Comments on: Looking forward to Windows 8, what Microsoft missed in Windows 7, Part 5

By: italianVortex

italianVortex — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:01:29 +0000

I agree with windows.user for the most part, I was just happy to get away from an operating system that I had been using for nearly a decade and jump on to the Longhorn Beta (Vista) it was nice to use something that was new and be part of the development. That being said when Vista was released it still felt like a beta, what seemed like a short while after I was beta testing Vienna and then the official Windows 7 beta. This operating system has come a long way and is much cleaner and simple to use for any user. I never even use the “All Programs” part of the “Start Menu” (they have to officially rename all this stuff), only using it as a quick search function.
Honestly I never need to search for anything unless I accidentally save something in the wrong folder, which rarely happens, because why would you not organize your files? I agree with kevinmbaron on that point. Why cant people just organize their things, this will just create super lazy people that want a huge “easy button”, a Wall-Mart version of an OS is what you want.
Libraries are a nice touch but I never use them, it is a neat idea that they should move forward with but that doesnt mean they should get rid of showing me that I have a C: and a user folder where I can organize all my stuff the way I want to. If anything they should implement something that helps people with their organization skills.
I dont even know what to say about linking a document to the “superbar”, you can pin a program/application to the bar and pin a file to that program.. isnt that enough, i guess your argument is to create more clutter on this beautiful clean OS.
Noone needs 50 icons on their desktop, the same goes for the taskbar.
I dont think I realized what a joke Vista was until the release of Win 7 and going back to a Vista computer on another persons pc and crying, but it was a step in the right direction, and the evolution of Win 8 is stepping in the right direction with Win 7.
You dont want to be thrown into boiling water.. boiling frog syndrome, i want to make sure we can boil this frog to death the proper way.

By: italianVortex

italianVortex — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:01:29 +0000

By: heyidiot

heyidiot — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:15:20 +0000

Windows 8 my balls?

By: windows.user

windows.user — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:54:23 +0000

I like the history feature of programs pinned to the start menu. Open Office Writer, dream weaver and all my other applications now have the popout menu with all the documents I opened in them and I also have the ability to pin these items to the top of the list.

I find this much more easier and less cluttered than putting all my document shortcuts in the start menu.

For the quick launch bar or whatever it is called now in Win 7 I do what I did in XP and Vista. I create new folders and pin them to the task bar which makes it VERY easy to find my most used programs and nicely sort my application and documents without cluttering the task bar.

I also have the main software I use pinned to the task bar too but if I put too many on it, clutter is too much for me.

If you add the Start Menu to the Send To folder would that not allow you to move documents to the start menu? Not exactly what you wanted and is an extra step of opening the Send To popout menu but that would work no?

I think that the search in Win 7 is better than Vista's, I agree it isn't perfect.

I just recently moved to using my Win 7 based laptop as my main computer system, moving from Windows XP. I NEVER would of done this for Vista. I prefer the classic XP style theme to the new more stylish ones but I have to admit that I get more done and can get to things easier using Win 7 than I did with XP. Damn it... I luv my XP puter but Win 7 won me over after Vista had me almost moth balling my laptop, now it is reversed.

I guess I am in the minority when it comes to preferring the old XP style explorer without the bread crumbs. Once I learned the new bread crumb navigation it is simpler to back track hierarchy but I still reach for the back button wishing it was same as the go up one level that XP windows explorer had.

Hate on me if you want, I just prefer some of the older XP features over certain Vista style navigation and theme features.

By: windows.user

windows.user — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:54:23 +0000

By: Frank Nursery

Frank Nursery — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:55:39 +0000

My question is this. Why would I want my OS pinning programs to the taskbar for me? Windows already takes too much upon itself to do many things I DO NOT want it to do. Let's not add another. If I want an application on the taskbar, I will put it there. And in re: to GTRoberts, I did not know there was a “correct” way to use Windows.

By: GTRoberts

GTRoberts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:59:35 +0000

1. The search issue is a non-issue for 99% of the worlds PC users.

2. Pinning a document to the taskbar is not the correct way of using Windows. In saying that, it WAS possible in one of the early alphas/betas (can't remember which) but it confused too many people, so they removed it.

By: Tel

Tel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:32:49 +0000

@ Mike Halsey,
I believe you can pin a document to the taskbar/superbar and it does indeed pin the Application (if it's not already there) and then pin the document in the jumplist. Yes it's not a right-click function. You have to physically drag it on to the bar but what's the issue with that?

By: Tel

Tel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:29:49 +0000

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:32:52 +0000

if you want a library of pdf's make a new library the tab is next to the organize tab or if your pdf's are in the documents library already click on the little triangle next to the type tab and select pdf then only the pdf's will show up….

By: Jim Bob

Jim Bob — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:26:58 +0000

Wow, there are some real jerks here who are beyond-excessive Microsoft fanboiiis.

By: jonn

jonn — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:11:15 +0000

You can still pin documents to the taskbar…. all you have to do is open up the file in view format and then just drag and drop it onto the task bar!

By: kevinmbaron

kevinmbaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:05:07 +0000

Your issue with search is just a waste of time. I've never cared about search and i never will. Because i know how to organize. I'm will bet good money i have more junk spanning my 7 hard drives then anyone here. Yet I know where everything is, i mean everything. Search is for people that have 40 icons on there desktop. People who have no idea where anything is. It doesnt take much effort to organize your pc life.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:28:50 +0000

A few things:

1) The allegedly user friendly search function in XP was pretty useless for genuinely complicated searches. For the average use, clicking on the start menu in Windows 7 and typing what they want to search is all they will ever do. Beyond that, the search function in Windows 7 is much more powerful and takes all of five minutes to figure out if one is supposedly a power user. If one integrates search connectors (a five second google search and right click to install), it offers far greater power and reach than anything that has been offered by Microsoft in the past. FWIW, I personally think, typing search and then clicking on the place to type your search and choosing your search filters is really pretty easy (an option that immediately appears below the search box).

2) If all of your friends think that the old quick launch approach is in any way equivalent to to the new task bar, your friends wouldn't appear to be very bright or observant. This is the most obvious point of departure from Microsoft's previous OS offerings, and is both far more sophisticated and powerful. It is not simply mini linear start menu to launch apps.

3) I guess it is too difficult to click on the file name and drag it to the taskbar where it will then be automatically added to the correct jumplist for jumplist compliant programs? Instead, lets add more code and bloat the next OS a bit more so that you can right click and pick something off of a context menu to achieve something that can already be done by dragging an object. Sorry but the goal has been to make the OS more object driven and less menu driven.

Stephen

By: Admin_RobertCity

Admin_RobertCity — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:16:24 +0000

I think they were too busy creating something to make the Vista haters shut up and get the XP users to move away from 2001 and come to 2009-10.