windows7 is fantastic, except rightclick does not work.

Absolutely the best Windows edition ever! I haven't had any problems with it at all, which is a first for me! I would never go back, especially to Vista! No, no, no!!!

Runs faster.

As a detriment to skinning overall... its a complete and utter bastard.

I'm confused. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and everything runs fine. Plenty of programs to choose from. Was XP 64 bit different in some way?

I've never had any drives turn off. Are you referring to if there are multiple hard drives Windows will turn off those drives?

Any links to share?

By the way I like the defualt look of 7. I turned off the transparency and made the taskbar use small icons while changing the taskbar to all black. I like the way Windows 7 handles my day to day tasks.

It's not power settings. If you have extra drives, Windows turns them off if they are not in use. When you try to access them you have to wait until they start up. I can't remember where it is but in Vista you could tell a drive to not turn off when not in use. Maybe it's because I hade Vista Ultimate and this is W7 Home Premium.

Anyway, I might have gotten round it. I've just installed mst Defrag which constantly monitors drives and that might be keeping them awake.

Fuzzy,

There's 2 things that covers drives that you might be having trouble with. One is powering down and the other is showing empty drives.

Powering down is in Advanced power setting.

Showing empty drives is in folder options under the view tab.

Open windows explorer, Alt + F to bring up the menu, choose tools, folder options. Click on the view tab and uncheck "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder".

I just ordered Windows 7 last week, but it still hasn't come yet.

I've been really looking forward to see how it runs on my PC.

Audiafox is unsure of how to reply to the Hawk regarding that oddly narcissitic grammar tense and suggestion.

Well it was, wasn't it?.... MY idea.  When Win 7 was still in beta, I remember reading the forums on MS' Win 7 page and seeing that several user ideas/suggestions were being adopted/considered.

Thing is, without doubt, Win 7 is by far the best OS MS has ever produced.  I have been using it since the public beta and have been extremely happy with its performance, reliability and ease of use. 

One thing that annoys me, however, is having to have public folders on a single user machine, having stuff I installed as Administrator assign portions of itself to a public folder.   There are no other users on my machine... nor will there ever be, so the public folder is totally unnecessary.... superfluous, except that some software devs insist on putting stuff in there.  For mine, all Windows installations should be single user by default, with the option to add other users IF required.

Is it me or has anyone noticed that it does seem to take Win7 a while to shutdown in comparison to XP(never used Vista). While I know the focus(in ads and such) has been on startup and coming out of hibernation speeds, which it does seem to do a tick faster than XP, but the shutdown takes about twice as long with basically the same amount of third party stuff running. Usually it's something not noticed, but I am one to stay in the room till I hear it totally shutdown just in case so I notice it regularly.

 Win 7 shuts down almost instantly for me... vista took at least a minute

i will be getting it for my new computer shame they didn't make vista to be useful oh well at least they gave us somthing well worth it, hopfuly there won't be another vista or xp 64 anytime soon, apple seems to like failing as well on something new and useless aka ipad.

microsoft are not as good as apple with phones ipods but they do have more software and games, people seem to be not that smart on microsoft the platforms since viruses are mainly made for that.

it will be a while before they can replace xp entirely with win 7.