Windows 7 is weird.....

[switch842]

Working on getting the new laptop all set up. Windows 7 is very, very odd. It'll definitely take some getting used to. No opinion yet on good or bad, just still weird. The no icons on the desktop thing is very strange. And I have 2 HDs (woot!) and a quad core (quadruple woot!), so that adds stuff into the mix. Quad Core = major awesomeness!! Current laptop is only single core. So, trying to work in Photoshop while listening to music in Media Player was pretty much an exercise in futility. Now I can do that with no problems! LOL Oh, and speaking of, I have now been updated to PS CS4 as hubby no longer had the files for version 7 that I am currently using.

So, yeah. Got Chrome installed. Getting that configured. Will get Firefox set next. Installing that just in case I decide to go back to it from Chrome. There's still some things with Chrome that I'm not liking too much. So, we'll see....

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[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Oooh, SHINY! Quad-core is made of win. I have 4 cores in my old PC, but because it's only running XP Pro which is 32-bit, it can't utilize them all correctly. Windows 7 is 64-bit so it can. Maybe I should buy a copy of Windows 7 for that sucker and it might actually run properly, LOL. Currently, it's got 4 cores and 4GB of RAM and it has trouble starting up without freezing. But I know what you mean, it takes a bit of getting used to. My new lappy has Windows 7 and I don't know what I'm doing with it half the time, LOL.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

The start menu is just so weird. And the taskbar. I'm not sure I like it...

[erin-anderson.livejournal.com]

SHINY! Can't wait to see it. 3 weeks and change and counting! Can't wait!!! *JUMPS UP AND DOWN*

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Yay!! I need to find a new carrying bag for it. My current one is too small...

[daniel-shadow.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. My mum brough herself a new lappy with Windows 7 and I have been configuring it. Strange feeling trying to get use to it.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

One of the most annoying things is going to be getting all my music and pics set back up. Since they're all on the D drive now, everything that uses them that had them defaulted to the C drive need to be remapped. Fun....

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

Windows 7 is a bit of a learning curve, but it's about a gazillion times better than Vista was. :) I adore some of the new features it has, like if you press the Windows Key and then the Left or Right arrow key, it will automatically resize your window to take up just the right or left side of the screen. Awesome!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I will admit, I do like the snap feature. That has been very handy for transferring files over. I just need to keep playing and get it all figured out.

[jillybiehn.livejournal.com]

I have Windows 7 and I have desktop icons. Hmmm.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I can get them. I just need to find the right setting for it. For some reason they're not just automatically there. And I'm talking about the My Computer, Recycle Bin, etc icons.

[jillybiehn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, our IT guy installed mine cuz it's technically a University laptop. If you want I can e-mail him or catch him on FB and ask how to do it...

[switch842.livejournal.com]

That's OK, but thanks for the offer. I'll get it sorted. :-)

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really considered how weird Windows 7 is. I started using it on my laptop while I was using Ubuntu on my desktop. And going to work 5 days a week where I used Windows XP for 9 hours a day, with the added feature of dual monitors. My mixture of operating systems just blurred things together I guess.

Jealous of your quad core. CS4? Didn't CS5 just come out? I was wondering what improvements there were. (Although the last version I used was CS3 I think.) I'm still using a combo of Chrome and Firefox. The one thing I hated about Chrome was the inability to save tabs. But then I found out if you close Chrome with all your tabs open, the next time you open Chrome there is a little link you can click to reopen all those tabs. Weird, though.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

There is a setting in Chrome that will reopen whatever tabs you had open last the next time you start it. Under Tools -- Options -- Basic. That first area has an option to "Reopen pages that were open last." I LOVE this feature.

I just poked around a very little bit in CS4 yesterday, so I can't really tell you what's new in it. I actually need to uninstall and reinstall it. I told it to access the internet when I shouldn't have since I don't really have a legal copy. *cough* So it will want to verify the serial number which isn't really going to work. LOL Once I get poking around I'll let you know how it goes. At a quick glance, all the basics looked pretty much the same.

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering what Windows 7 is like. I've heard that it's not supposed to be as big a memory hog as Vista. Not crazy about the "no desktop icons" thing. You can't create them somehow? Everything still shows up in the Start menu I guess?

Doing some real thinking about this since I have to get a new lappie soon.

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I can get the dektop icons to show up, it's just a specific setting. It might also be a specific Dell thing. Pic:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/switch842/pic/01dd0zyq)

They have what they call a dock at the top of the screen. It can be moved around and stuff. I just need to do some more playing and figure things out.

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

Oh, well that makes me feel better. :)

Wow, that really does look different. The dock thing looks pretty cool... I'm not crazy about having stuff at the top of the screen, so I'm glad it can be moved around.