I love Windows 7, anybody else? :)

Correct, and I stand by that assessment.

I thought I had made it clear that Windows does not impose any such thing. On any sound Windows installation, the action you have described would not cause any problems at all. Millions of Windows Vista/7 users copy files from external drives to their desktops every day without incident. If a simple file copy to your own desktop causes errors, then something in your system is broken, and badly so.

 

valid, but far from excellent.

yeah, sure... then again, actually no, all of the defragmenters sell themselfes as optimizer for performance, and sorting data in a way that it's higher performing. like often used data close to each other, not often used data into the slow parts of the disk, etc.

i like computers because they're simple. to be that, one has to use them in a simple way. it really works best about most of the time.

you know that this was true in windows xp, too. except that you where admin by default, so any virus could install itself into your programs folder as winword.exe, or into your windows folder as explorer.exe

and you know that you don't want that, and you know that YOU want to be in control if something gets into those folders or not. AND you know the only way to make sure only you can control that IS BY USING UAC.

there's NO reason files have to be written in there besides when you install an app or an app gets an update. both of those cases should be verified by you, the user, to show that YOU are in control. which is, you grant the app the right to install. YOU are the admin. YOU accept the uac dialog.

there is NO other reason why an app should EVER write into it. it's against the guidelines on how apps should behave, disregarded by app developers for years, sadly. now they get forced into the rules that got defined years ago for win2000. the rules that got layed out in detail on why they exist and why they make sense.

 

I was talking about files being written to his desktop, as he mentioned.

 

oh, sorry. too much posts to read all trough, just took yours as one for reference.

yes, his desktop should be his, you're 100% right there sorry for wrong-interpreting you.

 

I love Windows 7 too, but my heart will always be for XP

 

I love Win7 for it's glamorous look, and I also like the gadgets. you couldn't get them at XP could you?

 

Not without third party programs.

 

Theme patchers and custom icons.

 

windows 7 is good at home. it looks good. it takes huge amounts of disk space and ram and a fast computer.
but i use XP all day. its just an os. it does what it is suppose to do. it gets the computer started. connects to the network, and runs the database and cad software. what more do you need at work? why upgrade?

 

Windows 7 takes too much of the hard drive space up and it's just a glorified Vista with a few new parlor tricks to enhance the Taskbar. A few tweaks were done to it to make it less ram hungry, so all in all, it's a Vista service pack. So for me, no, I don't love Windows 7 or AKA, Vista 2.

 

If 16GB is too much you may need to upgrade your hardware.

 

I do. I've encountered no bugs to speak of, so I wont be pressed to install the latest service pack when it's released. It feels like how Vista should have been. I like Windows 7 a lot. Microsoft really did well with this release.

 

Ya, just to bad I got Vista before the date you could trade for Win7, so I had to buy the disk myself.

Even though it will be a while, can't wait to see what Win8 will be like.

 

Windows 7 is the future. I like how in the past two weeks, two articles have shown two serious limitation of staying with XP. New sector sizes and IE 9

 

Well, since you could download IE9, only one compelling reason. But the other would be, lack of support (read: drivers) from manufacturers eventually.

 

Well, last time I posted in this thread, I don't think I was using 7 as a main OS. Now I am, I LOVE IT!! Best change I've ever made.

 

I Love This Os!

 

Only thing about Windows 7 that annoys me is that the taskbar is kinda well "fat".

 

Just grab a theme where it's less fat. Though I only think it's a little fat on a smaller screen.

 

You have an option to make it thin.

 

Just right click the Taskbar and go to properties then chose use small icons, now you are good to go..........

 

I like Windows 7 personally, there are many new features, the operating system as a whole is more stable and efficient than its evil predecessor, Vista.

Graphically, I like it better than I did like Vista, especially now that programs such as WindowsBlinds are catching up to exploit the entirety of Windows 7, slowly.

Windows 7 does not take as much hard drive space as Windows Vista, either, pretty good.

"I love Windows 7, anybody else?"

 

Is there anything better than windows registry and logging facility?

 

Anything better than windows registry is no windows registry.

 

Legacy Application still have to run and Windows Registry is needed.
They already improved that by virtualising it.
Windows is not some small market OS where you can break compatibility and get away unscathed.

 

I am loving Windows 7 even more! Installed it on a XPS 400 with a Pentium D 820, a Radeon X300 SE graphics card, and 1 GB of RAM. WOW This thing is fast. I've experienced a Vista system (my roomies) running 1 GB of RAM first hand. Not Pretty, so i was reluctant but curious to see how 7 would fair based on the hoopla about it being netbook friendly. Impressed.

 

If you love XP, you can Also have An XP visual style like this one:

http://satukoro.deviantart.com/art/Luna-port-to-Windows-7-Aero-136960235

 

So, pray tell, what do you think is wrong with the Registry? While you're at it, feel free to explain what you mean by "a better way to log file information" as well.

That's not an improvement, and was never meant as such. What it is is a kludge to work around the fact that a number of clueless software developers still insist that user programs write to system areas of the registry, which Windows of course cannot allow. In such a situation Windows Vista and above now silently create "shadow copies" of the system registry keys being written in the user area of the registry. It's an atrocious kludge that was implemented for the sake of compatibility with applications that are simply not Windows-compatible.

 

I love it. It always make things interesting even on an old laptop.