...that I have now been using Windows 7 for a couple months, and have come to the conclusion that it's friggin' awesome. Every day I'm finding new little tidbits that make me say "oh, sweet."
That is all.
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Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyedOh please do share! I've been using win7 for a couple of months and HATE it. OK not really the OS but the little things they changed that make me nuts.
For example: I'm using explorer to look for something on a cd. put in disk 1, not there, eject. explorer closes. WTF?Or if you accidentally click the cd drive when in explorer and it's empty it so kindly opens the damn tray.
I have a whole list of these if you're interested
Dawn
RIP IRCPosted 2 years ago # -
I too have run into my little surprises that degrade the Windows 7 experience. There are some areas that are just difficult to get to now days. Such as your printers. There is no fast way to get there. Combine that with the fact that my installed printers randomly disappear every few days until reboot and it becomes frustrating.
Still, overall it is an improvement over prior versions. I'm just waiting for it to become as stable as Ubuntu.
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Callow said:
Oh please do share! I've been using win7 for a couple of months and HATE it. OK not really the OS but the little things they changed that make me nuts.
For example: I'm using explorer to look for something on a cd. put in disk 1, not there, eject. explorer closes. WTF?Or if you accidentally click the cd drive when in explorer and it's empty it so kindly opens the damn tray.
I have a whole list of these if you're interested
Dawn
Interesting! I don't have either of those issues. Such is the way with PCs. For every hardware set, there are variables.
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Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyedOoooooooo gonna solve all my issues??? (pc issues that is)
quick launch is gone (yea yea I fixed this one)
Searching in explorer is probably my pet peeve. it USED to be you could put in a file name then text within the file. Now you can't. I use windows grep but resent that I have to.
Dawn
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We have two win 7 computers. They are setup identical. Cind'y works flawlessly. No issues. I can't use Outlook worth a flip. Yes, it is the latest Office version. Networking is far easier in 7 than previous versions.
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They both should be changed regularly and for the same reason.Posted 2 years ago # -
As for the Explorer closing issue, this is by design to avoid having explorer hang while it looks for the 'missing' cd for a refresh. Simplest fix outside a reg hack to stop the behavior, which could introduce momentary hangs...
Click off the optical drive before ejecting. One of the HDs, for example.
My drive does not open when clicked, explorer does not close when cd is removed. can't seem to duplicate the behavior.
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Steven Hodson
offlineHead HonchoFYI I'll be having a bunch of Windows 7 Search related posts coming up this week courtesy of the book I got to review for Windows 7
Steven Hodson
WinExtra / Shooting at Bubbles / Braincell SoupPosted 2 years ago # -
Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyedBilly said:
"put in a file name then text within the file"Say what?
http://www.terryscomputertips.com/images/newsletters/windows-search-3.jpg
for example, I want to search within oldfarts.txt logfile for "billy"
It WAS standard, it is not any more.
The first person to say turn on indexing gets a wet noodle
Dawn
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Callow
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Well, I do have to agree that Windows 7 search has been a major step backwards. I don't like it, either. Thankfully, I don't do a lot of searching.
Steven, hopefully your book review can reveal some things 100 other posts and tuts haven't been able to tell me....
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Callow
offlineShe who must be obeyedBilly said:
As for the Explorer closing issue, this is by design to avoid having explorer hang while it looks for the 'missing' cd for a refresh. Simplest fix outside a reg hack to stop the behavior, which could introduce momentary hangs...Click off the optical drive before ejecting. One of the HDs, for example.
BS! XP just jumped to the next drive as soon as you hit eject!
I can not remember to click off of it first, I'm old
Dawn
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