Upgraded to Windows 7 from XP and Explorer to Chrome and nothing is the same or intuitive any more

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2. Bing is MS's search engine -- you can change your browser prefs back to Google

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or whatever you were using.

IE no longer has menus (!) -- download Firefox if you want something that looks just like the previous version of IE.

Word also has no drop-down menus -- now all the options take up screen space more permanently, shrinking the area availabe for YOUR text still further.

I'm working from XP at home; had to use Win 7 at work for the first time last week (I've been avoiding Win 7 -- pretty effectively) so I'm working from memory here. I think in the "Folders" Control Panel you can choose the Classic Windows appearance, which simplifies some things. Or maybe it's in the Start Menu Control Panel. I had to change the Display Control Panel to lower resolution to be able to read the screen at all -- the default setting produces teeny-tiny (I'm hearing the voice of RM here) little fonts.

As with almost all changes in Windows, the new version gobbles up more screen space and produces more visual clutter. Apparently MS hands out bonuses to its programmmers based on the load they place on the graphics cards.

Beyond that I can only offer sympathies and suggest it's really time to look at Mac OSX or Linux. Neither one is perfect, either, but Windows just seems too often to be the work of pinheads.




ETA: The TaskBar (at the bottom of the screen) now uses larger icons by default. Turn this off in the Start Menu/Task Bar Control Panel to restore the former look, and give yourself more room in the Task Bar for more open files/folders.