If it's the Run command in the Start Menu, it works the same in Windows 7 as it did in Vista.  I am sure Jafo already knows that but for those who don't, you right click on the Start button, select Properties and then Customize.  Scroll down and put a checkmark next to "Run Command."  Click Apply and Okay and it will appear in your Start Menu. 

I disagree. We have both in the house here and 7 works better.

I agree. I'm even getting to the point that I dislike using a PC with XP.

Well at first I was concerned with the boot times of 7 but now I'm just happy all works well.

Well Jafo on this machine - AMD Athlon 64 3200 with 3 GB RAM the boot time for XP was 30 to 40 seconds from power button to a stable desktop minus the time needed for wifi to connect. 7 takes a minute and a half. It really is trival. I like how 7 handles programs and the whole way 7 works far better than XP's way of handling business.

Perhaps when I upgrade this mobo and CPu and get DD2 or DD3 I will see better results. For now I'm happy.

I turned off everything except the antivirus program and wireless. I seemed to be that fast. I might have been off in my timing.

My thoughts:

Yeah, the shell doing that is pretty silly. Win7 fixes that.

Although that won't fix individual apps that are locking up. Firefox still locks up badly on my system.

It didn't bother me so much, but it's good to know Win7 improves it a lot .

There's no going back to nothing, though - a ZDNet blogger got hit with some malware on XP that very likely would not have been able to install itself with a system with UAC on.

I agree. A lot of nice, wonderful tweaks have been added to Windows 7 that really makes it better than XP and Vista. It makes my work flow much, much better.

Another thing they changed was they went to great lengths to allow you to go up in the address bar. Which I like, because frankly I really missed the up button in Vista when they removed it. I still miss it, but this is an okay compromise.

I really love what they've done with the system tray button. That arrow in XP/Vista was totally annoying. I'd expand it, go to what I want, and it would just contract again, making the icon disappear. It's noticing and fixing even small things like that that really makes me love 7.

BUT - if you put a Stardock skin in, you know it's a XP/Vista skin when the arrow is pointed in the wrong direction . Hopefully skinners will be smart and make Win7 versions of their skins.

Agreed.

I never really noticed that until somebody pointed it out in some blog somewhere. Maybe it's because the pixel edges on my CRT tends to be a tad softer than an LCD.

I notice that blue is used a lot in general with UI stuff. I guess it's considered a "safe" color to use.

Agreed, just another layer on the networking heirarchy that wasn't really needed. I am so glad the computers are visible at the base level instead of going through a bunch of sub-groups that nobody uses anymore.

While I'm technical enough to use the Device Manager, this is certainly a plus for people like my mother who would just be confused by all of the strange stuff in it.

A nice feature to have for those worried about backwards compatibility, but I honestly don't have any software that doesn't work.

. . . and frankly, Microsoft should've really included it in all editions of Windows instead of just Pro. Backporting to Vista would be a nice consumer confidence boost too, although I doubt they'll do that.

Yeah, well that's because VMs generally don't do hardware video acceleration. Their target market is businesses for the most part, and businesses don't play games.

However: VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems does in fact have hardware video acceleration, and may work with some games. Haven't tried it with any games, though.

• After you expand it with the arrow, it collapses when you try to move over to the icon you want. That behavior was 1000% annoying. Win7 puts the hidden icons in a popup that doesn't disappear as fast and stays open as long as the mouse is in it.
• It was very chatty. Popups from nearly every program that thinks it's so important for you to know it's still working. Win7 allows you to suppress them.
• Many alerts have been moved to the Action Center in Windows 7, which is far nicer and allows you to address issues on your own schedule.

It's not an entirely new OS, no. But it soooo improves a lot of the small little annoyances previous OSes had!

Personally, I've been using a C:\GAMES folder since the days of DOS . . .

I've switched back and forth a couple of times, but in the end I think that a separate folder for games is usually a good idea. Less headaches.

Win7 on a desktop is fantastic. It's better, no doubt.

Win7 on a netbook? I'm a bit split. Some things seem faster, but it does seem to act a bit as if there's not so much memory available. A lot of paging it seems. But when the largest software is closed and there's not so much paging, it's faster than XP.

Fuzzy Logic: Frankly, I gave up on "All Programs" as early as Windows 95. I never liked it. I always shoved the icons into folders in a Windows 3 fashion, and I definitely loved Fences when it came out . I gave up a long time ago trying to organize it.

And meh - window resizing hasn't worked in any of their OSes since Windows XP. XP forgot window positions, Vista forgot window positions. They've never worked.

I've always installed games off the OS drive...and in a folder called 'games'....reson being that in most [not all] instances you don't even need to reinstall the game when you change your OS or its install.

That helps massively when you have add-ons to games such as GTR2 numbering in the Gigs.....so far, 15,270 files or 6.297 gig....

But we aren't what Windows targets as "normal users"

They should, yes. And newer software generally does.

But a lot of older software doesn't. This is especially true for games, as most games are not maintained indefinitely. This is in stark contrast to regular apps, which are updated on a fairly regular basis.

It's very unlikely I won't update an application - I'll generally get the new one that follows the rules.

But when it comes to games - I still like to play old, classic games. Many of them were created before the new restrictions were in place. So yeah, I still have a games folder.

I also use it for MMORPGs. Unlike an application, which may be updated once in a blue moon, MMORPGs are updated constantly. So if you dump them into "Program Files," you're in for a lot of pain as they like to change themselves very often. Being as they like to update themselves so frequently, and being as they're not in any way, shape, or form vital to the functioning of my system, I'm fine with putting them in a folder with less restrictions.

I won't lose any sleep if something messes up a game. The restrictions of "Program Files" are there to protect things like Word, which are a lot more important than a game.

Starker - I've never seen my W7 hang there. I don't use passwords though.

I've been using Win7 since the public beta and I've not seen hangs during logon.... at any time, for that matter, so I'm mystified as to why it happened.

It was suggested that maybe I'd picked up a nasty from one of my emails, but I didn't actually open any as there were no new ones I needed/wanted to read.  It may have been a Windows Update I didn't notice, perhaps?  I've heard of that sort of thing happening after updates.

Oh well, it's all good now.

Runs out of puff?....