Windows 7

[Garry Russell]

What I mean Ben

As I type it is giving me possible results...that is something I don't want...it should wait until I want it to start searching.

Before... I type it in, then search and as I was looking through the results, if something occurred to me to re search for, I put that in the search window, but the original results stayed in place and I carried on looking through those and when done activated the new search

Before it only searched when I clicked the search

Now it doesn't wait but starts searching straight away so if I've not finished looking at the first results I've lost them as soon as I start typing in the next search.

Again it is not only doing things it asked to do but doing things it has not been...it is being too clever and assuming it knows what I want it to do.

This is why I've having to spend so much time trying to find all this clever dickery to turn it off.

[TSR2]

Can you give me an example Garry, as thats not making any sense. If your typing something it will give you possible results, yes. But if you haven't finished typing thats fine, just finish what your typing and press enter or click search?

Are you using Google toolbar or something?

[DaveG]

Regarding the grouping of icons in the taskbar, that can be changed.

Right-click the taskbar & select properties. In the window that opens, click the box next to "Taskbar buttons" an select "never combine"

[Garry Russell]

Cheers Dave

That's one old friend back

I've just been researching and I find a lot of people are unhappy about W7 for much the same reasons as me...more click to do things horrible folder views etc and quite a few solved their problems by going back to XP

Like me they are saying the popular things have been stripped out, but they were there so why not leave them as a option

MS seems to be ignoring the calls to put those things back in

By and large it does make what I do at least, more difficult and a lot more frustrating

If I can, everything new to W7 as far as user control will be turned off.

[TSR2]

Again Garry, the large majority of people prefer Windows 7, not least because it was the first time there was an extensive public beta that gave everyone around the world an opertunity to input into it. I think its been the largest public beta of any operating system.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that there will be bits that not everyone likes, however I think its fair to say if these things had been that popular, they would have made it into the release. I appreciate its a big jump from where you were, so going back might be the best option for you, but you will not get anything like the number of programs to run if you choose to go XP 64. Stick with XP 32 and you can stay as you were, albeit with only 4GB of RAM to play with, but if it was enough before, it will be enough again.

[Garry Russell]

That's a problem Ben

I can't really judge as I had dire frame rates before but it seemed 4RAM was not enough.. ' testing liveries with photoshop open and server files of nearly 200MB jammed it.

The whole idea was that I could do that.

What a difference though with the task bar back as it was...thanks to DG

As far as the changes...as I said they should have left them there as options and then people like me could have gone back but they threw them off

Before I bought this my main question was did it support a classic mode as XP did, I was told it did, but as it turns out it is only a partial

Reality is, had they told be this then and showed me, I would not have bought it.

You may recall that my first questions were about how to get it to display classic mode properly.

Seriously Ben...I'm not being deliberately difficult and have persevered with this for weeks

But it's not for me, I am uncomfortable using it and keep going to an XP machine to do things like searches and other things. At the moment, if I have a choice I don't use this new machine.

Sometimes, well often it's because OI still can't sit for long but when I can I still use the Laptop, even to the point of using the laptop while sitting in front of the PC.

Quite a few changes have been made today that have improved it, but the search and folder issues alone will probably see it getting booted.

I'll try and hang on for a few more days. I'd like to be able to say that I'm looking for reasons to keep it, by the reality is I'm am looking for a way to go back to XP and only the perceived drawbacks are stopping me.


Any thoughts on the search issue?

[GHD]

If it's any consolation Garry, I hate the W7 64bit implementation of Explorer. I have my W7 machine networked with an Xp machine on which I do all of my searches on W7.

I also hate the multiple entries in the task bar icons.

I also hate it that Microsoft's own Visual Studio .NET won't work on W7.

Why couldn't they have created a true "Classic" theme

The only saving grace is that it runs FSX better than my XP system.

[DaveB]

Garry.. if you can still obtain a copy, there's always WinXP 64-bit. This would allow you to use more onboard ram.. that is, you wouldn't be restricted to the 32-bit 3.2gb upper limit

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Hi Dave

I already mentioned that further up and Ben suggested XP64 was Crap

[Garry Russell]

Hi George

See above for an answer to the Taskbar 'stacking'

I still don't see why they couldn't have left it in as an option.

As it stands I given the chap a ring and he wasn't there

I left a message to the effect of contacting me and see what can be salvaged but it almost certainly, as it looks at the moment that Windows7 will be kicked off.

The more I think about it, the more I wonder why I'm perserveereing to set up something I really just don't want to use.

There is a slim chance I'll keep it, but from a actual users point of view I can see nothing that is better...despite the ads "Windows 7 was my Idea" and most of the useful stuff for me has gone.