Windows 7 Annoyances

Thunderbolt · 12 Oct 2009 at 17:50

It's not perfect, I installed it yesterday and have found a few little niggles so far. Here are a few I can think off of the top of my head.

Live messenger not in notification area
Half Empty 100Mb partition called System Reserved
Overly crowded taskbar, due to spaced out notification error.

Post what parts annoy you, and any solutions to these niggles.

Paul11 · 12 Oct 2009 at 17:53

there are solutions to those

dont have them to hand as im just on the way out but no doubt someone will be along with them shortly

Thunderbolt · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:04

Got the messenger one fixed, you have to run it in compatibility mode for vista, well thought out Microsoft :s

Have another though

Lack of Media Player toolbar gadget

Apparently only 5% of people used it, so they've taken it out in WMP12, as well as some tag technology, strikes me that the 5% of people that do use it (like myself), use it quite a lot.

Saundie · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:14

The fact that driver signing enforcement is active on the x86 edition, whereas in Vista it was enforced on the x64 version only. This caused me a great deal of grief when updating the firmware on my Razer Mamba, because Razer are too cheap/lazy/hateful of their customers to get the drivers signed.

Sinque · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:23

What the hell is going on with the taskbar? There are things I havn't even opened stuck there! It's like quick launch has been forced onto it

paradigm · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:26

Sinque said:
What the hell is going on with the taskbar? There are things I havn't even opened stuck there! It's like quick launch has been forced onto it

Right-click, unpin.

G-Man · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:44

Sinque said:
It's like quick launch has been forced onto it

It has

Raumarik · 12 Oct 2009 at 18:56

Lack of decent gadgets annoys me! I skipped Vista but would love to have a few actually useful gadgets on it, such as HDD activity lights (just now I have to use one that shows graphs) and other non essential but useful stuffs!

PS no my PC isn't in the same room as me so I can't just look at it!

Digitalle · 12 Oct 2009 at 19:05

Kami said:
Lack of decent gadgets annoys me! I skipped Vista but would love to have a few actually useful gadgets on it, such as HDD activity lights (just now I have to use one that shows graphs) and other non essential but useful stuffs!

PS no my PC isn't in the same room as me so I can't just look at it!

Yeah because what Microsoft will do is ship Win7 with the exact gadgets that YOU REQUIRE!! that would be excellent wouldn't it. Just go to the website and download them, what's so hard about that? In fact, the time it took you to come on here and moan about it, you could have had them all downloaded and installed.

As for the taskbar, if the new features annoy anyone, go into properties and change it back to the standard xp/vista one.

your all a bunch of pansies.

bledd · 12 Oct 2009 at 19:07

still no selective component installation

that's my only gripe

ShakenNstirred · 12 Oct 2009 at 19:42

AdamDaniels88 said:
It's not perfect, I installed it yesterday and have found a few little niggles so far. Here are a few I can think off of the top of my head.

Live messenger not in notification area
Half Empty 100Mb partition called System Reserve
Overly crowded taskbar, due to spaced out notification error.

Post what parts annoy you, and any solutions to these niggles.

strange when i installed win7 i didnt get a 100mb partition called System Reserve .

kami
look at the vistsa gadgets, most of those run fine in win7

Thunderbolt · 12 Oct 2009 at 20:25

ShakenNstirred said:
strange when i installed win7 i didnt get a 100mb partition called System Reserve .

kami
look at the vistsa gadgets, most of those run fine in win7

It's a strange one, it's well documented if you google it, I'm yet to find a solution though.

The only gadget I'm really missing is the WMP toolbar, which isn't so much a 7 problem, but WMP12.

csmager · 12 Oct 2009 at 20:47

They're all by design.

Having messenger show as a running program does really make sense, WMP doesn't need a toolbar anymore as all the controls show in the preview when you hover over it, and the 100Mb partition is hardly a problem - you're not going to miss 100Mb, and it means that WinRE can be used without the disk, and bitlocker installed at a later date.

lokkers · 12 Oct 2009 at 20:47

AdamDaniels88 said:
Half Empty 100Mb partition called System Reserved

One hundred meg :eek:

Wow, I'd better free up some space!

In all seriousness, I have gripes with every piece of software I use, because it wasn't designed specifically for me. Ho hum.

Daegan · 12 Oct 2009 at 20:51

AdamDaniels88 said:
It's a strange one, it's well documented if you google it, I'm yet to find a solution though.

Your google powers are weak, from the first result:

When you are installing Windows 7 in a fresh hard disk that has unallocated space, the setup will create a hidden partition at the starting of the hard disk drive which will be around 100MB in size. Windows 7 creates this hidden or recovery partition to store system files and bootable files that are required to boot your computer in recovery mode.

If a 'solution' isn't obvious from that statement the article goes on to provide one.

http://www.shivaranjan.com/2009/05/...ystem-reserved-partition-during-installation/

Le Samourai · 12 Oct 2009 at 20:55

System Reserve partition:

It holds the Boot Manager Code and Boot Configuration Database and is needed for startup files for BitLocker.

You need to use third-party partition software to create a single partition and then point the installer to that or use diskpart - shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

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Thunderbolt · 12 Oct 2009 at 21:05

Daegan said:
Your google powers are weak, from the first result:

If a 'solution' isn't obvious from that statement the article goes on to provide one.

http://www.shivaranjan.com/2009/05/...ystem-reserved-partition-during-installation/

Sorry didn't make it clear,was looking for a solution having already installed the OS.

Le Samourai said:
System Reserve partition:

It holds the Boot Manager Code and Boot Configuration Database and is needed for startup files for BitLocker.

You need to use third-party partition software to create a single partition and then point the installer to that or use diskpart - shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

Sponsored by Windows 7 Inside Out!

Is as above though. Thank you, will give it a go.

Would it be possible to do the above on to a partition which I intend to install Ubuntu on to, when the new one comes out.

Daegan · 12 Oct 2009 at 21:20

AdamDaniels88 said:
Would it be possible to do the above on to a partition which I intend to install Ubuntu on to, when the new one comes out.

If you plan on installing Ubuntu just leave some unallocated space on the drive. If there's no space currently shrink an existing partition so there is. When you come to install Ubuntu one of the partitioner options will be to use that unallocated space, that's what you want to do.

ChileanLlama · 13 Oct 2009 at 17:58

Windows logs on to a temporary profile on a random basis. It seems to happen on some installs (not machines) more than others. E.g. the Quad I've just given to my father never did it for me, but has started doing it since I reinstalled it for him :eek:

It happened in Vista, so no excuse not to have fixed this.

Ratbag · 13 Oct 2009 at 19:28

Windows 7 Annoyances

I've never been a fan of WMP but I thought I'd give WMP12 a go only to find it modifies album art automatically and I can't stop it. A lot of my album art is say 500x500 pixels, folder.jpg in each folder - WMP12 shrinks it and sets it to hidden and then deletes the original file. Nice touch.

Luckily I only imported a couple of albums as I'd envisaged such a scenario....