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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Yeah, I figured I could have probably tweaked the Vista system to look and act more or less how I wanted, if I spent enough time on it-- but it was someone else's computer. A non-tech person would would have been baffled by changes in appearance.
Myself, I keep my system looking as much like Windows 95 as XP will allow-- no big, round-cornered balloony things, classic start menu, control panels, folders, file extensions not hidden, system files not hidden-- I resent any OS that tries to hide the guts of the system from me. I also still use the 1997 version of Microsoft Word because I think the modern versions look like Barbie's First Word Processor.
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You should at least try the start menu search functionality from Vista/7. That's probably the biggest change over XP, and it's so much nicer. For example, let's say you want to uninstall a program. In XP, you can navigate through the control panel to find the "Add/Remove Programs" applet, or you can remember that the shortcut is called "appwiz.cpl" and type that from the Run prompt. In Windows 7, you can open the start menu and start typing "Uninstall" After the first letter, you'll see "Uninstall a program" in the results. After the second letter, it will bubble up to the top of the control panel items. And it works with everything. You don't need to pin stuff to the start menu anymore, or navigate 3 or 4 levels deep in the programs menu. You just start typing what you want ("Word", "Excel", "Visual Studio", whatever) and suddenly it's right there, ready for you to open it.