Windows 7 RTM - What do you think of it?

OK i give up, i dont want a classic start menu necessarily but is there a way to make the folders within the programs tree expand like in xp and vista?

I am finding it ridiculously frustratign either waiting for it to make up its mind and open it into the start 'box' or making uncessary clicks and scrolls when looking for things
 
add the start menu programs folder on the taskbar. like this...

programs.png


it's located @

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
 
Faustus said:
What is it with the human condition - we all want something new and then when we get it we complain it's not just like the item we replaced it with? :confused:

I think you should go back to XP without delay as fundamentally you're not for change.
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Erm because I want one old feature? Why would I want to go back to XP when I'm currently on Vista and have been since release?

I will be using Windows 7 on release - and I will be using a classic start menu app as I prefer that. It's not because it's old it's because of how I organise myself. I know out of the 500 or so users we support that if we put in Windows 7 and left it as is there would be hundreds of calls

Strange sweeping statement there.



M.
 
Fair enough.

Frankly I can't be bothered to organise my own start menu any more. Got fed up with every app installing a couple of nested folders which then only contain one item (or one item plus an uninstall option that you will never use), some of them installing to all users, some installing to the current user only and the whole thing turning into a giant mess. When I was younger I used to open the start menu up in Explorer after an install and move the one useful icon to it's proper place and delete all the other rubbish, but meh, too much effort now.

With the new start menu, it's still a giant mess, but now I can just type the name of what I want and I'm done, oh and pin the stuff I'm going to use again to either the start menu or taskbar.
 
Quick question if i may, thinking of getting this. I currently run XP Pro 32bit. I have two SATA HD's. One 200GB only with Windows on it and the other 500GB with all my junk (MP3s ect).

I'd install Win 7 on the drive which currently has XP on which will be fine but when i boot into Win 7 will i still be able to access all my files on my other drive?
 
Steve M said:
Quick question if i may, thinking of getting this. I currently run XP Pro 32bit. I have two SATA HD's. One 200GB only with Windows on it and the other 500GB with all my junk (MP3s ect).

I'd install Win 7 on the drive which currently has XP on which will be fine but when i boot into Win 7 will i still be able to access all my files on my other drive?
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I see no reason why this should not function:) Best to redirect all the profile folders (music, pictures, doucments etc.) to a location on your data drive for convenience.
 
I'm running Windows 7 RTM 64Bit through work, so far it's fantastic :).

Out of interest, are many of you using W7 Media Centre? With Vista Media Centre you could enable the DVD library and it would playback DVD Rips and you could get the DVD information (DVD cover, description, release year etc) by adding an .XML file in the same directory as the rip. Is it possible to do this with all video files? I have backed up my Blu-Ray films and stripped them back to just the .TS file containing the unaltered Video and sound, so all the menus, other languages and subtitles are stripped away. I know a way of playing these back within media centre however I would like the DVD information to display (Cover art, description, release year.)
 
Forgot to check back since i asked why i shouldn't W7, but from reading the responses it seems like a good deal. Pitty windows were incaperble of putting it across in their abysmal advertising of 95/xp/vista features in w7.
 
Installed it last night and I must say I'm very impressed with it. The new taskbar is brilliant! It's nippy (but that could be due to new install) and doesn't feel bloated like Vista.

I have a IDE/SATA to USB adaptor thing for my PC's harddrive. I thought it was faulty as it kept giving me "I/O Device error" or something along those lines whenever I tried initializing it. Vista detected the device and 'installed' the drivers, so one would think it should work like a USB stick from then onwards. Yesterday I spent the best part of 5 hours trying to backup my stuff onto the harddrive but it wouldn't let me initilize it 90% of the time. I managed to get it working in the end, just.

With W7 installed, it was time to copy my backups over. I wasn't expecting the adaptor to work first time as it had taken me hours last time round. I plugged it into the HD, and bang, drivers install, and shows up as removable disk. I couldn't believe it! So I tried again, and again - it kept working! I also noticed that the transfer rate was double that of what Vista had.

So it turns out Vista was the problem after all...

Happy days :D
 
Steve M said:
Quick question if i may, thinking of getting this. I currently run XP Pro 32bit. I have two SATA HD's. One 200GB only with Windows on it and the other 500GB with all my junk (MP3s ect).

I'd install Win 7 on the drive which currently has XP on which will be fine but when i boot into Win 7 will i still be able to access all my files on my other drive?
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Well as per my above post i've installed Windows 7. As i suspected i can't access my other 500GB HD. The device manager sees it fine and says it has the latest driver but i can't access it. In my computer all it sees is the C: drive (the 200 GB one) and my dvd writer. All my files are on the other 500 GB drive including my wireless adapter drivers so i can't even get on the web with Win 7 and am posting this from another machine, help!
 
Meatball said:
I'm running Windows 7 RTM 64Bit through work, so far it's fantastic :).

Out of interest, are many of you using W7 Media Centre? With Vista Media Centre you could enable the DVD library and it would playback DVD Rips and you could get the DVD information (DVD cover, description, release year etc) by adding an .XML file in the same directory as the rip. Is it possible to do this with all video files? I have backed up my Blu-Ray films and stripped them back to just the .TS file containing the unaltered Video and sound, so all the menus, other languages and subtitles are stripped away. I know a way of playing these back within media centre however I would like the DVD information to display (Cover art, description, release year.)
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Thought about using Media Browser instead?

http://www.mediabrowser.tv/
 
Steve M said:
Well as per my above post i've installed Windows 7. As i suspected i can't access my other 500GB HD. The device manager sees it fine and says it has the latest driver but i can't access it. In my computer all it sees is the C: drive (the 200 GB one) and my dvd writer. All my files are on the other 500 GB drive including my wireless adapter drivers so i can't even get on the web with Win 7 and am posting this from another machine, help!
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Assign a drive letter in Computer Management.
 
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