You know what's annoying with Windows 7? Well there are a lot of things and I am sure there will be more that I discover (See my thread 'Help me with those annoying things in Windows XP).
I totally replaced XP on my Lenovo T61 laptop With Win7Sp1Pro 64bit two months ago, upgrading the HD at the same time. It is 4yo but had 4gb ram from day1 and higher end graphics so win7 runs well. In fact at first I thought it ran faster than XP. I was skeptical - thinking win7 was just a smidge better than (Cr8ppy) Vista - which I avoided - but for the fist few weeks I became impressed with win7pro.
Now I wonder....
You know what's annoying???????
1. At shutdown there is this message that you should not turn off your machine because Update 1 or 8 is being made to your machine. I turned off automatic updates and this did not help.
2. Wifi is screwy - How come the default is set to automatically turn off wifi when not being used? At first wifi worked ok. Now it turns itself off and I have to put 'Turn Radio on' to bring up the Lenovo (not Windows) tools package that turns on wifi. It was so much simpler and faster with XP You just clicked REPAIR and wifi would adjust itself with the router - now there must be 4 or 5 clicks involved so win7 can fix the problem. And there is no qick positive feedback. With xp the little balloon 'Connected to Wifi' or something like that would pop up in the right corner.
3. Logon is iffy sometimes. the display screen comes up to enter my password and the screen is frozen in one of two ways. Either the cursor AND keys give no response and a totla shutdown and reboot is needed or it will not take the password and I have to click logoff user and then I can logon when the screen comes back
4. Whenever I want to bring up Task Manager it is two clicks instead of one. In XP CTL=ALT-DEL started Task Mgr - now it brings me to a selection screen where I have to click again - why can't I just bring it up with CTL-ALT-DEL?
5. The gadget gallery allows me to put a clock, the weather info etc on the desktop. How come those gadgets keep moving around all the time? If I put the clock in the corner on a subsequent (maybe 4 o5 ) visit to the desktop I see it is drifted 1/4 eway across the screen - why can't it remember and stay in its x,y coordinate where I put it?
I totally replaced XP on my Lenovo T61 laptop With Win7Sp1Pro 64bit two months ago, upgrading the HD at the same time. It is 4yo but had 4gb ram from day1 and higher end graphics so win7 runs well. In fact at first I thought it ran faster than XP. I was skeptical - thinking win7 was just a smidge better than (Cr8ppy) Vista - which I avoided - but for the fist few weeks I became impressed with win7pro.
Now I wonder....
You know what's annoying???????
1. At shutdown there is this message that you should not turn off your machine because Update 1 or 8 is being made to your machine. I turned off automatic updates and this did not help.
2. Wifi is screwy - How come the default is set to automatically turn off wifi when not being used? At first wifi worked ok. Now it turns itself off and I have to put 'Turn Radio on' to bring up the Lenovo (not Windows) tools package that turns on wifi. It was so much simpler and faster with XP You just clicked REPAIR and wifi would adjust itself with the router - now there must be 4 or 5 clicks involved so win7 can fix the problem. And there is no qick positive feedback. With xp the little balloon 'Connected to Wifi' or something like that would pop up in the right corner.
3. Logon is iffy sometimes. the display screen comes up to enter my password and the screen is frozen in one of two ways. Either the cursor AND keys give no response and a totla shutdown and reboot is needed or it will not take the password and I have to click logoff user and then I can logon when the screen comes back
4. Whenever I want to bring up Task Manager it is two clicks instead of one. In XP CTL=ALT-DEL started Task Mgr - now it brings me to a selection screen where I have to click again - why can't I just bring it up with CTL-ALT-DEL?
5. The gadget gallery allows me to put a clock, the weather info etc on the desktop. How come those gadgets keep moving around all the time? If I put the clock in the corner on a subsequent (maybe 4 o5 ) visit to the desktop I see it is drifted 1/4 eway across the screen - why can't it remember and stay in its x,y coordinate where I put it?