Windows 7 Shortfalls

Like I said "Good Luck" with that.

Just thought of this when I woke up. Here is a link to an old thread that had many people with the belief that xp was nothing great. So it just really is a matter of time for people to get used to it AND companies to make more stable programs for the new OS until we see a decline in "I hate version XX of windows".

Old Windows XP Thread

What I'm trying to say is, I understand you don't feel comfortable with Win7, however progress doesn't stop because someone doesn't like it. The most successful thing to do is adapt, cope, and embrace the changes. I even looked at Vista and 7 with adversity but I also decided it was more prudent to observe other peoples reactions first so I knew what common issues to expect and then when I got the versions I tried to have answers already to solve them. After that it was me solving problems as I encountered them. The nice thing is after I observed people I realized that about 90% of the "problems" were people who were afraid to learn a new way of doing things. Win7 turned out to be a great experience and I was more than happy to install the 64bit Ultimate version on my main system. Oh and by the way 9 out of 10 programs that "won't work" can work if you have the patience to research why they won't work in the new OS.

Hi guys,

Thanks Niclo Iste for your professional opinion without making me feel like a retard. Once again you hit the nail on the head, I really do appreciate your feedback and the time you take to write a quality reply.

I also would like to follow up with something I mentioned in my previous post and it has been bugging me but I just haven't had the opporunity until now to make a correction to my last statement. I was blaming the windows 7 shell for loading extremely slow at start-up. To my surprise changing to the classic modified Luna theme did not correct my problem as I originally thought. The delay at start-up turns out to be caused from a mapped drive letter I have to my NAS box, which isn't always turned on. When NAS device is running Windows 7 boots up to the desktop fast. But when that connection is disconnected because my NAS box is turned off there is a good 15 second delay before the desktop loads. I know there is probably a time out tweak for this in the registry to set the time out value but its really not an issue, now knowing what it is.

Anyway I just needed to clear the air since some people around here think I make up problems.

Take care

You're welcome. I also thank you for the compliment. Unfortunately my experience with the registry is limited and my experience with mapped network drives is even more limited. Hopefully someone with a better grasp on those topics can assist with the delay caused by the search.

:bor:for myself i did find annoying bugs in win7,and i won`t go in a flaming argument,so i won`t go any further,over all it is the best os to come out from m.s.,it works real good from the start the only real problem is that i get tired of having to learn the ins and out of a new os,xp is not better it is only that after a few years working with it we know most of bugs and quirrks anr the cure for them,and i find it a pain in the bottom to have to show user some easy thing that they should see for themselve,my two pennies:wave:

I am frustrated that I use to be able to map a network drive letter in Windows XP to an FTP server using either a combination of the LMHOSTS file and the NET USE command or via a free client by Novell called netdrive. However, Netdrive is no longer free for commercial use but at least their latest version works with Windows 7. It can be found here: http://www.netdrive.net/

A lot of people on the internet show how to map a folder to a network drive, but this doesn't associate a mapped drive letter as most programs require a drive letter to save a file with the exception of Microsoft ntbackup, go figure.

XP could always natively map an ftp source to a folder anyway.

Windows 7!! – The XP downgrade – and that wasn't MY idea.