What's your favorite/least favority W7 feature?

Favorite: the wifi connection. I'm not sure why, but mine is twice as stable as Vista, and it picks up twice the signals as before.

Least favorite: Control Panel layout. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

No least for me here. Just a matter of getting used to something new.

cheers ...

 

favorite: after installation, only really minor things needed here to change it to my needs, and great networking, homegroup being quite nice actually.

least: taskbar still getting used to, and some other design changes sometimes questionable. but nothing of these is major.

 

No need to install a lot of softwares/drivers is the BEST feature Windows 7 offers to me.

The UI looks great but some of them is not really practical. LOL. I like the design glassy stuffs UI. XD

My hatest thing is Aero Peek, useless. XD

 

My favorite would have to be being able to use older programs in Windows xp mode virtual machine mode since about 95% of my apps are only for Xp.

Least favorite: Is just like the Op's...The control panel is hard to navigate through. And even when you have just icons they are still scattered instead of in alphabetical order.

 

When you launch a pinned item from the taskbar it flashes the predominant color of the icon. Yay

 

Like
Jump Lists
The new Explorer
Libraries = So much potential here

Hate
The start menu = Looks like someone forgot to update it
Connect To dialog box = There needs to be a hotkey for this, cause making a hotkey is lame.

 

For those of you complaining about the Control Panel - the CP in XP is pretty much as bad as it gets. All it consists of is throwing everything alphabetically into a single folder, with icons that at times didn't make sense. This is the definition of how not to build a GUI.

Now with Start search and Control Panel search, whatever you're looking for is just a few keystrokes away.

 

i want to see your app list. espencially, if they really don't work on win7 but actually run in the virtual machine. most that don't work on win7 need a non-virtual system with special drivers/hw access or so anyways.

normally, people just never tried if their apps actually work. maybe some tiny tweaks have to applied, like giving ordinary users full access rights to the programs folder (while that should get virtualised away by the os).. etc etc.

 

Favorite - The function of the taskbar, the way the icons have their own green bar when loading something, installing something, etc, and the way that when you move your cursor over them they have different colours.

Least favorite - The fact that the taskbar is just a hard edge, unlike it was in Vista.

 

yeah, i much preferred the round style of before, too. much move "in your face", too, to see 'there it is'

 

I'll mention features that are new for 7.

Favourite: Jumplists, the gestures for windows, the new taskbar, the organized tray area, wireless takes less clicks

Least favourite: Libraries (when I expand a library I don't want to see the folder name twice), and the fact that the start menu search box takes up more room than Vista.

 

I've always used a trick for the wireless Icon.

If you drag the Connect to menu item off the Start menu, you can make a shortcut and thus assign it a hotkey. Put it on the Taskbar (Win + 1) or as a shortcut (I use CTRL + SHFT + C).

 

Likes: The little neat shortcuts that make life so much easier, including Aero Peek (to see if a download is finished and I have a lot of windows open), and even Aero Shake (for example, I had a bunch of windows open and I wanted to see only 1 to screncap it for a friend), plus the new toolbar and libraries, and snapping windows to half the screen

Dislikes: Not really 7 per say but Internet Explorer and the new Media Player suck, especially the way the music library is handled now.

 

i have an old program (mahjong game) that had problems with not saving scores and the crashing. answer was to move it to another directory (not programs) which the user had full access to. the program needs full access to its own directory.

LIKE: start menu works well on the left hand side which is good for wide screens

DISLIKE: My Documents folder and libraries are still a mess. I like to keep all my own data on a separate partition and its really not easy.
on XP i could simply move 'My Documents' and job done.
File access is still obscure. How can i be administrator and still not have access to some directorys on my own computer?

 

Cause you are a suck admin!

Nah, you gotta realize that while your account has admin privileges, the process you run doesn't necessarily have the necessary privileges or rights.

Then you have to deal with inherited rights..

 

I don't have any "Connect to" in the start menu.

 

exactly, admin should have full control and run programs with admin rights.
users have limited control and are controlled by inherited rights.
maybe uac will be better next time around
having said that, even access permissions on our 2003 server get mixed up sometimes. inherited permissions though linked shares arcross domains..zzzzz

 

I know i hate libraries

 

my least favorite feature?

That Win7 looks so much like Vista (even XP) that some people assume that the same old wives tales that apply to 'fixing' XP automatically apply to Win7.

 

Okay: RMB over a icon on taskbar and have recent files. It would be good if i could put there also link to manual, or any other file related to that program for exemple a web link.

Bad:Interface could be much better. Some windows are still impossible to increase in size.
Control Panel is a disaster. I have put icons at least. It is incomprehensible why Windows guys have such a bureaucratic mind.
I just want to go to the issue more directly possible.
Explorer selecting can lead to confusion. In another bureaucratic move the change your view to see thumbnails etc is in a drop down menu while i have a clean bar without anything there, i could just have all that options in the bar at a click distance. I could just click in thumbnail instead of clicking in dropdown+thumbnail which is double of actions.

 

You gotta turn the option on, noob. Right click the Taskbar.

That's up to the individual program developers.

This is the way it has always been. Change is bad. Means retraining. Decade long nuances is good.

Cause some people's screens aren't as big as your's. I don't want to have to maximize my window to get to the useful options on my toolbar.

 

Why? i pinned a pdf to a video editing application RMB taskbar panel and it tried to open it with application instead of acrobat. That is windows.

You must be joking, did you looked at least? For example i have 8 things in tab that occupy less than half of the whole tab.
Even then doesn't matter, most programs can put, delete icons around in their tabs why not Windows?

 

Fav': Fluidity & ease of use...I just like it.
Least: Not much to complain of yet, still getting used to things!



Cin...

 

Any developer can take their program and add whatever they want to the Jump lists.

I take a 1440 x 900 screen. Then I put Explorer on half the screen, and my toolbar is half full. I click on a Word document and it overflows with options like Email, Print, Share with.

Make it user configurable? A good idea. I counter with this. Shouldn't Microsoft be spending their time on features that benefit more than 1 or 2 percent of their customers?

Case in point. According to Microsoft, only 1% to 2% of Office users ever change their toolbars. And 80% of those users only change at most two buttons. Should Microsoft write and test a feature that will only be used by less than 1% of users? My thinking is powerusers will always find a way and they get creative, rather than settling for how things are(less than powerusers).

 

so how about right-click -> properties, going to permissions and make "everyone" have admin rights?

[quote[ DISLIKE: My Documents folder and libraries are still a mess. I like to keep all my own data on a separate partition and its really not easy.
on XP i could simply move 'My Documents' and job done.
File access is still obscure. How can i be administrator and still not have access to some directorys on my own computer?[/QUOTE]

it's not obscure. and you can move each subfolder of your folder to get the job done.

it's not obscure when you LEARN how it works in the new place.

how can it be that you think you always need full access without keys, locks, or what ever? do you work like that in reallife, too? not close doors, not lock safes, and if something's wrong in your body, you just cut it up to fix it? and your car is always open, too, etc..

it's not like it does not ALLOW the access. it just does make it a bit more hard, to prevent accidental, or foreign accesses to mess up the system.

 

main reason: because it's a feature that should not be used thousands of times a day anyways, so why make it so prominent that the change get high that users click it accidentally, and not be able to revert it because they're stupid?

and if you use it so much, it might be that you have strange usage habits that should need to get retrained? i'm kidding, you can not be wrong

 

Half screen, yeah 720 pixels. Yep that is the typical screen.

Yep that is it, i have freeware apps with that but the poor starving Microsoft can't.

I guess that was the reason for Office ribbon everyone is always clicking in all buttons...accidentally.
The spin level of apologists reaches new heights, Macintosh level!

 

Um...OK, everyone?...Can I tell my favorite...?
Favorite: Live Preview--I like seeing actual windows while hiding the others when the pointer hovers over thumbnail previews.

Least favorite (well, wished feature): Live Preview...again. I wish I can trigger Live Preview just by placing the pointer over Taskbar button rather than thumbnails.

 

I think the only thing I don't like is that Aero seems a bit less smooth all around, which I think is because MS dropped the frame rate of the desktop, and I've used Vista and 7 side by side on comparable hardware just a few days ago, and I noticed that.

Oh well; if anything, the Libraries are annoying; the default folder is Public? No, stupid.

 

the default folders here aren't the public ones. but i agree on the aero, it was better on vista.

 

Likes:
-Stability
-Compatibility
-Speed
-Aerosnap

Dislikes:
-None

 

Odd, my default folder is my user folder.

 

Likes:

New GUI
Speed
Taskbar Grouping

Dislikes:

No Sidebar....[Atleast Permanent Sidebar like Vista]

 

favorite feature - you can right click on usb drives in windows explorer and disconnect them from there!

least favorite: search is absolutely horrendous. easy to use my . you need a degree in rocket science to figure it out. i just want to search for whatever and give you a location. that's it! what's with the 50 other options?!?!?!?

 

To search, you hit the start button and type what you want. If you want the location, right-click and select "Open File Location" or "Properties". What's so hard about that?

 

Another thing, this time good i forgot about W7: Asking to automatically rename files when moving, coying files when there are similar named ones inside a folder.

Another thing good, the extended with services and resource monitor. They could go further and give all hardware management in it, system information, msconfig etc.

 

Likes : Simple Wifi network join, jumplists, stability, libraries

Dislike : Jerky window minimize/ maximize animation, non-intuitive Control panel again.

 

The Control Panel was never very intuitive. But its layout is legacy, which is a good thing in my mind. Helps us old school users cause everything is where we last remembered..

 

Like I said, the old control panel was absolutely horrible. The only way anyone can use it with even a tiny bit of speed was to memorize where every icon is. And since it's been so long, people have done just that.

But imagine buying a new program or game where every setting was just an icon in a folder. All your video, audio, controls, etc... just splashed randomly about. Or imagine if this forum didn't have different sections. Every thread created is just thrown to the front page in the order posted. That's the definition of a bad user interface.

 

And that is the definition of our much beloved Control Panel layout.

 

control panel search (even in startmenu) FTW

and the layout, when not in icon mode, isn't that bad actually. no legacy => you have to relearn it. but once done, it's actually quite quick for most parts (which, sort of, is the goal, not? )

but then gain, searching beats everything

 

Fav : windows 7 XD

Nah
Fav: I Control My System Not the opposite - Network Center - action center - record steps to solve problem - library - WMP - Taskbar [everything] - aero


wish: Aero need more enhancement on its features.
Dislike : the glassy look on the taskbar. i like it transparent but not glassy

 

Ughh, I disabled the transparency BS. I wish they made an Expose style feature. Would make it easier to sort through those photos you are working on in Photoshop.

 

i do not agree. there are files and folders that are not accessible as an admin user. in my next post,
"admin should have full control and run programs with admin rights.
users have limited control and are controlled by inherited rights."
admin is administrator, full control and access to everything and every file.
if i choose to use that user it is my responsibility on my computer.
i do not need m$ to hold my hand

 

Good: Taskbar and Aero Peek, just awsome
Bad: Not that configurable power plans and the lack of a good battery meter tool

PS: Control Panel: Yes, it's cluttered in symbol mode, in the category mode however, it's structured.

 

I much prefer the Windows Vista/7 Control Panel layout.

When in category mode I find it much easier to find what I want.

 

Funny, every Windows edition b4 Vista was like this. Admin accounts had all right no matter what. Everything they did and everything that run under them had admin rights.

It cause this nightmare. Developers got lazy. Users got lazy. So Microsoft decided enough was enough.

Plus you'll realize every modern OS treats admin accounts similarly to how Vista/7 does. Your account may have admin rights, but by default not every single frigginn process you launch will automatically have admin rights. It's the concept of least privileged. Pretty much every other OS does this.

 

if you think so, you have more need to get your hand held than normal users, most likely. when ever you think you know better, you most likely don't. at least not if you can back up that you really know something. which you can't, in that case.

 

a new like for me: MSFT finally getting presentation foundation and Aero sorted out so that ALL of the Aere features are supportable across virtual desktop apps like Dexpot (and their neat-o cube layout).