Win7 has many many advantages over WinXP that you may not know about. It’s more robust and makes linking computers in the home network much easier.
I do agree with you that software companies are taking away the real root access to files, especially in windows 8, but there’s nothing wrong with 7.
Given time, I will likely find that out. However, I have only had this WIN 7 machine since yesterday evening.
The problem is that what I WAS USED TO was easier. Why did they have to change WHERE things were ? Why do they make it harder to do some of the more IMPORTANT things ?
Both are rhetorical questions because I KNOW WHY. It has always been this way with IBM/MICROSOFT. APPLE made their computers easy to use, and consistent regardless of what programs you ran.
I have been building and programming computers since I was a child, and know that they are all the same, but the way user interface software is written makes all the difference.
WIN 7 COULD have keep tried and true 'techniques' the same. They chose to change them. It's like a car manufacturer swapping the brake and gas pedals on different models of cars, just to make you think it's NEW AND IMPROVED. It's not NEW/IMPROVED and it's CONFUSING.
That being said, the way that WIN 7 handles driver installs is much quicker, smoother, and involves almost NO user action. I like that part.