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A stable, flexible Windows 7 interface running as Windows 8, a complete Metro -touch-optimized experience- interface and a Desktop-Metro option, the way Windows 8. If they publish fully-completed products like WinXP, Win7 they can be the best. A horrible experience just because not completed! They should focus on all of our posts and opinions to offer to us -the Windows users and fans- the best experience if they really want to have us waiting outside the shops to buy a new Microsoft product.

They push to us incomplete projects. Not if a smartphone O. Why Windows should be useless for Desktops? Looks horrible that who? It never did. They just got on top without doing more. With Windows Desktop I could get organized more easily, without being controlled from the O. Windows 8 is not completed, published just to show Microsoft if they could succeed in controlling their customers and create a completely tracking system.

They should have not changed the UI for PCs and tablets. If they wanted Metro, they could follow Windows Phone. Now, they want to connect Phone to PC! How is that possible? The same O. How is that happening? When you pay, you need more, no less.

They must improve what they have. We know Microsoft and we buy Microsoft. They present sth great, modern and you see the useless and stupid Vista. Again Windows8. More features with less equipment, without the need of buying and buying new devices with heavy costs. See, Microsoft has opened Stores again for "Windows 8. The same vision, buy and buy. You like it, buy it. No comments, not accepted. Windows 8 Metro UI is garbage on a desktop.

This needs to be for tablets and touchscreen devices only. Everytime I have to find the desktop tile it pushes me closer to madness.

Stop with the tiles. They are useless on a PC. Get back to your roots and stop trying to catch up with smartphones and tablets on a PC!!!!! The two do not even correlate. Why would you pump out this impossible to use interface for anything else but a touchscreen.

I love the new patches but you need an only desktop version of WIN8. Please listen to the consumer or i will have to be forced, along with almost anyone else who knows how to do anything else besides check the latest picture of someones dinner on facebook, to go to APPLE!!! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. How satisfied are you with this discussion? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

Previous Next. I feel the same way. It amazes me that a product like this would be pushed on us, and then not try to resolve the issue. It is like we are being told it is our fault for a crappy product.

How satisfied are you with this reply? CmdrKeene MVP. You can't find your desktop tile? You only need to find it once, then you'll never see the tiles again. Just stay in the desktop and use all your normal Windows 7 programs the way you always have, no problem.

I agree, this program is for the birds. I was doing just find with an older version, until we were forced to upgrade to this crappy program.

The part I hate is when you try to go back and forth between web pages. I liked windows xp pro search, so when you go into it , it has options to search for files or folders, or music or photos etc. You can always use Advance Query Syntax to tailor your search results.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I hate it. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. This is not Progress. Another thing that REALLY sucks in W7: in the XP file explorer if you click on a directory on the tree left side , and then in the right side files , the active element is always set on the right side: logical.

If you then press the delete key, you will be asked to confirm the deletion of the file you selected on the right side, or it will do nothing if you clicked on the background, because you selected nothing. Everything as expected. You always see by the color which element is the active one, and what side of the explorer is active. Maybe it depends on people habits, but my wife is always asking me for undeleting big whole directories she has deleted by mistake because she uses shift-delete and confirms without reading because she knows she is deleting but this NEVER happened on xp.

The undelete tool I had to download and install is of the applications I use the most. Thanks, MS. You forgot to mention the fact that Windows updates tend to mess everything up from booting up wanting to run CHKDSK at every start to fonts to programs not being able to load. This is evil! That was a new one!

No wonder Mac owners laugh at us! Chkdisk runs every time you start when you have an issue with your hard drive.

What if you had to move your home every six months? What if they changed the dashboard in your car every now and then, just for kicks, replacing the steering wheel with a holistic device and switching the order of your pedals from left to right? What would you do if you were forced to learn and speak new dialects of your language for no good reason except random groups of people suddenly forcing them on you?

This is what Linux and now Windows is all about. Just move the fucking file!!! It did that with XP as well. While I havent read all the comments, those that I did I completely agree with. My bitch is the Backup. Keeerist it takes forever and some nimrod at MS has been saying for a couple years now they are aware and are coming out with a fix. But now they want us to go to Windows 8. Fat chance at our company. Even the styles of those screens have never changed in over 10 years.

There was nothing wrong with the compact System contol panel dialog — sysdm. Windows Update is no longer accessed from there, nor is Device Manager. In the standard proven tabbed dialog we could easily see which tab we were on and access any other, without extra clicks to go up one or two levels first. Trying to get file permissions sorted out makes me furious!!!

I am the admin and I get tons of permission denied — WTF??? I work when I can in Ubuntu and even being new at it it is less stressful. Enjoy your comments!! Repair technician tried to persuade me to get a new computer with Win 7 and I refused. The next model will have the steering wheel in the trunk and the gas pedal on the roof. That was a great analogy, and one befitting this piece of junk that is Windows 7! So there is this culture of adding lots of useless stuff quickly and sloppily to get the raise and pump up some new system for stock investors.

When PE ratios are so high, this is just the way things work in publicly traded companies. With regard to all the DRM and security, this ia also a culture of corruption, and we have to deal with it. It is actually almost criminal, because many critical businesses including hospitals depend on these bloated operating systems catering to NSA and RIAA, rather than customers. Its ridiculous really. I love Windows XP. The only thing 7 has on XP is Direct X Hope my laptop can last another 5 years.

It will be 7 years old this year. Any company can design a nice User Interface on Linux, Windows will die second day!!! Like how Windows killed OS2. If any company can design a nice UI for Linux, why is it there still no decent interface that can rival XP?

Hello fellow Windows 7 lovers. Was looking for some solutions to yet more unknown problems Windows 7 when I stumbled onto this blog. I spent my entire working life in electronics, and have at least a working knowledge of computers. Since my retirement I I have refurbished, or rebuilt a ton of computers.

Most I donate to my granddaughter or other grammar school. A few I sell on eBay. I cannot count how many Windows 7 installs I have done, or how many hours I have spent finding missing drivers that are compatible, or troubleshooting mystery problems that seem to have no cause or cure. It is beyond belief that Microsoft, especially after the Vista debacle, would come out with an operating system that has no support for most older model computers.

I do my best to steer any one who will listen away from Windows 7 especially bit. Hang in there grumpy! I have a game called FAR CRY and it will not install off the disc no matter what I try, compatibility does nothing for it not even win compatibility! The only way I could get this game to install was to physically install windows 7 32 bit so much for 64 bit being so mighty, 64 bit is kind of a joke.

Should have just stuck with my XP install if I knew it was going to be this big of a pain! I have a new PC I wonder what else 64 bit does not work with. Apart from a tiny miniscule minority of users, the type found doing calculations for atro physics or working on sending the next man into space, there is absolutely no need for bit anything. Windows 7 brought my productivity to a grinding halt and forced me to install XP on a virtual machine in order to do my job efficiently.

It now takes me twice as long to scan through large numbers of images by having to use that bloody preview pane crap instead of normal thumbnails. What a frickin nightmare. We rolled back to XP, but production went ahead with the upgrade! Management has this weird belief that MS knows what it is doing; a running joke in IT. In the meantime, mission critical Linux machines just chug along maintaining local and remote databases and their secure data pipes. The very people hired to establish our infrastructure were ignored in the upgrade decision.

If a tool does its job, there is no real reason to replace it. Everything, and I mean pretty much everything, takes twice as many clicks and useful functionality has been totally hidden away in the piece-o-junk ribbon toolbar. I absolutely understand when its necessary to upgrade for real reasons, but the infinite upgrade business model of MS has now become actually counter-productive. Where are the other PC platforms? Yep, just found this the other day. Instead of up-arrow I just click on the folder I want in the address bar.

Thank God there are things called virtual machines. A guy I know who used to work at Dell told me that it was nearly as complicated for him as well. In Windows 7, the only way you can view it is through Internet Explorer. The built-in picture viewer in Windows 7, unlike Windows XP, cannot view animations from animated gifs.

Many people are gonna be unhappy when Microsoft totally ends its support of XP in April of next year. If Microsoft had their way, they would have ended XP support 3 years ago. I think a lot of people will just stick with XP whereas companies will be forced to move to Windows 7. Oh this is so true. I could cry every time. Why are they soooo stupid? Sadly, the innovation and brains have long since left Microsoft when Bill Gates departed.

What are they planning on doing with it, running a server farm??? This is why I prefer browsing the web with my Samsung Galaxy 3. I would likely buy an Android based tablet in the future. Actually there is sense to the madness. Difficulty in navigating files allows them them to hide stuff on your computer easier.

Less control for you is more control for them and their NSA colleagues. The text was blurry. The general feel is of blur. Even after messing with the dpi. Where is option folder? You have to go search about to find advanced setting to find the main tick box for folder to change icons to pic! More online solutions said just do it.

So I gave in and did it. Until one popped up telling me there was discount to be had. This prompted me to do more searching to kill it and I found it in msconfig startup and killed the monster. Went back to the Backup site and deleted my files and account. Which it allowed me to do after more pop up offer of a web browser kind, the last one claiming to be free, which by then of course I wanted nothing to do with.

And here I was trying to hurry up and grab Win 7 before the only choice I had was Windows 8. Some time ago I lost my windows XP due to the hard drive failing. I went to a local provider who sold me windows 7 which stinks. For example I often need to do group mailing which I cannot seem to do with this. Guess what there is no such option in the menu.

No where do I go? I concur with everyone stated here. I am using open office spread sheet. Whenever I move the mouse over a cell, or change the contents of the cell, winblows 7 image gets stuck.

It shows ghosts copies of a row in place of the normal row sequence. It is clearly an image refresh issue. But it makes working in a spread sheet frustratingly impossible. I want to take a sledge hammer and. Dual core processor.

Finally it stop booting. I am back to the old computer with the XP. You cannot look at pictures either. It keeps sending you off to another page and it takes several clicks to get back to the page you were on. By far this is the biggest piece of shit I have ever seen, even worse than vista!!! Thank you everyone; this site lets me know my Windows-induced angst is reasonable and justified.

If the app already has focus, it disappears! Why would intuition ever make you click on something to make it go away? I use a dual monitor setup with wide monitors, and frequently click on the taskbar to find an open app does anyone else ever do this?

You say go by the Icon? I find it useful in removing the clutter of open app windows, an alternative to the minimize but without needing to go to the app window.

Well I have a fast enough machine, but sometimes there is a slight delay when I click a taskbar button hmmm why could that be? Programs could be minimized from the Taskbar since Windows That is quite useful. For example, I am typing in one window and want to briefly review something in a window that is not currently visible. I click on its taskbar button to bring it up, then click the same button to minimize it and return to where I was.

This is especially important if the app lacks a standard titlebar like Winamp , and the control buttons are missing. Windows Seven taskbar in the standard Aero Basic theme has a problem. Hovering over a button highlights it in a color that is based on the program icon. For example, the registy editor gets a light blue shading. Opera gets a red shade. I often find myself repeatedly minimizing and restoring a window before I see that it is up. Windows Classic themed taskbar XP is easier to use.

The focused window has its button sunken and shaded slightly brighter. If they decided to add an effect there it should be very slight, and not overshadow the most important state of the button — down or up.

How about these apologize if previously mentioned : 1. When you double click a folder in windows explorer it jumps to the bottom of the screen, VERY annoying. If you have file names that are the same except with leading spaces win 7 treats them as the same name and will overwrite or make a copy. XP treated them as different file names.

VERY annoying. XP was the most stable Operating System they ever made. I have to repeat this procedure several times so that Windows will let me connect to the internet.

When working, I hope it stays for a few days. It sound like Microsoft does not want Windows to be used for offices. Windows is really hard to use. I have to be a computer engineer and also a medium to use Windows. The first is the number of default settings that are set to arbitrary and unhelpful values. The second is the way in which settings are distributed throughout the operating system with many that are hidden away the whole Windows Annoyances thing. The third is the way that, unless you use a separate drive or create a separate partition, it mixes up program and user data files.

However, once you get to grips with these problems, XP is great, the world is your oyster… Of the eight or so areas of the operating system I use on a regular basis e.

Until recently this new PC has remained unused simply because I know getting to grips with Windows 7 will send me apoplectic. A quick look at Windows 7 revealed that, of the eight or so areas of the operating system I use regularly only one or two remained unchanged and that the remainder had been redesigned in a way that just made them more difficult to use. The new PC? It has some really nice features and has put to good use the experience gained from building and upgrading PCs over many years.

It runs very cool and very quiet. It looks awesome. And… my eldest son is now using it as a music PC to record and mix music on, for which it is ideally suited. It seems that, with every release of Windows, all the functions and features of the previous version are still there, but they are moved to different places, and are re-named to something non-intuitive. Try finding it in Windows 7. I have a program that stores and restores the icon positions, but I would have to use it every few minutes, so it is mainly useful for an emergency where Windows decides to move all the icons into alphabetical order or whatever the programmers though was preferable.

I have been impressed over the year or so I have been using Windows 7 with the effort Microsoft puts into messing up their operating systems. Why does every list I open service manager, file list, etc. And how about opening a new window NEXT TO an already open one, instead of stylishly locating it almost completely on top of it to the extent that you have to really carefully place you mouse in order to select the first window?

To the left of the Preview button there is a drop-down list. Choose Large Icons or drag the slider to change the size. We know about the thumbnail view. But with that we have to lose icon view.

I like changing my icons. But XP lets me have both views. That was when my personal computer was my personal computer!!!!!!!! It would be like Photoshop suddenly thinking everyone needs to adapt to a completely different program. I wonder how many others sent back their purchases because of a dumbly planned OS. I can only imagine how large organizations had to retrain their employees at their own expense and time.

I actually tried a Mac and found it even worse than Windows 7. Seemingly simple things such as copying files to a USB or trying to figure out context sensitive commands with a single button mouse drove me up the wall. Why would I want to keep something I wanted to delete???

Too dang old to try to learn anything more than what I need to know to do what I want to do. Plus when you spend this much money you want to feel like you really got something and this MBP seems to fit the bill. The Lenovo and the Dell just felt cheap in comparison. People need to learn to speak up and not tolerate it anymore. It is not in the folder and it is not w the docs not in folders on the main documents page. I get so damn sick over all the things win7 makes impossible to do easily that were a snap in XP!

The crazy thing is that I just received a email from Dell saying I could still get Windows 7. What a flop Win8 must be. If only they would offer that to the general public. I ran Win XP for several years — never a problem. Now have to reinstall Windows for the second time — after paying for Microsoft tech support, which was both useless and painful they did refund second call — make sure you request refund within 30 days. Seriously, as a monopoly, they should be legally compelled to continue support for XP.

And if wishes were horses…. I used a folder size software in XP. It sgowed size of the folder direct in the explorer. In windows 7 there will ever be such a a possibility. It showed me that my mouse clicks amount increased 4 x than it used to be using XP.

With same tasks. This means physical danger to the people who work with computer. And to me also mental danger. No matter what. I return to XP and use win 7 only with banking and other stuff. I burnedout in a few weeks. IF something is not broken,or bad, why to change it????

Their stock has been stagnant for so long they thought to just change Windows and Office on a more regular basis in hopes of making money. Why they had to get rid of such a popular system is beyond me.

Lo and behold my secondary monitor no longer worked afterwards and I spent a few hours on it trying everything I could before the experience of calling tech support. Finally I decided Applecare is something I paid for I might as well give it a go. Thirteen minutes later I was up and running — 13 minutes from when I dialed the number. The call was answered within 1 minute and the voice had no heavy accent, was completely aware of the product and had me running in no time at all.

I sure can get used to this sort of support for something I paid a good deal of money. Apple support is one of the best. You pay a packet for the kit but they do know how to support it well. And best of all, no offshore call centres full of mumbling idiots reading from a script. Try Classic Shell. I built this desk top for seven and even with ram maxed out, it is still stupid slow.

XP was perhaps the best platform we will ever have and we were forced abandon it for this garbage. I have been forced to buy new hardware, which is not as effective as my old versions, not to mention all of the software that quit working. A classic piece of Windows BS, who got into bed with the hardware manufactures, to get us to waste a pile of money! Sorry for the rant, but I have had enough of this BS. Most of them are wrong, the others are based upon your idiocy.

But seriously, get a grip. XP diehard users are such morons. Cool, you go enjoy your Windows 7 with SSD and let the rest of us grumble. I suppose you think Windows 8 is terrific too.

The search Functionality is based upon indexing, now you use filters to find files. You can add things to the index without requiring the prompt, and you can define where the small database of your files resides in the OS file structure.

A LOT less. Not only are you missing the benefits of the W7 start menu, but you seem to be entirely ignoring the task bar, which Since 7 has had the ability to attach nice, big icons too so you can launch in 1 click not 2 or 3 like with XP. What do you want Windows to display in this eventuality?

It shows more forethought that it does do this. No…Not at all. You simply have to be running a processor newer than 10 years old. I can make Firefox use 4GB on its own. Windows 7 will run in basic mode on many many old XP machines. But what did you expect, a load of new features, functions and power on the same spec as before.

I can guarantee you, 7 runs faster. Hands down. People who say XP runs faster are either lying, or have a decent enough spec to be running 7 and really should be. XP is basically just one massive security hole with a gross UI nowadays. Never encountered this issue. Stop living in the stone age. Things will increase in size, but the footprint of the OS based on a percentage is the same as XP if you factor in the ever increasing size of Hard Drives.

They are Editions, not Versions. Version means they have different version numbers. Whilst I agree there are maybe too many versions. If, like me, you actually know what you are talking about, you just get Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and forget about the other versions. Ultimate, Home and Professional are the only real versions that people pay any attention too.

On top of that, there are numerous apps that exist that can circumvent anything that. Click that, Shut up. There is a built in thumbnail view you cleft. Click that, select the size of thumb you want. You have actually used 7 right? It now looks identical to the Windows XP Control panel. It starts a copy faster, and if it finds duplicate files, or folers, you can now merge the folders unlike on Xp, and you can select to keep both files, or one of the duplicate files, or whatever.

Speed wize, image and functionality. Defrag automatically happens in the background and is in fact totally disabled on SSDs. Every Wednesday, 7 defrags in the background. You see the address bar on the folder view. Simply click on the folder you want to go back too. No need to press up. You simply directly click on the folder you want to go too. This is a better function than a stupid up button. Holy cow, what a bullshit list. Go and buy a Crapple toy.

There is a simple answer to that. Some of you dont do it cuz you think that it is too much work and then everything is complicated in linux. Some of them are made for power users like arch linux but there are a lot of linux distros made for newbees like ubuntu, linux mint, zorin, opemSUSE, manjaro etc. I suggest start with ubuntu and switch to manjaro later if you want but ubuntu is the way to go. I currently use manjaro XFCE 0.

Linux has a welcoming community and I personally love the linux mint forums the most. Why cant developers just leave well enough alone. On XP everything was so so simple.

W7 is just plain stupidity. Through these superficial changes and increase of memory footprint Microsoft can present a new version of Windows as a brand new product and not just a service pack, which customers would expect to receive for free.

Bigger is better. A number of good points have been expressed by the author. I agree with most, particularly about memory consumption on disk and at runtime.

The 2. For some reason, nobody has a problem with that. They keep coming up with complex methods to speed up booting, when what is really needed is to slim down the size of the system, so that there is less to load. For tasks such as browsing picture file and searching it is best to install 3rd party tool, which you can learn once, and then keep using on your new computer, under a new operating system.

Take, for example, the search function. Seven has even more of those virtual directories. Turns out that I need to relax a number of non-intuitive filters to have the search function look into system folders. This was particularly apparent with large video files. For search and file management I use Total Commander. That is how Windows should have been too. Other people rely on plugins such as TeraCopy to aid file management. Total Commander can search for these criteria and more, such as date range and contents in different encodings.

Indexing is the first thing I disable in XP installations. In Seven, it is more tightly integrated, which is disappointing. Going over gigabytes of data trying to anticipate my search queries is not something I need from the OS, because I hardly ever search for English words in text documents.

Search is a nice addition. The old Start menu of Windows 4. You could use as much screen space to view it as needed. All they needed to improve upon it was to add an inconspicuous search box somewhere. Slow Management Console! The damn thing is written in NET Framework. Access Permissions on system files that cannot be removed. Upon slimming down the system I stopped at the service called ReadyBoost.

I stopped and disabled it, but it left behind a file called readyboot. It cannot be deleted. It is 2 MB, so not that big of a deal. I was able to read this file in direct disk access mode in WinHex. The Start menu is able to display certain directories in flyout menu format: Favorites, Computer, and Control Panel among others. But for programs one must scroll through the box. Items on them can be dragged and right-clicked.

I know there is Classic Shell. But if it can be done without extra memory consumption and complexity, I prefer to go that route. The program uses around KB of memory, and must be loaded the whole time. Excellent grumpy bear, Agree with everything here……Windows 7 sux.

Sticking with XP even unsupported its the most stable and sensible OS they have made, probably by mistake?? I seem to have managed to make W7 behave reasonably well and look more or less like XP. I am not as dissatisfied as I once was. There still are countless mind-numbing things, like the goofy security prompt that has asked me now for perhaps the th time whether I want to run a particular program.

Each time that pops up, it reminds me of how silly and useless that is. Then there is the incompetent diddling with the file system display, the explorer interface, where someone apparently thought the one in XP was too useful. I only use explorer occasionally though, mostly using a character-based browser Ztree.

I have been taking a programming course where the machines are running W8. Now that is genuinely a great leap backwards. Apparently W7 could be made to be somewhat useful with a lot of tweaks and that may be possible on W8 , but things like deciding to make the up arrow in the now mostly useless explorer so faint and small as to look like a screen smudge leaves me with my mouth agape.

Ah yes, that pointless user access control thing that prompts you everytime you launch a non Microsoft app. Next time it happens, click the link in the popup box that lets you change the setting and you can switch the damn thing off. Yet the learning curve is so out of the ordinary your productivity almost grinds to a halt. I feel sorry for any organization that upgraded and had a fleet of employees that had to learn how to use this OS. Planned Obsolescence, Planned Regress etc. Boycott all those products and corporations that are regressive.

I blame this one squarely on Balmer, if his Billness had been in charge, I doubt Windows 7 would have turned out to be the travesty that it is. In the end, I gave it to a vendor to reformat it and install XP.