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.
I’m with you on why change what works. I’m all for adding features, but there’s no reason to remove or move things from where they were.
You want a system that’s hard to get used to, try transferring data to a Windows phone. Jesus.
Apple computers are easy to use, but you’re forced to do things their way. iTunes, for example, won’t let you swap your music files to the devices you want. It’s extremely limited.
I like to open up the hood and make changes that suit me. Open source lets you do that to amazing degrees. Windows is better than Apple about it, but they’re locking more and more stuff away.
I finally took my machine from XP to 7 about 6 weeks ago. The first day or so I wondered if I’d lost my bloody mind, even after a year and some of it on my gaming rig. Then I started realizing how many ways some of the smaller features like “pin to taskbar” or “pin to app” make things more pleasant, and I stopped missing XP right quick.