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So, my big present (thus far) for Christmas this year is a new laptop, which means (since I'm still in PC land) that I'm adapting to Win7. I've only been at it for a while, but my grand successes thus far include: turning off the Windows Explorer clicky noises, which I loathe and getting the taskbar icons to have text. Not having text makes me feel, "what, am I illiterate?!" So, that's good. Now to the Firefox adaptation- add ons back to where they should be and all that. Next, Pidgin installation, and all the while, get the music over here. And pictures. And Audible permissions.

I'm not a gracious beginner at most things. I think it has a lot to do with feeling incompetant and why does it have to be so effing different?! But the little successes help a great deal.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: home
Current Music: telly in the other room

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From:

caulay.livejournal.com

I'm still dealing with shifting my system over to Win7.

And I'll probably have to set up a completely new system in ~1 month as well.

I have found some very useful utilities that add back functionality that was changed/removed. I'll email them to you if you'd like.

From:

mizarchivist

sure

From:

badlittlemonkey.livejournal.com

I really dig Windows 7 so far. VERY happy I updated my laptop.

From:

mizarchivist

I'm getting on. I don't like unnecessary change when I'm used to the way it is. Or something

From:

debsquared.livejournal.com

I've had it for a few weeks now. The wierdest navigational thing for me is not having the tabs on the bottom-- it stacks all the instances of a program on the side. But it seems to work okay, and I haven't noticed any conflicts yet.

From:

mizarchivist

I think that can be altered- I've gotten it pretty close to how I am used to it- with the classic interface (mostly) and taskbar buttons with text (and icons).