Gideon Zhi wrote:
I just installed 7, mainly because my laptop came with Vista and 7 was free. (Roommate's got 8 Win 7 Pro keys through his school.) I figured it couldn't be much worse! It's much faster than Vista so far, which is nice. I can actually run an Aero theme without my system chugging like a coal locomotive. I'm of middling opinion on the new taskbar grouping/icons/behavior, but I think I'll get used to it. Also, with user account control turned on, I couldn't save anything to my c:\ root with Firefox (wtf!) I mean, I kind of understand *why* but still, that @#$% got turned off right quick.
I do have a few gripes, though.
* They've removed the "Size" display in the status bar. Instead you need to bring up the big ugly clunky "display pane" and if you select more than 15 items, you apparently have to hit a "Show More Details" button. THEN you have to do it AGAIN if you select any more items. This is bogus.
* The vertical spacing in list view is a bit too wide for my tastes.
* The horizontal spacing in the list view is no longer consistent. Each individual column is now as wide as the widest name in that column, as opposed to all columns having the same same width. I prefer the way it used to work, because it forced me to keep my filenames shorter, and it made everything look more uniform.
If anyone has any tips on any of the above, let me know.
I would appreciate hearing those tips, too.
In the limited time I experimented, I could find no way to call up classic styles in the Start menu or file structuring.
Icon sizing irritated me especially.
I'm happy I can turn off that restriction to saving on the root directory. Didn't take time to run it to ground.