Nobody told me about this.

[Mixolydian]

Never knew this. But I like the stacks better anyways.

(though Apple had it first )

 

[CPA]

I kind of like the stack, maybe it is cause I have gotten used to it, and it appears cleaner to me.

I love the stack. I don't have to worry about 20 seperate tabs on the taskbar.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Kill UAC, disable offline files & action center, set to small icons & ungroup, and Classic theme. Back to Win2000 GUI for me :thumbsup:

FTW. Pretty much what I do as well. In XP I'd also disable personalized menus. Useless feature. Can't recall if 7 has that, been a while I played with it.

 

[PingSpike]

Why would you disable this feature? Nobody likes a cluttered task bar.

I disable it. It requires extra clicks to switch between say two explorer windows and obscuring the open windows makes me more likely to open (and leave open) tons and tons of redundant windows. If I can see them and I'm not using them I generally just close them.

 

[palswim]

Why would you disable this feature? Nobody likes a cluttered task bar.

Some people like their taskbar on the left of the screen, rather than the bottom.

 

[Mixolydian]

Some people like their taskbar on the left of the screen, rather than the bottom.

which is psychotic, IMO. I hate it when people do that.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Right, i meant side by side on 2 different monitors. I have only been able to make that work when using xlsx files but not with the xls files.

I do it all the time at work.

 

[Rakewell]

I've got it set so that it automatically goes to the last window when clicked

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1633...witch-to-the-last-active-window-in-windows-7/

This is the default behavior in Linux, at least in Unity

thanks for this- a welcome change :thumbsup:

 

[Gunslinger08]

I hate grouping. I also hate pinning to the start bar. I like the old school quick launch and separate tabs on the start bar for each instance of a program I have open. I find the default grouping way slower than having direct access with 1 click to everything I have open. I am not lacking taskbar space, but maybe that's because I use it with 3 lines by default.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I like the grouping personally.

 

[Ichinisan]

I actually think I wouldn't hate it so much if there wasn't a delay when you hover over the group tab to see the individual windows. If it was all instant it would feel much more fluid. I wonder if that's something a reg tweak could fix.

There's no delay if you click it.

 

[John Connor]

With Win 7 the default behavior of the taskbar is to obscure open documents of a similar sort by stacking them all up under a single program icon. I figured this was just one more way MS was attempting to hide the functionality of the file system from users. This morning, after using Win 7 for three years or so, I discovered I could change this behavior to have the taskbar show the filenames in separate tabs, just as god intended. Woot!

I wonder what that Start button is for?

I found that real fast after playing with Win 7. You do know you can pin stuff to the task bar too, right? I have the control panel pinned to the task bar.

 

[tynopik]

Some people like their taskbar on the left of the screen, rather than the bottom.

i would like to try the taskbar on the side (to save precious vertical pixels), but it doesn't seem to allow multiple columns like it allows multiple rows when on the bottom

 

[Matt1970]

XP did that too.

 

[Jeff7]

7+ Taskbar Tweaker. :wub:

 

[debian0001]

The spreadsheet thing in Office 2007 and 2010 is another issue entirely.

Why, oh why, couldn't Microsoft let us have multiple Excel windows open at the same time.

There's a way around this. Run a separate Excel instance and open the file

 

[Berryracer]

I hate having things combined like that. It adds keystrokes/time to the document selection.

ditto, the first thing I do on any Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC I use is disable grouping. takes too many clicks

 

[notposting]

Can't believe people are still disabling UAC, especially in Windows 7.

 

[Jeff7]

Can't believe people are still disabling UAC, especially in Windows 7.

UAC....I think that was that thing that made Windows ask me, several times a day, for permission to do just about anything to the computer. Was that it?
If that's what it did, yes, I would have disabled that, probably within a few days of when I installed Windows 7 for the first time.

It always made it feel like the computer was constantly saying, in a condescending voice, "Put the mouse down before you hurt yourself."

 

[John Connor]

UAC was history first time I installed that's what a firewall and anti-virus does.

 

[C1]

UAC....I think that was that thing that made Windows ask me, several times a day, for permission to do just about anything to the computer. Was that it?
If that's what it did, yes, I would have disabled that, probably within a few days of when I installed Windows 7 for the first time.

It always made it feel like the computer was constantly saying, in a condescending voice, "Put the mouse down before you hurt yourself."

I could have told Microsoft about UAC the instant someone even suggested such an idea. We work in building Command and Control systems and one of the main guidelines is to be careful when implementing operator alerts (numbers and kinds). MS really hast learned this at all. Windows simply implements way too many useless user alerts (balloons, bubbles, popups, etc.) which annoy users. It has other issues as well which should have been taken care of years ago as evolutionary refinements. Im looking for alternatives.