That's a little better

[johnridley]

I got fed up and found the spot in Windows 7 to turn off all of the damn animations-the stuff where windows "zoom" up and down instead of just appearing, all the glass window crap, a bunch of other stuff like that. It looks kind of like I'm using an actual operating system again. I did a little work on the taskbar yesterday, it's looking better too.

I'm not really happy with Windows Explorer, that's going to get some work soon too and see what I can do about making that make some kind of sense, hiding the useless crap and bringing up actual useful tools.

What would be perfect would be a Windows 2000 skin, but apparently they've done their best to make that impossible.

Functionally, Windows 7 is a very nice OS, but I really don't like all the window dressing and dancing clowns they've added to it.

EDIT - bonus, I just found how to shut off all the rounded edges on windows and glowy buttons and misshapen system buttons in the upper right corner.

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Re: Windows 7

[jvanhare.livejournal.com]

I use Open Office too, but we did get the Office installs when Deb needed it for school, and got a discount, when she was doing her BSN.
Vista came pre-installed on this notebook, and it works. It came from Dell Outlet, a refurb, I am cheap, LOL I think we paid $359 for it...
I figure let Dell fix it right, like it should have been when it first shipped, and I will buy it after it has passed the more stringent quality control testing for the refurbs :p Better product for less!
As for Browser/Email, I am a Firefox/Thunderbird guy, regardless of platform.