Win 7 cr@p issues....

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VinnyBarb

*HRH in real life*
Hi good folks, does anyone know if one can disable these "#$@%^ features" in Win 7 where, if you have 2 Win Explorer windows open side by side and you would like to copy files across from one to the other. If one does not do this carefully and gets to close to the side of it, the @#$%$ file listing in the window explorer pane of the one you would like to drop files into shifts out of sight so you can not see the folders in it and hence you have to abort the file transfer and start anew. Is there a way to simply do this file transfer as XP Pro does it without jumping and shifting around?

Also, the task bar on the bottom of your desk top, when having some open windows displayed on it, if your mouse pointer comes to close to it, these window panes shoot a bl**dy mini semi transparent @#$%$# window up, that obscures some few inches of the desk top or of any program you happen to work with, just above the task bar. When I work in 3DS Max, the boxes to type some values into it are soooo close to that task bar, a few millimeters too far down with the mouse pointer and these bl**dy mini semi transparent @#$%$# windows shoot up and obliterate the boxes to place values into Max.

Is there a way to disable all this whirly, moving, jumping in your face, what have you "jig a ma jig" business bl**dy "features Micro Sh!t thinks you really, really want and think you will swoon over these and can not live without these?

If I were in charge of M$ I would imprison all these stupid idiotic morons of their programmers who come up with all this cr@p, for several years with NOTHING else except a PC with only @#$%$# Win 7 on it, nothing else, so they can play with themselves silly. Why oh why do these Richard heads think one needs ALL that cr@p in an OS? Why can't they make a bare bone OS and I can choose what I want with it or add to it?

Anyway, I am so frustrated with above that I am thinking to uninstall Win 7 and go back to the best ever Window Version of XP Pro SP3. Unfortunately, with some new programs you will need this other cr@p of Win 7.

Frustrated

VinnyBarb
 
Actually, Vista works best for me, It never crashed, but has similar setting as XP while using Win 7 programs
 
VinnyBarb said:
Hi good folks, does anyone know if one can disable these "#$@%^ features" in Win 7 where, if you have 2 Win Explorer windows open side by side and you would like to copy files across from one to the other. If one does not do this carefully and gets to close to the side of it, the @#$%$ file listing in the window explorer pane of the one you would like to drop files into shifts out of sight so you can not see the folders in it and hence you have to abort the file transfer and start anew. Is there a way to simply do this file transfer as XP Pro does it without jumping and shifting around?

Also, the task bar on the bottom of your desk top, when having some open windows displayed on it, if your mouse pointer comes to close to it, these window panes shoot a bl**dy mini semi transparent @#$%$# window up, that obscures some few inches of the desk top or of any program you happen to work with, just above the task bar. When I work in 3DS Max, the boxes to type some values into it are soooo close to that task bar, a few millimeters too far down with the mouse pointer and these bl**dy mini semi transparent @#$%$# windows shoot up and obliterate the boxes to place values into Max.

Is there a way to disable all this whirly, moving, jumping in your face, what have you "jig a ma jig" business bl**dy "features Micro Sh!t thinks you really, really want and think you will swoon over these and can not live without these?

If I were in charge of M$ I would imprison all these stupid idiotic morons of their programmers who come up with all this cr@p, for several years with NOTHING else except a PC with only @#$%$# Win 7 on it, nothing else, so they can play with themselves silly. Why oh why do these Richard heads think one needs ALL that cr@p in an OS? Why can't they make a bare bone OS and I can choose what I want with it or add to it?

Anyway, I am so frustrated with above that I am thinking to uninstall Win 7 and go back to the best ever Window Version of XP Pro SP3. Unfortunately, with some new programs you will need this other cr@p of Win 7.

Frustrated

VinnyBarb
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Get Windows 8, after 1 hour with 8 you will be on your hands and knees begging to get Windows 7 back again.
 
Seriously, MS lost their OS format after Win7, and I absolutely hate Win8, and I'm not buying it until MS comes with old fashioned XP style OS again
 
From my interpretation of the original post, I suggest that you make sure the originating explorer window, i.e. the one you are copying from, is on the left hand side of the screen, and the receiving explorer pane is to the right. This way, the receiving pane should not "shift". The other option is to "copy & paste", - you can have two explorer panes opened or have them tabbed. Works fine for me.

Bob (CRO)
 
Robert2d6 said:
Get Windows 8, after 1 hour with 8 you will be on your hands and knees begging to get Windows 7 back again.
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Is this why we can only get an upgrade to Win8 from M$ in Oz, so you can not change back to the old Window you had before installing the new one? Try buying a full install from M$ Australia. You can only get a full install of Win8 from some private smaller outlets or OEM versions. If I ever would install Win8, which I wont, I would install it as a dual system.

I bought an Acer Laptop last week and specified Win7 on it if I buy it as the supplier had Win 8 on it. He changed this to Win 7.

VinnyBarb
 
Could always use a free file manager such as Free Commander, can't go wrong with a Dual Pane file manager.
 
You can also disable the Aero effects, like the clear windows, etc., by choosing another theme in the display properties.

Right-click on your desktop.

Choose Personalize and choose a non-Aero theme from the selection.

The other alternative, which I did on my laptop to boost performance, is to disable Aero totally by choosing the Classic theme which looks like Windows 2000.

John
 
I never use Win7 or XP when doing any file manipulations.

Have a look at 'Directory Opus' by GPSoft.

I have been using it since back in the Amiga days and it makes all file handling a doddle.

You can even copy a single file out of a zip file without un-zipping it.

Set it up as a dual display and away you go.

Dennis
 
Hi good people and a BIG THANK YOU as you helped save my sanity. I have the old window look now without any of the "newfangled" dodahs, whirlies, jump ups and gadgets anymore. It is frustrating when in 3DS Max, you add or change something, export it, switch to TS12's CM and copy the xxx.im file to the test folder in CM. Look at it to see if it is OK and back to 3DS Max and start the whole process over and over again.

I am a HAPPY CHAPPY again :clap:.

@DeRiCo, oh yes, the old Amiga, I remember it well. As a matter of fact I still have the A 4000, the last unit Commodore ever build but I think I need to solder in a new battery as the old one surely would have given up its ghost after having it changed/resoldered twice in the past. None of the modern button batteries our current motherboards have, its battery is like a large capacitor soldered into the Amiga's motherboard. I also had over the years the first Amiga, an A 1000 with all the developers signatures cast on the inside of its case, then several A500s, A2000, the HD model A 2500 etc. with a HUGE 40 MB hard disk, which in those days cost me some AU$800.00, a CD burner, one of the firsts, some whopping $1200. Ahh, these were the good ol' days :hehe:.

Cheers and thanks again

VinnyBarb
 
VinnyBarb said:
Hi good people and a BIG THANK YOU as you helped save my sanity. I have the old window look now without any of the "newfangled" dodahs, whirlies, jump ups and gadgets anymore. It is frustrating when in 3DS Max, you add or change something, export it, switch to TS12's CM and copy the xxx.im file to the test folder in CM. Look at it to see if it is OK and back to 3DS Max and start the whole process over and over again.

I am a HAPPY CHAPPY again :clap:.

@DeRiCo, oh yes, the old Amiga, I remember it well. As a matter of fact I still have the A 4000, the last unit Commodore ever build but I think I need to solder in a new battery as the old one surely would have given up its ghost after having it changed/resoldered twice in the past. None of the modern button batteries our current motherboards have, its battery is like a large capacitor soldered into the Amiga's motherboard. I also had over the years the first Amiga, an A 1000 with all the developers signatures cast on the inside of its case, then several A500s, A2000, the HD model A 2500 etc. with a HUGE 40 MB hard disk, which in those days cost me some AU$800.00, a CD burner, one of the firsts, some whopping $1200. Ahh, these were the good ol' days :hehe:.

Cheers and thanks again

VinnyBarb
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Those older PCs are really great. I remember the old Amiga PCs. A friend of mine had one and I thought the graphics were better than my Atari I had at the time. Amiga also had, or still has a following in the video production market. There was a video editing suite that only worked on that platform, and is still sought after today.

I have a Visual Commuter Computer (V1083), which dates back to 1983. It's still operational and looks pretty good considering its age. Being a portable, it weighs in at around 26 Lbs. with the full-sized 25-line LCD display. Considering the period that it came from, it's one of the early units that actually has a real laptop look.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1193

The battery you're looking for is probably a Tadrian. I can't remember the exact voltage, but I know they're still available.

I agree the older GUI interface is so much easier to use. Who really cares about bouncing button things and flashy interfaces. All we want to do is copy and move data quickly. What I really hate, when moving a lot of stuff, is the message about calculating items to be copied. Who really cares; just copy the darn stuff and be don with it!

John
 
Thank you John, yes, I have no trouble getting batteries for the Amiga 4000, there are several outlets here in Oz that still sell them. Or I still can get these off the Internet.

The only trouble is, why am I still hanging on to the Amiga? I guess it is mainly nostalgia as at one stage I had nearly 1000 floppy disks of games, apps or what have you for the Amigas. I made the "mistake" to have a 5 1/4" floppy drive converted to work with the Amigas I had (they only had 3 1/2 disk drives) as these floppy disks were only half price compared to the 800 KB3 1/2 disks and at that time and I copied all my Amiga material I had on these. You know how expensive floppy disks were in those days. Little did I know after a given time the 5 1/4 floppy disks stuck permanently to the paper sleeves and about 90% of my Amiga stuff/games was stuffed and therefore lost that way.

My favorite Amiga game in those days was Frontiers/Elite2 and I must have played it over a 2 year period more or less constantly. Amazing how its creator Dave Braben got so much game play on just 800 KBs of one floppy disk.

The other beef hate I have of Windows is, you try to copy, say 20 GB from one hard disk or partition to another, when you get a message "Do you want to copy this too" and you click on "YES to All" and walk away thinking that is that. When coming back thinking all is copied, you see another of that message on there and the transfer has stopped again. I just told that bl**dy thing "yes to all". This is still happening with Windows since the XP days.

As I said, "ahh the good ol' days".

Cheers

VinnyBarb
 
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The first computer I had was an Amiga 1000, then a 2000. What a pity they insisted on the NTSC monitor, it killed the Amiga brand I think. I had a thing called a "Flicker Fixer" that cost a fortune and didn't work. I also paid $200 for a box that was attached to the side of the 1000 that added 2 Megabytes of RAM, IIRC.

I enjoyed doing Basic 2D game programming for a long time. The best ever program was "Amos Basic" for the Amiga.

And their dual-pane file manager was brilliant.

Mick Berg.
 
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JCitron said:
You can also disable the Aero effects, like the clear windows, etc., by choosing another theme in the display properties.

Right-click on your desktop.

Choose Personalize and choose a non-Aero theme from the selection.

The other alternative, which I did on my laptop to boost performance, is to disable Aero totally by choosing the Classic theme which looks like Windows 2000.

John
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Legend has it that Microsoft sets up the default of their OS's to show off the maximum amount of resource-heavy special effects and useless crap that they possibly can. Once you strip away all that rubbish, the underlying OS is'nt really that bad............

Mick Berg.
 
My history with computers is I started with a ZX80, ZX Spectrum with add'l memory, tape drive etc., then Atari with 1024kb memory built in and a desktop with icons. Wow! The floppy disks were compatible with 'real' computers. Many a happy day was spent with that. Onto the big boys now. A tower system I bought in 1998 with 160Mb disk, MMX and Windows97 and 15in (800x600) monitor. This still works as a back-up for some of my programs. Now I am on what seemed to me the bees-knees 2 years ago, (and still is)a tower system with a 1Tb disk with 2.8Gb processor running Win7 and 21in widescreen monitor (1920x1080dpi). All this for under 600GBP. Compared to my MMX powered machine for 880GBP, I got a bargain. I run Trainz on it virtually every day. As for file transfering between dual Windows manager, I never use it using Windows Commander with dual-panes instead from my old system. That was free from a magazine so why pay extra when it works even though it's Windows97 build?

Conclusion?

Make your own mind up. If you have Vista or XP OEM, install one as a dual system on Win7, it's supposed to do it. Me, I'll stick to what I know and like.
 
  • TI-99/4a - Cassette Tape storage
  • Timex Sinclair - Cassette Tape storage
  • Coleco ADAM - Dual High Density Tape Drives, Dual 5 1/4" FDDs
  • PC XT - 5 1/4" FDD, 500Mb HDD
  • PC AT - 5 1/4" FDD, 500Mb HDD, 3 1/2" FDD (Enter Windows 3.1)
  • a Pentium, then a P2, etc...

Now a Athlon II x4 2.8 Ghz
 
VinnyBarb said:
Thank you John, yes, I have no trouble getting batteries for the Amiga 4000, there are several outlets here in Oz that still sell them. Or I still can get these off the Internet.

The only trouble is, why am I still hanging on to the Amiga? I guess it is mainly nostalgia as at one stage I had nearly 1000 floppy disks of games, apps or what have you for the Amigas. I made the "mistake" to have a 5 1/4" floppy drive converted to work with the Amigas I had (they only had 3 1/2 disk drives) as these floppy disks were only half price compared to the 800 KB3 1/2 disks and at that time and I copied all my Amiga material I had on these. You know how expensive floppy disks were in those days. Little did I know after a given time the 5 1/4 floppy disks stuck permanently to the paper sleeves and about 90% of my Amiga stuff/games was stuffed and therefore lost that way.

My favorite Amiga game in those days was Frontiers/Elite2 and I must have played it over a 2 year period more or less constantly. Amazing how its creator Dave Braben got so much game play on just 800 KBs of one floppy disk.

The other beef hate I have of Windows is, you try to copy, say 20 GB from one hard disk or partition to another, when you get a message "Do you want to copy this too" and you click on "YES to All" and walk away thinking that is that. When coming back thinking all is copied, you see another of that message on there and the transfer has stopped again. I just told that bl**dy thing "yes to all". This is still happening with Windows since the XP days.

As I said, "ahh the good ol' days".

Cheers

VinnyBarb
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I thought I was the only one with boxes, and boxes of 5-1/4" floppy disks. I was able to unstick a few of them using my finger in the spindle and turning the disk very gently. This isn't always successful, but it's worth a try.
It really is amazing how much could be put in such a small space, including RAM by the way. The programmers in those days had to think about resources. Imagine that they actually had to choose the right compiler for the code they were writing. There was a large memory size and a small memory size compiler. I remember using this way back when I took some programming classes.

The windows copying thing is awful. I saw an interesting show regarding this on http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The-...Removing-Network-Drives-Security-Essentials-4 . The thing I hate is calculating space. Who really cares about that. Please copy my files! From what they say here, this is because of the way Explorer works, which is great for a few large files, and not lots of smaller ones in lots of directories... Hmm...Wait... This sounds like the User Data folder! For this they recommend some other application or MS's XCopy. Instead I use FileCopy from http://ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en. It's free and there are options to set the priority, etc. It's great for copying lots of data like doing the Trainz data backup which I do quite often.

John
 
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