Windows 7 SUCKS! (rant)

[numnutz]

hmmm i dont think any thinks your stupid...angry maybe, definitly frustrated. going through all the posts quickly I didnt see if you mentioned the version of Windows 7, I see something that said 64bit but is it ultimate, business? also did you try and wipe it and start all over and see if anything cleared up on its own? just curious...deep breaths count to 10 slowly.. I always say looking for us all Microsoft is only developing software God help us if they were shipping out the cure for cancer or something, how many revisions or service packs would they be allowed and still have a company....

 

[NickCat11]

Update:
Yes it was a clean install.... FFS I am not stupid.

Now everytime I start Windows I have to disable/enable my LAN adapter. I told you it sucks! What a nightmare. Yes they are new drivers, yes my hardware is compatible. No, you don't read what I post before replying do you?

And I don't think DRIVERS would have anything to do with WRITE PERMISSIONS. Or are you gonna say that my mobo is bad and needs to be replaced?

Clean install. Updated drivers. Compatible new-ish hardware. Seasoned tech. Windows 7 suckiness all the way. It's Vista Redux!

Throw it out and buy a new one. Better yet, send me the troubled one. Case a beer says I can get it going for ya

 

[Tweak]

Throw it out and buy a new one. Better yet, send me the troubled one. Case a beer says I can get it going for ya

I don't need the beer but I'd take a case of oil for the rices perhaps? haha, I am amazed at such troubles, no one I know of has had such problems.

 

[Screwloose]

I read over most of what you guys said and a couple of things:

My hardware is awesome, except for the ATI video card because ATI drivers suck. My computer is not old, it is a dual core, ASUS mobo, 4 GB ram, RAID 0.

Yeah I don't know what is up either. I did download the RC before this and noticed the explorer crash issue, but didn't use it enough to find the other problems. I just gambled that MS would fix these things by the release date.

Oh yeah another 2 things I noticed: Sometimes copy and paste doesn't work right (you copy but the clipboard is still empty). This happens in multiple programs, like Paint.Net and Firefox.

Also when you right click on hard drives in my computer window, sometimes it brings up computer properties instead of the hard drive.

And yes I was quite angry when I wrote that, that's why I put (rant), but these problems still exist. It's 64-bit edition and some people have been having more trouble with that than the 32bit version according to the internets.

Please don't hate me because I'm experiencing all these things for real. Like I said my hardware is awesome, I have never had problems with it. Even XP 64bit ran better than this.


Windows 7... it's a downward spiral since I installed it. As I use it more and more things break. Fixing one thing through registry or permissions breaks another. It's too bad because I heard so many good things about it.


To the new car argument: If you spent a lot of money on a new car, and realized that it's worse than old car, wouldn't you be ******? I rest my case. =)

I have an ASUS mobo, NVidia card and 4 gigs and am running the 32 bit version ( I am a gamer and at the moment for my purposes 32 bit works best for me ) and have had almost no problems and that is with installing 4 different versions over the course of a year.

And no I am not hating on you man ... its just that you are having such strange problems and so many... makes me wonder if you are making lots of different changes in haste then seeing symptoms from the combination of changes you are making.

I used to work with a guy who would do that and swear that he systematically went through every solution on a box and it would end up in worse shape than when a customer brought it in ... I would go behind him and fix most of his work and show him what I did and he would always say "But I did that!" .... what he would leave out was that he would make 3 or 4 changes all at once thinking that "one of them would fix it and it probably needed the other changes anyway" ( his words not mine ).

I would think the best approach would be to start from scratch and build the OS testing as you go - start with the base install then work from there.

Good luck.

 

[Techie]

Hmmm, Have you tried swapping out the Power supply for a new one? Sometimes a bad power supply can mess up the rails and cause system instability that seems to come from nowhere. Also, ASUS mobo's can be finicky, I love em, I think they are the best, but they need a clean rail.

Try the Coolermaster Elite 460 PS, it's cheap, solid power output on dual rails and quiet as can be (aka silent).

FYI, I'm running a gaming box on Win 7 Ultimate (32bit), Athlon II X4 620 with 4GB Kingston Hyper X DDR2 -1066,XFX Radeon 5770, Antec Six Hundred Chassis , CM Elite 460 PS and have not rebooted in almost 3 weeks, oh yea, it's also Overclocked! This OS is ROCK solid.

1 Other notebook of mine is running Win 7/64 Bit, Also running Mint Linux on another box, along with 2 other Distros one a Live CD (PuppyLinux) and the Other a WiFI Sniffing box on a netbook.
Another 2 Boxes are running Windows XP and finally a Mac.
Windows 7 is my fav by far!!

BTW, If problems persist, I'd also swap the RAM. Check your Logs and see which services are getting misled, you're a Techie right, so I'm sure you'll figure it out. ;-)

- Techie

 

[rbwarp13]

Did you run the Windows 7 Compatibility Check tool first?

 

[1101doc]

I'll just say that I'm very disappointed that the problem with the "System Tray" not consistently showing/hiding icons has not been corrected.

I'm also not happy that win7 does not have the ability to create auto-hide toolbars at the screen margins. I have used those for so long in XP that they are second nature.

And +1 about the inability to do much without turning off UAC- which I have done. Ditto the dang resource hungry Search Indexer. Everything is faster anyway.

Too bad that discrete controls can't be applied. Seems I want to stop one thing and several others go with it. I think that win7 is more like Ubuntu than it is XP. Microsoft is going GNOME- and I'm a KDE guy.

If I wanted eye candy I'd be running Compiz. I just want a win32 platform that works. What I am waiting for is an XP transformation pack for Win7. I bet I won't have to wait long....

If I didn't have to know it for my customers I'd just ditch it altogether.

 

[Techie]

Suffice to say Win 7 does "work" for most people. It's not perfect (no OS is), but it's damn good. I will say those Windows 7 commercials are terrible though, MAC wins hands down when it comes to advertising. I always say the sale is in the Sizzle!

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