vinifera

@rant of start screen the concept behind start screen is good bud terrible executed (like all MS ideas ) screens are big and long these days and could remove need of start menu but only if you could have either tabbed (or "modern" buttoned) sections instead subfolders that menu has and you'd simply have icons with names below nicely named and sorted just like in folder there's no need for useless scrolling or intrusive full screen crap this don't take rocket scientist to make but they fail at any UX design and make it crap I still fail to see how they can say they spend hundreds thousands of $ on user testing and experience when in final product they always serve garbage

it still beats the DWM requirement as it was GeForce 5/Radeon 9500 for it to work as I remember

LOL I think there are MANY that will argue, rightly or wrongly, with that statement. I also agree that Vista was probably underrated, but that is not the point well said Vista as itself has nothing that much radical improved over XP I personally only liked the introduction of DWM which removes the GDI limitations that XP had which caused that OS to be totally unusable

not on taskbar but you can make shortcut, put it to quick launch bar then right click on taskbar and choose Unlock taskbar, now you can see borders of quick launch then right click in empty space of quick launch bar, click on View -> Large icons (set size of icons to be near big as taskbar ones) good thing with quick launch is that you can make multiple separate bars and place them to right or left of taskbar you can also center your icons on taskbar by using quick launch to be like on mac os

without doing all that stuff could it be because my GPU is direct x 9 and I remember that Vista's DWM (longhorn) was actually dx9 but since win7 emulates dx9 unlike 10 and 11 cant it be coz of my gpu being dx9 and win7 emulation of it ?

+ its ugly its clunky its less efficient

offtopic: even with transparency that OS look so butchered up even reminds me on stardock windowblinds when theme was screwed up and it rendered exactly like here on pictures

I'm bit lost I have good machine to run win7 CPU dual core AMD Athlon (X2 5050e) 3 GB ddr2 RAM and high end GPU GeForce 7950 GT yet with DWM on, explorer takes 2 secs to open browsing through folders lags going into pictures folders and enabling thumbnails takes up to 15 seconds to show them with DWM off, everything is instant, 1 to 2 seconds shouldn't the effect be reversed ? shouldn't the system with GPU usage (which is superior than CPU) be faster ? (at least in drawing/showing things)

until you get thingy like "security sphere 2012" then you will cry

isn't simple uxtheme patch enough ? borders are pictures anyway, no need for hacks

take in consideration that they don't want to give security updates later to claim XP (NT 5.1/2) are less secure than NT 6 series thus the famous "upgrade to Windows ..." whatever its name is

to me whole MS approach is stupid bgates once in past said that purpose of SP to him would be only to deploy patches but even when "last" SP's are being released, there are tons of patches later by the logic there should be "end-SP" that would deliver last "wave" of patches and then to end the product support just look how many patches XP has after SP3... its hilarious

usually when new OS gets SP1 old one gets SP2

I find UI on that fresh paint thingy totally unusable

believe it or not a MS article actually helped (linked in 1st link that submix8c gave) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321410 this:

it was not problem with mdm but with ie's debug scripts and skype seems to use IE components (you can hear its popular click sounds when it loads the frame)

for now it seems it worked, will give it 2-3 days then report back also thanks alot ! It's amazing how IE can cause so much trouble

I personally wouldn't buy it even if it was just 1$ to me simply bad product don't deserve support

our "family pc" has some troubles it runs XP SP2 and 2 days ago we put skype on it, first day it ran ok and then yesterday these started to pop-out when it was ran then i checked even viewer, and got these: PC was scanned with malwarebytes am, nothing was found, I removed previously installed vc++ redist 2005 and installed vc++ redist 2005 SP1 and 2010 SP1 (just in case), since errors were tied with MachineDebugManager then since it mentions WUAUSERV i enabled win auto updates (altho it makes no logic to me), but still nothing was better then I removed skype, and installed it fresh, again nothing and this is the only app causing this mess I don't know what else to do any ideas ? (we don't even mind the event errors, just those annoying popup errors for debug are pain in arse)

only ported ones with alky and those are even bugged

if you want vista stuff then upgrade to vista problem solved

well there is no point giving updates for non final product, even if they fix bugs at least not minor ones

the list is too huge to see anything

I have annoying problem on win7sp1 last week I bought Transcend "JetFlash 350" stick of 16GB and when stiffed in usb port, it takes about 30 sec's to be loaded/shown in explorer while on XP it loads it within 2 sec's is there any way to tweak/speed this up or win7 has some issues ?

XP will not and POS Ready is threated as different product, at least from their end... also in business world its in their interest to shut down XP for good