Hi another way to find the shut down button in win 7 is to press the windows key and right arrow.
hth Warm regards and blessings Maria, Joe and FurBabies Email: iMessage:[email protected] On 18 Dec 2013, at 4:45 am, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dark, > > While I take your point I think your biggest problem comes down to > unfamiliarity and lack of experience with the OS rather than the user > interface itself being bad. Remember you only used Windows 7 for a > very short amount of time and you have not had the time or experience > to learn how to do things differently from XP which causes > frustrations and a dislike of the new user interface. > > For example, you said it gets on your wick trying to find the Shutdown > Button. It is not hard to find at all. Just do control+escape, hit the > tab key three times, and you will land on the Shutdown Button each and > every time. Not complicated at all, but I figure you probably sat down > to that Windows 7 machine and tried to navigate the Start Menu the > same way as the XP Start Menu. Obviously, that won't work and you need > to relearn how to navigate the Windows 7 Start Menu because it is > arranged totally different. > > My point being is you hate the new interface in large part because you > don't know it. It is unfamiliar to you. You have to forget about the > things you know and have someone teach you new shortcuts and ways to > handle the interface, and for you, at least, there is no benefit in > doing it other than for the sake of upgrading. That's fair, but do > recognize your dislike has less to do with the interface being bad but > more to do with your lack of experience and familiarity with it. I > think if you had as much experience with Windows 7 as XP you would > probably feel differently about the interface. > > Cheers! > > > On 12/17/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Tom. >> >> Well that is certainly true, when anything is renamed and redesigned people >> >> are going to have to spend more time relearning it, however I do think >> blindness plays a factor just from my experience of when i could do a task >> visually as opposed to when i just had to rely on a screen reader. >> >> To take one example, one thing that got on my whick about the windows 7 >> start menue was the fact of it's tree view rather than it being a list. This >> >> meant I had to spend considderable time finding basic options such as >> shutdown etc (I suspect classic shell fixes this to an extent). >> >> To take one example, when discussing smugglers the upgrade from smugglers 4 >> >> to smugglers 5, one question which came up frequently was where the boarding >> >> skill was, since it's tree position has changed in the interface of the two >> >> games since the trees and the way the skills are distributed among the >> professions have changed./ >> >> Now, S5 actually has a vastly superior and easier to navigate tree than s4, >> >> and there have been several handy access fixes such as it now showing what >> previous skills are required for later ones when you bring up an info >> window, thus making it no longer necessary to physically learn the tree view >> >> as you had to in s4. >> >> For a sighted user however, the relocation of this skill wasn't an issue. >> They could just look at the tree and bang, there it was, indeed the very >> concept of tree diagrams, though not inherently a difficult matter is a very >> >> visual one to grasp in it's entirety without being able to overview the hole >> >> tree, (one reason for the fix of showing skill requirements which I >> suggested for the game). >> >> With windows 8 and 8.1, well I'll have to see if I can find a system running >> >> it I could try at some point, and I do in fairness see advantages to things >> >> like weather and basic news alerts on the desktop, (I like having it on my >> Iphone). >> >> Beware the Grue! >> >> Dark. >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [email protected]. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, >> please send E-mail to [email protected]. >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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