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Posts by Chris 39
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Windows 7 - the Reg reader verdict
Wednesday 21st October 2009 20:40 GMT 
@ Michael C
1) Right click Start button. Click Properties. Click Customise. See pane marked "Start Menu size".
2) True enough, but if you use the search box in Control Panel, you'll find you can find everything much easier, especially as it has tabs and sub options listed in there as well as the few old "categories"
3) I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.
4) I don't need daily backups, so I haven't tried. Windows Backup looks fairly well featured, but I'll take your word for that.
5) Start, Devices and Printers, Add Printer. Or open control panel and type "Printer". Either way couldn't be much easier.
6) Yeah, it hasn't changed much, but I can't think of anything much else I'd like on there.
7) What now? Sorry, I don't get it.
8) Yeah, there is no Quick Lauch. But quick launch was just a folder with some shortcuts in. Make a folder, copy the shortcuts you want into it, right click the task bar, click Add Toolbar, and point it at your folder. Not ideal, but hardly difficult.
9) Yeah, a couple of new screensavers wouldn't have gone amiss. Still, not exactly a dealbreaker.
10) Any further info on that? I can't see anything missing.
11) Yeah, XP mode is a joke - always was. MS really shouldn't have advertised this as a feature, because it boils down to "you can install Virtual PC and a copy of XP if you like". Still, I haven't found a need to actually use it yet.All the old software I've tried that didn't work was fixed by using the compatibility options, if you right click on the program and change the properties.
12) I've installed a fair few copies of 7 now, and I have yet to have to do anything to get it to work on a network.
13) Open Control Panel, type Schedule. :/
14) I'd rather it did than than just picked a random location and size. Most people only use one app at a time, unless they're copying and pasting from the browser to a word document or something.
15) I've never liked indexing. So I turned it off. The control panel search still works, so I'm happy.
16) I don't think the average user wants to use virtual desktops. But there should probably be an option, yeah.
Windows 7 is far from perfect. But if you take a bit of time to actually learn how to use it, it's a LOT better.
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