I stuck to Windows 3.1 forever. Then Win95, and now XP. I really don't want to move on, not to Windows 7 and definitely not to the upcoming 8 (where they can track everything about you but your very thoughts, wear a foil hat just in case). What I really want is a Mac; but can't afford it, of course.
But when the Internet tax beast rose up in PA, I had to make one last Amazon.com purchase before it hit. Which is why I bought this lovely thing :
ASUS N56VM-AB71 Full-HD 15.6-Inch 1080P LED Laptop.
I figured it might be time to move on to something past XP. I was wrong.
On XP, I press the Windows Key. Then press F. That opens Firefox. So quick and simple for anyone with even moderate hunt and peck typing skills.
On Win 7, I press the Windows Key. The press F. The accursed "convenient" search box gives me a list of stuff. I have to press arrow keys a bunch of times to maybe get the the option I want; I say maybe because sometimes the arrow selection is stuck who knows where. Or I have to scroll the trackpad over from across the infinite expanse of my screen to fiddle around the list and just when I've got the pointer positioned and am ready to click, bam!, the pointer slipped, and I clicked the wrong thing! I could pin Firefox to the Start menu in that nasty white box on the left but that too requires some strange voodoo involving lots of arrow keys and/or slipping mouse pointers.
On XP, everything was fairly fast.
On Win 7, everything takes forever with a lot of thrashing to load. This is on a system that's 20x more powerful than my XP rig!
On XP, fewer warning when I try to delete crap.
On Win 7, TrustedInstaller won't let me delete the hideous sample music, and videos, and pictures, and wallpapers, and Multilingual User Interface (MUI) files for languages I'll never use (I speak, read, and write only US English, please uninstall the rest so it doesn't take up my entire drive and resources, thank you). Yeah, I did
find the fix. But no one should have to go through all that. Why bother deleting the crap since the hard drive has plenty of space, you ask? Because every time you do a disk defrag, or search or malware scan, your system will have to go through the 1000s of extra files. Because that's so many more files to be infected/impersonated by malware. Because I love to delete! (Oh, did I say that last one out loud?)
On XP, the search was fast.
ON Win 7, the "better" search is agonizingly slow AND can't find what I know is there. How is this improved search?
And I've only been at this a few weeks! More crap to come, I sure!
After all this time, I still haven't managed to get my now-aging Windows 7 system the way I want it. I despise when a company tells me I have to do certain things at certain times every month, week, day, hour. I've never used Task Scheduler before and damned if they'll ever make me use it!
