Kens Adventures of Windows 7

Skaarj requested that I write about using windows 7 as I've just switched now.

Installation was less than stellar, there was a 10-15 minute wait before the system loaded and continued installation, leaving me to think something was wrong, it was just sitting there with a blue screen with a bird on it, no "please wait" or anything..

Ok, going forward since I was installing on an SSD I got a button below at one point that said "select drivers", I foolishly checked it out just to see if my SSD was in there. Shouldn't have done that, as there was no drivers, but once you click that button you HAVE to select something. There's a cancel button, but that only gives you an option to end the installation and start over, oh joy!

Start the installation over, wait 15 minutes at a blue screen with a bird, then continue, and this time I ain't touching nothing.

After about 40 minutes I'd guess the installation was over and windows7 was running. Unpacking files took ages.

There's a lot of worrying reboots, like the system reboots, then at the bios screen it stops for a second and then reboots again a couple times, oh oh somethings wrong I thought but no, it just did that for some reason.

So far I like it, there's some things I don't like though:

I use a tabbed browser, Opera. The new thing is that every application that spawns multiple windows will be contained inside the thumbnail in the taskbar. That means that when I have a million tabs open in Opera I get a huge list of previews when hovering over the thumbnail. I can just click the thumbnail on the taskbar to minimize or maximize an application once more than one window is open. There's a minimize maximize all windows button on the taskbar, but it's waaaaaay over by the clock area so I have to move my mouse to much.

Then there's a new cool feature called "libraries" Basically it's like the my documents folder, only you can include other folders in a library. Say you wanted all your TV episodes in one place you could create a library called TV and add the folders where your TV episodes are stored. Only it doesn't work with network drives, for that to work you have to select "make this folder available "offline" Great I thought, that's what I'll do. Big mistake because that makes windows 7 COPY ALL THE NETWORKED FILES TO A LOCAL CACHE. See, I have an SDD of 80GB so there's no fucking way I could do this for my 3 2 terrabyte mybook drives.

Looks pretty negative right now, but that will probably change once I get more used to windows 7

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