Hate to say it but Windows 7 sucks in my experience

Take a breath Drew! Breath, dang it!

No matter how hard you or I try, ya gotta remember.........



With some people, you can get right up in their face and shout "Shut UP!!!!!" and they still won't get it.
That may be the reason why there are so many murders in this world. Ya think? Eh?

I won't mention any names, of course, but SOME people should just get off of a technical forum, since they obviously have NO technical ability and take up a hobby, like maybe Knitting, or bird watching.

I've had to ban people from my own forum, who just obviously didn't have the nack for it and were constantly causing problems.

Drew, have a cold one, on me!

Thanks, mate... feeling much better, now As comes from Harley-Davidson, "If, I have to explain, you wouldn't understand".

Cheers,
Drew

I might! I bought my first Harley when I was a wee boy of 16.
Actually I was never a wee boy. At 16 I was 6'1" tall, 185 pounds and I rode with the Aces Motor Cycle Club.

Bikes were my first true love. Electronics and computers came along much later.

I have 16 computers in my house as of last count, (yesterday,) and thankfully not one of them runs Windows 7.
Yes, I do own every one of them. I built two, bought one and the rest have been given to me by my customers.
And yes again, , , they all run.

I have win-8 on two, Vista on one and XP on the rest.
Does that give you any idea, of how much I love Win-7? (NOT)

I may have to work with it, but I don't have to run it.

Originally Posted by OldTimer

Take a breath Drew! Breath, dang it!

No matter how hard you or I try, ya gotta remember.........



With some people, you can get right up in their face and shout "Shut UP!!!!!" and they still won't get it.
That may be the reason why there are so many murders in this world. Ya think? Eh?

I won't mention any names, of course, but SOME people should just get off of a technical forum, since they obviously have NO technical ability and take up a hobby, like maybe Knitting, or bird watching.

I've had to ban people from my own forum, who just obviously didn't have the nack for it and were constantly causing problems.

Drew, have a cold one, on me!

So you have got your own forum?
That's interesting. What forum is it?
Do I know it?
Is it a Windows forum like this one?
Or just a general discussion forum that has nothing to do with computers?

I remember you mentioned that you have got your own forum on the thread about Classic Shell. So where is your forum? I could not find any forum under your user name on the web. I am just asking. I am not going to join it. Andrea Borman.

W,

" I bought my first Harley when I was a wee boy of 16.
Actually I was never a wee boy. At 16 I was 6'1" tall, 185 pounds and I rode with the Aces Motor Cycle Club.

Bikes were my first true love. Electronics and computers came along much later."

How cool that we share a passion for bikes & riding. Certainly, I was putting across the Eastern Townships on my 1st wee bike in my teens whilst living in Montreal; before there was much done towards audio engineering & well before any thought of IT (whatever that was)... now, here we are.
I am very involved, annually, w/ several charity motorcycle events... rides, shows, runs, rallys, as staff or Executive. Keeps me busy & helps activities & Community.

Cheers,
Drew

I agree that Windows 7 really sucks. I found out that 5.1 sound cards don't work properly in Windows 7 other than testing them out. I tried 3 different 5.1 sound cards. So I found a easy fix to that. I got a couple of 3.5mm stereo speaker/headset splitters to plug all 3 jacks of my 5.1 speakers into. Not a true 5.1, but hey it worked. Shortly after that I tried to use my recording software, but becuase my sound cards didn't have the functions like they did in Windows XP, I really had a fit over it.

So to make a long story short, I rolled my computer's OS back to Windows XP from 7, and let me tell you, I am glad to be back on XP. I only used 7 for "TWO DAYS", yes only two. If you would like to know how to roll back to a previous windows from 7, and still have the "Windows.old" folder on your hard drive, the instructions can be found at:

How to restore a Windows 7-based computer to a previous Windows installation by using the Windows.old folder

In step 4, you have to type in several commands, and you might get a message to the effect sytem cannot find specified file...that is ok, just go onto the next command in step 4. All will be ok...it worked for me, and I am back on what I think is the greatest OS for now....Windows XP.

I'm really struggling, to stay on topic and not start posting pictures of my 1951 BMW 500cc, R51/3, in Europe.

By the way, my forum is a "Gentleman's" forum, where we discuss the latest political topics. No girls allowed!

I also work two 'automotive forums' where we discuss our cars. I've done all my own automotive maintenance,
for the past 50+ years, so I have one-up on those young'uns who don't know a crescent wrench from a torque wrench.

Speaking (ON TOPIC) again, finally, of Win-7, it was a real bummer to me, when I first saw it and realized
that Microshaft, in their infinite wisdom, had disabled Windows Mail, that worked SO WELL in Vista.
It took me a while, but I finally found out that the only file that disables it is MSOE.dll.
Just delete that file and replace it with the one from Vista and Windows Mail is back up and running.
There's a few more steps to that, but that's the core of it anyway.

It's such a simple thing, to get an email program that's almost identical to our old-reliable O.E.6,
which is also what most all of my customers are used to using and would like to continue using.

You can't just import the Windows Address Book though. It first has to be exported from XP in the
.csv format, then it can be Imported into "Contacts" (the new Windows Address Book) in Win-7.

Once you know the rules, it's an easy game to play.
But OH for the novice, it would be a nightmare, to even attempt it.

So I would ask Bill Gates, "why does MS feel the need to change things that have worked for many years,
that the paying customers have known and loved?"

They (MS) even found the 'need' (?) to screw around with our old friend "Solitaire". I've been playing that game for two decades now and I spend at least an hour a day playing it. It keeps my 'Hand-Eye' co-ordination as acute as possible. Many of my old customers play it too and love it. Then came win-7 and a reworked SOL that didn't look or play the same. Grrrrrrrr!
Well, I found out, that if I take Sol.exe and cards.dll out of XP and transplant them into the root directory of Win-7, and then make a shortcut to the desktop, I can play the old familiar Sol on Win-7. "I love it, when a plan comes together!".
That also works for Win-8. Eh?

When I'm setting up a new Windows PC for one of my customers, with Win-7 on it, I'm constantly apologizing
for the things I can't control or change.
After much effort, I do wind up with a PC that looks and acts so much like Windows XP that my customer feels
right at home with it. At that point it's more a labor of love, than just a JOB for me.
They don't buy a new PC to get Win-7..... they buy a new PC because their old one gave up the ghost.
Most ask me if I can't just install Windows XP on their new PC. Usually, that's a NO-NO.

With every OS since DOS 2.0, I've found something to like about it. Even the hated Windows ME, had it's good points.
I had my own set of tweaks and mod's for that OS that made it as easy to work with as '98/SE. I still use the ME DOS
on all my DOS boot, Utilities disks. It can format a larger HD than '98/SE and had an advanced FDISK.
I used it to partition and format my new 1TB SATA III hard drive. NO Problemo!

XP was a huge BEAST at first, like something right out of "Tales from the Crypt". till I found out how to beat it down to size.
A little different take on an old saying would be, "Familiarity breeds acceptance".

So really there's nothing about Windows 7, that I have to do, that I'm not accustomed to doing with previous OS's. Tweak, tune, 'Chop, Cut and Rebuild'. Sorry, that's a TV program.
There's nothing made by man, that can't be improved on. Way too many people are satisfied with imperfection and mediocrity.
(Do we know anyone like that?)

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
O.T.

LOL. I keep telling myself not to browse this thread anymore!!!!
Its a bit like trying to explain things to my wife - I just end up retiring in total frustration.
From now on. A late new year resolution. I will not follow threads that exceed 2 pages!!!!!!

"Rapidly nearing senility" ??? You too?
No wife here! At least I solved that problem. rofl

Since we're supposed to stay on topic, let me say something about Windows 7.

"Yeah, Windows 7 sucks!".
Mr Moderator, how's that for staying on-topic?



"Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" Ronald Reagan

Hi

I can only speak for my computer (which is a high performance gaming rig, as high as 400 fps) but XP neither boots or runs faster then Windows 7 on it, and it's far more stable. I never see freezes and blue screens which I did with XP on a regular basis.

Mike