Thread: Windows 7

you are unteachable.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ above all when new tricks do fuck all

using a search function to perform a simple task, fucking lazy brain dead AOLer

I use the search function to, er, search.

WTF do you expect it to do?

^ search files ? or search tasks or functions ?

I am surprised you are not a mac user harrybarracuda, you do seem to fit the profile, or maybe it's simply a question of price and specs for you, but at the end, do you know how to use a WinPC in its full capacity ?

Originally Posted by mc2

you are unteachable.

you are unknowledgeable, keep up the good work with that search function

Originally Posted by mc2

as they say, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

You can't teach an old Frog new tricks.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

^ search files ? or search tasks or functions ?

I am surprised you are not a mac user harrybarracuda, you do seem to fit the profile, or maybe it's simply a question of price and specs for you, but at the end, do you know how to use a WinPC in its full capacity ?

Sorry does one have to repeat every question to you? Are you retarded or summat?

If I want to search the web, I prefer Google (with a few Firefox addons to massage the results).

If I want to search my PC, I use a different set of search tools, because I probably want a different set of results.

If I want to search for the reason God invented blustering trolls, I scratch my head and laugh it off.

And I thought you were the Ninja iTard anyway. How much of Jobs crap have you actually bought?

This thread is for Windows 7. Clearly you don't have a fucking clue about it, or you've been reading iFanboi blogs again.

Reminds me of another twat I know.....

Why do you bother?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

What is it you were doing in Windows Explorer pre-Win7 that is harder or impossible to do now?

Let me turn that question around and modify it slightly:
What is it you are doing in Win7 that has become easier or even possible compared to WinXP?
Do your application programs run faster, are you getting more productive with Win7?
No, I don't think so...
Your application programs, with which you hopefully spend most of your computing time, will look the same, do the same job independent on if they are running under WinXP or Win7.
Your desktop may look sexier but that is of minor importance..

Windows Explorer has been mentioned a lot, are you all actually using that crap of file manager? Maybe suitable if you are only doing a few file operations per day and like to see the documents flying in the air between two folders but not for organizing your files.
The first program that goes into a fresh os install for me is Total Commander and it is a huge relief to get rid off the Win Explorer with all its limitations.
Windows has never had a good toolbox, you'll have to build your own and when you've done that then you don't even have to think about what changes has been made to the tools that MS threw in with their most recent Win version or where a certain setting has been misplaced in MS never ending attempt to make everything more "logical".

Windows Explorer has been mentioned a lot, are you all actually using that crap of file manager? Maybe suitable if you are only doing a few file operations per day and like to see the documents flying in the air between two folders but not for organizing your files.
The first program that goes into a fresh os install for me is Total Commander and it is a huge relief to get rid off the Win Explorer with all its limitations.

If I want to copy files from one location to the other, I use the Send function. Most people don't even know it exists.

If I want to find files, I use the search box.

It amazes me how many people open Outlook and create dozens (or more) folders to categorise things. I use the search function to retrieve emails going back to 2003. Although it's nice I can search for emails from the desktop, I prefer to do it in the mail client, as most of the time I intend to perform a mail function with the results (quote or forward, for example).

So yes, I am more productive in Win 7 than XP because of the Windows search function. It's more accessible and it's faster.

Interesting that you use Total Commander, the few people I know that stick to this never got over losing DOS.



No, it's a nice bit of code, but doesn't really do anything I need that I can't do in Win 7.

You too have made a statement that explorer is crap, and Total commander is better, but could I ask you to give an example of a function in TC that you use regularly that you can't do in Windows explorer?

Or is it simply that you always had a way of doing things and you refuse to change?

Windows has never had a good toolbox, you'll have to build your own and when you've done that then you don't even have to think about what changes has been made to the tools that MS threw in with their most recent Win version or where a certain setting has been misplaced in MS never ending attempt to make everything more "logical".

It's various governments that keep forcing Microsoft to remove tools so that individual ISVs aren't forced out of business. To me, it's the same as people whining about Tescos forcing corner shops out of business. It might be bad for them, but it's good for the consumer, as long as the market share isn't abused.

Why should I pay more for a tin of beans to keep a family in their little uncompetitive family business? I'm not a charity.

Also, if Microsoft put absolutely every tool known to man into the OS, it would be a disaster to navigate through them.

Do you know a Linux build that installs everything? Of course not, most people wouldn't use them.

That's why you choose to add things like a decent Telnet client, a DVD ripper, burner, converter, etc.

I'm buying an OS from Microsoft, not utility software, although for most web surfing emailers, what it has is more than adequate, IMO.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

And I thought you were the Ninja iTard anyway. How much of Jobs crap have you actually bought?

yes I am guilty but unlike you, I have used tools in both world and know exactly where things stand.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

This thread is for Windows 7. Clearly you don't have a fucking clue about it, or you've been reading iFanboi blogs again.

some of us do know what they are talking about, "Signs", it's not because you are just another AOL wintard that it makes you an expert in all consumer computers.

Originally Posted by lom

What is it you are doing in Win7 that has become easier or even possible compared to WinXP?

very good question,

Originally Posted by lom

Do your application programs run faster, are you getting more productive with Win7?

ouch !!!

Originally Posted by lom

No, I don't think so...

Originally Posted by lom

Your desktop may look sexier but that is of minor importance..

exactly, which proves my point, Wintards and Mactards are the same brain dead religious fanatics. They are ridiculous.

Originally Posted by lom

Windows Explorer has been mentioned a lot, are you all actually using that crap of file manager? Maybe suitable if you are only doing a few file operations per day and like to see the documents flying in the air between two folders but not for organizing your files.

bingo, and this is exactly what I am talking about. When doing actual work, not fucking around with the pretty folders, it becomes apparent that the new "File manager" is impractical.

Originally Posted by lom

Windows has never had a good toolbox, you'll have to build your own and when you've done that then you don't even have to think about what changes has been made to the tools that MS threw in with their most recent Win version or where a certain setting has been misplaced in MS never ending attempt to make everything more "logical".

so elegantly said. Amen.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

If I want to copy files from one location to the other, I use the Send function.

you got to be joking !!!! spoken like a true computer illiterate AOLtard. Fucking knew it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

If I want to find files, I use the search box.

oh that takes the cake. So because you are completely clueless, you use the search function for everything ?

do you use Google too to find "Teakdoor.com" ???

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

So yes, I am more productive in Win 7 than XP because of the Windows search function. It's more accessible and it's faster.

so your definition of effectiveness is to be able to use the Search function ???

do you actually know how to use any meaningful functions outside "Send" and "Search" on your Windows box ?

You never used spotlight search on OSX ? It was one of the best features of it.

Anyone who hasn't moved on from clicking start, programs, and locating their app , or minimising windows and clicking on an icon, to 3-4 keystroke search, or 1 keystroke shortcut would get laughed at in a room of IT professionals.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Your living in the xp dark ages, son.
Your still navigating through menus ? Try the windows search button.

let me guess, are you one of those who use google.com search function instead of typing a URL in a browser ?

You type URLs into the browser ? LOL

I haven't dont that for ages. I have bookmarks, when I dont use them, I will search history in the address bar using the keyword of the website, if that doesnt come up i just press enter and it does a google search. Which almost always takes me to the domain I want.

Do you have any idea about computers at all ?

Hmmmm. Butters goes on an "All things Android" thread to tell us about his iPad experience. Then comes on a Windows 7 thread to say OSX is better.

Butters, you are the worst troll I've met. And you don't actually know what you're on about.

You must be very, very bored.

And a closet iTard.

To quote someone I deeply respect, "You're holding it wrong".

Originally Posted by mc2

I haven't dont that for ages. I have bookmarks, when I dont use them, I will search history in the address bar using the keyword of the website, if that doesnt come up i just press enter and it does a google search. Which almost always takes me to the domain I want.

typical computer illiterate MO, my French secretary does that all the time but she has no clue about computers

Originally Posted by mc2

Do you have any idea about computers at all ?

do you ?

So far W7 is decent enough. The one thing that is irritating is the tabs for the internet explorer or things you have open at the bottom of the page. I prefer the old style to this new one. Maybe I just don't understand how to use it properly yet. THer might also be a trick to getting back the old style which has a list of pages you have open at the bottom border of desktop.

WOW!!! There are some really stupid people in this thread.

Win7 is the bee's knees
hell, I even bought a Windows Mobile I was so happy with it

Originally Posted by PaulBunyon

Maybe I just don't understand how to use it properly yet.

there is nothing to understand, you are doing it right, it's MS that doing it wrong

Originally Posted by PaulBunyon

might also be a trick to getting back the old style which has a list of pages you have open at the bottom border of desktop.

unfortunately, nope. Welcome to the new world of Win7, where nothing new was added except marketing non-sense.

Originally Posted by PaulBunyon

So far W7 is decent enough. The one thing that is irritating is the tabs for the internet explorer or things you have open at the bottom of the page. I prefer the old style to this new one. Maybe I just don't understand how to use it properly yet. THer might also be a trick to getting back the old style which has a list of pages you have open at the bottom border of desktop.

You haven't yet worked out that most browsers now use Tabbed pages?

Originally Posted by mc2

You never used spotlight search on OSX ? It was one of the best features of it.

Anyone who hasn't moved on from clicking start, programs, and locating their app , or minimising windows and clicking on an icon, to 3-4 keystroke search, or 1 keystroke shortcut would get laughed at in a room of IT professionals.

Rubbish.


I haven't been laughed at once.


Why you would leave the laid-back, lazy mouse to do manual labour on the keyboard is beyond me.

I understand the tabs. I guess I am used to opening a new page rather than tab and at the bottom of the desktop(my screen) the pages would lay out at length. Now I get a compact icon on the bottom left which shows layers. Instead of seeing each page along the length of the bottom of the screen as tabs I first have to go to the tab then choose the page from that tab. With the older xp/vista I could see the name for each page at the bottom of the screen so I could just click on the tab and I would be there. Now I can't see each page just the icon for Internet explorer. I can see the pages when I bring my mouse over the icon. It's an extra step from the old setup.

I'm not saying I don't like it I'm just saying the old pages spread on the bottom seemed easier to deal with that's all.

Originally Posted by PaulBunyon

I'm not saying I don't like it I'm just saying the old pages spread on the bottom seemed easier to deal with that's all.

I think I catch your meaning. IE has an option that says "Group all similar pages" or something. You can turn it off and it will have an IE icon for each page in your taskbar once more....

I have to leave the office right now, but I'll dig out the precise instruction and post it here later.

i think i know what you mean.

right click the taskbar, go into properties and tick "small icons" then select taskbar buttons --> never combine.

Originally Posted by mc2

i think i know what you mean.

right click the taskbar, go into properties and tick "small icons" then select taskbar buttons --> never combine.

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