<Continuation of long thread Have Comments about Windows 7 RC?>To all forum users:Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues that require an answer, createa new thread.Thanks-Tony MannWindows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums, Windows Client Forum Owner

I would like to add a few coments about windows 7 RC. I have used the beta version with pretty much good success I used the beta for about 4 weeks and was impressed by it, it worked good and pretty fast, drivers for some things where a small issue but it did find the drivers for my mobile while in its usb cradle ! Most programs ran as normal, firefox, thunderbird, my beloved call of duty 4 and some odd programs like the video E server for my cctv recorder and the Ndas driver for my media player, all in all, a pretty nice experiance for a early beta. What I dont like is the start menu, its not easy to navigate and slows productivity down, its not just me, my wife and daughter and a few friends tried it and said the same thing. The network icon, it needs to be animated ! Then I moved to a clean install of windows 7 RC, first thought was is there two versions of this windows 7 in developement because the RC version is a lot different from the beta ! For one thing, its slow. I use the same programs in the RC as I did in the Beta and there is a difference in preformance. In the beta I had no program hangs or explorer crashes, in the RC I have had 5 in two days. Copying files to a network drive takes a longer time too. Font rendering ( is that the right description ? ) does work so good in the RC, firefox and thunderbird fonts dont look right, worse without cleartype. This applies also to internet exporer, the black text has a colour fringe on osme pages, it doesnt in the beta version of windows 7. The RC version failed to find a driver for my mobile phone too, some one left it out !! When I first used the beta version of windows 7 I was almost convinced this would be the one we would use, if things stayed the same and worked the same. Now after a few days on the RC I am considering holding off and using XP for as long as I can. The last few days have left me feeling worn out from all the problems with the RC I have encountered. I know its a RC and maybe a long way to go before its finnished and I am gratefull I have been able to test it but in some respects it seems a backwards step from the beta version.

No, no you can't organize your Start menu into program groups like you could in XP, Vistaline. Nice try with this illustration:http://xwrmhq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pNRJyV83NIu76wEYVGosb4XCxoBXPjkQaKxCEu1GrUq5NO9LrsotzeMzJe_vo6k1W6vjsuI7vKxMjAJ_ZVpjy1GUwgzYR1UjV/Organized Start Menu.jpgBut we can clearly see that you've drilled down into the "All programs" entry before grabbing this image, and if you try this you'll find that these menu items don't open when you roll over them. What you've shown is what the starting point should be, instead of the dumb collapsed "All programs" at the bottom of the menu area. So the point stands: The following is still impossible to create in Windows 7.http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/3513561131_72a9ac5704_o.png

The Shutdown button shouldn't shutdown the system without asking "Are you sure you want to shutdown?"Shutdown should show up as an option when I do a ctrl-alt-delete (it doesn't)

The Shutdown button shouldn't shutdown the system without asking "Are you sure you want to shutdown?"Shutdown should show up as an option when I do a ctrl-alt-delete (it doesn't) agreed that there should be a confirmation dialog boxfor the shut down option when you do ctrl-alt-del, you have it..just not in the list, but the button :)

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it.

Sticky note aren't as sticky as they should be :-) When you do "show desktop" or peek at the desktop, sticky notes arent visible, whereas gadgets are visible... I think sticky notes should ve visible as well.

there was already a regression with Windows Defender when it came out of ms antispy beta phase, less options, and now again with the Seven version compared to the Vista version, again less options. You can't even see apps present at startupanymore. Must use a third party or msconfig. And you can't get the icon of defender sitting in the notification area...anymore. And btw you can't pin Defender to the taskbar or start menu. same for Windows update (Win Update could still be pinned in the beta).edit: my bad, once you allow recent opened stuff to be displayed, the Control Panel pinned icon offers all options again.

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it. never clicked very quickly andby mistake the shutdown button when you wanted to log out ?

Martin2244 The color fringe on black text goes way back to Vista RC.Not sure if this is a driver issue or a monitor-settings issue. For me I figured this problem was long gone, but I have seen it just once so far on 7 RC, never on Windows 7 beta.Can it be related to what your windows background settings are? I can't agree with regression in Performance; compared to Beta, it seems iimproved. I'd also say there is a noticeable improvement in Audio Quality over Vista/Win7 Beta.

"repost from another forum, not edited but take any questions in it as a request for feature to be added instead. in quick summary the right click menu on taskbar buttons is mostly gone and idlike move and maybe resize put back there."--Right click menu for taskbar buttons has been horribly dumbed down, only pin/unpin and close now, does anyone know how to restore the other items such as move, size,max/min ect. really all im teribly interestedin from these is move. the way the right click menu is setup now if i have my 2nd monitor setup to use a different input or am runnign a full screen app like a movie orsomething, if i open a new window and it opens to that screen i need to remove the full scrren item inorder to move it to the other monitor. if move was still an option in the start bar i could simply click that guy and use the arrows to reposition the window while leaving the full screen app in place.also kinda typin this out fast so if it doesnt make sense i can try and explain better.--also i want the classic start menu option back or some close faxsimily. and heres a 4 good reasons1. I dont like that right side of the new bar that adds recently used items, i have add those items turned off because i lothe it so, and now that left side of the menu is sitting there blank and unused wasting space.2. I want my folders at the top and my non folders at the bottem in all programs3. I want my all programs sprawled across my screen if i so desire to sift through what i currently have installed while looking for something to do.4. I want to beable to move my folders/nonfolders around in all programs as i see fit toAllow us to remove that left side of the menu if we want (a very minor change i nearly guarentee), turn on the screen sprawling menu that we all know still exists in the os in some form, and make it easier to sort the stuff in all programs and ill be happy and i assume others will also.also a hotkey for shutdown and restart would be nice again(may exist i duno but im accustomed to win key,u, enter)

I'm happy with the media extender to use with my xbox360 and setup was simple without any issues. The file system needs a little work, as I'm used to tversity as my media file server and its layout catalogue. As I have stated in my other posts, there needs to be a system file manager. Another thing I was impressed with was the repair on the boot cab files I corrupted twice with a faulty ide cable. I was real worried that I would have to do a reinstall but was able to repair with the disk. This is a big issue with all operating systems not being able to repair corrupted or missing files but win 7 repair option did the job. As for the interface pesonalisation, yes there needs to be a Xp centric, Vista centric & windows 7 hybrid skins themes available. Windows 7 has the functionality and should support the 3 styles people are wanting on one platform. Windows 7 should be marketed, as three operating systems on the one platform. This would encourage people to see the value to upgrade and keep the Xp Vista franchise alive, as they are great systems. I'm happy with the performance of win 7 on my socket 478 2.8 intel processor,Ati radeon 9550 graphics card 128, soltek x86 32 bit motherboard with 2 gig of ram and will stick to using it until next year.

The problem is that the SHUT DOWN button is twice (3x?) as large as the little un-obvious arrow button that leads you to logoff/lock/etc. It's too easy to accidentally shutdown instead of lock/suspend.

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it. I agree. I also like just pressing shutdown without a confirmation. EDIT: I do have one beef, I hate the default Blur Text where the only way to get it sharp and crisp is to edit the registry. I like my text sharp and clear. Blurry doesn't make much sense to me... I want an easy way to turn off all the blurring of the text without having to dig through the registry.

Yep. I hated being interrogated about something as deliberate as shutting down. I didn't accidentally go rooting around under the Start menu and select "Shut down". The new way reflects common sense, because it lets users who usually do something else (like suspend) select that as the default.

Every time I play openGL games which are heavy on graphics, my desktop gadgets get disarranged after I exit the game. Is there a fix for this?

I was running on dual boot with XP and Windows 7 Beta since January. I have now enough confidence to do away with dual booting altogether and am running on Windows 7 RC build 7100. (Of course I backed-up all my files to an external drive). The only problem I had with the Beta version was the audio. The sound would intermittently be scratchy and I wasnever able to resolve it. I am not having the same problem with the RC build. The sounds comes out crisp and clear.

More inconsistencies in the UI: when you go to the control panel and click for settings for certain properties some of them show up in the new interface and some of them show up in the old fashion pop-up windows. here is an example http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5305/inconsistent.jpg It might be more logical and consistent to pick one of the methods. Integrate everything in to the new interface!

Some notices about virtualisation and XP Mode:1. It will be usewfull to add on the Performance Index page also an check vor virtualisation capable processor. There are some third party software now but seems they gives errors sometimes. And that page is used for give a ideea about what programs are compatible with the hardware. So adding that check will be usewfull, even if it's only a check and not a performance score for it.2. I belive that you should consider to offer XP Mode also for Home and Home Premium, even if as a BUY option. Reasons ? Well there are a lot of people working at home - so they probably would like having also Media center on the computer, or just they don't need encryption and other stuff in Professional and don't want to buy Ultimate. Also Ultimate is definitelly out of questions when speaking about companies. But some small companies may consider to use Home licences on their computers, but may need XP Mode. I can give as example my company using about 50 XP Home licences, instead of XP Pro, just because it's cheaper and we don't need the extra facilities from Pro.

Not sure why they keep trying to bring back the yellow folders (manila folder)for Icons (That should be kept for a classic mode).Don't like the added Libraries, Thought it was much cleaner under the User name in Vista.I was really hopingto use PC SafeGuard, sooo disappointed it was gone in RC and sounds like it's not coming back, and Steady State doesn't work in 7 :(.No "Keep on top" (or not) option in Taskbar settings.Wish there was some built in settings for overscan / size adjustment for monitors, Have had problems on some LCDTV's and 1080p monitors with HDMI connections. Even Ati's CCC panel doesn't address some of the problems well.I like the simple shut down with no confirmation. I get people that still haven't figured out that they are not shutting down their Vista when they click on the button in start menu.Need a Report Bad Driver Update in Windows Update.

EXPLORER: FREE SPACE LEFTThis has got to come back.In XP you just click the drive or any folder on the drive and the status bar always shows the free space.If it can't come back, would you (MS) be so kind as to give us the opportunity to customize the "detail view" at the bottom of the explorer screen? The only options we've got now is Size.RegardsRem

Start menu is same as in windows vista,little difference is you can not change it to classic style. Request Microsoft to change start menu totally different from Windows vista and Windows XP. thnks

EXPLORER: FREE SPACE LEFT This has got to come back. In XP you just click the drive or any folder on the drive and the status bar always shows the free space. If it can't come back, would you (MS) be so kind as to give us the opportunity to customize the "detail view" at the bottom of the explorer screen? The only options we've got now is Size. Sorry Zeus76, Ive been asking for this (and many other things) since the beta. And, after reading the yesterday post in Engineering Windows 7 blog, its pretty clear what I was already thinking. They said with all letters there: "Windows 7 is DONE". So, done is done, end of history. We are not going to have back a lot of good things they took away (for no reason). Now, Im seriously thinking about one thing: They dont want our feedback anymore. Its done? Ok, sell it. No more comments from me.

Yes, the interface is DONE. There will be no more Classic Menu or other big changes. Just small tweaks. I've received a confirmation mail from Steven Sinofsky.

Yes, the interface is DONE. There will be no more Classic Menu or other big changes. Just small tweaks. I've received a confirmation mail from Steven Sinofsky. Small tweak, that's what it is, isn't it. I'm absolutely not eager to find Classic Menus or other old stuff in 7, but the handy things could be kept, or allowed in the Details Pane of explorer.Well I won't scream and yell about it, but it makes me wonder which OS the development team uses. When you have to "play" fairly often with huge amounts of files, it certainly comes in handy to see right away where you can place them.

I'am also dissapointed, especially for the classic menu, but that's it. I can live without it, my problem is to make other people to work with it - have to implement this at work in the future... An my company stii use Win 2000 and XP... there are tweaks to emulate but need to much to work on it. Well, is Microsoft decision.

@ Cristi-M: The benefits of the new OS outweigh (in my opinion) the shortcomings.

Yes, this is small tweak, and I think that the small things contribute to have a final polished product. But Microsoft will not listen to us. Want proof? Well... this same subject was already discussed: here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/c704ecad-fa41-4d25-b91a-dca771b0fc84 here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/80d35989-dc14-411a-a942-68ebab2bab8d/ here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/1cbc3578-c8a8-42a7-a18e-308c0a63f977/ here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/12313c79-f39c-41dd-99d7-a600b1a0bc2a/ and maybe in a lot of places I could not find with my very long (10 seconds) search. But, why listen to customerss complain? The System is DONE, guys. (even if I and a lot of people still think its not... but... ok, lets pretend its done and ruuuuuuuuuush the sellings to erase for all the "Vista" shame, er, I mean... brand.

Who said about feedback? Who said that someone was helpful? Who said that something was changed in W7 since Vista out? Name me any significant change that we have in W7 what is deserved to be called as improvement? NOTHING. As we all see (all - I mean all of us who was screamed to death trying to tell his opinions to MS) nothing new in W7. For God sake, changing interface layout its not an improvement, changing windows theme its same useless fuss. Its like Rubik cube turn it around you will see different pieces and colors, but its still same cube Actually guys just created all this action only to re-sale vista again, and get some money; they just realize that making service packs for vista ITS STUPID IDEA. Good marketing, what can I say? Before you could download SP from WU. Thats easy Its like 10yrs old car, some paint, new tires, washed engine and they sale it like a new one. Would you buy it??? How to make money from s h I t? Wrap it with flashy, candy-alike cover Just take a look on those errors and bsods you see in this forums, they not caused by new changes or some new code you may think, its because 90% of all testers are newbies, left hand dont know what right hand is doing. I will give MS 5+ mark, for this fake new OS preparation, everything was perfectly planned, they know that everybody likes to be a part of something BIG, to test new OS its kind a honor to everyone, people think they making history, changing the way it should be what a perfect organization, but it was in perfect time as well, Vista release wasnt planned so well like this one. I am not saying that you should not buy it, go ahead if you want, its your money... MS here is my applause to you, you da man!!! Just little note from me: Worked with vista, got error, installed W7 got same error... isnt it explains enough?

Hi All,I was asked to place this here, from where it was originally posted...During development of winforms applications on Windows 7,I have noticed that when a Tool Strip Button is in the Checked state, the UI will draw a thin blue box (using default colors and not running Aero as it is in Virtual PC), around the button to mark it as checked.I am not sure that this provides sufficient feedback to the user to indicate the button is pressed.I am not expecting a work around etc, just providing some UI feedback.Katie

@ Warel and kuklachevFirst of all, in my opinion this is the best OS Microsoft has ever made. It is not just a revamped Vista, and it certainly isn't just eye-candy.Now for the critical things: of course they reused parts of the code, you didn't want them to reinvent the wheel didn't you?But in no way the 7 project could have been used as a service pack for VIsta just for the sake of making money. They (MS) do listen. You want proof? THEY MADE 7 because Vista wasn't good or at least not perceived as good.7 is faster, looks good and once you're used to it, more efficient to use than any other Microsoft OS.Now don't letme be misunderstood, there are problems and shortcomings. And I certainly would have liked to see them gone before the RC came out. I think some people at Microsoft are under a lot of pressure to get 7 out before X-mas. Good for them if they manage to do so, but that shouldn't be accomplishedat the price ofneglecting silly mistakes.RegardsRem

I have been using W7 for more than a week now. And so far it works great for me. I think after some polishing it will be quite ready. There are some minor details that the developers may want to attend to. For instance, in the current version, the preview of the currently running apps are detached from the icon on the taskbar. There can a visual indicator as to which app is being previewed (There is actually an indicator, the icon flashes, but it is a bit subtle). Just to illustrate the point. lets say for some wierd reason you have 2 internet explorer icons on the taskbar next to each other, or seperated by another icon, you wouldnt be able to tell which one is being previewed, easily.

if you asked, they do listen, use it ... (but i like it and thanks god we have it)

As mentioned before, there is still a big bug in the Windows 7 RC explorer for using it as a FTP client. It is NOT possible to upload files, in case of a file upload you get an error message "An error occurred opening the folder on the FTP Server. Make sure you have permission to access this folder." "Details: The handle is invalid", and yes even when you have enough rights you will get this exception!Second, there is still an interfacebug within Vista for using explorer as a FTP client, and I want to test this with Windows 7 RC to see if it is fixed, but I can't test it now because as the bug described above. But I think this bug is still around!!!The problem: When you try to upload and overwrite an existing file on a FTP-server you will get the "Copying..." window saying "Calculating the time required to upload the files." which appears exactly above the dialog that asks you if you would like to overwrite the existing file. This is VERY irritating, you first have to manage to get that dialog on the fore ground before you can click the "Yes I will" button. Why isn't this fixed in Vista already!!!! Am I the only one who uses explorer as a FTP client...and what about testing... But probably this won't be fixed and this bug will be in the final release.......I almost have to cry...

The Shutdown button shouldn't shutdown the system without asking "Are you sure you want to shutdown?" Shutdown should show up as an option when I do a ctrl-alt-delete (it doesn't) Yes, absolutely needed. I already did a shutdown by accident.

euThe benefits of the new OS outweigh (in my opinion) the shortcomings. @Zeus76: Zeus, dont take me wrong in here. I think Win7 is a very good operational system, too. But I also think its no possible to MS to leave a lot of know bugs (even Vista ones) in this version of windows. But I wanted to see the small annoyances out of the system before its "done". There are just so small things, and I think they could be fixed maybe with a week or less of work (take the windows explorer for example: they dont even need to write the code, it was there, and working fine in xp, just use it!) This is the main reason for my complain. I KNOW they can do a better system, but they say: "Its done", and refuse to listen.

<Continuation of long thread Have Comments about Windows 7 RC? > To all forum users: Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues that require an answer, createa new thread. Thanks -Tony Mann Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums, Windows Client Forum Owner A thing that windows explorer never did well (from 3.1 to W7) was to copying a large number of files. Any error did: -Stopped copying entirely until the user did some feedback. The right thing should be to continue copying non problematic files in background, and start a list of problematic files, so the user decides about it later. It make lost a lot of time. -Sometimes an error stops entirely the process of copying, and resume it is so problematic that the best solution is to delete the already copied files, and start again, with the risk of encounter a new error. Also, it should exist a way to compare differences between directories, and copy only the different files.

A think that windows explorer never did well (from 3.1 to W7) was to copying a large number of files. For me, Windows Explorer is the weakest thing in the Windows (in general, not only seven). It provides a very poor control of the file operations. Like no pause, no queue, no file crc check and so on. They will not get it better in windows 7, and its sad for me. Right now, Im looking for a good replacement for Windows Explorer.

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it. never clicked very quickly andby mistake the shutdown button when you wanted to log out ? No, not really. That is a deliberate action.If anything, I would like the extra space in my start menu to allow me to place extrabuttons for other functions (Sleep, Log Out, Hibernate, etc.). All of which are one touch.

But probably this won't be fixed and this bug will be in the final release.......I almost have to cry... This is why the RC was relased - to fix bugs. Even if there will be no noticeable changes for interface or the rest of programs, the RC was offered to help find bugs and fix them before the RTM. So minor tweaks and bugs fixing - that's all what they will made. And you may report your problems here, but also your sistem send problems encountered to development team automatically. Of course it cannot etect all the problems you believe you have, so report is still good.

1.Lockups when monitor comes out of sleep with taskbar on Auto-Hide More than a few people have this problem i've found turning Auto-Hide off on the taskbar fixs this problem, or leaving the mouse on the taskbar when Auto-Hide is on stops the problem to, but it should be fixed just though i would point it out so it can be fixed. 2.Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing slight lag when closing windows It seems abit jumpy i've tryed change video drivers its still the same, i just disabled it for now. 3.All Programs Menu Glitch In all programs the last item in the list displays for a second then goes away, heres a screen shot of what im talking about http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/7481/20838512.png you can see the last icon hanging over the 2nd blue line because it hanging over the start menu will remove it leaving it blank. When you have 12 or more items in thestartmenu'sright-side thats when you see the bug. 11items or less and the bug harder to see. 4.Changing Recycle Bin Icons Stops Desktop Refresh When you change the default Recycle Bin Icons to ico's it stops the Recycle Bin from refreshing, this doesnt happen with dll files.

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it. never clicked very quickly andby mistake the shutdown button when you wanted to log out ? No, not really. That is a deliberate action. If anything, I would like the extra space in my start menu to allow me to place extrabuttons for other functions (Sleep, Log Out, Hibernate, etc.). All of which are one touch. impressive wow !...you must be some kinda superman then, with exceptional abilities :)

changing shortcut name on desktop cause it disappear if i refresh, then shortcut back again this happend when uac is disabled (set to minimum) the same problem exist on diferent graphic card to my config: aero active, graphic card: ATI X800 GTO, W7 RC build7100 X86 ENG

<Continuation of long thread Have Comments about Windows 7 RC? > To all forum users: Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues that require an answer, createa new thread. Thanks -Tony Mann Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums, Windows Client Forum Owner New bug: (USB pen) drive partition Label is not recognized, and cannot be changed. XP keeps reading it well.

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I have to admit...I'm an XP lover.Downloaded RC 7100 maybe a day or 2 after it became available. I think it was a week ago this last Friday that I first installed it. The first week...was kinda rough. The installs went okay. Ran into a few problems here and there, some as a result of my doing, some not. I'd work them out, then some others would come about.I had lots of stuff on my aux HDD's when I had XP running. Thought I'd be a good idea to back all that stuff up so I could wipe them clean and that's what I did...5 hours worth of wiping. Got them formatted. Reloaded an image of XP so Icould lock myaux HDD's down a bit to help Windows 7 from dropping gobs of restorepoints on them. Wiped XP off, reformatted, and then unplugged all my aux HDD's. Installed Windows 7 with one 1 hard drive. Best install I've got yet. Did all the updates and a few tweaks. Plugged my aux HDD's back in. Windows can see them, read them and erase them...that's it. Now I'm an XP and Windows 7 lover.

in beta version of win7 log on screen was quite darker and nice.. but in RC its bright blue.. which seriously dont attract much... it will be better if there will be an option to change log on screen background image.. i normally use darker themes.. and bright blue just dont go wid it.. i havent felt this in beta tht log on screen is darker =).. but now when i used RC then i realised this...

Just cant keep myself commenting on this :-) Caption buttons are truly ugly :-) I just wish that there were two or three more choices for these buttons.

Upgraded a few days ago to 7100 RC from Vista Home Premium. I asumed the risks. Now, I wont say about what I like, but what I dont like. If I dont say about it, means I like it or at least its not that bad. However I like the new taskbar :) Now my two cents, about two general categories of problems : 1. compatibility with other apps, especially older games. For example, even a 90's game that still managed to work okay under vista but not under 7. I tried with older vista nvidia drivers, but same problem, so I think it must be an upgrade issue or more probably the new DX version mess. And there are more examples, some didnt work correctly (more or less) under vista too. And we dont expect updates from such old software, so DX should ensure compatibilty. 2. interface personalisation/flexibility. 7 is a step ahead, but I think there deserves a rethink of the internal implementations. Examples : a) some of us dont like the bluish color of the menu bar (the one for example from notepad etc...). You CANT customize from interface so you need to edit (yes, some sort of hack) the theme files if you really are mean about it. or leave it. why cant easy customize ? (dont mind, its a rethorical question) b) also see the example from a post above with the logon screen... it should be easy from interface. c) this one even worse : the taskbar is more transparent than in vista but the start menu remained more dark due to the white text; but its lower part had been made lighter to blend/transition with the taskbar. now this works when you have the taskbar on the default lower part of screen. but many people use it above, due to practicability reasons. now, the taskbar is above start menu, but the start menu remains unchanged so it no more blends. and the rounded corner remains up too but this not a big deal. If you try to remedy the problem yourself (editing as above), when you see those images/png's you see the disaster and understand why you give up and dont event think MS will do something : because who originally designed it had nothing in mind about flexibility.

I think that drag & drop functionality on Taskbar should be improved. For example, if I move (via drag&drop) a file from, let's say, the Desktop , I have to drag the picture to the taskbar (1), wait for the Explorer window to show up (2), then drag the picture back again to the explorer window (3) and finally drop it there (4). I say it's much too much work for something as simple as that. I think it would be better if I could drag&drop a file right onto the taskbar icon, and then the file would be moved to the most recently used folder (or the ONLY folder if there is just one open), without any waiting for any windows to open.Regards, Kristaps.

Getting blue screen of death while watching videos on Hulu.com (IE8). This is the third time it happened. Reproduced the issue on two different laptops. It doesnt happen all the time. And I cant seem to correlate it to any activity other than Hulu.

in beta version of win7 log on screen was quite darker and nice.. but in RC its bright blue.. which seriously dont attract much... it will be better if there will be an option to change log on screen background image.. i normally use darker themes.. and bright blue just dont go wid it.. i havent felt this in beta tht log on screen is darker =).. but now when i used RC then i realised this... I first didn't bother reading this post, and then for some reason I did, and guys that's absolutely right: the new login screen is absolutely ugly. As MS doesn't let the user change this easily, unless using unrecommended packs found on the internet, could you change this RC login screen, it's really too bright, and it's not nice. Looks like an ad against global warming or something...don't think, just change it :)

Please remove the explanation page which is printed when you are printing on both sides. 9 times out of 10, I am printing this way just to spare some paper. I can't stand my printer printing one more sheet each time. Just put those instructions on screen, print that sheet the first time only or even remove that at all and leave the user without instructions - still better that printing that damn sheet each time! This was also in the beta. Maybe also in Vista (owned that), but in any case this is a good occasion to remove that! EDIT: Lol, I got a word censored for misspelling "sheet". To foreigners this kind of mistake may well happen... :-D EDIT: I really like the new login screen, much more than the beta, but I agree that it should be made a bit darker. The same image or a very similar one, but made a bit darker, would be the best.

And it would also be nice if Middle-Click on show-desktop would open Flip3D. And it would be just pure win if we could re-map Windows's keyboard shortcuts (every other program natively lets us do that, why not Windows?)Regards, Kristaps.

Kristaps -1.) Middle click CAN be programmed to do that - via your rodent's software. If you've got a Microsoft Mouse, download the Intellipoint beta software. It will allow you to program the middle click (scroll wheel click) to trigger flip3D. 2.) Remapping Windows shortcuts would be a support nightmare. So there you are, on the phone with tech support. He tells you to hit Winkey-E - but you've mapped that to launch something other than Windows Explorer. Whoops. Don't see that happening.

I noticed that Vietnamese collation in Windows 7 is stillbroken. Please fix it.FYI, there's a post here that gives links to Vietnamese collation:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/fa1f0786-a143-4fc8-88cb-5aae862dc7be/ThanksHoc

Liking W7 right now...Can see myself upgrading from XP to the W7 RTM.Now that people routinely have a large quantity of RAM in their computers.Would like to see a built in RAMdisks. At the moment I've resorted to using some 3rd party stuff, which works, but it would be nice if this was a normal feature. The drivers appear to be all there still (as they were also in Vista, XP, 2K) but still no method of actually creating an actual RAM disk.Would also like to see more customisation available during install.I like to partition my HDDs when I install windows. With XP I routinely end up moving the profiles to a different partioning (and a different folder name) and setting the default program files location to another partition (often also with a different name). At this stage I use nlite which allows me to customise this stuff at install, of course this means I have to get my partitions all sorted from the start, but what "serious" home user doesn't anyway?

it will be better if there will be an option to change log on screen background image.. And who stop you to make the change ? W7 logon backgroud IS customizable. You can change it manually or there is also an changer available on the net. 1. Type regedit in RUN or Startmenu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.2. Now go to following key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background3. Now in right-side pane, change value of OEMBackground to 14. Now go to following folder:%windir%\System32\oobeHere %windir% represents "Windows" folder present in the system drive where Windows 7 is installed.5. Create a new folder "info" inside oobe folder. Then again create a new folder "backgrounds" inside info folder. So the final path would be:%windir%\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds6. Now copy any desired wallpaper to this new "backgrounds" folder but following conditions must be followed:The image name must be backgroundDefault.jpg.The image size must be less than 256 KB.The image format must be JPG.Credits go to Rafael http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/03/15/windows-7-to-officially-support-logon-ui-background-customization/

The Shutdown button shouldn't shutdown the system without asking "Are you sure you want to shutdown?" Shutdown should show up as an option when I do a ctrl-alt-delete (it doesn't) Yes, absolutely needed. I already did a shutdown by accident. And...? You lost all your data? What are the stakes here, exactly? Not sure why we should all be badgered every time we try to shut down because of this.

2. interface personalisation/flexibility. 7 is a step ahead, but I think there deserves a rethink of the internal implementations. Examples : a) some of us dont like the bluish color of the menu bar (the one for example from notepad etc...). You CANT customize from interface so you need to edit (yes, some sort of hack) the theme files if you really are mean about it. or leave it. why cant easy customize ? (dont mind, its a rethorical question) b) also see the example from a post above with the logon screen... it should be easy from interface. c) this one even worse : the taskbar is more transparent than in vista but the start menu remained more dark due to the white text; but its lower part had been made lighter to blend/transition with the taskbar. now this works when you have the taskbar on the default lower part of screen. but many people use it above, due to practicability reasons. now, the taskbar is above start menu, but the start menu remains unchanged so it no more blends. and the rounded corner remains up too but this not a big deal. If you try to remedy the problem yourself (editing as above), when you see those images/png's you see the disaster and understand why you give up and dont event think MS will do something : because who originally designed it had nothing in mind about flexibility. OK, why are you using interface themes that have transparent components? Transparency has to be one of the dumbest gimmicks ever introduced to a windowing UI. Would you read a book printed on transparent paper? Why would you want to see a bunch of ____ behind text you're trying to read? If you switch to one of the basic themes, you can customize the color of most elements in the UI.

I Have downloaded and been using Win7 RC (64bit) for a week or so now. General experience is really good. Much better responsiveness than with Vista sp1 on the same hardware. General performance though is probably about the same, but the user experience is improved in win 7. Few issues - I am using a dell optiplex 745 and the drivers for the intel graphics card (q945 I think) that came with windows 7 didnt support the aero interface, so I installed the vista drivers which supported aero fine. The machine becomes very unresponsive after a few days without a re-boot. Its a bit random, but it can be very slow to come out of hybernation, screen, mouse and keyboard can take a minute or two to get powered up and working. The interface is visually very nice with thumbnails of running apps, windows fading out etc, but after prolonged use it just get extreamly distracting with windows fading to transparent and back. Also its extreamly anoying that when you drag a windows near the edges of the screen it auto re-sizes or becomes full screen. Guess I just need to get used to it.... oh and pptp VPN appears really flakey - it drops the connection so way too easily. Sam

The Shutdown button shouldn't shutdown the system without asking "Are you sure you want to shutdown?" Shutdown should show up as an option when I do a ctrl-alt-delete (it doesn't) Yes, absolutely needed. I already did a shutdown by accident. And...? You lost all your data? What are the stakes here, exactly? Not sure why we should all be badgered every time we try to shut down because of this. A good solution would be what Ubuntu has sinces ages ago. When you click on Shutdown, you see a dialog with a cancel button which says "Shutting down in 10 seconds". If you are turning off the computer, you don't care if it takes 10 more seconds, and one click is enough. It should also be possible to disable that though.

I noticed that Vietnamese collation in Windows 7 is stillbroken. Please fix it. FYI, there's a post here that gives links to Vietnamese collation: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/fa1f0786-a143-4fc8-88cb-5aae862dc7be/ Thanks Hoc Second this! If you are going to allow other language, do it right!

amen!Heather Watson

Change request - taskbar mouse hover delay(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it)Place the mouse pointer over an icon in the taskbar for a non-running program. It takes ALMOST TWO SECONDS for the tooltip with the program name to appear. Now that my most commonly used programs are merely icons - without labels - in the taskbar, I occasionally need to remind myself what program an icon represents. A 1.5to 2 second speed bump is a damn nuisance. Thack

I'm dissapointed that there has been no reprieve for the W2K style deterministic start menu. Not having that possibility has however encouraged me to seriously try 7's nonahedral monster menu, and although I can use it, I can't say I've grown to like it. Nonetheless, a few tweaks could improve its usability: Clear and detailed information on exactly how the search mechanism looks for programs, documents etc, with a meaningful commitment not to change this arbritarily or without notice. Information on the rationale for the multiplicity of panes: the help system is silent on this. A keyboard shortcut to open the menu with the pinned programs pane in focus - ideally Ctrl-Esc. So I could start my pinned programs with Ctrl-Esc <letter> Enter, as with the classic menu. This is much easier than using Winkey <number> which requires the user to calculate the offset of the desired program. An option to tear off the search box and add it to the main taskbar. An option to cancel the fat icons at the top of the the upper-right pane. This peculiar inversion of the icon->tooltip relation adds nothing to my understanding of the current selection - it's sufficiently far into my peripheral vision to be obtrusive without being informative. It's madness to have shutdown switch off without prompting - this is especially irritating when (for instance) it's clicked accidentally in the midst of composing long posts to internet discussion fora. It would be easy to fix this by having [Shutdown] and [Shutdown!] options, the former (the default) to require prompting, the latter (bloodcurdlingly adorned as appropriate) not. It would be good to know if MS has posted a defence of the decision to drop the classic menu. I haven't seen anything, except perhaps (somewhat cryptically), The Checkbox: The mating call of the loser by Raymond Chen.

Ok, so what is up with all the spacing in between the quick launch icons. Is there away to get the classic quick launch buttons back. I use them everyday. The way Windows 7 is spaced, by the time you get everything in the quick launch you will need, you wont have any room for the windows! I know they are trying to make it more "touch" friendly, but what about us that do not have a touch screen.... I want the classic quick launch option please! Heather Watson

Change request - inconsistent behaviour when clicking a stacked icon in the taskbar(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it)This refers to stacked icons in the taskbar (representing a program with multiple windows, of course). For these, hovering over the icon, and clicking on it, do exactly the same thing (bring up the little preview pictures). This is in direct contradiction to the behaviour for non-stacked icons (a program with just one window), in which hovering over the icon shows the preview, and clicking on the icon brings that window to the foreground. In other words, for non-stacked icons, the hover and click have two distinct functions, both of which feel entirely logical and "smooth". The obvious question is "OK, but which of the windows should be restored when clicking on a stacked icon?". The answer has been arrived at independently numerous times by different commentators: the most recently opened window. This makes good sense ergonomically - there's a good chance that the most recently opened window is the one most likely to be wanted, anyway. So, the functionality for stacked icons should be: a/ hover shows the preview pictures; b/ click restores the most recently viewed window. This would then "feel" totally consistent with the behaviour for non-stacked icons, and would be a great shortcut. And again, it has been suggested countless times by some very thoughtful and intelligent commentators. Here's how the taskbar icons would work, in summary: a/ Non-running programHover: show program name in a tooltipClick: launch and bring to the foreground b/ Running program, single windowHover: show preview pictureClick: bring window to the foreground c/ Running program, multiple windows (stacked icon)Hover: show preview picturesClick: bring most recent window to the foreground Totally consistent, fast, "smooth", and suggested by countless commentators. It is simply better than the current arrangement, and yet is consistent with it and must be perfectly feasible to implement.Thack

Change request - please give us horizontal scroll in the folder pane in Explorer(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you will "stack" it).Open Explorer andtry to navigate to a deeply nested folder using the folder pane on the left of the window. Problem! The pane no longer has that auto-sideways-scroll that was introduced with Vista, but nor does it have a horizontal scroll bar. The only thing you can do is drag the handle to make the pane wider. Messy and inelegant!Thack

Change request: allow gadgets to be "guarded" from maximised windows(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it).Gadgets can no longer be "guarded" from maximised windows. I understand why MS thought the gadget bar - introduced with Vista - was superfluous, but it had one great feature: it made sure gadgets were (or could be) always visible. Now they are hidden whenever you maximise a window.It's no good setting the gadgets to "always on top" because that hides parts of the window you are working on. Now, I can no longer glance across to the calendar, the weather, the exchange rates, the news feeds; I have to un-maximise the window I'm working in, or steer my mouse to the Desktop Peek button. Time wasted! It's just another clunky speedbump, and totally unnecessary.Thack

Change request: allow msconfig.exe window to be resizable(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it).The msconfig.exe window is too small and cannot be resized. This is particularly apparent on the Startup tab, where almost all the entries in each column are truncated.Making the window resizable would be a great improvement.Thack

There are many windows and boxes/lists inside windows, that should be resizeable. I mean those native to OS/IE8 etc. Sometimes for example you can see only a few items at once , altough a standard monitor by nowadays would allow you to see much more items/info at once.

Change request: don't stall bulk file operations on each error(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it).Perform any operation in Explorer involving a lot of files - a bulk move, a bulk copy, etc. If one of the files brings up an error (e.g. read-only), the whole operation stalls. This is infuriating if you go away for several minutes and expect the job to be done when you get back.Instead, please queue up those files which need prompts to be answered, whilst continuing to process the other files in the background. That way, when you get back to your PC, only those files which need user input will be waiting.Thack

I echo comments others have made. The RC release does seem to perform slower under load than the 7000 build I was running. It seems about even with XP on similar tasks, whereas before it was noticeably better at memory and CPU management. How does the RC get worse than the beta?

A good solution would be what Ubuntu has sinces ages ago. When you click on Shutdown, you see a dialog with a cancel button which says "Shutting down in 10 seconds". If you are turning off the computer, you don't care if it takes 10 more seconds, and one click is enough. It should also be possible to disable that though. I really would love that option. Altough sometimes I just need a fast shutdown. It should be considered

Change request: don't stall bulk file operations on each error(Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it).Perform any operation in Explorer involving a lot of files - a bulk move, a bulk copy, etc. If one of the files brings up an error (e.g. read-only), the whole operation stalls. This is infuriating if you go away for several minutes and expect the job to be done when you get back.Instead, please queue up those files which need prompts to be answered, whilst continuing to process the other files in the background. That way, when you get back to your PC, only those files which need user input will be waiting.Thack This hasn't changed since MSDOS 1.0. I don't expect it to miraculously appear between RC and RTM :) But please, please, can we at least have the free disk space and total file size back? Please somebody from MS explain what is the major malfunction here? Who thought this was a good idea? Did some, um, person (I'll resist the urge to call a spade a spade) say in a test group that numbers are scary and remind them of high school math class so the win7 team decided to purge all numbers from the interface? Oh wait, they left a number in the product name! The horror, the horror! Sorry for the snark, but I think derision is the proper response to this idiocy. Seriously, did you change something in the file system that made calculating free space and total file size too costly? What gives? We're still using NTFS, which has been around since windows 2000 I believe. The sad truth is MS really doesn't have to do anything at this point. After dumping on Vista, the PC industry is ready to declare win7 a success by virtue of its not being Vista at launch. Most reviewers just go through the checklist of the big feature items, like XP mode (never mind that most people will not purchase the edition that has it or have the necessary hardware) while ignoring these nitty gritty usability issues that effect users on a daily basis.

To all forum users:Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). I had previously installed Win7beta on my secondary drive some time ago and was very impressed with its performanceI downloaded Win7RC on day 1 of public release and installed it almost without problems. There was a noticable pause? in the installation around the time of asking where I reside and what type of keyboard I use. It appeared to last several minutes with no discernable disk activity. But it eventually continued with no action required by me.I noticed that loading times for Win7beta and Win7RC were initially pretty similar; but now that I have my programs loaded Win7RC is noticably slower to load. Response times for web pages seems slower than Win7beta; not a very scientific term I know but..!!I was impressed enough to wipe my main OS [XP Home] and install Win7RC as my main OS and demote XP to a secondarycomputer as a back up with a copy of all my files.Overall I am very impressed with the OS but because I was only an occasional user of Vista I still have to think where everything is..??My only personal faults with Win7RC are that my Dazzle TV stick, my CanoScan 3200F scanner and my Creative NX webcam don't work. On the plus side my Gigabyte ethernet NIC works, where it didn't on Win7beta.I was triple booting [all on separate drives] XP, Win7beta and Ubuntu 8.04; but having XP & Win7 inside the same pc meant no system restores in 7beta. So now I have had to relegate XP to a separate pc and triple boot [still on separate drives] 7RC, 7beta and Ubuntu to safegaurd my restore points.I cannot network my Win7 pc and my non-Win7 pc's [I think] so I cannot network print now..?? If I have got that wrong I will be happy to be corrected.If I can get round to purchasing a new TV card and a new webcam that work with Win7 I will probably purchase a copy of Win7OEM.As to when I do that remains to be seen. I would need manufacturers, Microsoft included, to produce either new equipment compatible with Win7 or drivers that are guaranteed to work. I can get over my older equipment not working now, but when I buy new things I want a guarantee that they will work, not a possibility. Old Mig15 pilot.

Please put a spacer between DELETE and RENAME on the right click context menu.80% of the restores I perform are based on accidental deletions performed when a user was quickly trying to RENAME something.This has driven me nuts for years. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

Here is my bugs, the threads I've open have more views but no more answers, excepting from Moderators that invite me to post here my feedback. So I've copy-paste my threads. I hope that this arrive to developers team... Thanks... Considerations about bug and "missing" features on Windows 7 RC: 1. If you want to defrag your disk, is also visible the system partition of 200 Mb... Are still visible? http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragcz4.jpg (FIXED) 2. Since Vista, in the system properties, some values are wrong... http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=propertyad0.jpg http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?image=property2sf8.jpg http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=property3et5.jpg (NOT FIXED) 3. Decompression of file .RAR/.ZIP slow the computer in a strange way... It's a OS problem or program bug (7zip, winrar and winzip, it's the same)? (NOT FIXED) 4. Sometimes "Games" folder is visualized in wrong without "group by", sometimes with it... (also the personalization of the link in this folder that is leaved compared Vista (NOT HAPPENS FOR NOW) The problems of this folder are these now: a. If you open it is like this: http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesbug1.jpg If you reduce like this: http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesbug2.jpg If you close when it's reduced it reopen like this: http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesbug3.jpg But, if you enlarge, if shows like this: http://img18.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gamesbug4.jpg (NOT FIXED) b. Why if I cut and paste an icon of a game from desktop to Games folder, the icon remains on the desktop? (NOT FIXED) This produced a strange effect in Windows 7 Beta ( http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=transparenticon.jpg ) and it's a little bit fastidious... (NOT HAPPENS FOR NOW) 5. Sometimes personal image on start menu is visualized in wrong way (it's multiplied, or all transparent)... (FIXED) 6. When SyncToy is minimized, it... (you know what I want to say :p...)... http://img9.imageshack.us/my.php?image=synctoybug.png http://img9.imageshack.us/my.php?image=synctoybug2.png (NOT FIXED) 7. Messenger bug is resolved on build 7024, I hope it remained fixed... http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=msntz4.png (FIXED) 8. Firefox bug: I don't know if it's a bug of OS or of problem (same decompression), but it's same fastidious... When you reduce it, messenger open itself... (NOT FIXED) 9. Sometimes the order of the desktop is lost (the place of the icons...)... (NOT HAPPENS FOR NOW) And why you don't make a function same to powertoys for windows xp? http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firsticon.jpg Where you can select the first icon on your desktop (Computer or documents..) (NOT IMPLEMENTED) 10. Audio problem in video of some games (Mirror's Edge, Unreal Tournament 3) (FIXED) 11. Problem with USB remove of external HD remains... It probably is caused to the indexing option, same of Vista, but the frustation for not remove remains... (SEEMS TO BE FIXED :), MAYBE...) 12. Suggestion: why don't you create an icon for the "Open" option of .exe file in Windows Explorer... The icon of "non association" sounds bad... http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=openicon.jpg (NOT IMPLEMENTED) 13. Some crash with Internet Explorer 8 (NEVER IN BETA)... (SEEMS TO BE FIXED :)) 14. Messenger chat window not mantein the size and the position... I don't know if it is an OS problem or a program bug... (NOT TESTED YET) 15. My PC still bipping... What hardware can do it? (SEEMS TO BE FIXED :)) 16. SQL Server Express 2005 problem to create DB using the GUI: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlexpress/thread/57d84f26-a77a-47e5-9d33-2a6afa8e5a40 (NOT TESTED YET) 17. Driver of my ATI Mobility Radeon X1400: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/b826e94b-3b99-4007-aab3-af3c89bebb9d It appears again on Windows Update, thanks Microsoft! (FIXED) 18. When I try to install some program (for example, the setup of latest version of Firefox, 3.0.10), and I want to leave Always asks before opening this file, OS hangs for long time It happens also in Beta (NOT FIXED) 19. It's impossible to modify a file (for example a .txt file) in an external hd because when you try to save it show "Access is denied"... It's frustrating, you need also administrator right on the program for modify your personal file (also in SyncToy, when it try to replace an existing file, it can't, but if you launch synctoy with administrator rights, it can)... (NOT FIXED) I used the same image of Windows 7 Beta because the problems is exactly the same, if you want I posted new images of RC, but I think it's useless... P.S.: why don't implement the strike text on the forum? Update : the 8 seems to be fixed, but if I open messenger, then Firefox and reduce it, again the problem :(... the 11 seems to be fixed too, but two external hd, after a while, aren't able to eject :(... Update #2: I don't know if this problem is caused by OS or by Firefox... When you try to open firefox and launch it twice, the result is: http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doublefirefox.jpg Update #3: WMP12 bug discovered... See the images: It's just opened, it's not full screen, but the button is for full mode: http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wmpenlargebug.jpg Twice click: now the button is for reduced mode: http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wmpenlargebug2.jpg Again: now is right... http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wmpenlargebug3.jpg Again and again: it altern the second and the third image... Update #4: apparently, bug #11 is caused by problem with the hd (twice broken...), after the scandisk, nothing problem for eject, but problem for scandisk: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/2c4c95d6-fe48-48d3-a378-2d122bbecb26 Update #5: when you see a video on internet (for example, on youtube), and you want to see the preview using taskbar, if the tab with video is selected, the preview on the taskbar is right, and the preview up "running" (http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ievideopreview1.jpg), when you select another tab and try the same, the preview is wrong, and the video seems like stopped (http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ievideopreview2.jpg)... ScanDisk Use 1 GB Of RAM: I can believe that: http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hungryscandisk.jpg After Windows 7 RC have nearly damaged my primary external hd, it can't scandisk my secondary because the process sucks 1GB+ of RAM... It's increbile! I thought I had seen everything, but this is an incredible thing! Update: I've tested with 2GB pen drive (FAT32 formatted), and nothing strange... It only happens with my 2 NTFS external disk (160 GB and 120GB), with any kind of setting in scandisk (http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hungryscandisk3.jpg)... Twice are compressed and indexed (http://img245.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hungryscandisk2.jpg)... Old Users In Property File Are Strings: Stupid fastidious bug, is present since Vista... In the security property of files, old users have no normal name, but string name... It's so fastidious because it seems to be broken... Can you fix it in anyway? http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olduserstring.jpg Preview Folders Not Refresh : Well, the problem is very stupid... If you enter in a folder with more subfolders, and click on one of these before it load all the previews, it doesn't load the other after, also if I click on the refresh button, or F5... This is the result: http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=refreshnotworking.jpg If I remember well, it happens also in Vista, so this is the good occasion to fix it ;)... Windows Media Player 12 Old Bug: Hi, I have a problem with Windows Media Player 12, the audio stutters... This is a old bug I've encountered on WMP11 on Vista... Now the problem is less frequently (in WMP11 on Vista, 1 time on 25 seconds, now 1 time on 2/3 minutes), but so fastidious... Naturally I've tested with others player and nothing happens... In Vista the problem is more notable (http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/13/windows-vista-media-player-wmp11-slow-loading-and-skipping-the-end/), but also in Seven there is this little problem... I like WMP, so I get a little bit nervous when audio stutters :p... Since the Seven is still in RC, there is all the time to fix this bug... Please fix this old bug...

Change request: don't stall bulk file operations on each error (Too late for RTM, but I'm hoping you'll "stack" it). Perform any operation in Explorer involving a lot of files - a bulk move, a bulk copy, etc. If one of the files brings up an error (e.g. read-only), the whole operation stalls. This is infuriating if you go away for several minutes and expect the job to be done when you get back. Instead, please queue up those files which need prompts to be answered, whilst continuing to process the other files in the background. That way, when you get back to your PC, only those files which need user input will be waiting. Thack I absolutely need it. Today behavior has made me lost a looooot of time. I simply Install another file manager. Windows explorer cannot be trusted with today behavior.

I would also like to give my opinion as a (for a home user) quite experienced XP fan. Since the day the RC came out, I use it and in contrast to the 7000 build I got everything working so far. I like the cool looking, and there are many options for individualizing which I always love. I`m really considering a change away from XP. But a few things here are REALLY annoying and make life hard for me: 1) The search function. Yeah, maybe it`s half a second faster to click into the static search bar instead of pressing ctrl+f, maybe not. But in every case, the following is big sh.. for me: (I can`t understand why I found no posts about that.) a) Why isn`t it possible to press a letter in the normal explorer and just get the first item selected that begins with that letter?? Always the search begins automatically, and that is really disturbing, confusing and much too slow! b) Why can`t the search results be temporarily cached so that I see my old results instantly when I navigate back to the results?? -> VERY time consuming at the moment!! c) When I open a result in a new window, the location is displayed as e.g. Search "results in Volume (E:) / programs". There is no way to see or at least somehow retrieve the real location of this folder! (primarily because there is no "upwards" button like before) -> Very unclear and confusing! So, and when I open the folder of a result in the same window (also with the rightclick menu), the correct path will be displayed, but then, when I go back, the results are gone (see b)). d) Why can`t there be better, more specific search criteria like there were in XP? Such as options for search of hidden files etc. pp?? e) When I directly rightclick a result folder, a wrong menu occurs (not for this folder but for the search window). I first have to leftclick it. This behavior doesn`t occur with files, only folders. Somehow strange and unnerving... 2) The explorer window itself: a) Why can`t there be an attributes box on the left side? The attributes on the bottom are often displayed uncomplete because the window is too small, and it just needs a bit too long to check the missing infos manually afterwards. Also, in the left box I could see a bigger preview than in the file symbols themselves. The extra preview box needs too much space, that`s no opinion. b) I would find it really nice to have an easier possibility for changing whether hidden files are being displayed or not, e.g. in form of self-definable buttons next to the menu or something like that.

trackpad scroller:By now, Windows native trackpad/mouse driver shouldenable me toslide my finger up/down the right side of the mouse pad to start a page scroll. (i.e. like the Synaptic software) Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

Here's my "feedback" list so far:1. need an option to lock down gadgets, and maybe allow some transparency on them. i have to keep dragging my cool looking clock out of the way all the time.2. i really liked having my recycle bin icon on the quick launch bar instead of the desktop... cant seem to put it there anymore.3. would like a global on/off button for the indexing. i dont need anything indexed... either im disabling services, or trying to search through an expandable endless tree of folders to uncheck indexing locations.4. i miss the windows mail being built in. live mail is ok... but i like the built in version better.5. would like something in the mobility center to set battery charge to less than 100%, i use my laptop mostly on AC power, no need to hold the battery at 100% all day6. new try icon system is great... leave that alone

So it is not enough that it switches to a dark screen with a warning (and option to cancel) if you have any open apps? The intervening "are you sure" dialog has been (essentially) gone since the arrival of Vista. I am definitely one who doesn't want it back. I've had to shut down far more peoples' XP machines after they hit shut down and walked out than I have heard people complain that they want the box back....Stephen

2) The explorer window itself: a) Why can`t there be an attributes box on the left side? The attributes on the bottom are often displayed uncomplete because the window is too small, and it just needs a bit too long to check the missing infos manually afterwards. Also, in the left box I could see a bigger preview than in the file symbols themselves. The extra preview box needs too much space, that`s no opinion. That bottom space is resizeable. maybe this helps.... Here's my "feedback" list so far: 1. need an option to lock down gadgets, and maybe allow some transparency on them. i have to keep dragging my cool looking clock out of the way all the time. dont know about why lock down , but transparency works, like in vista, at least on 7100 RC.

Hmm.. Gadgets...Why can't the CPU gadget (which is funky if a little superflous) be set to show for each logical CPU? i7 920, would like to see what each cpu is doing.Dual monitors...Would be nice to have some method of the left right drag-maximise to work on both monitors... not really sure how you'd do this.. but I wanted to maximise two windows on second monitor (half and half style) but have to manual size one...Can we have W7 remember previous window settings for every window/program. Always have the resource monitor up, and have to reposition it every time I reset computer... Kinda annoying... Happens with several other programs too, but they're all non-windows so I guess I can't complain.(Love the resource monitor BTW. Best monitoring addition EVER!)

Thank you, Cornel001, that does help indeed :-) Also, I now found an option for my point 1a. Embarrassing...

Pin to taskbar is a complement, but "NOT" a substitue for Quick Launch that is available in Widows XP\Vista. I understant that you removed the Quick Launch toolbar because you can now pin programs directly to the taskbar. Thats great. I use that feature to pin 3 programs to the taskbar. However, in Windows Vista I have 22 programs I keep in the Quick Launch toolbar. I AM NOT GOING TO PIN 22 PROGRAMS TO THE WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR. THATS AN OVERCROWDED MESS!!!! With Quick Launch my icons will appear in a pop-up menu when I click the Quick Launch >> Quick Launch works perfectly in Windows XP and Windows Vista. It NEEDS to remain as an option in Windows 7 and it needs to work exactly as it does in Windows Vista. I can change the size to show a certain number of icons on the taskbar and the rest of the icons will appear in a pop-up menu. Its just a simple toolbar, but works wonders for quickly launching programs. All it requires is at most 2 clicks (in Windows Vista I configure the Quick Launch to show 3 icons on the taskbar and the rest will appear in the Quick Launch pop-up menu so its once click for Quick Launch >> and another click on the program icon). and my program is up and running. Yes, I do use the new feature in Windows 7 to pin programs to the taskbar, but I only pin 3. I want to be able to enable the Quick Launch as in Windows Vista. Why would I want to pin a program to the taskbar when that program minimizes to the system tray like AnyDVD? Thats a type of program I would keep in Quick Launch. Why would I want to overcrowd the taskbar with all my programs when I don't run them all at the same time. It just becomes an overcrowded mess especially on the small screen of a laptop. Its just a simple toolbar and we could even hack it to enable it in the beta of Windows 7, but you have gone out of your way to prevent us from enabling it in version 7100. The loss of Quick Launch is a deal breaker for me. Its incredibly frustrating that MS chose to remove the Qucik Launch as an option that could be enabled especially since there are other toobars that can still be enabled on the taskbar. I'm not going to go out and spend money on a new OS when it will take me longer to launch programs because I refuse to overcrowd my task bar. I love the pin to taskbar feature, but I want my Quick Launch as well so that I can have my program icons show in the Quick Launch pop up menu so that I don't have to overcrowd the taskbar. There is simply no valid reason for the removal of Quick Launch. Its an optional feature in Windows XP\Vista. If a user doesn't use it, then the user doesn't need to enable it.

Why does Microsoft still insist on hiding extensions for known file types by default. This is such a huge security risk. Hackers\Virus\Trojan writers will send out emails with an attachment and the subject might be referencing a picture or a PowerPoint presentation. The real name of the file would be Picture.JPG.EXE, but because extensions are hid by default the email recipient will only see Picture.JPG (.EXE is hidden)instead of the full name of DATA.JPG.EXE and then double click the attachment and instead of seeing a picture they just ran an executable that installs a trojan.Microsoft needs to show extensions of known file types by default!

Some bugs with pinned items on start menu: Pinning Windows Update to Start Menu basically breaks the pinned items list. I tried to pin Windows Update to Start Menu as I did in build 7000; the pin command didn't show up in the context menu. I tried dragging the link from Start Menu's "All Programs" pane back onto the "Pinned Items" pane. This caused the Pinned Items list to disappear (as in turn into a blank white area). I tried unpinning and repinning a different link from the list; that caused the list to "refresh" itself and become visible again (and Windows Update was in fact pinned). However, as long as W.U. remained pinned to the Start Menu, newly pinned items caused more "disappearing acts" in the Pinned Items list. Unpinning W.U. was the only way to make the list function properly. Side note: it's still impossible to pin documents to a program's jump list if "Taskbar Properties->Start Menu->Store and display recently opened programs in start menu" is unchecked... which makes no sense.

There is bug in Vietnamese collation. We can not sort data exactly. Here is the exam: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Globalization; using System.Threading; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace SortDemo { class Program { // Comparing and Sorting Data for a Specific Culture // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a7zyyk0c.aspx static void Main(string[] args) { const string vietAlpha = "aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ"; char[] charArray = vietAlpha.ToCharArray(); string[] precomposed = new string[charArray.Length]; string[] composite = new string[charArray.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < charArray.Length; i++) { precomposed[i] = charArray[i].ToString(); composite[i] = charArray[i].ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD); } // Sets the CurrentCulture to "vi-VN". Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("vi-VN"); // Sort the values of the Array. Array.Sort(precomposed); Array.Sort(composite); StringBuilder strB = new StringBuilder(); StringBuilder strB1 = new StringBuilder(); for (int i = 0; i < precomposed.Length; i++) { strB.Append(precomposed[i]); strB1.Append(composite[i]); } // Displays the values. MessageBox.Show("Vietnamese alphabetical order:\n\n" + vietAlpha + "\n\nAfter sorting with CultureInfo(\"vi-VN\"):\n\nPrecomposed:\n" + strB.ToString() + "\n\nComposite:\n" + strB1.ToString(), "Vietnamese Collation Test"); } } }

So it is not enough that it switches to a dark screen with a warning (and option to cancel) if you have any open apps? The intervening "are you sure" dialog has been (essentially) gone since the arrival of Vista. I am definitely one who doesn't want it back. I've had to shut down far more peoples' XP machines after they hit shut down and walked out than I have heard people complain that they want the box back.... Stephen That's right: it isn't anywhere near enough. Start IE. Enter lots of info into a web app . Click shutdown. Lose data. And it's so easy to fix, either by confirmation or countdown.

Its just a simple toolbar and we could even hack it to enable it in the beta of Windows 7, but you have gone out of your way to prevent us from enabling it in version 7100. The loss of Quick Launch is a deal breaker for me. Its incredibly frustrating that MS chose to remove the Qucik Launch as an option that could be enabled especially since there are other toobars that can still be enabled on the taskbar. The same "hack" works even better in RC. Quick Launch is present in the sistem the same way as in Vista. Just they don't added the check-box to activate - Reason ? They say it was not used enough in beta, according with the automatic feedback implemented in the W7. Here, I have however a mention to say - of course it was not used by many users, but the reason why it was not usedIS the fact that THEY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE PRESENCE OF QUICK LAUNCH.And that because they needed the information of HOW TO, and unfortunatelly the vast majority of people who downloaded and installed the beta and also the RC are not specialists, but most of them are only simple users with very few knowledge, or no knwledge, who installed it to see what is this... They didn't know even to search on the net to see how they can tweak W7. Come on... How many specialists have installed W7 in the Beta - 10,000 ? 100,000 ? Let's say 300,000. But there were about 1 milion of copies... They are in evident minority...

Yes, this is small tweak, and I think that the small things contribute to have a final polished product. But Microsoft will not listen to us. Want proof? Well... this same subject was already discussed: here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/c704ecad-fa41-4d25-b91a-dca771b0fc84 here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/80d35989-dc14-411a-a942-68ebab2bab8d/ here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/1cbc3578-c8a8-42a7-a18e-308c0a63f977/ here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/12313c79-f39c-41dd-99d7-a600b1a0bc2a/ Hey, now there is one more to our little collection: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproui/thread/b553534c-174c-4ba7-bc1d-513501f4c32c I keep thinking if we will need to have a hundred or a thousand threads about the VERY SAME ANNOYING ISSUE before Microsoft will listen....

Still in the RC candiate there is no network activity icon in the taskbar, :( we DO NOT WANT an animation. we want a working activity icon. you can manage to make the screens on the "network adapter" window where you see the other options to repair etc, blink when their is traffic being sent in and out its the little things that make some customers happy. if people are crying out saying it will ruin there precious desktop look then those people can allways turn it off. having that little try icon like the one that windows XP has gives the user some visual indication that their is some network /internet activity going on with their system. id like to see the network tray activity icon return to the final build of windows 7 as would every most other people id expect, listen to your customers..

Not liking the design of the taskbar. 1. When the view for the buttons on my 'quick launch' toolbar is set to large, the taskbar "expands", leaving there a ugly space under the programs tabs. 2. When the view for the buttons on my 'quick launch' toolbar is set to small, there's a pretty big stupid ugly under my quick launch buttons. suggestion: for 1, the 'large icon' need not be that 'large', reduce the size by 2 pixels or so will make that irritating space disappear. for 2, may be the location of the icons can be set to middle, so that the space is not that ugly.

Task Bar bug: Steps to reproduce: 1-Open an application like IE, or Firefox, from the task bar. 2-Start downloading a file. 3-Close IE, or Firefox window -But NOT the download window- 4-Now, try to launch again IE or Firefox, from the task bar. It never launch, because the download windows is running.

Pin to taskbar is a complement, but "NOT" a substitue for Quick Launch that is available in Widows XP\Vista. I understant that you removed the Quick Launch toolbar because you can now pin programs directly to the taskbar. Thats great. I use that feature to pin 3 programs to the taskbar. However, in Windows Vista I have 22 programs I keep in the Quick Launch toolbar. I AM NOT GOING TO PIN 22 PROGRAMS TO THE WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR. THATS AN OVERCROWDED MESS!!!! With Quick Launch my icons will appear in a pop-up menu when I click the Quick Launch >> Quick Launch works perfectly in Windows XP and Windows Vista. It NEEDS to remain as an option in Windows 7 and it needs to work exactly as it does in Windows Vista. I can change the size to show a certain number of icons on the taskbar and the rest of the icons will appear in a pop-up menu. Its just a simple toolbar, but works wonders for quickly launching programs. All it requires is at most 2 clicks (in Windows Vista I configure the Quick Launch to show 3 icons on the taskbar and the rest will appear in the Quick Launch pop-up menu so its once click for Quick Launch >> and another click on the program icon). and my program is up and running. Yes, I do use the new feature in Windows 7 to pin programs to the taskbar, but I only pin 3. I want to be able to enable the Quick Launch as in Windows Vista. Why would I want to pin a program to the taskbar when that program minimizes to the system tray like AnyDVD? Thats a type of program I would keep in Quick Launch. Why would I want to overcrowd the taskbar with all my programs when I don't run them all at the same time. It just becomes an overcrowded mess especially on the small screen of a laptop. Its just a simple toolbar and we could even hack it to enable it in the beta of Windows 7, but you have gone out of your way to prevent us from enabling it in version 7100. The loss of Quick Launch is a deal breaker for me. Its incredibly frustrating that MS chose to remove the Qucik Launch as an option that could be enabled especially since there are other toobars that can still be enabled on the taskbar. I'm not going to go out and spend money on a new OS when it will take me longer to launch programs because I refuse to overcrowd my task bar. I love the pin to taskbar feature, but I want my Quick Launch as well so that I can have my program icons show in the Quick Launch pop up menu so that I don't have to overcrowd the taskbar. There is simply no valid reason for the removal of Quick Launch. Its an optional feature in Windows XP\Vista. If a user doesn't use it, then the user doesn't need to enable it. Finally, someone else agrees with me about the quick launch! Microsoft really needs to fix another option for a classic quick launch!Heather Watson

Not liking the design of the taskbar. 1. When the view for the buttons on my 'quick launch' toolbar is set to large, the taskbar "expands", leaving there a ugly space under the programs tabs. 2. When the view for the buttons on my 'quick launch' toolbar is set to small, there's a pretty big stupid ugly under my quick launch buttons. suggestion: for 1, the 'large icon' need not be that 'large', reduce the size by 2 pixels or so will make that irritating space disappear. for 2, may be the location of the icons can be set to middle, so that the space is not that ugly. AMEN! Microsoft...LISTEN TO THIS!Heather Watson

Task Bar bug:Steps to reproduce:1-Open an application like IE, or Firefox, from the task bar.2-Start downloading a file.3-Close IE, or Firefox window -But NOT the download window-4-Now, try to launch again IE or Firefox, from the task bar. It never launch, because the download windows is running. I think you are misunderstanding the way it works. IE or Firefox won't open when the downloading window is open because they already are. The download window is in a way an instance of the Net browser(whether MS or Mozilla).Right click on the taskbar icon and select the application by name to run another instance of the browser.RegardsRem

Task Bar bug: Steps to reproduce: 1-Open an application like IE, or Firefox, from the task bar. 2-Start downloading a file. 3-Close IE, or Firefox window -But NOT the download window- 4-Now, try to launch again IE or Firefox, from the task bar. It never launch, because the download windows is running. I think you are misunderstanding the way it works. IE or Firefox won't open when the downloading window is open because they already are. The download window is in a way an instance of the Net browser(whether MS or Mozilla). Right click on the taskbar icon and select the application by name to run another instance of the browser. Regards Rem I understand it, and I already opened both IE and Firefox that way. Still, it is a bug. The common end user will find it very annoying, and got extremely frustrating.

Agreed Cristi-M! Of course not many people will know about the existence of a hack to enable Quick Launch in Windows 7. They go to enable Quick Launch like they do inXP\Vista andfind its not there and are out of luck. Most won't go searching forums for a hack. Heck, not everyone even knows about the Quick Launch in Vista since its disabled by default.But thats MS logic for you, remove the ability to turn on a feature without hacking and then claim nobody wants it because not enough people hacked it to turn it on. Of course if they really wanted to see if people wanted it they would turn it on by default and then check to see how many people turned it off. Makes to much sense though. Just extremely aggravating since its just a simple toolbar and you can still enable other toolbars on the Taskbar. It would take MS just a few minutes to add the code back and if you don't want it, just don't turn the Quick Launch toolbar on.I stand corrected, the hack for enabling Quick Launch still works in the RC. Don't know why I had trouble finding it the first time I looked.For those interested, here are the instructions to enable Quick Launch. Thanks to Ronnie Vernon, a forum moderator, who originally gave me these instructions:Adding the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 7. Right click the Taskbar and select Toolbars/New Toolbar. In the Choose A Folder window, navigate to: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch. (Where 'username' is the name of the account you are logged on with) Click Select Folder. This will add the Quick Launch Toolbar to the right side of the Taskbar. Right click the Taskbar and make sure that it is Unlocked. On the Left Side of the Quick Launch Toolbar you will see 3 vertical rows of Dots. This is the Toolbar Handle. Use the mouse to grab that handle and drag the QL toolbar as far to the left as it will go. Next, grab the Handle for the Taskbar Icons and drag it as far to the right as it will go.This should switch the toolbars. Next, drag the QL toolbar to the left as far as it will go. This should place it next to the Start Button. Right click an empty spot on the QL toolbar and remove the check marks from 'Show Text' and 'Show Title'. Finally, carefully drag the Taskbar Icons to the left until the QL toolbar is the size you prefer. Right click the Taskbar and select 'Lock the Taskbar'.

a) Why isn`t it possible to press a letter in the normal explorer and just get the first item selected that begins with that letter?? Dunno 'bout you, but for me it selects (not searches) by default. Make sure this setting in Folder options is set like for me: Regards, Kristaps.

one more thing, the middle button click on taskbar, personally i feel that using it to close windows is more useful.

middle on icon for new instance (like middle on a link in IE) middle on thumb to close (like middle on tab in IE) It can't be the other way around - currently this allows to close each window/tab separately via middle-click, and if you launch a new instance, you don't need to point at an exact window/tab (which you do need if you want to close it) So it's very good as it is now.Regards, Kristaps.

Theleft pane ofWindows Explorershows tree by default, which could be useful, but actuallyI had to turn it off, because when I move mouse over it, the [+] icons are shown and hidden, which is very annoying. (I'm using classic theme and all animation is turned off, but looks like this onecan't be disabled)

Middle-click or Shift+Click on the icon (or right-click and click the application's name) to launch a new instance of IE/Firefox/anything ;) Regards, Kristaps.

My addition/comment to this idea -- it's okay to hide file extensions by default, but there should be an override that .exe/.msi files always get their extensions shown (even when extension hiding is enabled).Regards, Kristaps.

Why is Folder.jpg considered a protected operating system file. The only way to get Folder.jpg to show in Windows Explorer is to uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files". Checking "Show hidden files, folders and drives" won't show Folder.jpg because its considered a protected operating system file. The only use of Folder.jpg that I know of is to store music album art. Various music playing software use the folder.jpg to display album art when browsing your music collection by folder. Doesn't seem right that I need to show protected operating system files when I want to edit album art.

<Continuation of long thread Have Comments about Windows 7 RC? > To all forum users: Please use this thread to note any comments that you haveabout Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC). Do not use this thread for any specific question or issue that you are having - just for comments or feedback. For questions/issues that require an answer, createa new thread. Thanks -Tony Mann Windows Client IT Pro Audience Manager for Web Forums, Windows Client Forum Owner I would like to setup a jbod raid of a cheap but fast SSD (maybe a 30 Gb one, like a OCZ Vertex, with good random 4 kb read/write), and a magnetic HD big partition. The SSD 30 Gb should automatically host the more used files, as boot files, swap file, and startup files. Also, it should be possible to force a file to be stored on the faster SSD. I know that I simply can choose to install some files on another partition, but I cannot guarantee that other users will know how to setup his files and programs.

I just had the strangest glitch when I started windows 7 RC, something that I've never seen with a previous version. When I started the computer and logged in, many (but not all) of my personalizations were gone. First off, I noticed that the icons pinned to my start menu were all blank (showing the default white piece of paper icon), though they were still linked to the right programs. Also, my startup programs failed to start (including desktop gadgets). The system defaulted to using the Arial font instead of the normal one. However, my start menu customizations, background images, and sound scheme were still correct. When I clicked on a taskbar item, the icon would show up again, but the program seemed to have forgotten my settings. For example, Firefox start with a blank profile as if it were a clean install, asking me if I wanted to import anything from internet explorer, and an IM program failed to remember my username and password as it usually does. Windows explorer, however, seemed to remember all my settings when it came to folder views. I restarted the computer, and the problem resolved itself. I'm posting this here because it seemed unusual to me that so many of my settings would be forgotten, but not all of them. I have no idea what caused this or how to reproduce it, so I'm not sure how much help this will be, but I figured I'd post anyway in case somebody else might have had a similar problem.

TWO PRINT ISSUES:1: The PRINT PICTURES dialog box is taller than 600 pixels so I can not see the bottom of that box on my 1024x600 netbook 2: The PRINT PICTURES dialog box (still) does not allow for a single picture to be resized down and then printed ONCE on a page (i.e. it should allow prints to a quarter page or...). Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

DOWNLOADS.LIVE.COM1: Having Picture Manager and Movie Maker require SQL is soooooo completely unacceptable2: Many of these apps should be built in (perhaps uninstalled by default) and not download3: Movie Maker is unusable ____ (yes, I know it is beta but why you would not simply enhance (i.e. add second audio track) the old MM is beyond me.) This "product" does not look good enough to be an Alpha... where are multiple tracks, the output formats, the editing tools, the titles/credits/transitions... GET IT TOGETHER MICROSOFT! Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

regarding my post on middle button, i'll explain more, if anyone used taskbar shuffler before, the program will allow user to close whichever window you middle click at. using middle click to open another firefox or whatever doesn't really seem useful... just a personal view though. another thing, can we return our live messenger to an icon in the notification area? it's wasting space having 2 item on your taskbar when running messenger. for one thing, i know it's for the 'combined' taskbar' function, since it will just be one button no matter how many windows. however, i am sure that many people will stick to the 'never combine' options. which will become 2 items... one more thing, not liking the idea of putting 2 similiar program (say windows explorer) side by side. what's the point of allowing taskbar items to be shuffled when similiar items will stick together no matter what? MS ppl, try the program called 'taskbar shuffler' it makes your taskbar seem kind of irritating and useless.

There is bug in Language Bar. I've never added Vietnamese Input Language, but it's always shown in my Language Bar, not in the Text Servies And Input Languages dialog, so i can not remove it.

Note: alot of people mentioned that windows 7 is faster, actually, was the comparison between: 1. (32-bit operating system) and (32-bit windows 7) or 2. (32-bit os) and (64-bit windows 7)? my experience was that, i compared: 1. (xp home) and (32-bit 7) the 32-bit 7 was significantly more slow than xp home 2. (xp home) and (64-bit 7) in this case, the 7 is faster 3.(xp 64-bit) and (64-bit 7) the xp 64 is significantly faster what i am trying to show is that, when comparing 32-bit os to 64-bit, it's obvious that the 64-bit runs faster due to structual difference. when compared to XP, 7 loses in its start up time, it takes around 1.5X more time to boot up, but the good thing is, 7's shutdown time is NOT 7 secs, lol. i am not using vista in my comparison, vista is a hopeless failure. i complain too much, here's what i like: 1. the gadgets no longer limit to the sidebar. 2. i really love this, the shuffling of items pinned to start menu. i've mentioned it for the beta version, didnt expect that MS ppl reacted, was really happy and pleasantly surprised when this becomes available for RC. 3. did anyone notice that when your mouse rollover an item at the taskbar, the highlight color moves? sweet!

It might be nice to include color schemes in windows 7.To illustrate with what I mean with the color styles, I will just use office 2007 as an example. With office 2007, the user has three color scheme options, blue, silver and black.http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4425/colorschemes.jpgA similar feature for windows 7, I beleive, will be much appreciated by most of us.

1: Having Picture Manager and Movie Maker require SQL is soooooo completely unacceptable Well, Picture Manager needs to store its data (library, tags, whatnot) somewhere, and SQL beats the registry any time ;) (Actually, if you ask me, the entire Windows registry should be replaced with SQL database(s) [SQLite would be a good choice])Regards, Kristaps.

TASKBAR:I greatly prefer the USE SMALL ICONS setting. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

TASKBAR:I greatly prefer the USE SMALL ICONS setting. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca I beleive developers should be more considerate for people who have many appz pinned to the taskbar. I find the current navigation mechanism a bit inefficient when the taskbar length cant hold all the appz and need to create an icon for you to navigate to the next bunch of icons. And for inspiration, I humbly suggest the ipod interface :-) Not: You cant move icons from the second set to the first set. Kind of odd!

SQL is far to large for desktops. Yes, I know the CE version is thinner but still bad. Perhaps a wholesale change from REG to SQL would improve performance overall but that is not the case today... MS should not put SQL on a desktop for"small" apps. SQL on the desktop is the reason BUSINESS CONTACT MANAGER for Outlook has gone nowhere.All that bloat... all that patching... no thank you.SPEED SPEED SPEED! Please :) Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

In Build 7000 there was a Start Menu option to show the libraries on the right side of the start menu (this appeared to replace the Personal Folder link/menu in Vista). While at first I was annoyed by this I came to appreciate it. However, in RC1, the "Personal Libraries" option disappeared and the Personal Folder option is back. Frankly I'd like to have both. I like the concept of the libraries but I find I don't use them because they're not immediately accessible from the start menu and having the option to have it on the start menu would correct that. I'm not a fan of cluttering my start menu with various options like Pictures, Videos, Downloads etc... With the libraries accessible from the start menu this would group these together in the same place.

When I try downloading the x64 version via technet, it takes 1 second and the downloaded iso is empty!

I quite like Windows 7 RC and I normally use Linux. Just a few niggles: Keysonic Wireless Keyboard (ACK-540RF) starts up in number lock each and every time. This is not a bios setting to do so and this does not happen when booting into Linux (I have a dual boot). I can only add toolbars on the one screen on my dual display (Nvidia GF 8600 GTS). It would be great if the taskbar/toolbars could be stretched to span both screens but this does not seem possible. The new taskbar takes quite a bit of getting used to and looks a bit messy and I can see a lot of users new to Windows 7 who just leave everything default getting annoyed. Some popups, such as approving cookie boxes in Firefox, opens up behind the screen in focus. This probably needs work from Mozilla though.

I can only add toolbars on the one screen on my dual display. It would be great if the taskbar/toolbars could be stretched to span both screens but this does not seem possible. The new taskbar takes quite a bit of getting used to and looks a bit messy and I can see a lot of users new to Windows 7 who just leave everything default getting annoyed. Motion seconded! Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

No offense but what is obvious is that Windows 7 is a RC and that results seem to vary by user. I have found that the Windows 7 x64 RC installation on my new laptop(4gb RAM, T6400 processor)beats all versions of XP and Vista as far as overall performance goes. The Windows 7 x86 RC installation on my two-year old laptop (4 gb RAM, T5500 processor) beats the performance of XP, Vista SP 1, and the Windows 7 x64 RC on the same machine. Granted, I also found that on that laptop, Vista x86 SP1 matched XP's performance for everything except Boot time, Shutdown, and copying large files off my network. When my new laptop was running Vista x64 SP 1, XP only beat it on Shutdown and Boot time. I had blocked outhow much I hate XP until I re-loaded it on that laptop as part of an intentional test, upgrading Vista over XP and then Windows 7 over Vista. FWIW, I have also observed that both versions of the RC are faster and more stable than the beta. My point is that everyone reporting their conflicting performance experiences are 1) almost all relaying subjective experiences, and 2) reinforcing that the RC process is serving its intended purpose as the equivalent of a shakedown cruise. I will also freely admit that I am being subjective too since I am not backing up my experience with numbers....Stephen

I'm rockin' the large icons on taskbar (<3 them), but I've used small icons in start menu since XP (much more space and looks better too :P)Regards, Kristaps.

I can only add toolbars on the one screen on my dual display (Nvidia GF 8600 GTS). It would be great if the taskbar/toolbars could be stretched to span both screens but this does not seem possible You can do this with a 3rd-party application - the most notable is UltraMon, but there are many other alternatives ;) And I don't see MS implementing this any time soon.Regards, Kristaps.

... 2. (xp home) and (64-bit 7) in this case, the 7 is faster ... Winrar 64 bit integrated benchmark shows that Win 7 64 bit runs 10% slower than winrar 32 bit on XP 32 bit SP3

When I try downloading the x64 version via technet, it takes 1 second and the downloaded iso is empty! Win 7 is about Speed and Simplicity. (Sorry, could not resist :)

The Games folder should go back to what it was in Vista. Now it is just a crippled version of what it used to be since there is no way to add games or edit settings. It is also inconsisten since you can add things to the folder in the programs menu but they won't show upin games if you havegames as a separate item on your start menu.

Hi,I am a network Administrator of a network with 2500 roaming users using Mandatory Profiles and folder redirection. We have an enterprise site license for Microsoft products so they are all we use.I have been asked to test Windows 7 in a Domain Environment. We chose not to upgrade to Vista for many reasons (below) despite having the licenses to do so.Currently we are running Windows 2003 server and Windows XP workstations.From just 4 hours working with Windows 7 in a Domain Environment I have some comments with regards to backwards compatability. These issues werearound with Vista and have not been repaired with Windows 7.1> Documents Folder is not on the Desktop and thereis noway to do this. With Windows XP my users have access to My Documents on the Desktop. I have 2500 users roaming all using the same mandatory profile so a shortcut won't work. Users home directories are on 5 different servers in many different folders.2> Users can access and save to their profile directory.Profile foldersare not seen in Windows XP. BecauseWindows 7moved all the folders outside of the Documents Folder they give access to see the users profile folders. We don't want them saving there because it is deleted on logoff (mandatory profiles)3> Any settings made in RSAT make the Group Policy objectun-editable byWindows 2003 server. This is a big issue for backwards compatability.4> Windows Search has been changed from a great search engine to something that doesn't even search anything except what is indexed. With roaming users files on the server aren't indexed so basically search is useless.5> Document Libraries don't work in a Domain environment. I cannot do offine file caching with 4GB home directories and to index them would be ridiculous.6> No file types tab so I cannot change per computer what users use to open documents unless I hack the registry7> No logoff on the Start Menu. Users don't have access to shutdown but I NEED that Logoff very clearly on the start menu so users can logoff.8> Windows 7 doesn't ask to join a domain on install.9> The LIGHT Blue/Grey colour scheme is terrible. It makes it so difficult to see what file is selected with the light blue highlight and no way to change it. This is the same with Vista. I go to "Windows Color" and it won't change anything regardless of settings. Changing the background takes away the theme. It is very limiting.10> The Quicktask Toolbar is gone and the Show Desktop has gone too. I actually liked the Windows Switcher in Vista.So basically we may have to switch OS. Windows 7 was not designed for a Domain Environment.lforbes

I can only add toolbars on the one screen on my dual display (Nvidia GF 8600 GTS). It would be great if the taskbar/toolbars could be stretched to span both screens but this does not seem possible You can do this with a 3rd-party application - the most notable is UltraMon, but there are many other alternatives ;) And I don't see MS implementing this any time soon. Regards, Kristaps. Thanks, I did not know that. $40 to span the taskbar across both screens when this should be built into Windows 7. I suppose I could find a freeware alternative but I shouldn't have to. Nice to try out Windows 7 for free though cos I would have been really annoyed if I had paid for it.

Please remove the explanation page which is printed when you are printing on both sides. 9 times out of 10, I am printing this way just to spare some paper. I can't stand my printer printing one more sheet each time. Just put those instructions on screen, print that sheet the first time only or even remove that at all and leave the user without instructions - still better that printing that damn sheet each time!This was also in the beta. Maybe also in Vista (owned that), but in any case this is a good occasion to remove that!EDIT: Lol, I got a word censored for misspelling "sheet". To foreigners this kind of mistake may well happen... :-D EDIT: I really like the new login screen, much more than the beta, but I agree that it should be made a bit darker. The same image or a very similar one, but made a bit darker, would be the best. Consider yourself fortunate that you are able to print! I, and apparently many others, have not yet been able to get drivers for our ancient printers (HP LaserJet 2200d in my case) to download and/or install. While I can say that otherwise I have had absolutely no other issues with the RC, seeing the printer share (fromWindows Homw Server, whereall the file shares and backup functions work) but not finding or being able to install the drivers could be a major upgrade killer.

I would just like to point out a couple of possible bugs. 1) Why is it that if you want to pin folders of you choice to the Windows Explorer Jump list on the TASK BAR, you have to turn on show recent programs in the START MENU? Changing the show recently opened files on the task bar does nothing it is connected to the start menu. 2) I still regularly (~50%) find that when I wake my computer from sleep the fingerprint reader will not respond. I swipe and nothing happens, no error no response at all. I have to use my password. It never happens on reboot, only on resume from sleep.

TASKBAR:I greatly prefer the USE SMALL ICONS setting. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca I beleive developers should be more considerate for people who have many appz pinned to the taskbar. I find the current navigation mechanism a bit inefficient when the taskbar length cant hold all the appz and need to create an icon for you to navigate to the next bunch of icons. And for inspiration, I humbly suggest the ipod interface :-) Not: You cant move icons from the second set to the first set. Kind of odd! This is why MS needs to add the option to enable Quick Launch.If you pin all your commonly used programs to the task bar it becomes a mess! With Quick Launch, the icons will appear in a pop-up menu from the Task Bar. That way you can pin just a few of your programs to the task bar and the rest would go to Quick Launch. Sure you could switch to small icons, but small icons are way to small for use on a laptop screen.

The Start Menu only takes up a samll section of screen real estate. I think you can enlarge the fonts within the Start menu by another4 points. Less eye strain.

I LOVE the QUICK LAUNCH! I have forced it to ALL machines I have worked on in dozens of companies since its inception in IE4.I am still trying the new bar but I have three concerns:1: the default setting takes up too much real estate2: I much prefer the "look" of the small icons because it makes the START BUTTON more stylized (because it is poking out above the bar)3: The Vista-7 upgrade process removed all the icons from the Quick Launch Bar - this was a real problem for me because I had several custom apps I had written which only had short cuts in the Quick Launch and several of those had custom switches which I had forgotten about - recreating the short cuts was a real problem for me - the upgrade process needs to address this (perhaps moving the QLauch icons to a folder on the Desktop...) - or they could just let me re-enable it. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

When I try downloading the x64 version via technet, it takes 1 second and the downloaded iso is empty! Win 7 is about Speed and Simplicity. (Sorry, could not resist :) LOL speed, simplicity and files that mean nothing! Tried the same with the x86 download and same result. Ah well at least we have consistency :)

My findings when I compare the RC version with the Beta version :1. Performance : The RC 7100 versions feels a lot less responsive than the Beta 7000 version. Itfeels slower, and reminds me of Vista.I liked the Beta version a lot more.2. In the RC version I have a problemwith the mouse that I did not have with the Beta version.The mouse freezes randomly for about a second. When this happens, the mouse is lagging behind the movement that I make with it. Very disturbing.RegardsPicsou

First, bugs or mistakes that remained unfixed from build 7000: 1. On a vertical taskbar, the Start Menu still pops up on top of the taskbar instead of next to it, like it does when it's horizontal. 2. The desktop background chooser needs a search box. Otherwise all of my diligent tagging is for naught. 3. Standard "color picker" remains terrible and outdated. At the very least, needs an eyedropper tool that can pick colors from any pixel on the screen. Custom colors are not useful either, as they never persist across multiple uses (when their parent app closes). 4. The Navigation and Details pane in Windows Exploer still takes cursor focus. This is never useful. When you click on a location in the nav pane, the very next thing you want to do is move around or scroll in the contents pane. When the nav pane takes focus, it adds a confusing second selection cursor, and prevents mousewheel or arrowkey navigation from working. 5. If I select more than 15 files in Windows Explorer, I can't see details unless I click "Show more details" in the details pane. Every time the selection changes, I have to click the same link again to see details. (The fact that the details pane is visible should be indication enough that I want it to display details!) Also, in combination with #4 above, clicking that link sticks focus in the details pane, preventing me from "shift-arrowkey" selecting more files without returning focus back to the contents pane---a task that's very tricky to do without losing the current selection. 6. Explorer's details pane shows info inconsistently. Depending on which filetype is selected, the same property (such as file size) will be in a different location, which makes browsing through details of a bunch of files more difficult than it should be. 7. The "Open command window here" option that appears in explorer's shift-rightclick menu needs to use admin privilages, considering most uses of a command line are going to require them. Even if it prompts a UAC window, it'll still be quicker than going through "start menu search -> cmd -> rightclick -> run as admin". Otherwise it won't be a very useful shortcut. New issues: 1. If an instance of a pinned program (pinned the the taskbar, that is) is already open, and you shift-drag a file onto it, the new program windo will open underneath, and in the same location, as the current window. So if notepad is open and you shift-drag a file onto its taskbar icon, the new window won't appear because it's perfectly covered up by the first notepad window. Suggestions: 1. Common features that use keyboard modifiers should get more mouse button equivalents. For example, I always middle-click taskbar icons rather than shift-click them to open new instances of a program. The shift-drag to "open with" a taskbar program could also use mouse button equivalen (middle-button-drag, for instance). Same goes for "ctrl-enter" or "ctrl-doubleclick" for opening a directory in a new explorer window. 2. The "Install Failed" dialog could use some extra clarification. There is an option for "program installed correctly" and "program install failed, retry it", but the option for "I cancelled installation on purpose" is absent. The cancel or red-X buttons serve that purpose, but someone less computer savvy might get confused. 3. Windows Explorer needs some way to access Windows Live Photo Gallery database of tags. I've tagged PNG and GIF files right along side JPGs, but because those files don't contain their tag info like JPGs do, the tagging is invisible to any other program, including Explorer, which makes tag searches difficult.

Hi, I am a network Administrator of a network with 2500 roaming users using Mandatory Profiles and folder redirection. We have an enterprise site license for Microsoft products so they are all we use. I have been asked to test Windows 7 in a Domain Environment. We chose not to upgrade to Vista for many reasons (below) despite having the licenses to do so. 6> No file types tab so I cannot change per computer what users use to open documents unless I hack the registry 7> No logoff on the Start Menu. Users don't have access to shutdown but I NEED that Logoff very clearly on the start menu so users can logoff. 9> The LIGHT Blue/Grey colour scheme is terrible. It makes it so difficult to see what file is selected with the light blue highlight and no way to change it. This is the same with Vista. I go to "Windows Color" and it won't change anything regardless of settings. Changing the background takes away the theme. It is very limiting. 10> The Quicktask Toolbar is gone and the Show Desktop has gone too. I actually liked the Windows Switcher in Vista. So basically we may have to switch OS. Windows 7 was not designed for a Domain Environment. lforbes I suppose you didnt take enough time to test it. 6) no file types tab where, in folder options ? did you tried control panel -> programs-> "make a files always open in a specific program" LINK under "Default programs" area ? 7) did you tried to right click the taskbar, open start menu tab, and change the power button action setting ? 9) dont know what ar you talking about what is difficult to see. 10) show desktop : did you tried clicking on that little vertical button at the right of the taskbar ? my suggestion is to get back to testing and get use the help system, maybe it will show solutions for other problems too. and come back only with the existing problems :) 2. I belive that you should consider to offer XP Mode also for Home and Home Premium, even if as a BUY option . Reasons ? Well there are a lot of people working at home - so they probably would like having also Media center on the computer, or just they don't need encryption and other stuff in Professional and don't want to buy Ultimate. Also Ultimate is definitelly out of questions when speaking about companies. But some small companies may consider to use Home licences on their computers, but may need XP Mode. I can give as example my company using about 50 XP Home licences, instead of XP Pro, just because it's cheaper and we don't need the extra facilities from Pro. Agree. Looks like MS is breaking bits of legacy compatibility with each new windows, so at least this should be. I think it should be free at least for home premium and include support for accelerated video hardware. altough direct compatibility in win7 would be the best.

Hi,I am a network Administrator of a network with 2500 roaming users using Mandatory Profiles and folder redirection. We have an enterprise site license for Microsoft products so they are all we use.I have been asked to test Windows 7 in a Domain Environment. We chose not to upgrade to Vista for many reasons (below) despite having the licenses to do so.Currently we are running Windows 2003 server and Windows XP workstations.From just 4 hours working with Windows 7 in a Domain Environment I have some comments with regards to backwards compatability. These issues werearound with Vista and have not been repaired with Windows 7.1> Documents Folder is not on the Desktop and thereis noway to do this. With Windows XP my users have access to My Documents on the Desktop. I have 2500 users roaming all using the same mandatory profile so a shortcut won't work. Users home directories are on 5 different servers in many different folders.2> Users can access and save to their profile directory.Profile foldersare not seen in Windows XP. BecauseWindows 7moved all the folders outside of the Documents Folder they give access to see the users profile folders. We don't want them saving there because it is deleted on logoff (mandatory profiles)3> Any settings made in RSAT make the Group Policy objectun-editable byWindows 2003 server. This is a big issue for backwards compatability.4> Windows Search has been changed from a great search engine to something that doesn't even search anything except what is indexed. With roaming users files on the server aren't indexed so basically search is useless.5> Document Libraries don't work in a Domain environment. I cannot do offine file caching with 4GB home directories and to index them would be ridiculous.6> No file types tab so I cannot change per computer what users use to open documents unless I hack the registry7> No logoff on the Start Menu. Users don't have access to shutdown but I NEED that Logoff very clearly on the start menu so users can logoff.8> Windows 7 doesn't ask to join a domain on install.9> The LIGHT Blue/Grey colour scheme is terrible. It makes it so difficult to see what file is selected with the light blue highlight and no way to change it. This is the same with Vista. I go to "Windows Color" and it won't change anything regardless of settings. Changing the background takes away the theme. It is very limiting.10> The Quicktask Toolbar is gone and the Show Desktop has gone too. I actually liked the Windows Switcher in Vista.So basically we may have to switch OS. Windows 7 was not designed for a Domain Environment. lforbes I think I can help you out with some of those concerns..1.) Noted.. That's a definite issue - tho you can always create a shortcut to My Documents and pop it on the desktop.7.) You can, in fact,change the default action of the Shut Down button to "Log Off" - Click the start Orb, Right click on a bare spot on the start menu and click Properties. You should see the default action drop down right there on top of the Start Menu tab. Click Log Off and Apply. Problem solved.10.) QuickLanuch isn't entirely gone - more like it's been blended in with the main task bar. You can pin most apps to the task bar as you would in QuickLaunch and run the app directly from there. Show Desktop has been modified significantly and been moved. If you move the mouse to the bottom right corner of the desktop, everything gets minimized temporarily so you can see your desktop. If you CLICK on that area, all windows are minimized and you can access the gadgets or desktop directly. If you click on it again, that will restore the windows minimized previously.

Please consider including ReplayGain in WMP12 (used to "normalize" the volume of music across a collection of tracks). I have used Winamp for years, which supports ReplayGain (as does several other Media players) but I REALLY like the WMP12 in Windows 7, except that my rather large collection of music with all its ReplayGain values already calculated will be of no use in WMP12; it calculates its own proprietary form of volume normalization and overwrites the existing ReplayGain tags in the mp3-file with something that makes nonsense to Winamp and other media players that use ReplayGain, thereby screwing up my music collection... :-(

I wish there were a way to designate certain media (recorded TV shows, videos, music, etc) as only viewable by certain members of the family by using a rating system (i.e. G, PG, PG-13, R, XXX, etc). So when little 7 year old Susie signs onto the computer to watch her media, the computer will know she is age 7 and only show her media rated G and PG. The media could be user-rated or, in the case of recorded TV shows, network rated. The existing parental controls is a good 1st step, which I think is already available in Vista. However, it's okay if you have one kid or have kids that are about the same age. But what if you have a 5 year old and 15 year old. What the 15 year old is allowed to watch and listen isn't the same as the adults in the house but it's more than what the 5 year old can watch and listen. That's why I'd like to see much more than 2 types of accounts in Media Center: full access and limited. Plus the multiple user account system would be a great way to filter out media. My wife may record "Desperate Housewives" and other shows I'd never want to watch. It would be great if you can tag and associate a show with user account(s). Therefore, when I sign into my Media Center account, I can simply view the media that interests me. However, if I wish to view ALL media that may not be tagged to my user account (and I have the proper permissions to do so), then I should be able to un-filter my media so I can see ALL media that is available - not just the media I am usually interested in. Another great feature of using multiple accounts is that you could sync your media better. For example, let's say I start watching a show in the living room. Then I stop it and go to the bed room to continue to watch it on a Media Center extender. When I go to the bedroom, I sign into my user account and it continues where I left off. I get tired and decide to stop the the TV show. In the morning, I sync my Zune and watch the rest of the show during my commute. Because my Zune is synced to my user account, when I start watching the TV show on my Zune, it starts where I last left off in my bedroom. Likewise, let's say during these 2 days that I was watching the show, my kid wishes to watch the same show. Because they have a different user account, they don't start where I left off, nor do they mess up my bookmarked position of the TV show. They have their own separate viewing bookmark associated with their user account. Furthermore, let's say when I finish watching my TV show, I decide to delete the TV show. However, my child is still watching the show unbeknown to me. Media Center should be smart enough to know to ask if I really wish to delete the show, because my child is 55% done watching the TV show. As you can see from the scenarios I laid out, the multiple user account would be a more refined user experience. Windows 7 should always attempt to take Media Center a step further. (Originally started at this thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/c985a012-3a1c-4eae-9732-f25071cbf874 )

SERVICES: Descriptions of Services still require power users to use other source to find out what actually each service is responsible for and what would happen if one was disabled. Please improve the descriptions of services so one would know what exactly will happen / stop working if he or she disabled Service X. GUI: Ugly without Aero - it would be nice to have an option for XP-style interface. It also just seems a bit too 'fat' compared to XP. Performance: Ok this is just horrible, 1+ second pause to change the META tag information in one MP3 file through explorer. BUG: After unplugging wallpaper slideshow thing changes once more then stops instead of just stopping. (I selected to stop it from shuffling wallpapers when in Power Saver) BUG 2: Defragmenter scheduled to run every week on an SSD. SEARCH: Can you guys put ALOT of options into the search window? I mean it is empty and there is a lot of space! How about something similar to Classic Search for XP? I would, for example, would like the Search to not search libraries and search My Computer for Hidden and System Files and without meta tags/ file information - I would love to have these settings easily accessible in the W7 Search. Performance 2: Searching my computer for *.mp3 takes forever compared to XP - do you guys search for files and scan those files for information at the same time ? If I am right, then please add an option to search for files THEN search in-files. It is just pathetically slow compared to XP - XP can display all .mp3 files on my computer in a matter of 10 seconds - Windows 7 is much slower then that. (I have 7,229 mp3s on my SSD). Thanks! :) MMC: It would be nice to have more Group Policies and stuff in the MMC applet. QuickLaunch: Where is it? And the pinned buttons for WMP / Explorer / Whateverelse - they move - where is an options to keep pineed programs to the left next to the start orb? Size: This thing is huge guys. Seriously huge. Not that SSD friendly because of that. Hardlinks: Ok, Windows 7 uses hardlinks here and there but why isn't there options for me - the user - the admin - to use Hardlinks? NTFS Permissions: Why in the world do you do that messing with permissions? It took me some time to understand why I could not delete sertain W7 files. OffTopic: Another thing that I do not get is the ability to remove IE8 but then have no access to some Microsoft's sites. Someone somewhere did not think this through.

The mp3 search issue is interesting. I did a search of a much smaller number of mp3s and it did take a remarkably long time. I then, however, did a search for word present in either the title or contents of more than 12,000 files on my local drive, external drives, and network conenction (all linked into libraries) and it finished in a few seconds. Stephen

Please re-enable the ability to detach toolbars from the taskbar. In XP I would have several "quick bars" toolbars on the side of my screen for utilities, office applications, games, etc... I set those bars to "always on top" and could instantly launch my favorite programs without mucking up the taskbar. It is the only thing I'm really missing (*BADLY*) in Windows 7 RC. If not drag-n-drop, a menu option (similar to the taskbar) that allows you to dock the toolbar to the bottom/left/right/top of the screen. This was possible in Vista also, but the Aero glass didn't work on it. I could care less about aesthetics and just want the option to customize the location of toolbars back. Thanks!

I've been using the 64-bit RC for a few days now and it's not what I expected. I have not installed the beta that many people praised, so I waited for the RC hoping it's ok. SO, when it was available I grabbed the 64-bit version and did a fresh install. I have an E6600 with 2GB RAM and an 8GB usb stick I use for readyboost. memory wise it's smooth as silk. cpu wise it's a mess. if I hit refresh in IE8 it goes to 25%. if I open task manager it goes to 90%. opening applications usually takes the cpu to 90% also. this NEVER happenned with VISTA 64-bit. I know I don't have the fastest cpu out there but I oced it to 3GHz (from 2.4)and while it's a better overall performance, cpu spikes are still present. I mainly use the computer for editing text and screenshots as I post many news related to games. I use ACDsee for batch conversion and optimisation of files and it works great. if the cpu spikes are sorted out, then I think this will become my main OS. I also do lots of archiving with winrar and it feels a little bit faster which is cool. overall, I'm pleased. I'd just like those cpu spikes sorted out.if the overall feeling is positive, here's a list of things I don't like or things I'd like to see improved:- instead of having shutdown or restart besides the search bar when I press start, I'd like to be able to set it to start screensaver. I use the computer at home. there's no one to mess with it and I also don't like to set the screensaver to start after 5 minutes of inactivity, so the possibility to immediately start the screensaver could be a nice thing to have.- dragging icons ondesktop with aero disabled(use visual styles on windows and buttons unchecked). bug?I keep windows with a classic interface as I never likedaero and all those 'cool' features (and I hate I cannot disable window preview from taskbarin the classic theme of windows 7). the first thingI do after installing any MS OS is to choose a classic theme, black backgroung and black mouse pointers and uncheck everything but smooth fonts from the visual effects tab. now, when I drag an icon on the desktop, I cannot see it and I do not understand why. all I see is the mouse pointer which turns back white (the horror!!!) and a small rectangular box.- pinning'my computer' to taskbar just opens libraries. bug? there was nothing I could do to set that icon to actually open my computer instead of libraries. I know HomeGroup is a new feature and libraries go in sync with it, but I just don't use them yet as I don't have Windows 7 on multiple computers. so, when pinning my computer to taskbar, please set it to actuallyopen 'my computer' or at least give us the option to open whatever location we want.- hovering with the mouse over taskbar generates a preview in classic interface (I've already mentioned it with the dragging icon problem). I would like an option to disable that.- there is no Run. well, there is but you have to mess with the local group policy editor. thanks MS!oh, an elevated command prompt link in accesories at least could have saved me the pain of creating one and I think many people need it. just put one in the accesories section so people could pin it or drag it to desktop if they want it. another idea would be to have a Power Tools sectionwhereone could find links to the group policy, services, elevated command prompt, computer management, dxdiag and other, usually hidden, handy tools. if you are afraid ppl will use them without knowing what they're actually doing, then just have these power tools section/link not installed by default. who wants it could go to programsandfeatures -> turn windows features on or off and install them from there after the windows installation has completed.this is a one time procedure, it's quick andcould get us all the tools we actually need inone place.PSI love the sticky notes. I hate writing HTML codein the news, soI keep some presets in a sticky note. this option really saves me a lot (I hated keeping a notepad window open all the time).

- pinning'my computer' to taskbar just opens libraries. bug? there was nothing I could do to set that icon to actually open my computer instead of libraries. I know HomeGroup is a new feature and libraries go in sync with it, but I just don't use them yet as I don't have Windows 7 on multiple computers. so, when pinning my computer to taskbar, please set it to actuallyopen 'my computer' or at least give us the option to open whatever location we want. - there is no Run. Rightclick the explorer task icon, rightclick "windows explorer", properties. Set target to: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d} The Win+E hotkey will also follow the same target once you set this. The start menu search bar is a command line itself, FYI. But if you really need a separate "Run" button, the option is right there in "Customize Start Menu" window. It's a checkbox. Win+R still works whether or not it's in the Start Menu, of course.

Hi,I just discovered a small bug, that was confirmed by some other users as well. Here's the deal:I created a shortcut to a game executable on my Desktop. I then tried to cut and paste it into the Games special folder (the one on the start menu). I did this by selecting the shortcut, pressing Ctrl+X, clicking on Start Menu -> Games, and then Ctrl+V to paste it. The shortcut was pasted all right, but the original shortcut was still there on my Desktop, albeit a bittransparent out,which meantit was waiting for me to paste it somewhere else.The original thread for this is here -> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/9fdb2f75-beec-443a-b6b0-ff471dba0c0f/#08801dec-2722-475d-97ff-470a0e4884e7If someone can just look into it, I'll be grateful.The Tech Nut

There seems to be a small bug with the windows previews. If you minimize a window and hover over its icon on the taskbar, you dont get an updated preview but you rather are presented with a previous preview. It would be quite usefull to get an updated preview. For instance, if you want to quickly check who is online on your messenger list, it is important to have an updated preview. Or lets say you are running a calculation and you want to know whether it is completed you would like to be presented with an updated preview.

It might just be a driver problem, but every time my computer goes to sleep it "bluescreens" and restarts. The bluescreen is so quick I could not read it (and the monitor is off and takes about 15 sec to turn back on.)

irfanbulu...open your Control Panel -> System, select Advanced system settings from the left column, select 'Settings' under Performance, and under the Visual Effects tab, deselect 'Save taskbar thumbnail preview' from the list of options.

irfanbulu...open your Control Panel -> System, select Advanced system settings from the left column, select 'Settings' under Performance, and under the Visual Effects tab, deselect 'Save taskbar thumbnail preview' from the list of options. thanks for digging it up :-) But it didnt solve the problem.

SERVICES: Descriptions of Services still require power users to use other source to find out what actually each service is responsible for and what would happen if one was disabled. Please improve the descriptions of services so one would know what exactly will happen / stop working if he or she disabled Service X. Gosh. I'd like to see a whole thread dedicated to this topic. Heck, my screename might even do a backflip.

Here are things that I have found that I do not like (although Ihave hada generally good experience).It seems thatmany peoplehereare saying thingsthat I agree with.Invert select - I use it all the time. Please put it back in.Explorer Status bar - I use it all the time. Terse, helpful information. Please make it optional, just like it was in Windows XP and Windows Vista.Persistent selection in Explorer - I use it all the time. Why should changing sort order reset selection? Please fix this - it worked properly in Vista.Inability to trust specified application. For security sake,allow admin usersto mark a specific application as trusted, irrespective of whether the application is signed. There are way too many legacy applications that will never be signed and will take many years to disappear. Without this ability, users will turn off UAC.

I am a bit both ways on this.Yes - I have had my share of click / doh combinations. However, if you dumb things down, users get dumber.No - I am not just being cute, this is the result of a considerable amount of research around the world. The safer you make cars, the more dnagerously people drive. The more idiot proof you make things, the more idiotic people using them behave.We didn't learn not to walk off cliffs by there always being a guard-rail on every cliff edge.Basically, we need to take responsibility for our actions. The argument "we should be asked to confirm" could equally be extended to "why not ask the person to confirm that they meant to say that they were sure". That was the big problem with Vista - it asked you something 3 times (in some cases) before it actually did what you want.That says to me "less is good".However, I tend to often work when I am tired, and that is when I make mistakes. Perhaps the occasional hand-rail is not such a bad idea...Best of all, why not let the user decide (like a "Do not ask for confirmation again" tick box), and a Control Panel gadget to let you reset to default.Paul S AdamsSenior Software EngineerRomteck Pty Ltd

I posted this on the main Misc. forum, too, but was told to also place it here for better attention by developers.After having and reading several complaints about this problem, I can state that there a two serious problem with this (RC) version of MCE:1) MCE doesn't find the first four TV channels (10.1-10.4) which seem to belong to MPEG2 coded TV. As this problem arises in such different places as Portland, OR, New Zealand, Estonia and Germany, it doesn't look like a regional thing.2) MCE doesn't recognize a connected tuner all the time. There are exceptions but success or failure seem completely random. (ErrorCode 0xc0040597)As I suspected, the underlying problem seems to be the cooperation between the BDA drivers (manufacturer's or not) and the supporting subsystem of Win7. So, a temporary solution can be, as reported in some threads, to replace the Win7 files BDASUP.SYS and/or USBEHCI.SYS (for USB devices) in the \windows\system32\drivers section with the same files from Vista. I can't check it myself for now but it seems to work in some, if not all cases.I'd be glad if there were any feedback on this suggestion (not to speak of any comments from the Win7 developers' side). Mob. AMD64 3000+, 1 G RAM, Mob. ATIRadeon9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

irfanbulu...open your Control Panel -> System, select Advanced system settings from the left column, select 'Settings' under Performance, and under the Visual Effects tab, deselect 'Save taskbar thumbnail preview' from the list of options. interesting. I also thought about checking this and there is no such option to check/uncheck under the Visual Effects tab. is it because I have the classic theme instead of aero or is a bug?

Internet Explorer 8 and Windows 7 RC1 crashes when watching live streaming on BBC Sport's F1 Grand Prix coverage. Screen goes blank and unresponsive and had to restart computer. This never happens with Vista.

I can effectively disable search by selecting Don't search other files and libraries and deselecting Search programs and Control Panel. But having done so, the search box stillsteals the focus when I open the start menu. Surely this is a bug?Another act of kindness to keyboard users would be an option to give pinned programs priority when responding to characters in the start menu. In fact if the search box didn't have focus on opening the start menu, there would be no need to disable iit in the first place.Suppose I have pinned the program My Program to the start menu. In theclassic start menu I can simply typeWin M to start this - assuming that there is only one program beginning with M, otherwise Win M Enter.In Windows 7 I have to type Win Tab M M Enter, or Win Tab M if I remove Music from the righthand center pane. This is a minor annoyance: what's truly irritating is that if I accidentally type Win M then the seach results pane overwrites the entire start menu. I then have to to type Esc Tab to escape this.I appreciate that this not a major failing, but itis a conspicuous one - one that will annoy me every working day until I get used to being that little bit less efficient or adapt in other ways.From a usability perspective, I think Microsoft have got their start menu priorities in exactly the wrong order. Items I have pinned myself should have priority: thenprograms and recent documents. The search box should come last.

I posted this on the main Misc. forum, too, but was told to also place it here for better attention by developers. Yes, it would be REALLY good if the developers pay ANY attention to what is beeing said here... So far, I think they are not.

I also tried the beta which was horrible. The messenger would not work also the media player would not play anything. Whenever these programmes were accessed the keyboard and mouse froze and a restart was necessary.The RC is superb and works flawlessly. No crashes or freezing. It's fast and trouble free. There are no compatability issues of hardware and software on my Laptop ( Dell Vostro 1500,1.6 Core2DuoProcessor and 2 GB Ram )or my desktop which is an older Dell 3.0 with 4 GB Ram.Microsoft has done well with Windows 7, just cannot wait for the final version.FaridKarachi Pakistan

well, as my request has nothing to do with GUI changes (that matter seems to be obsolete at this stage) but with just the problems developers should be interested in right now (hw/swcompatibility issues), i have a bit more hope on reactions. at least, their goal is to avoid the same mistakes as with the first vista releases (only few hw/sw working well). time will show. Mob. AMD64 3000+, 1 G RAM, Mob. ATIRadeon9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

New Windows Live Bug: Now it's the turn of WL Mail (again CD bug): http://img194.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mailcd.jpg

I would like to see the ability to shuffle by album in Windows Media Player. That may be the last thing keeping me tied to iTunes.

I posted this issue in the Media forum but after getting no work arounds the Moderator suggested I repost it here as an FYI to the dev team:After upgrading Vista 64 Ult to Windows 7 RC1 I was surprised to find I had to setup my XBox360 connection again because the connection (yes, it was wired) was VERY flakey and during that process 7 told me it was going to modify my Power Management settings. I naturally assumed it would set the machine to do everything except SLEEP or HIBERNATE. Apparently that was wrong, the machine went to sleep and did not wake up to record shows or when the XBox tried to connect to it... very annoying.I have corrected the power mgt settings and I THINK all is well. This worked perfectly under Vista... it should have been seemless under 7.http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/00889ea1-6496-4a6a-b53c-b459684015a3 Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

MSNBC (BETA) in Vista is gone.Is this coming back? I LOVED this feature and used it extensively.I also loved the COMEDY CENTRAL "channel"under earlier versions of Vista.These apps had problems, but none of them appeared incermountable. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

AERO SNAP IS TOO SENSITIVEI find Aero Snap gets in my way far more often than it helps me and I think it will annoy standard users if it stays in its current form. I found that disabling it is burried http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-aero-snap-in-windows-7/.Two suggestions:1: Set SNAP to only occur if the window is held in place for a second or two (this time could be configurable through a UI).2: Make the process to disable snap require fewer clicks. I would expect it to be under Display Properties not under Accessibility Settings. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

BUG REPORT: Entries appearing and disappearing from Start menu when reorganisingWhen dragging and dropping the programs pinned to my Start menu to reorganise them, several of them keep disappearing.In particular, drag one of the entries to the bottom of the list and release the mouse button. Several of the entries above it on the Start menu will disappear.Drag some of the remaining entries up and down. Sometimes more entries will disappear, sometimes some or all of them will reappear.Even when they have "disappeared", the system still thinks they are pinned to the Start menu - if you navigate to them via All Programs and right-click on them, you are given the option to "Unpin from Start menu", even though they aren't visible on the Start menu at that time.Note that I have most of these programs pinned to the taskbar as well.Anybody else got this problem? Moderator: is there any more information you need for the bug report?Thack

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/30f013b3-076b-4dc2-b493-b2b997584d87I posted this in the correct forum but the moderator thought I should repost here:START BUTTON SEARCH NOT RETURNING CORRECT RESPONSES (see link above for details):After rebuilding again, and re-re-reconfirming that Outlook is "checked" in the search options, I stopped the SEARCH service, deleted the search file (C:\PROGRAMDATA\WINDOWS\SEARCH from memory) and then used REBUILD. The SEARCH service would only stay off and disabled for a few seconds so I had to work fast.The result is the same. Not only do I not get Outlook content but the search nearly always returns the same results under each category. Very odd: Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

not sure who else runs into this, but upon waking from screen saver after set between 10-20 minute delay, the whole OS freezes needing a hard restart, no task manager or anything, only option is to cut power to tower then power back on, sleep mode has no problem though, but I can recreate screen saver freeze with the 10-20 minute delay set at anytime with the same results, just thought I'd give my two cents and see if this was already an issue, but as for what I need Windows for, I love it

LAST ONE FOR NOW :)http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/8b5a0e14-bb03-4e57-8787-bd2b41ce4557PLEASE PLEASE bring back network animation and change the "plugged in" network icon from a pitch fork. Ian Matthews www.commodore.ca

Also i would like to mention that there is no Windows Media Player toolbar in Windows 7 - when mousehovering the running wmp button, there are back, pause and forward buttons but no way to change volume fast or to watch visualization in a mini-window. Therefor the functionality of wmp has been reduced compared to Vista.

I like the release candidate, feels like a more polished, tweaked, tamed, speedier Vista (no bad thing) and I love the taskbar/pinning (it should have been in Vista to be honest), it makes me so much more productive when I am working on lots of things at once with lots of apps open. Had no real problems so far with compatibility. There are 2 things I dislike about Windows 7 though. 1) "my " prefix begone! The confusing -partial- reintroduction of the childish "my" prefix in user directories - vista had this right by nuking "my this" "my that" completely, I don't know why it's returned in partial form for windows 7. When you are quickly glancing at a user folder in vista my mind goes "music...documents....videos" when I glance at it on XP I just see "my my my my" I started using the user directory more and more with vista since it made more sense..... but now with Windows 7... this prefix is back for some of the folders, Please, please fix this back. 2) Tiny graphical design issue.... the search box on the start menu looks worse than on vista. A minor thing, but when I first clicked Windows 7 start bar, it stood out like a sore thumb, I actually thought it was a graphics driver glitch at first. It looks like a web page's search box now and not a integrated part of aero like it was on Vista. I think if i had never used Vista it would look OK, but it's strange that something looks uglier than it did on the previous version.

it would be nice to be able to set the background color, border thickness, transparency and the font color for the jump-lists. I can imagine a black transparent background with solid white fonts for the jumplists...that would look quite cool on a desktop background image with red colors :-)

It might just be a driver problem, but every time my computer goes to sleep it "bluescreens" and restarts. The bluescreen is so quick I could not read it (and the monitor is off and takes about 15 sec to turn back on.) Same here.

Therefor the functionality of wmp has been reduced compared to Vista. Yes, and the functionality of Windows Explorer has been reduced compared to Windows XP. (big reduction on this one) And the "Image importer" when you plug a digital camera has been reduced compared to XP. And the "Classic Start Menu" has been cut out. And the "Network activity" icon has been cut out, reduced from XP. But, we have new things! The terrible "Auto arrange" feature (new, from XP) that I can not disable! The UAC = User Annoyance Center, that dont let me "trust" a software, and keeps asking the same things again again again again again again again again again .... The "Aero Snap" that dont let me position a window near the top of the screen WITHOUT maximizing it. Very nice! I love improvement! But, if Windows 7 is so good in other areas, (security, compatibilty, memory use) why they cant fix the minor annoyances?

Hey Warel,Have you noticed that all your posts are complaints; I gather you've made your point now. This forum is read (yes, even by people from Microsoft).

The network setup .....If I choose Work Place network, the defaults seemed to (on two computers) be pretty much set for Isolate this computer from the network. I was required to manualy change all the setting to allow the computer to participate in the Local Network.This just seems to be (if it is real) an odd choice for the defaults, when Work Place Network is choosen.

Hey Warel, Have you noticed that all your posts are complaints; I gather you've made your point now. This forum is read (yes, even by people from Microsoft). Yes, I noticed, thanks. Now, did you really read my older posts, like the ones in Beta time? I always said Microsoft is doing a amazing job with windows 7. I said I like the system very much, but, if I am complaining is only because the annoyances prevent this system from being really great. and I know microsoft can fix it. But they are in such a rush to bury the Vista brand, that they can finish having a similar problem with Windows 7, and I would not like if that happens (again). As I already said, dont take me wrong, I like ths system, but I really wanted to see someone in Microsoft (in a Engineering windows blog, maybe) to say why they are simple moving on, doing a RC and letting behind little bugs that exist since Vista and since W7 beta. My point is exactly this: I want this system to be great, so, if it is "only" good I will keep posting. After all, they are the top software company in the world. They CAN do better.

I liked the Beta version a lot better than the new RC release. It was a pain to make a clean install. It did not install the email program? I finally logged into Windows Live I think it was and low and behold, I could download mail and several other items. Who was the genius tha hid the mail program. How many dummies will ever find it there? Why wasn't it installed automatically as it has been in every version of Windows since day one? Then I found some menu changes in setting up the email; hence, it jammed my att server and I had to get a new email address as they could not reset my password in the att server after trying for two day. I am dumping the RC; you can have it. I liked the Beta version. I've been with computers ever since they were on mag cards and tape; but, I do not like RC.

I can effectively disable search by selecting Don't search other files and libraries and deselecting Search programs and Control Panel. But having done so, the search box stillsteals the focus when I open the start menu. Surely this is a bug? No, actually, it is a new methodology, that once learned, greatly improves user experience. Try this, boot Win7 and login to your desktop. Once everything is done and your desktop is ready for use, turn off your monitor. Press the Windows key and type "word". Press enter. Turn on your monitor and you should see Microsoft Word ready for a new document. The redesigned start menu is meant to keep users from having to expand the programs list and is much faster as your hand never has to leave the keyboard. Windows key, app name (or partial name), enter. Voila you are ready to use your app.

Hey Warel,Have you noticed that all your posts are complaints; I gather you've made your point now. This forum is read (yes, even by people from Microsoft). Maybe in future forums, there will be 2 sticky threads: PRAISE and CRITICISM

Hey Warel,Have you noticed that all your posts are complaints; I gather you've made your point now. This forum is read (yes, even by people from Microsoft). Yes, I noticed, thanks.Now, did you really read my older posts, like the ones in Beta time? I always said Microsoft is doing a amazing job with windows 7. I said I like the system very much, but, if I am complaining is only because the annoyances prevent this system from being really great. and I know microsoft can fix it. But they are in such a rush to bury the Vista brand, that they can finish having a similar problem with Windows 7, and I would not like if that happens (again).As I already said, dont take me wrong, I like ths system, but I really wanted to see someone in Microsoft (in a Engineering windows blog, maybe) to say why they are simple moving on, doing a RC and letting behind little bugs that exist since Vista and since W7 beta. My point is exactly this: I want this system to be great, so, if it is "only" good I will keep posting. After all, they are the top software company in the world. They CAN do better. Yes I read them. Here and on other blog pages. It's just the last couple of days that your posts are strikingly identi(criti)cal.@egadsNo mate critics and praise mingled when possible.

Let me get rid of "standard" hot keysYour "standard" Windows hot keys drive me crazy. *YOU* think they are convenient, *I* think they are annoying. Please, give me a choice; please, give me a way to disable them.I am talking about all these WndLogo+1, WndLogo+2, WndLogo+M, Shift+WndLogo+M, etc Desktop Wallpaper SlideshowI have a utility that does similar slideshow for me - not Microsoft. It works fine.Now, when I go into desktop wallpaper settings and do something that invokes new desktop slideshow mechanism - I mean that "nice" wallpaper transition effect - this transition effect remains active. Note, I did not activate wallpaper slideshow, I pressed "Cancel". I just want to disable wallpaper transition animation.

Well, I am a Vista hater, but I am very pleased with 7 x64 ... I installed it on my gaming rig, and al I can say is that the performance is much better than XP.Still trying to figure out what is where, but so far no issues except blue screens which were related to bad memory.Strange thing, this bad memory was preventing W7 from detecting my TV tuner ... As soon as I removed the memory it was detected and configured.Will buy when released.

Just a few things from me... The Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 network drivers included in the RC do not work properly. The longer my computer is on, a delay would build up when opening a network connection. After about 3 days it literally took 5 seconds to open any network connection so browsing the web felt like dialup. The newest Vista drivers from Atheros do not have this problem. It would be nice to be able to use Aero snap between monitors. I have a dual monitor setup and I can only aero snap on the far left and far right. If I want a window to snap on the right of the left monitor or the left of the right monitor I have to snap on the other side and carefully drag the window over. I have noticed my taskbar buttons tend to get reordered when I connect through remote desktop (non-pinned programs). It almost seems like it puts them back in the order they were opened instead of obeying the ones I moved previously. I also end up with some groups of buttons being split into individual buttons which are much smaller than the rest (I'm using full text labels with icons so the buttons are wider) After using remote desktop the taskbar thumbnail previews when mousing over a taskbar button become very unreliable. A preview will get stuck on after moving the mouse away from it and then suddenly you don't get any thumbnails at all unless you click. It will keep a button highlighted like the mouse is over it even though it isn't. It will randomly start/stop working for a while before it finally comes back. Also, I can't believe this is even a problem but using system services like Windows Update and Windows Backup causes my entire computer to glitch so music will skip, videos freeze up... The process priority of these services should not be so high that it causes problems like that. Please bring back the advanced file types dialogue from XP so we don't have to edit the registry to create custom context menu entries! But these are minor problems... overall my experience has been very good. Windows 7 x64 is already much better than XP x64.

Hey Warel,Have you noticed that all your posts are complaints; I gather you've made your point now. This forum is read (yes, even by people from Microsoft). Maybe in future forums, there will be 2 sticky threads: PRAISE and CRITICISM No mate critics and praise mingled when possible. Maybe in future forums, there will be 2 sticky threads: PRAISE and CRITICISMZeus, this is not a sarcastic quip. If Microsoft is serious about soliciting our opinions, then Praise vs Criticism is thenatural categorization. Obvious. But if they only want to pit us against each other, then the way they're doing it is just fine.

I have been trying the Windows 7 RC in High Contrast Mode and find it slightly worse than the one in vista. For example, if I type something in the search bar in START, i cant see what i have typed. The magnifier also has issues and does not perform in High Contrast Mode the way it does in Normal mode. Also a the high contrast mode has less features than the normal one like the preview of applications running. The narrator is as useless as it always has been in Windows unfortunately, but that probably is not such a big issue since Blind people prefer using JAWS anyways. The new magnifier is awesome except for the fact that it doesnt go full screen in High Contrast Mode. The sticky notes dont change color in high contrast mode. I hoped these issues would have been resolved in the RC, but sadly its not that way.

When I view all available wireless networks I can see their SSID and strength of signal but I need to go over each one to see if network is encrypted and in what way.When you use wifi in London city centre it can get 30 networks within seconds and then some more. On Vista I could easily see which were not password protected and use them. Most public wifi spots are not encrypted but names can change from street to street. Now if I do not know the name of network I need to look at each one to see if it is encrypted.Can we have encryption info next to all other info displayed and/or a way to sort networks in to groups by encryption? Sorting available networks in to groups by encryption would be a great option for portable devices as they would display in one group and first on the list.

Personally I never really understood the model for audio in Vista anddon't find it any more intuitive in Windows 7. I hook things that make noise (software or hardware) up and they can be sent/bridged/connected to a variety of the output jacks, but one has to manually create names that arehuman friendly(e.g., the "pink mic input", or the "green headphone jack on the front") and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit these connecitonsor alter how all this works. It is sort of like a crateful of wires with no ability to move/reconnect them, much less label or unsnag them. I understand there are 37,293 possible variables here and its not going to be easy, but I would have hoped for something easier and more intuitive on how to get sound outof this beast! (The DRM police have likley not helped either, and prevented me from ever watching movies on Vista, but who is the customer...)I'm spending a couple hours now trying to find a good overview on all this, since searching for sound and other such terms doesn't bring up anything useful in the "help" center.Sorry to whine, but it is a sunny day outsideand this doesn't seem any better than it was for Vista...(BTW, I generally like most other aspects of Windows 7!!!)

hi!when I click one of the pictures (jpeg format) in 'recent items' of start button, the picture doesn't seem to load. I just states 'loading' but no picture loads. it works perfectly on documents though. Is this a bug of some sort? i hope its going to be fixedthanks

One thing i noticed...deleting large file (Gbs) takes a lot of time...even win xp managed that task in just a few sec. i hope windows 7 is able to do as much

Strange thing) Microsoft did open betatest only for collecting bugs reports but don't listen users' wishes and expectation. And so main question: for who they are doing OS?

Drop By, I get the same bug using Windows Photo Viewer in search results and in regular navigation. Usually exiting the folder and re-entering is enough to solve the problem but I don't know what is causing it.

sooner or later someone's gonna say this: "We will not use windows 7 if changes aren't made"

A lot of people were so happy to have the impression to be allowed to play with the nerds and the geeks, that they didn't really take into account the fact that this is beta software (RC is a form of beta). Some things (in fact quite some) are not finalized, some will not be. Maybe we'll have to wait for the sp1. Most people saying: "We will not use windows 7 if changes aren't made" don't have the flexibility of mind to change their attitude in front of a computer. I'm not saying some things aren't bad or bugged, but this is not a finalized version. As far as new functions are concerned, just forget it. We'll not see the amount of free space in the statusbar, or the details bar for that matter. Library behaviour can be strange, and so on...Windows 7 as such is a fine piece of work made for an allround average environment. It'll be polished before we'll find it on the shelves (btw will there be a discount for those who download the retail instead of buying a physical dvd?)RegardsRem "What's worse, Ignorance or Apathy?""I don't know, and I don't care."

I feel obliged to direct this comment at all those chiming in that "they don't listen" and "nothing has been fixed." These sorts of comments really areannoying, untrue, and wholly non-constructive. With a couple exceptions, every bug I identified during the beta has been addressed. All of the Lightroom and Photoshop CS4 display issues have been resolved (the only CS4 issue left is a slightly sticky mouse pointer).Outlook 2007 also no longer hangs on half the send and receives during the course of a day.Word 2007 performance is not great but is markedly better and issues in Excel 2007 appear to have been resolved with the exception of a continuing quirk wheretrying to click and drag a handle simultaneously down and to the right only moves vertically or horizontally (bot not both).Taksbar flickering is now almost completely gonewhenin IE 8 - a major nuisance in the beta. WHS backups and restores now work as advertised - previously could backup but hung on restores. The search function may still be slow in indexing, and may be slow in then searching mp3s, butis otherwise now an exceptionally useful tool. It may lag when searching mp3s but took only seconds to search the contents of 300,000+ items (including Outlook psts) on my local drive, network drive, and external USB drives and ID 12,000 hits for a particular word. The library function works much more effectively. I now successfully drop folders off my network and external drives into my libraries (including custom new libraries) - when the drives (or network) are connected the contents are there and when not they are not. I have notexperienced any Media Center or Media Player crashes, and Windows Mobile Device Center now works every time I connect my Ipaq 211 - bluetooth syncing is now smooth as well. Are there things still to fix? Yes, that is certainly true.I've identified several new bugs and quirks myself. To suggest nothing has been done, or no one is listening, or this is a step backward.or the process is somehow a sham is just not true....Stehen

sooner or later someone's gonna say this:"We will not use windows 7 if changes aren't made" Then don't use it. People can continue using XP until it is no longer supported. They can continue loading XP on new systems and then throw tantrums when they can't find drivers for new hardware (a daily occurence on the HP forums at this point). They can continue to claim that XP is so stable and reliable and then to ask for help solving one or another crash that never happen under Vista or Windows 7. They can also continue to complain about the fact that Adobe and other software companies aredesigning64 bit software for Vista and (by extension) Windows 7 - as if anyone ever designed much 64 bit software for XP. Sorry but I am just really tired of this particular argument and of people claiming that their one issue should be the ultimate factor in whether it goes RTM. Windows 7 is still a developmental OS and no one is being forced to use it. The final product will also not make everyone happy since it is simply not possible to please the entirety of a customer base of this size. FWIW, it is already an admirableaccomplishment. With ongoing fixes of issues identified in this evaluative process (I think that is the point of what we are doing), it will be an impressive release....Stephen

Well i just hope they fix every bug before releasing the retail version, or else it wont be anything near like a 'next gen OS.' its good having forums like this to get feedbacks, but utilizing feedbacks to make it better would be a great thing. and i thank the development team for doing its part.

sooner or later someone's gonna say this:"We will not use windows 7 if changes aren't made" Then don't use it. I probably will stick with Vista, thank you.

Pin to taskbar is a complement, but "NOT" a substitue for Quick Launch that is available in Widows XP\Vista. I understant that you removed the Quick Launch toolbar because you can now pin programs directly to the taskbar. Thats great. I use that feature to pin 3 programs to the taskbar. However, in Windows Vista I have 22 programs I keep in the Quick Launch toolbar. I AM NOT GOING TO PIN 22 PROGRAMS TO THE WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR. THATS AN OVERCROWDED MESS!!!! With Quick Launch my icons will appear in a pop-up menu when I click the Quick Launch >> Quick Launch works perfectly in Windows XP and Windows Vista. It NEEDS to remain as an option in Windows 7 and it needs to work exactly as it does in Windows Vista. I can change the size to show a certain number of icons on the taskbar and the rest of the icons will appear in a pop-up menu. Its just a simple toolbar, but works wonders for quickly launching programs. All it requires is at most 2 clicks (in Windows Vista I configure the Quick Launch to show 3 icons on the taskbar and the rest will appear in the Quick Launch pop-up menu so its once click for Quick Launch >> and another click on the program icon). and my program is up and running. Yes, I do use the new feature in Windows 7 to pin programs to the taskbar, but I only pin 3. I want to be able to enable the Quick Launch as in Windows Vista. Why would I want to pin a program to the taskbar when that program minimizes to the system tray like AnyDVD? Thats a type of program I would keep in Quick Launch. Why would I want to overcrowd the taskbar with all my programs when I don't run them all at the same time. It just becomes an overcrowded mess especially on the small screen of a laptop. Its just a simple toolbar and we could even hack it to enable it in the beta of Windows 7, but you have gone out of your way to prevent us from enabling it in version 7100. The loss of Quick Launch is a deal breaker for me. Its incredibly frustrating that MS chose to remove the Qucik Launch as an option that could be enabled especially since there are other toobars that can still be enabled on the taskbar. I'm not going to go out and spend money on a new OS when it will take me longer to launch programs because I refuse to overcrowd my task bar. I love the pin to taskbar feature, but I want my Quick Launch as well so that I can have my program icons show in the Quick Launch pop up menu so that I don't have to overcrowd the taskbar. There is simply no valid reason for the removal of Quick Launch. Its an optional feature in Windows XP\Vista. If a user doesn't use it, then the user doesn't need to enable it. So just right clicking on the taskbar and creating a new toolbar doesn't accomplish the same thing? You are saying all you want is a simple toolbar? That functionality is still there as it was in Vista and XP. It took me about 15 seconds to add a toolbar and copy over shortcuts. Granted, I then deleted it since I see that as being a waste of space (not the new taskbar functionality). As far as there being no vaild reason to remove Quick Launch, unless you are one of the Windows 7 programmers, I don't think that is a fair statement to make - there could be a dozen valid reasons....Stephen

"Games" folder and "Games" in All programs are not syncronized... When you remove a game, it disappeared in Games folder, but not in the other folder...

Windows Explorer: Please allow the favorite locations in the treeview to be detached from the rest of the tree (Libraries, File System, ...) so they are *always* visible, like in Vista. In 7 you always have to scroll to the top to reach the favorites which is quite cumbersome. The one-click access to favorites sped up navigation by orders of magnitues in Vista. I would have to lose that feature. Here's a screenshot showing both: http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/111/35319052.png

So far I am impressed with Windows 7 and have had few issues. System Specs:Dual boot Windows XP Pro, SP3/Win 7 RCIntel Core Duo 2200, 2GB RamEVGA Nvidia NForce NF66 650i Ultra MoBo250GB & 500GB SATA, SeagatesNvidia GeForce 8400 GS/512MBCreative SB X-FI ExtremeGamer AudioOverclocked 12.4%This is my frist year back on Windows FULL TIME! From 2001-2008 I had been on Linux Slackware. So you can see I demand a high quality OS. Windows boxes I have used mirrored my Slackware machines as does the XP side of this machine. Highly tweaked, configured off and over specs.I have migrated almost all of the software from XP to 7 except licensed wares. I use and support open source having some of my own in the realm.On Windows 7:Nvidia drivers installed flawlessly as did their software, nTune and System Tools. Prefect functions on all level. nTune overclocking profiles load as expected.Creative SB X-FI and Creative Mediasource wares installed flawlessly. Software functions as expected. There maybe an issue with the audio drivers with respect to media programs releasing the device back to the system.Logitech keyboard and mouse drivers and ware installed and worked as expected. A "Not tested" warning was received dueing install.M-Audio Keybroad driver will not install, XP or Vista types. Win 7 native drivers used. M-Audio Session 1.7.5installed just fine, slight issue when first ran, it had to 'find' the Content directory. Works as expected after first run.Yahoo Messenger with my own custom skin and tweaks works as expected. I will be making a new aero style skin soon.Open Source:RocketDock works great. I like 'clean' desktops...Nmap installs and works as expected.!!! ogg directshow drivers fail !!! these are the latest drivers at vorbis.com. I plan to uninstall and insatall 'older' XP drivers totest this function.explorer2 works as expect and of course much better than the native Win Explorer. Will buy a second licences for this one..Gimp works great as expected and I have already made my custom png icons for Win 7 with it as its test.OpenOffice installs and has so far had no issues. I have yet to make mySQL connections to my home server.Google earth and chrome installs and functions as expected.Firefox and Thunderbird installs and funtions as expected. I have ran across a couple of issues related to Firefox with the Crystal Qute theme and Cute menus where the menus were misaligned. Option setting within the program corrected this.I still have several highend programs to migrate over that are related to video editting. These I will have to wait on as I will not risk the expense of the licence until full migration.I have also not moved MS Expression Web over I will contact MS directly prior to this move.As I stated so for I am impressed with 7. It is faster than XP on the same hardware. Also there is more hardware control on the Win 7 side which has me a bit baffled given knowledge of XP hacks and the level of the XP install on this hardware. Case in point: Nvidia nTune on 7 offers more control options thanit does onthe XP side. Yet the drivers and software are the latestsfor the respected systems.Also my box has lighted case graphics. Under XP these stay on all the time even when under power save but under 7 these lights go off in power save mode???Now on to more 'testing'...

Why UI font size is still not in absolute units, like points in MS Office? Hello, I wonder, why screen fonts' size is still not measured in points, millimeters, orother absolute unit? Font size in pixels is awful, if you switch back and forth from notebook screen to big monitor (imagine you use a dock station, with monitor connected to it). I'd greatly appreciate font size units like in MS Word... and independentofeither pixel size or screen size. Letters should have just absolute size, say, 10 or 12 points. DPI is very technical and internal parameter, and may be used by developers. Could we get it?

Suggestion : enable users to use mousewheel in WMP 12 and customize its functioanlity : volume, skip N (setable) seconds back/forward, or skip next/prev track in the list. WMP12 Bug : when from main window hit the "switch to now playing" button, then rearrange this "now playing" window and then go back to main window and then again to "now playing", it rememebers the "now playing" windows dimensions, but not the position. Search problem : I find good the search bar near the adress bar for quick search/filtering, I find good that now we can search multiple locations, but I find the search options annoyable compared to pre-vista. There was quick and easy to change them. More than this, sometimes we may get way too more results than wanted, just because, at least me, cant find how to completely disable "search in file contents". for example I was searching in windows/system for d?d*.dll files to get view for some dx files, and it returns a lot of unrelevant files, just because it insists on finding all files that references them, or at least this is what I suppose.

I agree with Martin2244. The performance on the first beta was much better. For some reason Win 7 RC is slower. I like the original BETA better than RC. The only problem I had with the original BETA is a driver problem which was not a big deal. So whatever changes Microsoft made between the original beta version and RC has made the program not so great. I hope that future changes will get it back to where they started.

I like the fact that you can just click the shutdown button with no questions.

Whe I use Windows Media Player in full screen mode, andI click the album icon in the under left corner the album dissapears and the play/buffering/stopped/pause logo doesn't appear like it did in earlier versions,I think this is a code error andI wanted to repport it. If this isn't the right forum please tell me were Ican repport this problem. I have an image ready that can show the problem but I don't now how to show it here, tell me how i can and if I can mail it to a specific mail.

I agree with Martin2244. The performance on the first beta was much better. For some reason Win 7 RC is slower. I like the original BETA better than RC. The only problem I had with the original BETA is a driver problem which was not a big deal. So whatever changes Microsoft made between the original beta version and RC has made the program not so great. I hope that future changes will get it back to where they started. While I do appreicate what you are saying, please keep in mind that lots of people (myself included) find the performance to be better (and more stable) with the RC. It is not a question of getting is back to where it started, it is about identifying why thereis varying performance on different setups. On my end, the x64 RC was sluggish for the first few hours until it finished various indexing and media syncing tasks, and (obviously) until superfetch adjustedto my software/use. Since then it is consistently faster than the beta, and (more importanly) much more stable....Stephen

While I do appreicate what you are saying, please keep in mind that lots of people (myself included) find...Stephen While I do appreciate what you are saying, please keep in mind that lots of people (myself included) find...

why dont we just get rid of all the restrictions on deletion and the recycle bin and put in a program that searches for deleted filesas a replacement for the recycle bin. basically what i am saying is make program that recognizes deleted files and allows you to unmark them(i am assuming you know how a harddrive works)and bring them back. then you would be able to effectively recover things that you deleted over a year ago and you wouldnt be limited by the empty recycle bin fuction. an idea?? this would get rid of a lot of the restrictions and permanently solve the problem of accidently deleted files. ohh and here is a totally radical idea. when you delete a file, this new program has a reserve on your harddrive that automatically backs up the file (sort of like Mac OS Leapord's program, Time Machine). that way if the file you are recovering is partially or completely overwritten you can still get it back. i think its windows' turn to copy Macintosh (after Mac OS 9, Mac started copying Windows insted of windows coppying Mac). and also: lets assume people dont want to recover a file more than 2 months later. then the program just cleans out the cache by putting a buffer on it. that way you dont get 2 files marked that you dont want and get others that you do want partially overwritten.

why dont we just get rid of all the restrictions on deletion and the recycle bin and put in a program that searches for deleted filesas a replacement for the recycle bin. basically what i am saying is make program that recognizes deleted files and allows you to unmark them(i am assuming you know how a harddrive works)and bring them back. then you would be able to effectively recover things that you deleted over a year ago and you wouldnt be limited by the empty recycle bin fuction. an idea?? this would get rid of a lot of the restrictions and permanently solve the problem of accidently deleted files. ohh and here is a totally radical idea. when you delete a file, this new program has a reserve on your harddrive that automatically backs up the file (sort of like Mac OS Leapord's program, Time Machine). that way if the file you are recovering is partially or completely overwritten you can still get it back. i think its windows' turn to copy Macintosh (after Mac OS 9, Mac started copying Windows insted of windows coppying Mac). and also: lets assume people dont want to recover a file more than 2 months later. then the program just cleans out the cache by putting a buffer on it. that way you dont get 2 files marked that you dont want and get others that you do want partially overwritten. If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate)....Stephen

If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate).... Stephen saved me a lot of times :-)

If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate).... Stephen i am not talking about system restore. and i am definatley not talking about restoring accidently changed files (besides i dont want to make a restore point every time i make an important file). i am talking about how windows deletes things. i hate the restrictions of windows file deletion. and i really hate how you have to buy expensive software to recover files that have been deleted beyond the recycle bin. what i am saying is GET RID OF THE RECYCLE BIN! its an annoying way to delete things and it doesnt offer any flexiblity when you empty it and along with all the ____ you didnt want goes your Powerpoint for work or your essay that is due tomorrow. put in a program that searches for marked files on the hardrive and bypass the recycle bin. that way EVERYTHING you have deleted shows up (granted there are ways of sorting things out) not just the things that are in a temporary folder. that way you will never be caught in the situation of, "Ohh ____ what do i do now?!".

I would rather suggest a compertmantilized recyle bin, where files are categorically combined in sub-recylebins. Documents, videos, music, garbage sub-recyle bins...Otherwise the operating system would have to keep track of every operation which in turn would effect the system perfomance.

I think the RC taskbar needs some change. I heard that MS made all open programs' icons in the taskbar highlight in the RC due to user demand. As a result, the icons appear "bulged out". It's now eaiser to tell between open and non-open programs, but there are 2 problems 1)Because all open programs are highlighted, it's now much harder to tell which program is FOCUSED. See this screenshot. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1156/98473792.png The sticky notes program is in focus, but it's very hard to tell from the taskbar. The orange notification flashes also seem not as noticeable due to the brightness of the icons. 2)The "bulged out" buttons style carries over to the "Never combine" mode of the taskbar. I think this makes the taskbar look uglier and more distracting. Compare beta http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/sshot66.png with RC http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4921/captureg.png In RC it's as if every open program is trying to grab your attention and asking for a click. I don't think it's necessary to brighten open programs in the never combine mode (same goes for combine when full) because it's already obvious which ones are open...the ones with text labels..

i still dont quite think the recycle bin is nessesary. i mean the concept is nice but its very limitive. i am sorry if i sound angry but why do you need to confirm deletion if file is never truly removed. that is why i say put in a program that keeps track of deleted files and not one that intends to keep file from being unescessarily deleted. it skips a step in the deletion process and you will never have to wory about accidently deleted file because it isnt restrictive to a folder that is periodically cleaned out. it shows everything.

by confirming the deletion, you are giving the OS the permission to overwrite that file in the HD. otherwise your HD can fill up quite fast and you will run out of space.

Another comment.. In the RC it's possible to switch between the windows of a program by pressing windows # where # is the number of the program on the taskbar. 1)Is it possible to allow this beyond the 10th program? 2)Is it possible to have a shortcut to switch between windows of the current active program, without having to look at the taskbar to see what # the current program is. something like, an alt-tab but limited to the current program. Also... In the always combine mode, I can shift right click on an icon and if there are multiple windows open, i get the option to align side by side or stack top and bottom all the windows from that specific program. I lose this feature when I go to the never combine or combine when full mode. Why is that? It would be nice to have that feature consistently available. More...... This is probably there since vista, but why does the desktop show up in alt-tab? Seems unnecessary since Windows-D is an immediate way to show desktop.

If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate).... Stephen i am not talking about system restore. and i am definatley not talking about restoring accidently changed files (besides i dont want to make a restore point every time i make an important file). i am talking about how windows deletes things. i hate the restrictions of windows file deletion. and i really hate how you have to buy expensive software to recover files that have been deleted beyond the recycle bin. what i am saying is GET RID OF THE RECYCLE BIN! its an annoying way to delete things and it doesnt offer any flexiblity when you empty it and along with all the ____ you didnt want goes your Powerpoint for work or your essay that is due tomorrow. put in a program that searches for marked files on the hardrive and bypass the recycle bin. that way EVERYTHING you have deleted shows up (granted there are ways of sorting things out) not just the things that are in a temporary folder. that way you will never be caught in the situation of, "Ohh ____ what do i do now?!". It appears you really didn't read what I wrote. You obviously have also not tried the "restore previous versions." You have made the following statement: "you empty it and along with all the ____ you didnt want goes your Powerpoint for work or your essay that is due tomorrow." Depending upon your system restore interval, you go to the folder, right click on it, choose restore previous versions, select the date/time, and restore the file you deleted or changed. You don't run a system restore andyou don't go through any convoluted process - you just pick the file and copy it back as you would from any other folder.It has been a Windows functionsince Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate. I understand that what you want is a little Time Machine clone and if you really want it Macs are readily available. On the Windows front,I can just see the complaints now when users realize that it is sucking their drives dry and is drawing from system performance- that sort of function (asany honest Mac users will attest) does not come without a price. Of course it also doesn't work with the db used by Adobe Lightroom(andlots of other dbs as well).Yes, I do know how Time Machine functions. The enhanced version of System Restore that saves a snapshot of your files, as released with the higher endversions of Vista, has a negligible effect on performance. Since the Recycle Bin is not going anywhere (and does just fine for most users), and the probability of a Time Machine knockoff is pretty slim, not to mention a major change in how Windows has been programmed from the start, perhaps you might at least look at the feature that is already part of Windows. BTW, yelling at me or anyone else here is rude. Actually, yelling at the programmers would be rude as well. No one here designed the system - we are all one or another version of a user. Stephen

Depending upon your system restore interval, you go to the folder, right click on it, choose restore previous versions, select the date/time, and restore the file you deleted or changed. You don't run a system restore andyou don't go through any convoluted process - you just pick the file and copy it back as you would from any other folder.It has been a Windows functionsince Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate. I understand that what you want is a little Time Machine clone and if you really want it Macs are readily available. On the Windows front,I can just see the complaints now when users realize that it is sucking their drives dry and is drawing from system performance- that sort of function (asany honest Mac users will attest) does not come without a price. Of course it also doesn't work with the db used by Adobe Lightroom(andlots of other dbs as well).Yes, I do know how Time Machine functions. The enhanced version of System Restore that saves a snapshot of your files, as released with the higher endversions of Vista, has a negligible effect on performance. Since the Recycle Bin is not going anywhere (and does just fine for most users), and the probability of a Time Machine knockoff is pretty slim, not to mention a major change in how Windows has been programmed from the start, perhaps you might at least look at the feature that is already part of Windows. BTW, yelling at me or anyone else here is rude. Actually, yelling at the programmers would be rude as well. No one here designed the system - we are all one or another version of a user. Stephen by no means do i want a time machine clone so please dont pester me about that (its only a suggestion, and i never asked for a clone so pleas dont put words in my mouth). and further more if you read what I wrote you would know that it only backs up the file when its deleted and the reserve emptys its self by doing an overwrite with a buffer every moth or so. the folder thing is a nice feature but i turned off all the system restore services so that they dont slow down my system. thank you for the solution but i think it would be much easier to use an idea that is based on basic computer components and not some really fancy file restore solution that sucks the system dry and robs your computer of performance. please i am sorry if i sound agry but i dont see any reason why we should have extra features when the same thing can be accomplished by a simple and elegant solution that keeps everyone happy and even eliminates the problems of certain file restrictions (such as inability to delete parasitc folders. programs like unlocker v1.8 can get rid of them but Windows cant). and also: i think you may be misunderstanding me. let the OS completely delete the file and then you have a program that sees the marked files on the HD. that way you can recover files deleted over a year ago unless you put new ____ on the harddrive. and most people who will be wunning windows 7 will have such huge harddrives that a deleted file being overwritten will hardly be a problem. besides things like that people generally dont try to recover things that they deleted more than 2 months ago. mabye include a deletion feature where when you first delete the file, the OS questions you on whether you want a complete deletion or a deletion where it just goes to the recycle bin. that way you can bypass the recycle bin

STACK BY IS REMOVED!!!!! WHY? The arrange by in Libraries is not NEARLY as powerful. The categories are limited and you have to add folders to a library first. There is MUCH more to a image than just Month, Day, Rating, Tag....It seems library is practically useless for me. It's like a dumbed down version of STACK BY Please at least allow the option of Stack By. Also, when I search all images files by type:image, the Dimensions attribute is not available for most files for some reason. This means I can't sort by dimensions. I can't understand why the dimensions attribute wouldn't be available for image files. They ARE available if I go to that specific folder though.

From the Catalyst Control Center, by using ATI Overdrive --> Auto-Tune on my 512 Radeon HD 3400 series graphic card my WEI went from 3.6 to 4.2 Or rather, Desktop performance for Windows Aero did, as this was the lowest score. So, over clocking graphics has some effect.

I put a full load of apps and programs on windows 7. I use on regular bases this includes the following,Microsoft office Word 2007Windows Live apps and win 7 add in sign in asstant all updates installed real quicktime and divix IE addins silverlight/ adobe flash reader & shockwave One of my bigger programs Pinnacle Studio 11 Ultimate and after that I said Sheew My point here is these are exsisting or older programs and apps running pretty good I get a few hiccups but not app crashing or os crashing little freezes hangs recovers in few seconds nothing big I'm having no visable issues and if there is one I just run the trouble shoot problem for the issue related to curerent issue My system pretty much stable here and very happy with windows 7 thus far.Still getting use to the changes but it's going well. I thought I might add alittle bit about my system I'm running a older gateway x700/e-6000 series system Updated Vidio card to a ati x1300 Systen is a intel p4 2.66ghz 1gig ram 2 x 320gig wd hard drives System came with windows ME upgraded to xp then upgraded after a fairily good rc run of vista but long term glitches and un resolved bug started popping up as I started using vista each OS has seen the exact build I just put on windows 7 which is running on my current config and load almost perfect. and faster that vista Posted By Mikro

Windows 7 has left out the classic start menu option. I have talked to a couple people that went back to xp or vista because they did not like the way the start menu left out this option. In IE8 there is not an easy setting to open all links in new window. Most of us are used to tabs by now or re-using the same browser for all links. There are a few people that still like doing things with new windows, because they are used to that.Something that would be nice to see in windows is the option to group start menu items by type. An example of this would be all media related applications be placed in the media catagory. If anyone has used linux then they know what I am referring to.Overall windows 7 seems to run really well. Testing it on a laptop that has a single core 1.6 or 1.8 ghz, with 1 gig of ram, and a 128mb video card. It's running smooth on those specs. I was sceptical but thought why not try it on something older. Also, two of the drivers did not install automatically. The alps pointing device and sound. I was able to use windows xp drivers to get both to work perfectly.

Javve - The classic menu is gone and it isn't likely to make an appearance again in Windows 7. IE 8 and opening links in new windows is difficult? Simply right-click a link and you've got an option to open the link in a new window. As far as organizing apps by type - you can still edit the start menu and create catagories -Internet apps, Multimedia apps, etc... Then again, with the built in search, you can simply type the name of the app you want and you're instantly shown the list of apps you've got it right there. Some hardware is unfortunately not going to work with Windows 7. Blame it on the hardware being to old and the hardware manufacturers not willing to write new ones. That pretty much happens anytime a new OS comes out.

Small Icons: There are two choices for the taskbar icons:Large Icons and Small Icons. I was running out of space on the taskbar so I decided to give "small icons" choice a try. They turned out to be really small, meniscule, tiny if you will (A magnifiying glass would help! For god's sake, this is no Starbucks! :-)). I can fit 22 Appz with Large Icons, with small Icons I can probably fit 55 to 60. This is a huge difference both in terms of number of icons and icon size. It would be quite usefull to have a "medium icons" options. An option that may let me to pin aroun 35 icons and still be easily visible.

6> No file types tab so I cannot change per computer what users use to open documents unless I hack the registry7> No logoff on the Start Menu. Users don't have access to shutdown but I NEED that Logoff very clearly on the start menu so users can logoff.9> The LIGHT Blue/Grey colour scheme is terrible. It makes it so difficult to see what file is selected with the light blue highlight and no way to change it. This is the same with Vista. I go to "Windows Color" and it won't change anything regardless of settings. Changing the background takes away the theme. It is very limiting.10> The Quicktask Toolbar is gone and the Show Desktop has gone too. I actually liked the Windows Switcher in Vista.So basically we may have to switch OS. Windows 7 was not designed for a Domain Environment. lforbes I suppose you didnt take enough time to test it.6) no file types tab where, in folder options ? did you tried control panel -> programs-> "make a files always open in a specific program" LINK under "Default programs" area ?7) did you tried to right click the taskbar, open start menu tab, and change the power button action setting ?9) dont know what ar you talking about what is difficult to see.10) show desktop : did you tried clicking on that little vertical button at the right of the taskbar ?my suggestion is to get back to testing and get use the help system, maybe it will show solutions for other problems too. and come back only with the existing problems :) Are you aware of how Default Programs works? It is NOT a replacement for File Types Tab. File Types tab affected HKeyClassesRoot and affected ALL Users. It allowed you to set shortcut icons, set multiple programs to open with one extension and let you repair any issues.Default Programs is a joke that affects ONLY the users profile and changes the settings in HKEY CURRENT USER. This makes it absolutely useless in a Domain Environment. It also doesn't work about 80% of the time even on my Vista laptop at home. I end up just using the Nirsoft Utility or editing the registry.In my Vista Machines the Power Button Action doesn't give a Logoff setting - Just Sleep, Shutdown and Hibernate. I will check with Windows 7 in the new location you listed for the Logoff Option. If they added that, that would be nice. I couldn't find the power options as they are not in the same place in Windows 7 as they are in Vista.The difficult thingto see is the highlight. Even with Aero turned off when you click on a file in Vista or Windows 7it highlights it with a pale irridescent blue that there doesn't seem to be any way to change. The folder icons have gone from a dark yellow to a pasty light yellow. With LCD screens it makes it far difficult to see.I did eventually find the weird darker coloured part of the start bar that shows the desktop. However, I have 2500+ Users. Things need to be OBVIOUS.Again when you are an administrator in a domain like mine with thousands of users I have to plan how to make things easy for them. That means as least disruptive as possible.I actually thought Tech Net was where network administrators hung out however, every post I have read in this topic seems to relate to peoples home computers.I have been a network administrator since I launched Windows NT 3.51 and I have to say Vista and Windows 7 are the first two Operating Systems that I have never wanted to implement in my Domain. Microsoft did not design them for the Domain and that is why it annoys me that they merged both markets in the first place. XP was at least designed with the Domain in mind but with a few different features for Home Users. Vista and Windows 7 are designed only for the home user without even considering the complications of a Domain Environment.lforbes

I think I can help you out with some of those concerns..1.) Noted.. That's a definite issue - tho you can always create a shortcut to My Documents and pop it on the desktop.7.) You can, in fact,change the default action of the Shut Down button to "Log Off" - Click the start Orb, Right click on a bare spot on the start menu and click Properties. You should see the default action drop down right there on top of the Start Menu tab. Click Log Off and Apply. Problem solved. Is there a way to create a Shortcut to My Documents that isn't hardcoded to a specific server or folder? I have 2500 users using about 3 mandatory profiles. I can create a shortcut but their files are stored on 2 different servers in 8 different folders depending on User.The My Documents just worked because it was redirected via Group Policy and was relative to the User who logged in.I have triedadding the settings in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel"{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"=dword:00000000And even adding theGUID from Windows XPthat showedMy Documents onthe Desktop however I was out of luck as Vista wouldn't show it. It works great on Windows XP. I think it is because they renamed it Documents instead of My Documents.The other Vista Guids work fine.I have tried changing the settings in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel"{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}"=dword:00000000 (Show Network for all users)"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=dword:00000000 (Show Computer for all users)"{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}"=dword:00000000 (Show Control Panel for all users)"{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}"=dword:00000000 (Show USER PROFILE for all users)"{4336a54d-038b-4685-ab02-99bb52d3fb8b}"=dword:00000000 (Show PUBLIC FOLDER for all users)Thanks for the Logoff tip. Another User mentioned it too. In Vista Logoff isn't an option under the Power Off settings and they moved them with Windows 7 so I couldn't even find them.Cheers,Laralforbes

Why is the Stack By ability missing in Windows 7 RC? It was one of the most useful, if unknown, features in Vista- one of the reasons I actually switchedto Vista at work, in fact. Sort By/Group By don't provide the same functionality and are not nearly as useful. Why would they take a feature-complete, community applauded option out of the OS?Is there another way to enable this via a registry entry or other tweak, at least?

Thanks for the reply. Not everyone likes the search feature and would rather have the option of the classic menu.The person I spoke to about IE8 always likes things to open in a new window without having to right click. I have not messed with the settings a lot as I have mine how I like em. I may have to check it out and see. When tabs are enabled you can set links to open in a new window but then I could not find the setting that I had before that always shows tabs so I could turn that off.With everything there is a learning curve. My wife is trying vista on that laptop and has been very happy with it. When I first installed it she told me it's exciting and like having a new laptop all over again. It's running well for the specs. It's on a Dell Inspiron 9300.I have not tried the windows xp compatability mode yet. I'm curious to see if it will work on the laptop but I doubt it will. I have read that the processor has to have virualization support.Sure the start menu is editable (piggybacking to before), but it would be great to have the option to sort by catagory, such as media, internet, office software, file transfer, etc. That's one of the biggest complaints linux users have about windows. They love the fact that linux does this. I like it as well, but there are too many things I rely on that require a windows operating system. Linux can run windows apps in wine or by a virtual window but the latter requires you to have a version of windows installed. Maybe when my other system is back up I'll try a couple of the new distros as they are always working to make it better. Would still like to see that option in windows 7.One thing I did forget to mention, I would love to see the advanced option for windows update back, where I could view the updates and choose what to install. Maybe I just missed it on the laptop or there wasn't enough to be able to view it, but just in case. My main argument for that is I do not install a lot of the optional hardware updates. The manufacturer releases those as well and I would rather use theirs. I have had some things quit working after a windows update hardware install in xp and would rather not go there again.I just wanted to put a bug in the forums and see if maybe one of the devs sees it. I would have no room to complain if I did not try to get my thoughts out on the table.

Please add an option to have a classic XP/Vista style taskbar. I hate the new one. It's basically a ripoff of the OSX dock, except that it doesn't work.

1. When we select the restart option, the message that shows up on screen should say "Windows is restarting", not "Windows is shutting down".2. Favorites menu should either auto-sort by name or have the option to auto-sort by name.3. The Windows 7 GUI should be color aware along with IE8. Hopefully this would carry over into games as well. The reason behind this is that most all new monitors or models coming out seem to be wide gamut. Wide gamut displays in environments that assume sRGB are WAY over saturated color wise.4. Would love to have the add/remove Windows components option during first install (similar to the old Win9X days). Better yet, would love to have the option of Windows prompting for a driver for each device at first install so we do not have to use the generic Windows driver if we do not want to. Honestly, I believe Windows (an OS) should be a foundation that allows a user to install and run applications. Therefore, nothing should be installed on this foundation unless the user opts in. I say you enable an advanced first install feature for folks that want a super clean Windows install.Keep up the awesome work. Windows 7 is VERY good thus far! :)

Thanks for the reply. Not everyone likes the search feature and would rather have the option of the classic menu.The person I spoke to about IE8 always likes things to open in a new window without having to right click. I have not messed with the settings a lot as I have mine how I like em. I may have to check it out and see. When tabs are enabled you can set links to open in a new window but then I could not find the setting that I had before that always shows tabs so I could turn that off.With everything there is a learning curve. My wife is trying vista on that laptop and has been very happy with it. When I first installed it she told me it's exciting and like having a new laptop all over again. It's running well for the specs. It's on a Dell Inspiron 9300.I have not tried the windows xp compatability mode yet. I'm curious to see if it will work on the laptop but I doubt it will. I have read that the processor has to have virualization support.Sure the start menu is editable (piggybacking to before), but it would be great to have the option to sort by catagory, such as media, internet, office software, file transfer, etc. That's one of the biggest complaints linux users have about windows. They love the fact that linux does this. I like it as well, but there are too many things I rely on that require a windows operating system. Linux can run windows apps in wine or by a virtual window but the latter requires you to have a version of windows installed. Maybe when my other system is back up I'll try a couple of the new distros as they are always working to make it better. Would still like to see that option in windows 7.One thing I did forget to mention, I would love to see the advanced option for windows update back, where I could view the updates and choose what to install. Maybe I just missed it on the laptop or there wasn't enough to be able to view it, but just in case. My main argument for that is I do not install a lot of the optional hardware updates. The manufacturer releases those as well and I would rather use theirs. I have had some things quit working after a windows update hardware install in xp and would rather not go there again.I just wanted to put a bug in the forums and see if maybe one of the devs sees it. I would have no room to complain if I did not try to get my thoughts out on the table. Javve - You're welcome... As you said, there's a learning curve to everything new. The amazing thing is how unwilling some people are to even give things a chance. Most of the changes in Windows7 don't make the learning curve all THAT steep or difficult. In fact, I find most of the new features actually easier to use than the old ways. IE 8 - it's once again a matter of the learning curve. Some people are stuck in the mud and refuse to move.. Not too much you can do about it, really. Yes, you read correctly - the CPU must support Virtualization, but it's that's not all of it. The motherboard must likewise support the feature. Check the manual to see if it's a feature or not. But I'll probably have to go along with your guess that it won't.Virtualization is something that most probably never really considereddoing on a laptop. That will change in time. As far as the sorting by catagory feature goes - given your thread's been absorbed into this one - consider your feature request noted and logged. This thread gets passed onto the developers directly. It likely won't be a feature in Windows 7 mainly because as of the RC's release, it's pretty much feature complete and not much in the way of new stuff is going to be added. They are primarily looking to make sure old bugs have been stamped out as well as making sure that any new bugs get squished quickly. There's always hope for Windows 8...The Windows Update feature is still there. When you open the Windows Update screen, you will see any one of a few possible screens - one that says No updates are available, one that says there are important updates, etc.. If there are updates to be downloaded, there's a link that will tell you how many updates and what kind are available. Click that and you should seethem listed, separated by level of importance.

Thanks Wolfie2k6. I was wondering if maybe the options of seeing the different updates was due to the lack in the number. As you say about catagory for start menu, there is always the next release. Would be nice if it was something that was easy to add. A simple option in the start menu properties, but I know those things take time and code to write.

i wanna say i love the rc its just sooooo much better than vista please keep the price or the full version resonable as i am on a low income and wanna be able to buy this when its released.still drivers are an issue but i guess given time these should be sorted once again congrats on a brill os.

Disagree. I am so thankful some of the "are you sure" items are gone. If I click shutdown, do it. i agree if i want to shut down i don't need asking are you sure maybe you forgot somethin. shut down means exactley that.

Javve - Nah - Each update type is in it's own compartment. You can see each one by clicking the little arrow to the right hand side of the block. Adding that menu option won't be as easy a chore as you might think. There are bazillions of apps out there for Windows (Well, ok... not bazillions - but there sure are a LOT of them). There would have to be a database that covers the vast majority of them that would catagorize them. I doubt it could possibly encompass all possible programs available. It would almost have to be online somewhere. It would suck up a LOT of disk space and that, right there would cause somepeople to have gran mal canniption fits about Windows bloat.Granted, not every single app would work with whatever Windows 8 has in store, but the number of apps would still likely be quite extensive.You also have to keep in mind that the Windows world is vastly different from Linux. With each distro, you get pretty much anything and everything included. It comes with Gimp, it comes with Open Office, and this and that and the other. Whatever doesn't come with the distro, you use the package manager to download the app - from the distro's repository. It's mostly a self contained ecosystem. Since it's self contained, the metadata is already there and is easy enough to control. With Windows, you've got dozens of companies who'dall rather do things theirown way. Some are long gone, out of business or swallowed up by someone else... It'd be an ugly project, for sure.

Generally favourable view, shame that Zone Alarm proves not to work with it. My one main issue with it is the fact that the start-up has twice caused an issue when starting up. The first time it said it needed to repair start-up & then after quite a while told me it could not repair start-up so it would restart my computer & I would need further help. Yet it then worked perfectly fine afterwards. Then when installing another language pack it got stuck installing it & in spite of telling me not to turn off my computer the only way I could get it too work was too turn my computer off & on again. I haven't had these sort of issues with XP in ages, so that's a negative step.

Very minor complaint: when saving a desktop theme, I don't like how I can't overwrite an existing theme. In build 7000, I could use the familiar Save dialog to save or overwrite an existing theme. The new way of saving looks cleaner and more streamlined, but unless I go out of my way to delete the old theme first, before saving my unsaved theme under the old theme's name, I'll end up with identically named themes in the Personalization window, and a pile of "Theme" "Theme(2)" ... "Theme(5)" files in the actual save location.

I know this has been discussed before, butwhy remove the classic start menu and quick launch? I'm sure there are lots of people that like the new menus and taskbar, but I don't, clearly I'm not alone, so why not make it an option to enable both? It's the one thing that will stop me buying Windows 7, I'm happy enough with Vista as it's never given me any problems, I will admit I didnt start using it until SP1, this is more of a feedback post that anything else, are there any technical reasons it cant be done? Also I used to like being able to drag a shortcut to the taskbar, but when I try that with 7 it doesnt seem to work, why? Please add both as an option or risk people like me walking away from Windows 7, I normally upgrade Windows and have every version from Windows 95 too Vista, but 7 will not be added to my collection.

Two extremely annoying lack of support for the following:If Office or something else corrupts some icons in windows explorer one has no options at all to repair as in Windows XPHere we have this big Media Center program/Windows Media Playerthat will not play Blu-Ray and DVD software-which will only burn pictures and such.Now, if one wants to watch Blu-Ray, or burn a backup data DVD you must purchase additional software to add to the the bloat already inherent with what's included in Windows 7; most of these 3RD party programs are bloatware in the extreme and want to do all that WMP and Media Center do-Nero for example-; with all these apps trying to do the same thing, regardless of whether or not you disable one for the other, you are bound to run into trouble and out of resources.I do not mind paying for software, but, I do mind redudancy; my point, if MS is not going to support all file types in media center, and/or WMP, then allow us the option to completely leave it off our hard drives during setup-that goes for Windows Defender also.Bring back the elective feature in windows explorer where both sides of the page expand the filesas in XP.

Small Icons: There are two choices for the taskbar icons:Large Icons and Small Icons. I was running out of space on the taskbar so I decided to give "small icons" choice a try. They turned out to be really small, meniscule, tiny if you will (A magnifiying glass would help! For god's sake, this is no Starbucks! :-)). I can fit 22 Appz with Large Icons, with small Icons I can probably fit 55 to 60. This is a huge difference both in terms of number of icons and icon size. It would be quite usefull to have a "medium icons" options. An option that may let me to pin aroun 35 icons and still be easily visible. small icons are actually bigger than the quicklaunch icons in vista or XP. but i do agree that there should be a medium icons setting

can we also suggest some understandable error messages. for example: i once tried to load WinMPQ, a modding resource for starcraft, and here is the error message it gave "VBR40032.dll missing or corrupt" how about: "A file required for this program to run is not present or is defected: VBR40032.dll" that to me makes a lot more sense and it gives the personan idea of what to do instead of the "WTF does that mean?"

Small Icons: There are two choices for the taskbar icons:Large Icons and Small Icons. I was running out of space on the taskbar so I decided to give "small icons" choice a try. They turned out to be really small, meniscule, tiny if you will (A magnifiying glass would help! For god's sake, this is no Starbucks! :-)). I can fit 22 Appz with Large Icons, with small Icons I can probably fit 55 to 60. This is a huge difference both in terms of number of icons and icon size. It would be quite usefull to have a "medium icons" options. An option that may let me to pin aroun 35 icons and still be easily visible. small icons are actually bigger than the quicklaunch icons in vista or XP. but i do agree that there should be a medium icons setting yep...those small icons are truly hideous :-) I beleive they didnt put too much thought in to them.

Return Quick Launch toolbar by default.

An option to enable medium size icons will do the trick for me. I am not a fan of quick launch, as it isnt realy "quick to launch" for me.

When multiple folders are selected in Explorer the "Open" button in the command bar acts like "Open in new window" and not "Open."Edit:In case it needed to be stated, the "Open" but should stick to what it name implies, otherwise it should change to "Open in new window" when multiple files are selected. And if this is expected behavior, it makes no sense.

When my HP m7260n wakes from sleep the time is often reset to exactly three hours earlier than it should be. So, while I'm on East Coast time, the PC reports the time in Pacific time. There really isn't any more to it than that. Please correct this before the final version. My computer is hooked up to a Sharp 52" TV, using an HDMI connection to an ATI HD 4350 card.

I know this has been discussed before, butwhy remove the classic start menu and quick launch? I'm sure there are lots of people that like the new menus and taskbar, but I don't, clearly I'm not alone, so why not make it an option to enable both? It's the one thing that will stop me buying Windows 7, I'm happy enough with Vista as it's never given me any problems, I will admit I didnt start using it until SP1, this is more of a feedback post that anything else, are there any technical reasons it cant be done? Also I used to like being able to drag a shortcut to the taskbar, but when I try that with 7 it doesnt seem to work, why? Please add both as an option or risk people like me walking away from Windows 7, I normally upgrade Windows and have every version from Windows 95 too Vista, but 7 will not be added to my collection. When I first started with the beta of Win 7 I was dismayed to not find the quick launch bar but after I started to use the taskbar I started to like it. Once you work with it a bit it is as easy as the quick launch bar. Just get used to "pinning" things to it. Ed Propes

Many of the menus in Windows 7 used the old WindowsVista hottrack which can be difficult to see for some people. Update them to the Windows 7 style.So people know what I'm talking about, a screenshot:The old Vista style is used about as often as the 7 style.Start Menu:Recent ItemsShutdown, More Options.Explorer:Command Bar (Share in Library is the only dropdown using the new style, View:More Options usesa bubble-looking hottrack)Menu BarContext MenuRecent Pages (Next to Back and Forward)

Hi Anthony,Sorry for a very dumb question :How can I set an alert for this "Have Comments about Windows 7 RC?" threadThanks & kind regardsPicsoe

Many of the menus in Windows 7 used the old WindowsVista hottrack which can be difficult to see for some people. Update them to the Windows 7 style.So people know what I'm talking about, a screenshot:The old Vista style is used about as often as the 7 style.Start Menu:Recent ItemsShutdown, More Options.Explorer:Command Bar (Share in Library is the only dropdown using the new style, View:More Options usesa bubble-looking hottrack)Menu BarContext MenuRecent Pages (Next to Back and Forward) How did you manage to get rid of the grey? I hate the grey background. Doesnt fit with the rest of the UI. Microsoft, hire someone with a little bit of more UI taste please :-)

You just did ^^Regards, Kristaps.

HI I have Windows 7 RCbuild 7100 Dual booted with Windows Vista Ultimate, i have to say I'm spending more and more time in Windows 7 and I have to agree that this is the best Windows so far I love the new windows start menu is great, love the way you can Cutomize it as well as the logon screen with just an addition in the registry to use my Own images.I don't find it slow at all in fact it starts up quicker, all my devices connect to it quicker than vista. Not had any major issues with program compatablility, except with certain games.There is one thing, in the beta version it would hide my c: drive which has Vista on it but in this RC that has changed and certain programs will try to install into c: drive by default resulting in some problems, is this been as issue with anyone else?

There is one thing, in the beta version it would hide my c: drive which has Vista on it but in this RC that has changed and certain programs will try to install into c: drive by default resulting in some problems, is this been as issue with anyone else? Yes, that's happened to me in the recent past, but only with very old programs with hard-coded install paths. My Windows 7 install is running on W:, and all of my (Windows-XP-and-newer era) programs install to the proper drive. Which programs are misbehaving for you?

Its a little bit more involved than simply right-clicking and creating a new toolbar. This is what you now have to do to get the Quick Launch back: ===================================== Right click the Taskbar and select Toolbars/New Toolbar. In the Choose A Folder window, navigate to: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch. (Where 'username' is the name of the account you are logged on with) Click Select Folder. This will add the Quick Launch Toolbar to the right side of the Taskbar. Right click the Taskbar and make sure that it is Unlocked. On the Left Side of the Quick Launch Toolbar you will see 3 vertical rows of Dots. This is the Toolbar Handle. Use the mouse to grab that handle and drag the QL toolbar as far to the left as it will go. Next, grab the Handle for the Taskbar Icons and drag it as far to the right as it will go.This should switch the toolbars. Next, drag the QL toolbar to the left as far as it will go. This should place it next to the Start Button. Right click an empty spot on the QL toolbar and remove the check marks from 'Show Text' and 'Show Title'. Finally, carefully drag the Taskbar Icons to the left until the QL toolbar is the size you prefer. Right click the Taskbar and select 'Lock the Taskbar'. ===================================== That functionality is still not there as it was in Vista and XP because you now have to do all those steps I listed above where in XP and Vista it was just a matter of selecting a checkbox in the Task Bar properties. If you find it a waste of space then you don't need to turn that option on just like you have the option in XP and Vista, but many others find that pinning all of our frequently used programs to the task bar just makes the task bar a mess not to mention that there a programs that minimize to the system tray since they run in the background like AnyDVD and not the task bar. I like being able to pin programs to the task bar, but I only pin 3, the rest I send to Quick Launch. Yes, there is no valid reason to remove Quick Launch and that is a very fair statement. The functionality of the Quick Launch toolbar still currenlty resides in Windows 7. You have to follow the steps above to enable Quick Launch. The only thing the programmers removed was a freaking checkbox from the task bar properties to enable it. There is no good reason you can give me for the removal of that check box when the functionality of Quick Launch still resides in Windows 7. The only reason Quick Launch was removed was because someone said, "hey, since they can now pin programs to the task bar they don't need Quick Launch anymore". That person probably only has a few frequently used programs so he\she doesn't realize that adding a whole bunch of programs to the task bar makes it a mess. The ideal setup is to have the pin to task bar feature and then the option to enable Quick Launch for those users that have a ton of programs to send to Quick Launch. If all I wanted was a pin to task bar feature I would of switched to an Apple Mac a long time ago.

why dont we just get rid of all the restrictions on deletion and the recycle bin and put in a program that searches for deleted filesas a replacement for the recycle bin. basically what i am saying is make program that recognizes deleted files and allows you to unmark them(i am assuming you know how a harddrive works)and bring them back. then you would be able to effectively recover things that you deleted over a year ago and you wouldnt be limited by the empty recycle bin fuction. an idea?? this would get rid of a lot of the restrictions and permanently solve the problem of accidently deleted files. ohh and here is a totally radical idea. when you delete a file, this new program has a reserve on your harddrive that automatically backs up the file (sort of like Mac OS Leapord's program, Time Machine). that way if the file you are recovering is partially or completely overwritten you can still get it back. i think its windows' turn to copy Macintosh (after Mac OS 9, Mac started copying Windows insted of windows coppying Mac). and also: lets assume people dont want to recover a file more than 2 months later. then the program just cleans out the cache by putting a buffer on it. that way you dont get 2 files marked that you dont want and get others that you do want partially overwritten. If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate)....Stephen Wow, did they bring "Previous Versions/Shadow Copies"to the Desktop level? We have been running it at the Server Level for years (long before Time Machine which is arip-off of Shadow Copy) but I thought for home users having it running would be very beneficial.At work we use it pretty much daily with the 2500 users all being able to restore their OWN files instead of wasting my time trying to restore from backup.Now the question is whether they will have it with all version so Winows 7 or just Ultimate which we can't seem to purchase with our Select License.lforbes

I like pinning programs to the task bar, however, I only pin 3 programs. If I were to pin all my programs to the task bar it becomes an overcrowded mess. Plus, some programs I run minimize to the system tray such as AnyDVD, so I don't see a point in having those programs pinned to the task bar, but I want quick access to them so I send them to Quick Launch. The nice thing about quick launch is that your programs show up in a pop up menu so the task bar doesn't get overcrowded. Ideally MS keeps the pin to task bar feature and then gives us an option to enable the Quick Launch just like in XP and Vista. The functionality of Quick Launch is still within build 7100 of Windows 7. Don't know if it will remain in the official release. Here is how to enable Quick Launch: ===================================== Right click the Taskbar and select Toolbars/New Toolbar. In the Choose A Folder window, navigate to: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch. (Where 'username' is the name of the account you are logged on with) Click Select Folder. This will add the Quick Launch Toolbar to the right side of the Taskbar. Right click the Taskbar and make sure that it is Unlocked. On the Left Side of the Quick Launch Toolbar you will see 3 vertical rows of Dots. This is the Toolbar Handle. Use the mouse to grab that handle and drag the QL toolbar as far to the left as it will go. Next, grab the Handle for the Taskbar Icons and drag it as far to the right as it will go. This should switch the toolbars. Next, drag the QL toolbar to the left as far as it will go. This should place it next to the Start Button. Right click an empty spot on the QL toolbar and remove the check marks from 'Show Text' and 'Show Title'. Finally, carefully drag the Taskbar Icons to the left until the QL toolbar is the size you prefer. Right click the Taskbar and select 'Lock the Taskbar'.

Snipping Tool needs more keyboard shortcuts and to remain resident in memory There are only a "million" screen capture utilities out there. The snipping tool is a very simple one IMO that needs a lot of help if people are going to use it more. At a minimum it needs to have a means to stay resident and minimized to the tray and also support more keyboard shortcuts. <windows>-w for capture a window, <windows>-a to capture a rectangular area, etc. The highlighter and pen are nice, but why no text entry or simple line art? You add those and the tool will be full featured. Make sure it can capture "snips" on a secondary monitor and not just the primary one. Originally posted here -> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/49f56fa3-7203-458e-9106-28b31c6f25fe

9) dont know what ar you talking about what is difficult to see. This article outlines my issues with the new colour scheme in Windows Vista Aero which seems to Not be fixed with Windows 7http://vnboards.ign.com/pc_generalhardwaresoftware_and_tech_support/b22497/106646478/p1/Basically the blue highlight cannot be changed in Aero unless you turn Aero Off. If you go into custom settings it doesn't affect Aero at all regardlessof what you set.Bring back the XP themes please or at least make the blue a bit darker.lforbes

I'm using a LCD monitor and I have no problems with it. And dont see many other ppl complaining about this. Altough the hovering color may be a bit too discreet. My suggestion : - try ajusting your LCD settings or try on another model of LCD - visit the optician.

why dont we just get rid of all the restrictions on deletion and the recycle bin and put in a program that searches for deleted filesas a replacement for the recycle bin. basically what i am saying is make program that recognizes deleted files and allows you to unmark them(i am assuming you know how a harddrive works)and bring them back. then you would be able to effectively recover things that you deleted over a year ago and you wouldnt be limited by the empty recycle bin fuction. an idea?? this would get rid of a lot of the restrictions and permanently solve the problem of accidently deleted files. ohh and here is a totally radical idea. when you delete a file, this new program has a reserve on your harddrive that automatically backs up the file (sort of like Mac OS Leapord's program, Time Machine). that way if the file you are recovering is partially or completely overwritten you can still get it back. i think its windows' turn to copy Macintosh (after Mac OS 9, Mac started copying Windows insted of windows coppying Mac). and also: lets assume people dont want to recover a file more than 2 months later. then the program just cleans out the cache by putting a buffer on it. that way you dont get 2 files marked that you dont want and get others that you do want partially overwritten. If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate)....Stephen Wow, did they bring "Previous Versions/Shadow Copies"to the Desktop level? We have been running it at the Server Level for years (long before Time Machine which is arip-off of Shadow Copy) but I thought for home users having it running would be very beneficial.At work we use it pretty much daily with the 2500 users all being able to restore their OWN files instead of wasting my time trying to restore from backup.Now the question is whether they will have it with all version so Winows 7 or just Ultimate which we can't seem to purchase with our Select License. lforbes I believe, much like Vista, it is a feature in all versions above Home Premium. For some reason they still seem to view it as business feature. Personally though, I think it is of value to anyone and should be turned on in all versions above starter (and perhaps basic). Yes, it is a desktop implementation of Previous Versions/Shadow Copies and if of great value to all users - we all (at some point) will delete something we hadn't intended, or will write over a file when we still need the original. With respect to overall utility, I occasionally will tease Mac users with the comment that Microsoft gave me a useful feature and Apple gave them a cute nameand a bill for more RAM and an extra hard drive. Actually, I do find Mac hardware (and some software) impressive, but it is at the level of stuff like Time Machine that I am most readily reminded of why I have never wanted (and will never buy) a Mac....Stephen

9) dont know what ar you talking about what is difficult to see. This article outlines my issues with the new colour scheme in Windows Vista Aero which seems to Not be fixed with Windows 7http://vnboards.ign.com/pc_generalhardwaresoftware_and_tech_support/b22497/106646478/p1/Basically the blue highlight cannot be changed in Aero unless you turn Aero Off. If you go into custom settings it doesn't affect Aero at all regardlessof what you set.Bring back the XP themes please or at least make the blue a bit darker. lforbes Agreed. This hideous blue color and gray colors are the only color schemes that the developers seem to like. It's beyond me how they can stand these colors all they long :-) In office 2007 you at least get to choose 3 different color schemes. It might be really a good idea to provide 3-5 more color schemes for the user to choose.

why dont we just get rid of all the restrictions on deletion and the recycle bin and put in a program that searches for deleted filesas a replacement for the recycle bin. basically what i am saying is make program that recognizes deleted files and allows you to unmark them(i am assuming you know how a harddrive works)and bring them back. then you would be able to effectively recover things that you deleted over a year ago and you wouldnt be limited by the empty recycle bin fuction. an idea?? this would get rid of a lot of the restrictions and permanently solve the problem of accidently deleted files. ohh and here is a totally radical idea. when you delete a file, this new program has a reserve on your harddrive that automatically backs up the file (sort of like Mac OS Leapord's program, Time Machine). that way if the file you are recovering is partially or completely overwritten you can still get it back. i think its windows' turn to copy Macintosh (after Mac OS 9, Mac started copying Windows insted of windows coppying Mac). and also: lets assume people dont want to recover a file more than 2 months later. then the program just cleans out the cache by putting a buffer on it. that way you dont get 2 files marked that you dont want and get others that you do want partially overwritten. If you have not turned off the function to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files" under System Restore and have not been deleting restore points, you will find that if you right click on a folder in File Explorer you will have an option to "restore previous versions." Windows 7 saves a snapshot of files and changes with each restore point. It is not Time Machine, which I wouldn't want and probably would get Micrsoft sued again, but it works just fine to recover chnages or deletions you make from restore point to restore point. It is also not new - it actually pre-dates Time Machine (was released with Vista Ultimate)....Stephen Wow, did they bring "Previous Versions/Shadow Copies"to the Desktop level? We have been running it at the Server Level for years (long before Time Machine which is arip-off of Shadow Copy) but I thought for home users having it running would be very beneficial.At work we use it pretty much daily with the 2500 users all being able to restore their OWN files instead of wasting my time trying to restore from backup.Now the question is whether they will have it with all version so Winows 7 or just Ultimate which we can't seem to purchase with our Select License. lforbes I believe, much like Vista, it is a feature in all versions above Home Premium. For some reason they still seem to view it as business feature. Personally though, I think it is of value to anyone and should be turned on in all versions above starter (and perhaps basic). Yes, it is a desktop implementation of Previous Versions/Shadow Copies and if of great value to all users - we all (at some point) will delete something we hadn't intended, or will write over a file when we still need the original. With respect to overall utility, I occasionally will tease Mac users with the comment that Microsoft gave me a useful feature and Apple gave them a cute nameand a bill for more RAM and an extra hard drive. Actually, I do find Mac hardware (and some software) impressive, but it is at the level of stuff like Time Machine that I am most readily reminded of why I have never wanted (and will never buy) a Mac....Stephen You guys seem to be using the terms Restore Point and Shadow Copy synonymously.When I search Vista Help & Support for these terms, they don't seem connected at all.

100% agreed that being able to restore shadow copies should be included in all versions of Windows and not just Professional and Ultimate. Extremely useful and stress reducing feature. This one feature alone made it worthwhile for me to upgrade from XP to Vista Ultimate (wanted Shadow Copy, but Business version did not have some of the features that the Home version has. If you don't know what a shadow copy is (its different from a system restore point) see this MS link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/shadow-copy.aspx We probably all know someone who has lost a document to some weird corruption issue with MS Word or a USB flash drive choking. Or just made changes to a document and then regret making those changes after saving the changes. I know someone who was saving an important document to a USB Flash Drive while using MS Word and it was somehow corrupted. Having the Shadow Copy feature is not an excuse not to do regular backups, but we know home users usually don't perform backups. Fortunately for my friend with the the corrupted Word document on Windows Vista Home edition I discovered that "all " versions of Windows Vista perform a shadow copy of a file its just that only the business\ultimate\enterprise versions give you the ability to restore from a shadow copy. The Home version will create shadow copies you just can't restore from a shadow copy. After some searching I discovered a program called Shadow Explorer that allows a user (even on Vista Home edition) to browse through the shadow copies of a file and then lets you restore the shadow copy. I won't post a link out of fear of angering Microsoft, but just search the web for "shadow copy explorer" and you should find the program. But MS definitely needs to include the ability to restore from a shadow copy in all versions of Windows 7. Currently its like this, "ooh, sorry you're document is corrupted fortunately you have a shadow copy you can restore from... oh, whats that? You only have Windows Vista Home which doesn't allow you to restore from a shadow copy? Well, upgrade to Vista Ultimate and you can restore the shadow copy. I don't expect things for free, but there really was not a whole lot of difference between XP and Vista (Direct X 10 if you're a gamer), you shell out around $180 for Vista Home Premium to upgrade from Windows XP and then if you really want a new and one of the few new useful features such as being able to restore from shadow copy you have to pay more money.

Win 7 RC 64 bit is running good here since I downloaded and installed it May 5th. I have been using it as my sole OS since then.All device drivers and corresponding software was installed correctly upon completion of setup and windows update.Good Job MS.Computer: Self BuiltAsus P5E3 Premium WiFi -AP@nMotherboard with latest BiosIntel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83 Ghz8 Gigabytes Corsair 7-7-7-20 1600 Mhz RamEVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 Video CardWestern Digital Velociraptor WD3000 GLFS Had DriveSamsung SyncMaster T190 Digital LCD MonitorHP Photosmart C6380 All in One Printer Plextor DVDR PX-810 SATA Optical DriveLogitech Quick Cam Pro 9000

Hi Anthony,Sorry for a very dumb question :How can I set an alert for this "Have Comments about Windows 7 RC?" threadThanks & kind regardsPicsoe Picsoe - At the very top of all threads there's a link that says "Alert Me"You also have the Alert Me option whenever you post something to this forum.

"1) "my " prefix begone! The confusing -partial- reintroduction of the childish "my" prefix in user directories - vista had this right by nuking "my this" "my that" completely, I don't know why it's returned in partial form for windows 7. When you are quickly glancing at a user folder in vista my mind goes "music...documents....videos" when I glance at it on XP I just see "my my my my" I started using the user directory more and more with vista since it made more sense..... but now with Windows 7... this prefix is back for some of the folders, Please, please fix this back." AMEN. This is simply infantile. It's another regression, this time back to what, "Windows Me"? It's MY computer on MY desk in MY office, so who else's documents are they going to be? And if there's more than one user on the system, "my" does jack diddly to identify any of them. Useless and insulting on both counts. Funny how Apple, who thinks its users are incredibly stupid, manages to field a system that eschews "My". This bears repeating: "When you are quickly glancing at a user folder in vista my mind goes "music...documents....videos" when I glance at it on XP I just see "my my my my " Basic UI design: If an element is redundant and doesn't help identify things, get rid of it . You're just reducing usability by making the user read the entirety of every entry and parse it. Microsoft's UIs used to be a clinic on such basic principles. The endless regressions we're seeing (another example would be deleting things from menus instead of greying them out) go beyond disappointing to truly ominous for the company.

"1) "my " prefix begone!The confusing -partial- reintroduction of the childish "my" prefix in user directories - vista had this right by nuking "my this" "my that" completely, I don't know why it's returned in partial form for windows 7. When you are quickly glancing at a user folder in vista my mind goes "music...documents....videos" when I glance at it on XP I just see "my my my my" I started using the user directory more and more with vista since it made more sense..... but now with Windows 7... this prefix is back for some of the folders, Please, please fix this back."AMEN. This is simply infantile. It's another regression, this time back to what, "Windows Me"?It's MY computer on MY desk in MY office, so who else's documents are they going to be? And if there's more than one user on the system, "my" does jack diddly to identify any of them. Useless and insulting on both counts.Funny how Apple, who thinks its users are incredibly stupid, manages to field a system that eschews "My".This bears repeating:"When you are quickly glancing at a user folder in vista my mind goes "music...documents....videos" when I glance at it on XP I just see "my my my my "Basic UI design: If an element is redundant and doesn't help identify things, get rid of it . You're just reducing usability by making the user read the entirety of every entry and parse it.Microsoft's UIs used to be a clinic on such basic principles. The endless regressions we're seeing (another example would be deleting things from menus instead of greying them out) go beyond disappointing to truly ominous for the company. This seems like an awfully odd thing about which to get some emotjionally involved?Actually, I am mostly joking on that front, since it ismore than an annoyance.If you want to sync the entire Pictures folderin Adobe Lightroom and go to grab My Pictures, it will not complete the action - you need to select the various child folders under My Pictures. FWIW though, you can go in any time and delete the "My" from Documents, Pictures, etc., with no effect on your system (I did). It is really part of a shortcut designation rather the the actual name.In fact if you delete "My" from My Pictures,Lightroom re-acquires the ability to sync the root folder (instead of the just the child folders). It no longer viewsit asjust a shortcut. BTW,if you look through the Vista folders under User, you should see that the same shortcuts exist there too but are not used by any user visible functions. Stephen

I cannot install Adobe Shockwave Player.....it says platform is not supported???? Anybody having the same problem??? Is there a work around for this??? I did not experience this with the Beta Version....

Hi Anthony: Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate build 7100 System has been online for 5 days. System has had ONE day without a critical failure according to the Reliability report, which is now VERY difficult to find. It is no longer located where it was located in Vista. It has no information available in the Help. If you search for reliability in Windows help you get 0 results found. Yet once you do find the Reliability report and click on help from there VIOLA it has a help file entry. Pretty bizarre from a QA Engineer's standpoint. On the positive side: I haven't had a blue screen yet. The system boots very fast. Hardware: Evga 780i FTW Motherboard Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Processor Xigmatek Dark Knight Processor Cooler Corsair 4G (4x1024) XMS2 C4 Dominator in 2 matched pairs Western Digital 5000AAKS 500G SATA II Drives X2 in RAID0 Array on Nvidia RAID controller Evga GTX260 Core 216 PCI Express 2.0 Video Card 896M of VRAM LiteOn SA-201L SATA DVD burner Mitsumi 3.5" Floppy Microsoft Explorer 3 Mouse Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers Samsung SyncMaster 220WM 22" LCD Monitor Stock Timings for all, nothing overclocked. Jeffrey R. Evans Founder Evans Computer Consulting http://www.evanscomputers.com Jag's Gurulog http://gurulog.selfip.net~I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it.~ ----Voltaire

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