I like bits and pieces of win7 menus.
1. the search box.
I never need to interact with the menu again.
run, yes I can type music, downloads or whatever a registered program
and up it come.
I like the office ribbon, everything is tidier, though it will be
another learning curve.
What I really hate now are those program that want to use custom
controls oh and the fact that some programes explorer, ie, and a few
command line progs work differently or display to much info.
Sound recorder is also quite bad, some sort of progress bar is always
doing bad things.
At 12:23 p.m. 12/12/2011 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
My problem with the start menue generally in 7, and indeed most of
the interface, is that it all works contextually.
For the past 12 or so years, I've learnt my way around the insides
of windows by looking at what things are where, and putting things
in places that I can easily find myself again.
For instance, "my documents" I've always used for documents, and for
music have a music folder instead. The idea of having music insides
the documents folder is less than logical to me.
I then have start menue icons grouped by use and developer. I have
one folder for audio games, with sub folders for gma, usa games,
spoonbill etc, one for text games with if interpreters and the like,
one for freeware graphical games, one for generally useful programs
such as avg etc.
This way I can A, find stuff more easily, but also know exactly what
I've got just as easily as if I were to read the braille lables on
my snes cartridges.
This is why i don't like the context sensative stuff, especially
sinse it's usually based on last used.
if I get a hankering to play shades of doom, it doesn't matter if
I've not played it for a while, indeed say I've finished playing q9,
I don't want that on the top of the menue.
i suppose I just like being in personal control of where things are
rather than leaving it to a computer filing system which might not
be as I like it, much less be reliant upon a search box and auto
complete features.
As it turns out, you can create folders in the start menue of
windows 7, so I'll probably just try and get as close to my current
setup as humanly possible.
it's not really a case of liking the xp interface, for me, it's more
a case of liking an interface that I can have some measure of
control over. In windows 7, that control is reduced, hence my
dislike for the system, ----
indeed I'm not looking forward to having to cope with windows
explorer in 7 at all, sinse once again that has far more options than I need.
Again, this seems a case where microsoft have unilaterally decided
what is best for everyone to have without any considderation that
people may want something different.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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