Help. New Computer. Windows 7. Dear God, Somebody Kill Me.

OK. Got new puter. Lived with Windows 7 for a week. Want to die. I cannot believe windows7 is such a turd of an OS. Seems like every program has umpteen windows, and EVERY SINGLE WINDOW HAS A DIFFERENT CONTEXT MENU. I almost gave up relearning Windows Media Player.

Really, though, the most recent thing to drive me from the room cussing Bill Gates at the top of my lungs (no kidding) is the fact that I cannot have an animated .gif desktop background. Oh, I can has .gif. But not animated.

Does anyone know how to go about this? Animated .gifs will only play in Explorer. Any other way and you get a still image.

I cannot find words to express how absolutely dumbfounded I am at the lack of functionality in Win 7. I tried to install printer software, and Win 7 immediately told me it 'has issues' with this software and the printer will not function correctly unless I download some driver helper from the manufacturer. Did it. The helper won't install, and the printer, so far, has printed just exactly like it did on the last computer, which means perfectly fine.

The 'file', 'edit', 'help' bar at the top of every program/browser I have ever seen, simply does not exist in sooo many programs.

Windows 7 is a GIANT step backwards. Windows ME is a gold standard compared to 7.

I wonder what's next from Microsoft? Back to text-based commands? Take away the mouse? Stone tablets and a chisel? You'll have to download a hammer. Hope it installs like it's supposed to...What a turd.:comp1::firefox:

What were you using before?

Gravdigr;608828 wrote:

and EVERY SINGLE WINDOW HAS A DIFFERENT CONTEXT MENU.

That's why they call it a context menu. What's in the menu changes depending on the context.

I don't have 7, digger. But try something like this:

- Open the display properties dialog (right-click on the desktop and choose Properties)
- Click the desktop tab
- Click on the Customize Desktop button.
- Click on the web tab.
- Try loading your animated gif from here.

That section is to allow you to use a web page as your background. Maybe it will work for your animated gif.

The right answer is, don't have an animated GIF as your desktop background.

You don't want anything *moving* on your desktop, distracting you from everything else that is more important than wallpaper. Things are to move when they want to attract your attention for some reason.

I'll stick with my MAC BookPro. The price is worth the lack of aggravation. I will admit I do have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on bootcamp, only because the Army in its infinite wisdom refuses to acknowledge that Soldiers use Mac OS. So every now and then, probably once in 60 days, I log into bootcamp to take care of something there. As soon as I learn a bit more about scripting my own commands in terminal, this wills stop as well. Oh yea, there are no Windows PC in my household....wife uses a Macbook, and I have an IMac desktop that my boy uses for homework and games.

:confused: I must be in the minority here -- I've been using Win7 for about a month, and I really do like it. Responses are snappier, interface is more intuitive... There was about a two-day learning curve, then I got used to it.

Undertoad wrote:

The right answer is, don't have an animated GIF as your desktop background.

What UT said. WTF do you want an animated desktop for?

Pron. :)

Pie;608885 wrote:

:confused: I must be in the minority here -- I've been using Win7 for about a month, and I really do like it. Responses are snappier, interface is more intuitive... There was about a two-day learning curve, then I got used to it.

Yeah, but you're an ubernerd. That'll be weeks for the rest of us.

I got a new Dell laptop yesterday with Windows 7 and I love it. It took me a few minutes to sort out the lack of Outlook Express, but once I sorted out the mail program (which I think is brilliant now that I've used it) I had no further worries.

It's very much a Mac style system in some ways with the docking station and all. I quite like it and find it pretty simple to use.

Hi stranger.:welcome:

ZenGum;609127 wrote:

Yeah, but you're an ubernerd. That'll be weeks for the rest of us.

Aliantha;609130 wrote:

I got a new Dell laptop yesterday with Windows 7 and I love it.

Har.

ETA, good to see you back, Ali!

Ali!! Where ya been, mate? Is it worth its own thread?

G'day girls and boys.

Nope, definitely not worth its own thread. Just don't have much to say these days. :) (Mum always said, if you don't have anything nice to say just keep your gob shut, and I've just decided that that would be a good course of action around here lately)

I just felt i had to endorse W7 before it was any further maligned lol, and i commented on the humans thread because I think it's been an amusing topic. ;)

When I got my new laptop, they said I was eligible for a free upgrade to Windows7. My best mate advised me against. I'm glad I took his advice:P

I suspect it'll be kickass soon enough. But I had a nightmare with XP when i first got that (when it was very new) and I had a nightmare with Vista when I first got that (before the patches and upgrades settled it down over a few months). I'll wait for windows 7 to find its feet.

I'm still running XP. And will continue to do so.

...music playing....

"Almost cut my hair
it happened just the other day....."

Yeah, XP works fine, plus I've made so many little tweaks over the years, it's real comfy. Since I'm not even eligible to take the test, I'd rather just be using it, than playing with it. Mostly because it's more work than play, for me.

A friends Dell PC got virus constipated, and it took me weeks to straighten it out. Of course I only could work on it one day a week, and it was a steep learning curve, but it was fucking work, not fun. :(

I have Windows Vista (Basic). I dislike it, but not enough to try to mess with it much. Frankly, I still long for DOS. :eyebrow:

SamIam;609632 wrote:

Frankly, I still long for DOS. :eyebrow:

Why you old fart, do you yell at the kids to get off your lawn? :lol:

xoxoxoBruce;608843 wrote:

What were you using before?

XP sp3

dar512;608868 wrote:

That's why they call it a context menu. What's in the menu changes depending on the context.

I don't have 7, digger. But try something like this:

- Open the display properties dialog (right-click on the desktop and choose Properties)
- Click the desktop tab
- Click on the Customize Desktop button.
- Click on the web tab.
- Try loading your animated gif from here.

That section is to allow you to use a web page as your background. Maybe it will work for your animated gif.

Thanks for the advice, Dar, but 7 goes about that differently, and has different menus/dialogs. Tried 7's version of something like that though, no joy.

Clodfobble;608975 wrote:

What UT said. WTF do you want an animated desktop for?

'Cause I fucking like 'em, that's WTF for. I use a pointing hand and a pointing monkey to alert Mother Dearest to things she might be interested in, and I have a pair of blinking yellow cat eyes, just cuzz they're cool.

regular.joe;608882 wrote:

I'll stick with my MAC BookPro. The price is worth the lack of aggravation. I will admit I do have Windows Vista Ultimate installed on bootcamp, only because the Army in its infinite wisdom refuses to acknowledge that Soldiers use Mac OS. So every now and then, probably once in 60 days, I log into bootcamp to take care of something there. As soon as I learn a bit more about scripting my own commands in terminal, this wills stop as well. Oh yea, there are no Windows PC in my household....wife uses a Macbook, and I have an IMac desktop that my boy uses for homework and games.

I have zero income right now, and not enough for an Apple when I have an income, so, Apples are out, as much as I'd like to try one

Try this, Digger.

MyDigitalLife wrote:

Windows DreamScene, a feature which allows a video clip, movie show, slideshow or animated image and picture to be set as the desktop background in Windows Vista has been removed in Windows 7, in favor of Desktop Slideshow wallpaper auto rotator. Although Windows 7 no longer supports DreamScane, the DreamScene function can still be manually added and installed into Windows 7 with a little hack in order to turn on and enable the DreamScene support in Windows7.

Pie;609792 wrote:

Try this, Digger.

Thanks, Pie!! This looks like it just might do the trick. I'm not too wild about doing things to my brand new registry, but, I guess that's what warranties are for, right? Gonna look at this more, but, so far, I like it! Thanks again.:thumb:

:awards Pie ten bonus whiteandnerdy points:

ZenGum;610568 wrote:

:awards Pie ten bonus whiteandnerdy points:

Hope they don't catch her white and nerdy...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6eswhgOKk

Psst .... http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=21405

Oh.

I must not use laptop enough because it came with Windows 7 and I have not problem with hit so far. Didn't even notice the different menus/dialogs. :p Must play with Windows Media player tomorrow too. :D