I was working on my mother’s computer - Windows 7 - and HATED it. Nothing was where it should be, it was hard to get at and hard to change settings.
I get new computers every two years or so - and stick with XP. The first thing I do when I get new OS is make look like the previous OS. It pisses me off that Microsoft changes stuff, just for the sake of change. Worse, they make it harder to find stuff, or to get at controls. They attempt to simplify things, and frustrate those of us who knew how to customize their previous OS into a useful format. Really, I truly hate them for that.
Oh, and IE9 stinks on ice, too.
“It pisses me off that Microsoft changes stuff, just for the sake of change.”
Come over to the Force, Luke. I rebelled at Vista and went over to Linux. Absolutely no regrets.
TOTALLY COMPUTER IGNORANT HERE!!!
When the hard drive in my XP puter fried I bought a new one...it had 8. Several times MS would up-date it and I would find my screen had changed. A much younger friend (grand child age) would come over and set things right. Then her family was going to move. She showed me how to go to a restore point and stop the automatic up-dates. Now I have a stack of 65 “important” up-dates and 4 optionals. When I read the up dates, I understand NOTHING, so they stay on the list. Since I use the computer only for photos, surfing, emails, shopping, occassional CC payments and access to my former employer’s (I’m retired) benefit center, how much am I tempting fate by continuing to ignore these up dates?
TIA
In Windows 7 you don’t need to know where things are like you did in XP. Just use the search bar to find things.