
January 15th, 2010 4:52pm

If Vista was slow on the Laptop then the laptop is a slow system,You have not given a single bit of info about the system.If you want help you must provide info on the system, we really do not care about all the "I paid over $300 for this OS and I am not impressed at this poi..."Window 7 is a very well coded OS, it is fast and it works just fine.As for not getting your email, that is something you need to work out, as live mail works great with Pop3 / and web based (hotmail).
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January 15th, 2010 5:13pm

Ahh yes, somebody who wasn't prepared or did their homework and would rather complain then ask for help. Good luck with apple or linux but if you're happy with Vista, then go back to it. We'll see you on the Applie and Linux forums :) But seriously, if you want help, just ask and lets work on one problem, solve it and move on to the next one. I wasn't that impressed with Vista and I'll admit, wasn't that fond of Windows 7 probably the 1st week (getting domain tools to work) and I changed from 64bit to 32bit and all is well. good luck.MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]
January 15th, 2010 5:15pm

```````````````````````````````````````````````````` http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xN36QD5rg ```````````````````````````````````````````````````` I already reported this bug 1 year ago and have been hoping it'll be fixed, but unfortunately it remains in Windows 7 too. The problem is that when I release Win/press Enter/left-click, the Flip 3D switches me to the selected window BUT after the ahk_class Flip3D disappears, there VERY OFTEN comes a blink - for a very short lapse of time I see the window from where I started to flip and then it gets changed by the window that I selected. For example, let's say my current active window is A, I flip 3d and I want to switch to another window B. I do so, it switches to B but I see a very short blink with the image of window A. It doesn't happen always but it does happen very often. This video very explicitly illustrates the problem, please watch it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xN36QD5rg ! Notice that it often comes so BECAUSE of the bug that needs be fixed : look at the caption buttons during the slow motion part - when a new window gets chosen, it is not activated until the ahk_class Flip3D completely disappears !!! The selected window should become active BEFORE ahk_class Flip3D completely disappears !!! Once again, watch this vide please: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9xN36QD5rg ````````````````````````````````````````````` I implore Microsoft to fix this bug, this is not the first time I'm reporting it. Flip3D is one of the TOP features, and I AM asking to fix it. My system, hardware, and drivers are ALL properly installed. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````` How to fix: The window selected with Flip3D should become active BEFORE ahk_class Flip3D completely disappears !!!
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January 15th, 2010 7:40pm

Only a comment. I use Win/Tab to get to 3D and when I left click, the window switches to the correct one with no blink or showing of the previous window.I can confirm this on three computers running both the x64 and x86 final release version of Windows 7.Are you running any third part applications that may affect this operation?Have you tried it in a clean boot?
January 15th, 2010 9:27pm

After installing Windows 7 Ultimate on a ok running Vista Biz laptop for the past two weeks, I can say the longer I am trying to use 7 the more I regret changing my OS. Intially my laptop did boot up and run faster. Not impressed that you need to buy outlook or subscribe to Windows Live to get what at first seems like a great email program which will download all your email accounts in one place. Some days I get email from my added account and some days I don't. Yet if I go on my webmail account thru my ISP I have mail in my inbox. Disappointing. Now I am trying to work out Homegroup and Network Sharing Center issues. Why IPv6 shows up in one list as checked off and then the status says"No connectivity" is frustrating. If you use the troubleshooters you get locked into a loop with no real answers. Then when I think I want to contact Customer Service directly you find out you have to use forums and if someone can answer your question great if not be prepared to pay another $50.00 to have a real conversation or email loop to get your personal problems addressed. I paid over $300 for this OS and I am not impressed at this point and wish I had kept Vista which was working, slowly but at least it was working and saved my $$ to buy an Apple or Linux system. I have checked off Alert me if someone responds but I have before and never get the alert so what to heck is going on at Microsoft? On one issue: While it may not look like it, Windows Live Mail is a replacement for Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista). You don't need to subscribe to any Microsoft services to use it; it can be used as a regular pop mail client. (I admit that I didn't use it for that. I only used it as a reader for Usenet newsgroups. I gave up on that a few months ago, though, because the signal-to-noise ratio has gotten too low in the past few years.) My main complaint with it is that its download is ridiculously large, perhaps because you also get some additional applications, whether you've checked the download boxes for them or not.You can probably turn off IPv6, unless your ISP supports it. (I believe that mine does not.)I'm not sure what the "alert me" checkbox is intended to do, but it does nothing for me. On other forums, I've gotten email when a thread was repled to. (That gets old fairly quickly.) There's a feature that shows threads to which I've contributed, if I'm logged in.Microsoft personnel occasionally contribute here, but mostly it's amateurs, like myself.I wouldn't recommend upgrading a Microsoft OS for anyone who isn't willing or able to do a lot of self-support. However, I criticise Microsoft for the poor quality of their support search. I can usually do better with a generic Web search. I doubt that's due to my searching skills. (I admit that I've been using search quite a bit since Altavista was a promotional service from DEC.)
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January 16th, 2010 1:40am

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January 16th, 2010 4:59am

There is a plugin/modification to Windows Explorer that I have recently falling in love with and dearly hope gets integrated into the native code. It is called QTTabBar . Esentially what it does is add multi-tab support for the Explorer windows. It does it in a very smooth and logical way, and my only complaint with it is that it can be a little buggy sometimes .... Please o please o please someone important read this :D I too am familiar with QTTabBar. This little app integrates into the existing Explorer and offers Tabs support, along with a ton of other handy features. It is practically the first thing I installed after I put Win 7 on my laptop, because I know I would be opening a lot of different folders while I try to reinstall my apps and organize all my stuff. What a dissapointment it was to find that QTTabBar didn't work, and I was forced to go back to having a hundred seperate windows. I honestly almost went insane trying to keep track of my opened windows using Alt + Tab and the Taskbar. I know the average user wouldn't necessarily benifit from Tabs, or even the Explorer integration such as QTTabBar, but, there are a lot of power users who would be grateful for such features. Sadly, it is no longer in development, and for over a year now, we have not heard anything from it's developer (which is apparently why there hasn't been a release/update to allow it to work on Win 7) Microsoft, implement a Tabs feature in the Service Pack to come, or, as Fesak said, offer to purchase the code to QTTabBar. It would open up a whole new experience in files and folder browsing, and at the same time, keep a briliantly crafted app alive. Respect. ~Des
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January 20th, 2010 9:40am

In Detail view, Windows Explorer displays selected file entries and file entries having the mouse pointer positioned on it using the same color. - I. e., selected items look just like hovered items. So it's impossible to tell whether an item is selected of whether just the mouse pointer is hovering on it. I'd strongly suggest to change the colour for "hovering" items. There should be an additional colour style defined to give a notion of being selected + hovered. This style should be a mix of both colours, selected and hovered. So if the selection colour was blue and the hovering colour was yellow, hovering over a selected item in Windows Explorer should result in a green colour. Perhaps even some completely other schema might be used to distinguish selected items from hovered items (e.g. font weight). Or hovering might be disabled at all. It doesn't provide any additional value anyway.
January 20th, 2010 9:44pm

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits again just yesterday. A fresh install: even format the disk.I can't believe: more than 2 minutes to empty the recycle bin: 14,000 items, more or less 750 Mb. All of the Windows Explorer actios (copy. move, delete) are terrific, superslow. And when you are copying, moving or deleting files all of the computer becmes slower, too slower.Before the new installation I believe this was because of the disk was full of programs but now it is almost empty.
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January 20th, 2010 11:55pm

hi , increase the page file , or systems cache (!!) you find 14000 items slow in the bin ? it used to take an hour years ago , ... defrag and speed up indexing , since its a new install , make sure you are fully updated you can also use a usb stick for ready boost (!!) do a diskcheck also , this might speed up your system and check the files , if it does not help it does not hurt to run it , ...install MSE also to keep your system safe http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/have a nice dayScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
January 21st, 2010 12:57am

You replied to the wrong guy, didn't you? ;)
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January 21st, 2010 3:51am

You replied to the wrong guy, didn't you? ;) hi , no wrong paste , .... have a nice dayScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
January 21st, 2010 3:55am

In Detail view, Windows Explorer displays selected file entries and file entries having the mouse pointer positioned on it using the same color. - I. e., selected items look just like hovered items.So it's impossible to tell whether an item is selected of whether just the mouse pointer is hovering on it.I'd strongly suggest to change the colour for "hovering" items.There should be an additional colour style defined to give a notion of being selected + hovered. This style should be a mix of both colours, selected and hovered. So if the selection colour was blue and the hovering colour was yellow, hovering over a selected item in Windows Explorer should result in a green colour.Perhaps even some completely other schema might be used to distinguish selected items from hovered items (e.g. font weight).Or hovering might be disabled at all. It doesn't provide any additional value anyway. hi , not sure if this will help http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspxhave a nice daythanks for the point out , ... would have seen it only later , ... need to defrag my brain and get sleepScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
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January 21st, 2010 3:59am

Other problems with Windows 7 Media Center:I've tested recently an TV tuner on it. And surprise - still the same settings for my country ( ROMANIA ) as in the old XP MCE. Considering that during Vista development and also after I've discussed this with mr Aaron Stebnet - at that time in charge with the development of Vista MC, that the settings are COMPLETELY WRONG. He promise dto fix this, after sending him some documentation about the standard used in my country.What's wrong in fact - standards in my country have changed 20 years ago. From OIRT - used by Russia and some sattelites countries to CCIR - US and European Union and some other countries. It was a transition period, and for televison this transition was ended in 2002 when TV broadcasting using OIRT standards was strictly FORBIDDEN. And in your products you use exactly those settings !!!!!!!!!!!Now wich are the differences between those standards. Mainly - for Radio they use different bands for FM, and for TV the sound channel is situated at a 5.5 MHz from Video frequency in CCIR instead of 6.5 in OIRT. That means also there are different frequencies for CCIR band compared with OIRT as the difference between 2 broadcasting channels is narrow. That means that channel C12 as example has a different frequency in CCIR compared with OIRT C12. Only in UHF Band there is no difference between the channels frequencies.How is manifested in MC ? Simply when I select Romania, even if I receive let's say 50 channels on cable, the tuner will find about 80 channels. But when playing them I will see that in fact there are about 35 channels only, rest are ghost channels of the received ones. From those, only 15 are well received - UHF Band, and the rest have images but no sound or sound with B/W image and very noisy. So I have to select a different country - usually Germany to corectly receive TV channels - with those settings there are no problems.To be more specific is like someone in US buy an TV Tunner software and he found it has Russian settings so it's forced to set the country to Mexico or Japan in order to be able to use the software he buyed.So please note this: ROMANIAN SETTINGS are : CCIR broadcasting standard, with PAL B/G format.If you need any documentation or explanations please contact me. My company sells TV Broadcasting equipments, so I have all the informations you need about the standards used here.Just please make those changes at least now, after so many years since you made the MC.And something else - when I set my TV tunner, during the setup I'm asked about my POSTAL CODE in order to receive Broadcast information. There is also a problem here. First, there is no EPG in Romania and most countries on the globe so it's useless for me and a lot of other people. Second, if I put the real code there it's like giving you my adress - my building has it's own postal code. So it's a problem of giving personal information. Considering I have no benefit of this as I've told you - there is no EPG here, what you do with my code ?
January 21st, 2010 5:10pm

hi , increase the page file , or systems cache (!!) you find 14000 items slow in the bin ? it used to take an hour years ago , ... defrag and speed up indexing , since its a new install , make sure you are fully updated you can also use a usb stick for ready boost (!!) do a diskcheck also , this might speed up your system and check the files , if it does not help it does not hurt to run it , ...install MSE also to keep your system safe http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/have a nice day Scan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!Hi. Thanks. I always set the page file to a 6 or 7% of the HD total size, since W98 or before. And I always make many disk defrags when I installing for the first time. And set the performance for Background services (I was never sure about this, but I readed it in a Microsoft article I believe :D) And I done a disk check this time (it really was a coincidence because I don't do this) I'm not sure about what is the System cache, and the USB stick for ready boost (???).About MSE... I'm not sure about this. I use avast! antivirus. Maybe I'm a stupid but I feel there is a strong paranoia and a big business with security. What I really see is a lot of time wasted in "are you sure?" and thinks like this. Anyway, I don't believe more "security" programs will make my PC faster...Anyway, the "normal" user don't know about the system cache or page file ;)Thanks.
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January 21st, 2010 6:37pm

For all those, who love W7, but love also the classic start menu :http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/files/It has even the drag´n drop functionality AND the shift+click feature! And it is free!Enjoy!
January 21st, 2010 8:00pm

I belive the link is already posted in one of older topics.Anyway, this is the best of what's on the market, I use it since v 0.9 has ben made public.Far better than c r a p W7 menu.
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January 22nd, 2010 12:52pm

All I can say is that Windows 7 is fine on my machine, I have been very happy with it. Its stable, even with my crappy backup x600 video card. The help system needs some work, some of it is still incomplete. Guess it was an oversight. Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe See my site for detailed machine information
January 23rd, 2010 5:29am

I do not care, but I am an expert, its for the noobs that are not so skilled.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe See my site for detailed machine information
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January 23rd, 2010 7:29pm

Hi. Thanks. I always set the page file to a 6 or 7% of the HD total size, since W98 or before. And I always make many disk defrags when I installing for the first time. And set the performance for Background services (I was never sure about this, but I readed it in a Microsoft article I believe :D) And I done a disk check this time (it really was a coincidence because I don't do this) I'm not sure about what is the System cache, and the USB stick for ready boost (???).About MSE... I'm not sure about this. I use avast! antivirus. Maybe I'm a stupid but I feel there is a strong paranoia and a big business with security. What I really see is a lot of time wasted in "are you sure?" and thinks like this. Anyway, I don't believe more "security" programs will make my PC faster...Anyway, the "normal" user don't know about the system cache or page file ;)Thanks. hi , well the normal user should just click the instructions that came with his or her comp , or click the ? mark to find tips and answers , .... the cache and page file are two of the easiest ways to speed up your comp , memory boost is an other , and the page file costs nothing , the usb stick from 10 to 50 usd have a nice day Scan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!??????Thanks, but I know the price. In fact I have a couple of USBs. What I say is I don't understand what you say with "use a usb stick for ready boost "My first language is not english so I don't understand you well. As I said, I always set my page file, I'm not sure about how to set the system cache.Anyway, MSE really sucks. My PC was too more slower with this, so I come back to avast.
January 23rd, 2010 11:15pm

I defended you. Truly, Microsoft, I did. I laughed and taunted Apple and Linux users for their straying from your Operating Systems. But I've decided, if you don't change drastically soon, you don't deserve my loyalty. I want to point out all the reasons why I am utterly disappointed with your new operating system: 1. Native PDF Support. Seriously? You can't put this in? I'm beginning to wonder if Adobe is paying you for not including it. Too bad I use a tiny program called Foxit. Acrobat is horrendous, almost as much so as your neglect to one of the MAJOR FILE FORMATS. Make it part of Wordpad, perhaps. I'm proud that you decided to finally give Wordpad some sort of upgrade, yes, but the users of your system should NEVER have to install something for a format that is so WIDELY used. LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS AND MAC HAVE IT. GET WITH THE PROGRAM. 2. Windows Movie Maker I recorded a 40 second avi in camstudio. I took it to the Windows 7 Ultimate's Windows Live Movie Maker. After being happy that I could edit, I was appalled to see that I was unable to save this as an avi. WMV? Why would someone making a MOVIE want to use a format targeted for WINDOWS? Avi is the way of the future. The way of the STANDARD. So I went and downloaded the Windows Vista version of Movie Maker and it told me to save it as an avi it would take 175mb of space. Absurd. Completely absurd. 3. Watching and burning movies I was always so upset that I had to use VLC media player to play my avi files because impotent Media Player was unable to. I'm glad you've fixed this in Windows 7, but what about your other supported operating systems? Do XP and Vista just have to suffer? I'm also glad I can get rid of Nero because of Windows DVD Maker, but again it was far too late. A user of your operating system should never have to download a third party program for CORE TASKS. You're just proving Apple's "It's easier" claim correct. 4. Internet Explorer This program is in my opinion the most inferior of the major browsers, of which I include Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE. The startup time is awful, the time to make a new tab is awful, the memory usage is awful, and even SAVING MY TABS WHEN I CLOSE IT is awful. I should NOT have to go to the new tab page and click "Restore my last session" after checking an option. It should be SIMPLE, something your products severely lack in concept. Chrome is incredible and exponentially more efficient and clean. 5. "Spaces"/"Workspaces" Apple and Ubuntu both use it. Why don't you? Dragging a program off the screen and having it be on another virtual screen? Brilliant! Especially Ubuntu's Compiz effects that make the desktop into a giant 3D enviroment. It's breathtaking and NOT simply a toy. When I use Ubuntu, all my types of windows are organized on different screens and switching between them is as simple as a swift rotate of my giant desktop cube. Windows is lacking HEAVILY on the visual aspect of customizing. Especially in XP. "Themes"? Why not just let me change the color and not store the pictures of the taskbar and such inside a DLL? Learn from Ubuntu on this especially: People like Spaces. That's why Mac has them too. Let the desktop be customizable NOT by mass amounts of third party programs that have to work around Windows' uncooperative tenancies. Make it pretty like what people want. Why should one set "taskbar" be the only type of organization? Why should one set file browser be the only appearance to look through files? Having to download third party shells and organizers is a bore. I like spaces so much I went and programmed my own for windows. About that; I am a programmer. I've been doing it for over a decade. I'm no simple computer user. 6. Program security I've used a program to modify local variables for programs during runtime, making my y axis coordinate in a video game change so I could fly. When your non .NET programs are so easily broken, that's enough said. 7. Windows Sound Recorder It's useless. Make something like Audacity. Or by God, make something like Garageband. Windows has yet to have a superior to that program. MAKE ONE. Do you not fear Google? With its developing of operating systems and great potential to become avid competition you're sitting around dilly-dalling with MEDIOCRE software. If Apple dropped the price on their computers or made OSX widely installable you will be pushed out. Google and Apple will begin to close in on you, and win. Many people are running on old Intel P3s or P4s with XP and will soon need to upgrade. Do you REALLY think you can hold the market with just the fact that "people won't change so easily"? All they have to do is think "Hey maybe I should check out mac before I buy a new computer" and walk into the Apple store and you will LOSE their loyalty. I'm TIRED of conversion programs. Make everything uniform. I don't EVER want to have to download a third party program for a SIMPLE CORE task ever again. Android and Chrome OS will come soon, and do you think Gazelle will save you? I would NEVER want an OS modeled after IE if that's what you're working on. Chrome OS will defeat you just like Google defeats Bing and without INNOVATION you will flounder and fall. In short: Make the OS uniform, including direct handling of core FUNCTIONS and FILE TYPES. You even took out the ability to record webcam footage in Windows 7's Movie Maker. How will people do that on your operating system? Oh wait -- they can't. They need a third party program to bog down your poorly designed registry. Video, Graphics, Music, Photos; Make it all simple. Take mac's claim that they're simpler and stick it to them. You need a better product or your company won't last. Xbox won't keep you afloat forever. I wrote this on an HP Laptop with Windows 7, but it's dual booted with OSX and Ubuntu. Just remember: People are not dependant on your operating system any longer. (PS: Why did you give Office 07 to Apple? You should have just upped your OS capabilities and shut them down.) -Nicholas Wilson Avid Computerist
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January 26th, 2010 8:00am

Nick,I'm not the least bit interested in things you would consider "good" in an OS. Conversely, I don't expect you to find my interests the least bit interesting and I know there are more of you video aficionados then there are me. This is a way of saying that Microsoft can't be all things to all people.Renee
January 26th, 2010 8:39am

Hi NicholasI know how you feel.I have been a fervent Microsoft lover myself since 1986.And that changed completely since mid-2009.Regards Picsoe
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January 26th, 2010 3:13pm

speak for yourself... my main work pc and laptop are running linux. as for the orginial post: 1. microsoft DID get sued by adobe a few years ago when it came out that microsoft was going to have a pdf reader in the next os.. (i think it was vista). At the last min they stripped it out. 2. omg... this is an issue? windows movie maker is god aweful. There are better ones out there and several are frew. 3. omg again.... i use wmp in windows 7 and vlc for movies ripped to iso... would be nice to be able to have native support in 7mc for iso. As for burning, there are so many free alternatives to list. 4. I gave up on ie during version 6 and never looked back. ie should be dropped imho. I agree with you on this one. 5. agree!... there was a powertoy with xp that worked very good... but was never ported to vista or 7. I would trade libraries for this function in a heartbeat. 6. i have no idea what you are talking about. 7. i would rather that sound recorder die. Audacity is much better. I much prefer a clean os without much installed and let me customize it as i want. I do not want a lot of stuff built in because there are software packages out there that are vastly superior and a lot are free. If you are that unhappy, then go to mac. Oh btw, if you want to do anything with a mac, you usually have to purchase additional software to do it. not much is included in mac either. Linux, depending on the distro, you can have a very slim install or can have everything and the kitchen sink thrown in. XP and Vista must die... long live windows 7 ultimate x64! (and linux mint 8 64bit)
January 26th, 2010 9:06pm

problem with windows painter especily in hebrew os the problem is that you can't choose between color one and two manually with the color selector you can't press color one use color selector and sample a color with left key and then choose color 2 and sample a second color with left key as it was in xp painter in this painter you choose color with color selector(eye dropper) only by pressing right and left key's now the big problem is one it doesn't written any where if you don't know about the right and left keys you will never figure it out and second in hebrew version lefr key is used to choose color one which is on the right side and right key is used to choose color two which is on the left side of the screen. check this thread for more information: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/218c07ab-680e-447f-806e-bc9766511ab3 and perhaps one day you would think of fixing this small problem and thanks in advance.
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January 27th, 2010 12:02am

things that should be sorted for windows 7: 1 - media center volume controls should only control media center and not the whole system eg pressing mute shouldnt mute the whole computer, just media center. i see why media center has done it this way but there should be an option to switch between the 2 volume methods 2 - why cant i click twice on a folder on the left pane of explorer to rename it like i could in xp? i can press f2 so its not a technical reason. 3 - games explorer - why is it so rubish - cant edit entries or create new ones without going into the registry. it should be easy for example to add steam games but it isnt. it also seems to be even worse than in vista - did someone write this one afternoon? 4 - biggest problem - new sound system doesnt allow me to output same sound at same time to digital speakers and analogue headphones. in xp i could turn off the speakers and just use the headphones - now i cant - this is a major backwards step. there needs to be the option to set multiple "devices" as the default output device so i can for example set both "speakers" and "digital output" to output at the same time like the new taskbar, themes and libraries though
January 27th, 2010 6:27pm

Besides my dislike of Windows Explorer, in general, I think W7 will have even more success than XP.And besides many critics I have on Microsoft, I really hate the foolish M$, Micro$oft and this stupidity. Don't you think the purpose of ANY company is win money? (big money) We can agree or not with the capitalist principles, but the truth is: a company is about money.Coca-Cola, IBM, Apple, Pepsi, Sony (have you seen any art film made by Sony, no, only money blockbusters without a script), Ford, Adobe..... are there companies not interested in money?
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January 27th, 2010 7:51pm

I am positively surprised about the quality/stability of Windows 7 at an early time, prior to the availability of SP 1. Because my previous XP-based PC was really too old (6 1/2 years) and had reached its limits, I decided that I should not wait longer for buying in December a new PC and took the risk to order it with Windows 7, before the availability of SP1. I do not regret it. There are however some aspects which do not satisfy me: 1) I am spending an incredible amount of time to figure out how to use Windows Backup for my specific requirements. The problems on one side is its limited functionality and flexibility. But worse for me, is the lack of detailed documentation. Even the otherwise excellent "Windows 7 Inside Out" book has not enough details about how Windows Backup is functioning. It is my impression, that in order to "keep it simple", Windows Development has sacrified a lot of details in the documentation. The result: I waste a lot of my time (and a lot of the time of contributors to the Windows forums) in order to understand details, that should be readily available.. 2) Too many Software can not cope with the Sleep mode. I do not know who is to blame for it: Microsoft, because MS did not describe sufficiently well to other Software Companies the "Sleep Modus" and did not "motivated" them sufficiently to support it? Or the other Software Companies, because they did not care sufficiently? Even MS Software, for example the Virus Scan of "Windows Security Essential" can not cope with it. The type of Software (Virus Scans, Backups, , that is typically scheduled during Night time, should run even in those situations, where Windows 7 would otherwise enter Sleep Mode. 3) I still miss the possibility to define a vertical Tool Bar containing my most frequently used shortcuts. Meanwhile, I understand how to add my own toolbar to the Taskbar and how to define a broad 2-row Taskbar in order to a) include my Toolbar within the Taskbar and b) have sufficient space within the taskbar. But from an ergonomic point of view, this is not the same as having my own independent vertical Toolbar. Why did the Windows Developmemt Team removed without apparent necessity the support for independent Toolbars that can be placed outside of the Taskbar?Despite the above "complaints" (and despite, on my PC, relatively frequent Windows Explorer problems that I can live with): I am happy with Windows 7
January 28th, 2010 11:08pm

I have found Windows 7 Ultimate to work fine on my machine. I have a complete set of drivers, most of which are on the DVD. Only ones were the video cards that were automatically downloaded. windows 7 is very stable on my machine. My machine motherboard is Vista logo certified and Windows 7 works fine on it. Visit my site for specifics on the hardware if you need details.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site
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January 28th, 2010 11:54pm

Dabur972 says: IE 8 runs like a train on vista and on 7 , what you probably do not know is that IE 8 interacts especially smooth with 7 , but so does any browser , ... if your IE 8 is slow then check why , do not blame it on win 7 since in your case its probably no due to 7 but due to settings and maybe other programs , ... And IE runs like a train? Which train -- 50 mph? And how often does it jump the rails? Usually I don't agree with your posts in this thread karlx, but in this instance, +1 for helpful vote. I find to be at least 2x faster than IE on ethernet and wireless (802.11g) connections, and at least 3x or more faster on dial-up. (That is a HUGE speed increase for dial-up....) Also on dial-up I find download speeds for files in IE to be about 1.3 KB/s, whereas FF gets 4 or 5 KB/s. Did I mention that this happens on XP as well as win7? So I also ask Dabur972 (sorry, I agree with karlx here not you) what train are you talking about? favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team! )
January 29th, 2010 6:00pm

Is it just me or is the "secure desktop" in the UAC (aka dim screen) really secure? I find that when I have a audio file (or a video) playing and invoke a UAC prompt, the audio doesn't miss a beat. I would think a 'secure' desktop would make the audio lockup until the prompt was over with. Am I missing something? favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
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January 29th, 2010 6:03pm

edit: <url> and </url> tags fail. Though I don't really know HTML at all. A link in HTML is <a href="http://www.site.com">name of link herer</a> To put a image in you use <img src="link to image" /> The [url] tags are for BBcode which this forum doesn't use. favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
January 29th, 2010 6:08pm

There are two layers of extra "chrome" around the edge in the Windows 7 Live Preview, and why is it now so far from the Taskbar? You should know I have deconfigured all of the Border Padding (set it to 0) for both systems. Apparently the Taskbar Live Preview doesn't follow the desktop setting for Border Padding . Microsoft: More chrome does not a more useful system make! I know you really love those visual effects - you must have put man-months into the "morphing" effect between adjacent Taskbar buttons, but please try to remember that the operating system is supposed to facilitate getting work done, and not be so full of itself! Please make it possible to at least have the Live Preview follow the desktop settings for Border Padding if nothing else. Ideally, make it possible for the Live Preview to look clean and without a border, like it does in Vista. Please? Finally someone other than me who doesn't like all the extra chrome around the previews.... favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team! )
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January 29th, 2010 6:10pm

The secure desktop is essentially another user profile running in a secure context isolated in memory. The main purpose is to prevent remote-control programs from being able to automatically press Alt-Y (for Yes) or click Yes on their own. Stopping the audio really isn't necessary for security. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
January 30th, 2010 1:02am

No wonder why JoytoKey (which converts game controller input to mouse clicks, keyboard shortcuts, etc) doesn't work in the UAC prompt... Thanks for explaining a little on how UAC works... favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
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January 30th, 2010 1:13am

Placing user data files in the same bag where the binaries of OS and of installed applications reside is the world's most stupid idea. User data files? That means documents of all types, but also files including personalization of OS and of installed soft. Windows XP and Vista don't support the user data from binaries isolation. "Documents and Settings" must be placed in the same partition, the OS is installed on. The same applies to caching of any kind. But here previous windows versions support user to isolate cache containers from binaries. What a strategy has the W7 regarding possibility to isolate user data files from OS binaries and soft binaries?
January 30th, 2010 11:05am

Dabur972 says: IE 8 runs like a train on vista and on 7 , what you probably do not know is that IE 8 interacts especially smooth with 7 , but so does any browser , ... if your IE 8 is slow then check why , do not blame it on win 7 since in your case its probably no due to 7 but due to settings and maybe other programs , ... And IE runs like a train? Which train -- 50 mph? And how often does it jump the rails? Usually I don't agree with your posts in this thread karlx, but in this instance, +1 for helpful vote.I find to be at least 2x faster than IE on ethernet and wireless (802.11g) connections, and at least 3x or more faster on dial-up. (That is a HUGE speed increase for dial-up....)Also on dial-up I find download speeds for files in IE to be about 1.3 KB/s, whereas FF gets 4 or 5 KB/s.Did I mention that this happens on XP as well as win7?So I also ask Dabur972 (sorry Uri, I agree with karlx here not you) what train are you talking about? favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team! ) I use Opera. I don't know why this navigator is ignored by most of the people. And when I say ignored, I mean intentionally ignored. It is free too.I really don't like Firefox. I found too marketing around it. Is like Bono singing to the poor people and beeing more and more "celebrity" himself.BTW, maybe is my PC, but when I try different navigators, I found the ugly Chrome the faster to start, then IE, then Opera, then Firefox and last of the race Safari (Safari also change the colors on many .jpg files). Opera is the faster when navigate the web, then Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari (these two have similar speed). And the downloading speed I found is more a matter of the server than the navigator.It's a non-scientific comprobation. It ¡s only what happens on my PC (with XP or with Windows 7) I learned a time ago computers are like fingerprints, there aren't two equals.
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January 30th, 2010 6:22pm

It's a non-scientific comprobation. It ¡s only what happens on my PC (with XP or with Windows 7) I learned a time ago computers are like fingerprints, there aren't two equals. Hit the nail on the head there. What I was getting at in my post is that across tons of computers IE is much slower that other browsers, it's not a fast beast that can compete well with FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari. favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
January 30th, 2010 7:16pm

If u will read this forum carefull u will find out that Windows 7 isnt so good as it pretends ( im not going to chat about core features here, which are almost equal to Vista), so most popular thread here are all about UI related features that was present at Vista but was removed at Win 7 (or was redesigned to be more complicated and totaly useless).Fo example many peoples here complaints about missing Windows Game Explorer http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/37a9060e-1dce-4fbf-ab51-4bc116312746 features (which for sure was much better at VIsta) and about Power Profiles that hard to use now, and also about Explorer not refreshing view after removal of file http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/8afb8b65-900c-4f42-b1df-3c2394417b6e . There are much more thread about bugs in Win 7 UI and features that was cut.None of them was fixed since initial release, so my question is simple?Do ms reading user's feedback??? Do MS realise that they cut too much in 7 comparing to Vista? Do ms have any plans to return back missing UI features with any update any soon??Voodooman
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January 31st, 2010 5:03am

Windows 7 is finalized and has entered into what they consider 'maintenance' portion of its lifespan. The team that designed Windows 7 is working on the next version, while a separate team is responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of the current version. While no enhancements or changes to the Windows 7 UI will be delivered, your feedback is of course welcome/desired/needed as the team focuses on the next version o Windows. I would encourage you to give your feedback (be as specific as possible, and only one feedback item per submission, so they can sort them appropriately) at this website: • http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195 If you have a spare computer that is not critical for use in a production environment and you're comfortable with reinstalling your OS a few times, I'd encourage you to also watch for and participate in the next Windows Client Beta Program. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
January 31st, 2010 6:49pm

Windows 7 is finalized and has entered into what they consider 'maintenance' portion of its lifespan. The team that designed Windows 7 is working on the next version, while a separate team is responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of the current version. While no enhancements or changes to the Windows 7 UI will be delivered, your feedback is of course welcome/desired/needed as the team focuses on the next version o Windows. I would encourage you to give your feedback (be as specific as possible, and only one feedback item per submission, so they can sort them appropriately) at this website: • http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195 If you have a spare computer that is not critical for use in a production environment and you're comfortable with reinstalling your OS a few times, I'd encourage you to also watch for and participate in the next Windows Client Beta Program. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks! hi , the next OS will be cloudbased , tests are underway with Microsoft Research , it is the future , a light OS on your comp and all the rest on a server the next beta client will be more stable when its released to the public for further testing , at that point the OS is allready fairly stable Microsoft started about two years ago to see past win 7 , at this point no final route is chosen , there are several other OS types all ready born in some of the labs have a nice dayScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
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January 31st, 2010 6:59pm

my only complaint about 7 is i hate the games explorer. I do my own sorting of my games. As for the others on here bashing 7... do you even use it? I person above that said he been using computers since 1984... what was it? ibm? commodore? apple? Sinclair? Sorry, i am calling BS on you. I have been using computers since 1979. In that time frame, there was Commodore, Trs80, mainframe, pcdos, drdos, msdos, windows 1.0-windows 7, VAX, OS2, OS2 warp, Novell, Unix (BSD, Digital, System V, AIX, Sun, hpux, etc), Apple mac os 1-mac 10.6.1, Apple II. Not one of these are similiar to each other... everyone has a different interface or syntax. You bashing MS for windows 7 interface tells me you are just a troll. You have been on several threads on this site with nothing but bashing. As for your experience with slowdowns on your "monster" pc *rolls eyes*, then i thank you need to take it to someone who knows something about PCs. All my experience (12 machines and counting) of windows 7 is at least as fast if not faster than xp. I have been running it fulltime for a year now. Even my netbook i bought that had xp on it runs just as fast with win7 home premium on it. Instead of all the bashing, if you are having problems, ask here. That is what this forum is for. Voodooman, I never said, and we never said that windows 7 was perfect. But neither was xp until sp2. Apparently noone remembers how bad xp was before that. It was awful. So everyone says XP was great, i am glad it is going to die. I had to restore my xp box about every 3-4 mo until sp2 came out. It would just die prompting me to buy a tape drive and start backing up to tape.
January 31st, 2010 7:11pm

Yeah XP was horrible. No one wanted it. It was even on mainstream NBC, ABC news almost each night for a new exploit, virus, trojan, etc. It really was a disaster. I think this just shows that people are not against Windows 7 for any reason other than it's new to them. But at least it's secure. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
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January 31st, 2010 7:13pm

hi , one of the best quick guides on win 7 Windows 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant , http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Book.aspx?ID=13812windows 7 inside out is worth its money also http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books.aspx?ID=13487&Locale=en-usWindows 7 Resource Kit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books.aspx?ID=13811&Locale=en-uswhen i think back just ten years , who could imagine then what we have now ? the applications in win 7 , the way one can modify it , the interaction with other OS , ....a small history of 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows7the remote media streaming could bemore exapnded , hopefully with those special external media drives we see coming up now a good program will come of age that could be directly put in the the TV , and a full connection of all household appliances would be a step to the future also , ... some of those things where simply not possible before , now with 7 labs can start to create them at 219 USD the ultimate version is a cheap bargain if you see what you get , spend an other 300 for the office 2010 in a few months and voila the perfect office and home suite is created , .... the expansion of the memory for eample in win 7 is a revolution , aldo small on its own i think back on win 98 SE and xp , when i see the level of support that they needed and the level of support with vista and 7 now , .... a singly IT staff can now control and maintain 100 comps with easy , with XP that would have been a nightmare for at least ten people , ... agreed xp can be tweaked , but if you got to the sevenforums and see whats there now one will realize the fast forward . 7 is out lets say a good year and what ideas and add ons are allready released , ... compared to xp or 98 it took years often what is new and unknown can frighten people who are rusted to the office chair , but unless you want to be a dinosaur one has to move forward , ... we can only imagine what the next ten years will bring , ... have a nice sunday afternoonScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
January 31st, 2010 7:31pm

It's a non-scientific comprobation. It ¡s only what happens on my PC (with XP or with Windows 7) I learned a time ago computers are like fingerprints, there aren't two equals. Hit the nail on the head there.What I was getting at in my post is that across tons of computers IE is much slower that other browsers, it's not a fast beast that can compete well with FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari. favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!) [OFF Topic]Sorry, but as english is far to be my first language, what's the meaning of the expression Hit the nail on the head there?[ON Topic] :DThanks.Anyway, I founded IE8 (the "new" IE8 wich comes with W7 RTM, the previous one was really a turtle) faster than many navigators.
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January 31st, 2010 7:38pm

I use the recent Firefox 3.5 is its quick too.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
January 31st, 2010 7:40pm

<a name="OFF Topic">Sorry, but as english is far to be my first language, what's the meaning of the expression Hit the nail on the head there ?</a (OFF Topic) > Thanks. "Hit the nail on the head" is one of the many figures of speech English people use. I think it comes from you hit a nail into a piece of wood or something 'dead on' (um, aka right in the center) instead of missed or hit the side of it. Anyways, it means that comment or thing you did or something is exactly right, that's how it works, that is precisely it, etc. Anyway, I founded IE8 (the "new" IE8 wich comes with W7 RTM, the previous one was really a turtle) faster than many navigators. Obviously browser experiences are different for everyone (duh moment)... It's fast for you, slow for me... favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
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January 31st, 2010 8:07pm

Anyway, I founded IE8 (the "new" IE8 wich comes with W7 RTM, the previous one was really a turtle) faster than many navigators. hi , fast for one slow for an other , it depends how many add ons are loaded , firewall , toolbars , etc , ... and most of that stuff is hardly ever needed IE 8 is safer , so far more and more people start to discover it , ... one note in general , installing severall browsers will not speed up anything have a nice sunday afternoonScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
January 31st, 2010 8:17pm

On my box I have lots of browsers, I do web development. I liek Firefox when I have a zillion tabs open, its more clean on the tab bar below the link bar. AT the moment I have 4 tabs open, slow day today.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
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January 31st, 2010 8:20pm

omg!!! quit with the classic menu bs!!! I am so tired of listening to this. Are you the same one from a while ago complaining about this? download classic menu and go away! Learn to use google. What reply to who are you referencing? favorite threads | Computer tips Contact me | 'Gadget' programs (Join my Folding@home team!)
January 31st, 2010 8:25pm

Its way up there, seems the server is a bit sluggish today again. So much for the upgrade. Before the update, sometimes not all of the messages would be displayed. I also use Google et al a lot when doing research. Seems some servers are choking on the loads. Makes me look hard at my own server and its capacity and scalability.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
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January 31st, 2010 8:28pm

Another design flaw in Windows 7 having Desktop Experience and Aero enabled: MDI windows, although providing a thick border, can be opened so small that - although there is some space left between System menu and minimize button - they can't be moved around with the mouse. This becomes particularly annoying when e.g. opening a couple of small icon files in PHOTO-PAINT. I always have to resize them all first to get their MDI child windows big enough to be able to move them around in my workspace. I suggest to re-design the MDI child window skin so that space between System menu and minimize button can be used completely to move the window around.
January 31st, 2010 9:50pm

I have my screen set to 2048x1536 and dialogs all look fine for me. I have even been at 2304x1728 and found working at that resolution and I was able to work with MDI objects easily even with Photoshop opening 5 pics for a poster project. Graphics arts need stupendous resolutions, not the recommended 1024x768 that Microsoft suggests. My Dell P991 is old, but its very good. Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
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January 31st, 2010 10:04pm

I've got pretty good 1900*1200 which is quite sufficient for me. However, I'm not talking about fine granular graphics editing but talking about MDI usability.Try to create an image, say 60 pixels width and any arbitrary height. Create about 20 copies on disk and then open them all... You'll see the effect then.
January 31st, 2010 11:11pm

OK lets look at a commercial aspect of graphics arts. On my site there are ads below the TOC. Those are 120 pixels wide and 600 tall. Other ads are 720x90 so if I have some client I am making an ad for, I may have 15 images or more as I build an animated GIF object. I also work with smaller ad sizes and I simply zoom them to 4x their size so I can do fine detail edits.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
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January 31st, 2010 11:20pm

No, we still seem to talk at cross purposes here... Have a look at this image: You will notice that it's impossible to move this MDI child window because there is no space left between the System menu and the Minimize icon. Though there is plenty of space wasted in the MDI child window's title bar. This should be optimized: Less waste of space in the title bar. There should always be a portion available to be able to move the MDI child window.
January 31st, 2010 11:49pm

Agreed. I'd recommend posting this to the TechNet Windows 7 User Interface section as a new thread. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
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January 31st, 2010 11:50pm

Seems to be a problem with Corel's software, I suggest contacting them for assistance.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
January 31st, 2010 11:52pm

Nope, it happens in all MDI applications. I use several for work, plus Microsoft Office does it too. The Operating System is in charge of drawing the MDI child windows' frames, so it is a Windows issue, not a 3rd party application's fault. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
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January 31st, 2010 11:54pm

Thanks. I'll do that then. Actually I thought this thread was the right place for complaints and suggestions... Would you recommend me to put my other suggestions I've made here into that forum as separate threads, too?
January 31st, 2010 11:55pm

A moderator might correct me here, but I'd say this area is great for general discussion, but the more focused of an area you can post in, the more likelihood the teams responsible for those pillars will view it. If this was helpful, please vote by clicking the green triangle. If it solves the issue, click Propose as Answer. Thanks!
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January 31st, 2010 11:57pm

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February 1st, 2010 8:50pm

Hi Microsoft,Please, please can you make Windows Search work in Windows 7?The latest issue we are having is on the Start Menu again. Windows simply refuses to display results that you know exist on the Start Menu. One example is I have about 25 items that start with the text "Self-Fix - ". Yesterday, all 25 were returned if I type "Self" in the Start Menu search box. Today, only 6 are returned. We also have several shortcuts that Windows never returns and we can find no reason why this is. They are all .lnk files. They all have the same file attributes. They all have the same security. I mean, they are just Start Menu shortcuts. A dir /s self* will easily show them all. Why can't Windows Search find them?Another example is if I search for just "fix" then only 3 are returned, it's just crazy. How does Windows Search managed to find 6 out of 25 things using "self" as a search and only 3 out of 25 using "fix" as a search when they all start with "Self-fix"?It is very unreliable.File searches and especially file content searches are even more unreliable and random.Thank you,Rob
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February 3rd, 2010 12:18am

Hi Microsoft,Please, please can you make Windows Search work in Windows 7?The latest issue we are having is on the Start Menu again. Windows simply refuses to display results that you know exist on the Start Menu. One example is I have about 25 items that start with the text "Self-Fix - ". Yesterday, all 25 were returned if I type "Self" in the Start Menu search box. Today, only 6 are returned. We also have several shortcuts that Windows never returns and we can find no reason why this is. They are all .lnk files. They all have the same file attributes. They all have the same security. I mean, they are just Start Menu shortcuts. A dir /s self* will easily show them all. Why can't Windows Search find them?Another example is if I search for just "fix" then only 3 are returned, it's just crazy. How does Windows Search managed to find 6 out of 25 things using "self" as a search and only 3 out of 25 using "fix" as a search when they all start with "Self-fix"?It is very unreliable.File searches and especially file content searches are even more unreliable and random.Thank you,Rob hi , are you updated ? cause it does work with 7 , ... when i type in ' fix ' i get more hits , ... have a nice day Scan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
February 3rd, 2010 6:09am

Here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/bdc2e0f6-bbfb-41ab-9aed-b7e606bc5f0eI was given an "easy way" :-D to make it work. Thanks to John Cena, but I still think the Search 4 really sucks. And I said: <quote>Thanks. It was a lot of work to acquire the permissions for every key, but finally it worked. Thanks. But this is not somethig intuitive or something my mother can do.One of the reasons I prefer Windows over Linux is the easy way to do things (not the console, sudo -x ..... to upgrade a program and those always-non-intutive-console-commands in Linux) But if a common user (like my 85 years old mom who uses outlook express and word without trouble) needs to do the process you describe above, I must reconsider my concepts. I don't like a Mac, of course, but this is too much....</quote>It's not easiest to have a textbox and radiobuttons/checkboxes to select where to find?
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February 3rd, 2010 7:47pm

when i type in ' fix ' i get more hits , ... The interesting question is : Do you get all hits ! Is ms search really trustworthy? I have good reason to doubt. It's not easiest to have a textbox and radiobuttons/checkboxes to select where to find ? 3 thumbs up, DrGerry. At least! + getting all hits, would be nice too. Btw, linux gets more and more comfortable! Upgrading with gui, fe!
February 3rd, 2010 7:52pm

hi , two links for those who want more out of 7even http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032439394http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Book.aspx?ID=13811&locale=en-ushave a nice dayScan with OneCare + 50 Windows 7even Tips + Plagued by the Privacy Center? REMOVE IT + Threat Research & Response Blog + Sysinternals Live tools + TRANSLATOR+ Photosynth + Microsoft Security + Microsoft SUPPORT + PIVOT from Live Labs + Microsoft Live Labs + Office 2010 beta + Get Windows LIVE!
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February 4th, 2010 11:29pm

some guys would be happy if w7 did reliably what it primarily should! Without annoying childish design and programming faults.
February 4th, 2010 11:42pm

My machine runs Windows 7 well. It never crashed once on me except when my 8600GT failed. After removing the defective hardware, Windows 7 has been rock stable. I have noted a few new clients on my site seeking help, no problem, that is why I installed it in the first place.Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
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February 4th, 2010 11:46pm

Dabur, read the comments carefully, then you have enough stuff to think about. I still miss one item of the 25 pages you have in mind where 7 is better than xp. Windows 7 is far more productive than XP in my experience. I have noticed it is very strong with large numbers of programs running, when the same hardware using XP would slow to a crawl. Vote if answered or helpful, I am running for Office (joke)! IT/Developer, Windows/Linux/Mainframe RaidMax Smilodon, 680W, Asus M2NBP-VM CSM AMD X2 4200+, 2GB DDR2-800, x600, more details on my site, need a video card for the Windows machine, the 8600 GT fried
February 4th, 2010 11:51pm

1) Windows Live Messenger "Voice Clip" function no longer records what my sound card outputs when I choose in my sound card settings, the What U Hear (Mixer) recording device. Under Windows XP and I'm pretty certain Vista, it worked perfectly and was very awesome way to share short clips of music and game sounds etc. without actually sharing a audio file. 2) Windows Explorer - The ">" next to folders containing sub-folders fades away over time, very retarded and idiotic. (ClassicShell can resolve this, so why can't MS?) 3) Advanced Folder View settings are always global, never per folder. 4) MENU TOOLBAR IS NOT PRESENT FOR ANY WINDOW AFTER A FRESH INSTALL!!! SERIOUSLY, why would you HIDE such a vastly important thing? 5) Missing the Windows XP Quick Launch bar, very useful feature. 6) Can't arrange the layout of icons in a folder at all, only the desktop lets you. I'm not sure of a suitable example that demonstrates what I mean but here is one... NSFW http://www.arrangebypenis.com/ You can't do that in a folder at all ever, can't make any shapes with your icons etc. can't re-order things if in Detailed View etc.. 7) No classic start menu, Yes I prefer the new one, however please include the old one for the people who do not want to get used to a new thing. I can never forgive you for what you did in Office 2007, you FORCED everyone to adopt a barely customizable "gay bar", hopefully Office 2010 lets us recreate a classic style toolbar without paying/pirating a 3rd party companies product WHICH MAKES THE CLASSIC BAR AVAILABLE! 8) Have Joypad/analog input wake the computer from a "idle" state, so that screen savers and stuff don't turn on while using them. You did this on your consoles, why not for Windows? 9) Windows should be able to detect if you have a audio loop occurring resulting in massive loud obnoxious noise. I mean, hold a mic up to your speaker and play back a sound, record the sound in a program that will both playback what it records as it records and record the sound. Or make the What U Hear (Mixer) recording device output what it listens to, through your computer speakers then play any sound for a nice headache. 10) UAC, the prompt appears on the Taskbar, focus is not primarily given to the prompt when it appears. Make the taskbar bar for that window flash quicker. I know you have the focus thing fixed in a patch you have yet to "officially" release. 11) "Windows Search" is a joke, the Windows XP one is perfect. 12) WMP has improved, However, it never remembers how I want the song time to be displayed. I want it to say how long has played as well as show the total track length. Everytime it is opened again, it only shows time elapsed which is ____ annoying. I could get past it by opening the Track pane on the right of the player but then I'd have to widen the mini player to see the names etc. otherwise the interface would be cluttered with useless names that would distract the perfectionist inside me. 13) MSPAINT is very unintuitive 14) MS Sound Recorder has LOST functionality since the XP and older versions and it NAGS you with a completely different style dialog box (from most other MS programs) to save the project when you try to leave. Put back the YES / NO / "CANCEL" buttons. 15) file management processes take longer then in XP, however I believe this is because Virus Scanner Security Software Vendors can now better integrate there real-time scanners into the O/S hence longer file copy/move/replace/ etc. processes. 16) add back the Icon Toolbar for Windows Explorer and retain the Windows XP icons. This will win you a massive # of XP users.
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February 5th, 2010 6:52am

@ Franpa: in the we menubar are some nice items, fe in the edit menu : copy to folder, move to folder. file menu: undo. Ok, one more click, better than nothing.
February 5th, 2010 11:09am

Again problems with nVidia drivers, but this time with WU and Troubleshooting.The troubleshooting recomends me to install the latest nVidia drivers from nVidia site for an unknown error they gives me in a benchmark. Funny but I already have the latest...WU offers to UPDATE my nVidia HDMI Audio from version 1.0.0.63 - latest on nVidia - January 2010 - to version 1.0.0.54 ( or something ) - latest on WU, but 6 months older...
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February 5th, 2010 1:58pm

A friend bought a new computer with Windows 7. Says I hate this, I want my XP back. I told them it is fine you will get used to it. So I tried to help. They wanted the familar e icon for IE on the desktop.NO problem, I go to start programs and find Internet explorer. I drag right click anf drag to the desktop, and slect copy. It is ther but the icon is wrong. I go to properties and change the icon teh the blue e. Apply OK. It does nto change. After trying to get the e several times I give up. I double click to open IE. Some window opens like a Windows Live like to show pictures?? No IE. I check all the menus and find if I click help, it goes on line and there is IE. hmmm. So I go to File manager and find IE. Double click on tlhe program name and bingo I have IE. So I drag this to the desktop and create a shortcut. Double click and NO IE. hmmm. I search again on the HD and find another IE file. Click and drag to the desktop and suddenly I have a blue e and I can open IE. Problem solved?? Next task "I want to use MS Works". I find Works on the start menu and drag to the desktop. Same odd picture icon again! Double click and teh same Windows Live Window, NO MS Works. I can not open MS Works. I give up!
February 6th, 2010 6:16am

Windows 7 is great, though after a couple of weeks using it, I found myself missing two things. Easily implementable in an upgrade/SP. I have multiple soundcards and I would like a feature in the Volume Mixer to right click any program and assign it to a sound device. Things to consider here are: On the fly dynamic swithing. Setting default device per application (yes yes, I know we can distinguish between communication and non-communication devices, but that's not enough). The new taskbar is great, though one very useful feature is gone! You can't see how many instances of a program (e.g. folders in the explorer) are open (when more than one), without using the preview. Putting a smal number in the lower right corner of the program icon (similar to Vista/XP putting a number on the side, when many instances were grouped) will be a great add-on (might even make it an option) and it won't destroy the design.
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February 8th, 2010 1:29am

You can't see how many instances of a program (e.g. folders in the explorer) are open (when more than one), (when more than two) . :-) Exactliy 2 u see. But you are more than right in principle! This is one of the many unnecessary "imworsements" .
February 8th, 2010 10:39am

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February 8th, 2010 7:36pm

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