Posted 08/27/2009 at 01:43:27am

I just started running it awhile ago, and I find it to be a tad annoying. I liked XP Pro from the start, really. I thought (and still think) that it was Microsoft's best client OS. Sure, it needed some tweaking to get it set up right, but what OS doesn't? Server 2003 is also a very good server edition, IMO. After these two, they dropped the ball on some things. Is it just me, or does it seem that MS has taken all of the best little features of XP and just thrown them away?

Now, some of the things that really annoy me about Win7:

1) They've done away with the classic start menu! Why?!!!! I hate the Vista style start menu! There are a lot more clicks required to get what you want now.

2) There is no way to change the default install directories without some problems, so if you like your programs installed onto any partition besides C, you're stuck having to change the drive letter on every single program you install! (And we all know some SW doesn't even ask you where you'd like to install it.) I've always changed it to another partition, in order to keep the OS partition as small as possible for backup purposes. Now, that is practically impossible. This is also the same in Server 2008, and what Admin in his right mind wants all data installing to the C partition, much less common files and profiles? All of that, along with PST files and any other important info, should be stored on a separate partition for backup/restore purposes. (Keep the OS image as small as possible and it's easy to restore without having to do much afterward.) 99% of the time, restoring an image is only necessary because Windows became unstable, right? The rest of the data is fine, if it's stored somewhere else.

3) No more LAN icon animation?! Why?!!! It was so nice to be able to glance at the system tray and be able to see if packet activity was actually taking place or not. Now, there is not even an option to enable that blinking screen animation. WTH were they thinking?

4) No more right click display properties on the desktop? It seems that everything requires more clicking and hunting. Is there anything more efficient at all?

5) What's up with the desktop icons? I used to be able to just set them to auto arrange and then place them in any order I wanted. New icons would just place themselves at the end of the line, as they should. Now, they seem to go under the Computer icon, or some other weird place. Is there no way to make them act like they used to? They just throw themselves wherever they want to now, so it seems.

6) Quick Launch! Why did they get rid of that? It was such a simple and useful little menu. I used to create submenus in it and have a nice secondary start menu full of all of my favorite programs that I could access so quickly, just by clicking that little arrow. I even had Quick Launch in my Send To menu, so I could quickly send items to my Quick Launch menu. Now, it requires all kinds of manipulation to get it back to what it used to be.

7) Documents and Settings/Users folders. What is up with this? Why did they take something so simple, duplicate it and make it confusing? Now, I don't know if I'm deleting shortcuts to something, or actual data. If you unhide all the hidden files and folders, this becomes a mess of complicated shit! Anyone figured out what they've done to the file system yet? I guess if you just ignore it and leave everything hidden, then this won't bother you. Power users don't like hidden files and folders, nor some strange circular web of shortcuts leading back to some other folder. Maybe there is some reason for this that I'm missing?

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