ridgefieldpc
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Alright, I know I sounds like a 14 year old when I say this, but I am so frigging frustrated at Windows 7. I never used Vista because I thought it was bad, but I find Windows 7 to be worse than XP still.
Microsoft's way of making windows more secure is to prevent anyone, even you, to use your computer. Something that is supposed to take me less than 2 seconds to do is now turning into hours of research and tweaking. I need to make a new text file in my C: drive. Won't let me. I changed permissions, changed the owner (why the **** should I ever have to do that? I am the administrator) and someone said even disable UAC. I don't see how that would have any effect on this.
Many of the programs that I use can't create new files.
That's not even it still. Strange things happen, like keyboard or mouse don't fully work when the computer starts (I can click but can't move - have to unplug/replug mouse/keyboard -microsoft brand).
Explorer crashes every time I get out of add/remove programs.
Sound recorder is a joke. In XP it was so much more featured and useful. You could record and then immediately listen to check if your mic is working. Now you have to save it first and open it with WMP. It's so much more work.
Ethernet randomly disconnects and has to be disabled/re-renabled (drivers up to date). I had to turn off power management for it. Why isn't that turned off by default if it causes such problems?
Microsoft just puts out a product then it's up to us to work out all the bugs. If you go on the Microsoft's site you can read people complaining about problems and the moderators offering solutions that don't fix them. Then the person comes back saying the solution didn't work and the thread goes dead. Because not even the guys working for MS know how to fix it!
But Hey! There are some good things about it!
-It looks better than XP - so as long as I have something pretty to stare at while I spend hours tweaking the OS, it's all good!
-It's REALLY expensive. At least I can brag about how I spent $174 on the 64-bit ultimate edition so I get to mess around with all the extra features it came with. (after I figure out how to make new files in C: drive)
-It starts faster than XP, so I can get to do what I love most, faster: tweaking Windows! Not to mention sign on Technibble and rant to let my anger out.
Anyway, my rant is over. I didn't know 7 could be such a pain. Glad I got it, because I'd hate to encounter silly things like these when I am fixing a client's computer. I can't possibly recommend 7 to anyone. I would hate to do that then have them call back because this and that doesn't work and then have to drive over there and spend hours on it myself figuring out how to do the simple things.
I just feel that anything could happen with 7. I don't trust it at all.
Microsoft's way of making windows more secure is to prevent anyone, even you, to use your computer. Something that is supposed to take me less than 2 seconds to do is now turning into hours of research and tweaking. I need to make a new text file in my C: drive. Won't let me. I changed permissions, changed the owner (why the **** should I ever have to do that? I am the administrator) and someone said even disable UAC. I don't see how that would have any effect on this.
Many of the programs that I use can't create new files.
That's not even it still. Strange things happen, like keyboard or mouse don't fully work when the computer starts (I can click but can't move - have to unplug/replug mouse/keyboard -microsoft brand).
Explorer crashes every time I get out of add/remove programs.
Sound recorder is a joke. In XP it was so much more featured and useful. You could record and then immediately listen to check if your mic is working. Now you have to save it first and open it with WMP. It's so much more work.
Ethernet randomly disconnects and has to be disabled/re-renabled (drivers up to date). I had to turn off power management for it. Why isn't that turned off by default if it causes such problems?
Microsoft just puts out a product then it's up to us to work out all the bugs. If you go on the Microsoft's site you can read people complaining about problems and the moderators offering solutions that don't fix them. Then the person comes back saying the solution didn't work and the thread goes dead. Because not even the guys working for MS know how to fix it!
But Hey! There are some good things about it!
-It looks better than XP - so as long as I have something pretty to stare at while I spend hours tweaking the OS, it's all good!
-It's REALLY expensive. At least I can brag about how I spent $174 on the 64-bit ultimate edition so I get to mess around with all the extra features it came with. (after I figure out how to make new files in C: drive)
-It starts faster than XP, so I can get to do what I love most, faster: tweaking Windows! Not to mention sign on Technibble and rant to let my anger out.
Anyway, my rant is over. I didn't know 7 could be such a pain. Glad I got it, because I'd hate to encounter silly things like these when I am fixing a client's computer. I can't possibly recommend 7 to anyone. I would hate to do that then have them call back because this and that doesn't work and then have to drive over there and spend hours on it myself figuring out how to do the simple things.
I just feel that anything could happen with 7. I don't trust it at all.
