Now running RC1 on my main pc. Installation, again was flawless. Starts a little faster than Vista, but for me, that was never an issue. Apps all run that worked with Vista, although sites like Adobe have no idea what OS you are running when you go to install Acrobat and Flash. They've added a handful of themes, and many nice backgrounds.

Now my grumbles...

Windows Media Player 12 sucks. The big thing they removed is the minimized player to the toolbar option. I mean damn... at least give us a widget or something. Maybe 12 is still in beta because it just doesn't work all that well.

Despite the advance of the new UAC, which is much less in your face, it's still interferes with permissions, etc. I found this out by trying to manually add a folder to the Program Files (x86) directory. Wouldn't let me without turning off UAC.

Be forwarned... Printers no longer exists in the control panel. Now its "Devices and Printers"

I'm forcing myself to use the new toolbar. I didn't do this in the beta. I keep coming back to the thought of "If I wanted a Mac, I would have bought one", because its just like OSX's app bar. I really don't like it, but I'm trying (forcing) it. Microsoft has obviously not taken any steps for those that like a double tall tool bar. The icons are either too big and cause a massive gap in the tray where the running apps are, or the icons are too small on the taskbar, and there is a massive gap between those. The other thing I noticed, is when you turn off the new taskbar and try to use the old way of things, applications now have a Parent-Child relationship, and will re-order on the bar as such. For people like myself who like my apps in a certain order, this is not welcome.

As others found out in the beta, the old style Start Menu is no longer an option.

6 Screensavers? WTF?

They have added something called a "Library". I really haven't spent any time looking into it, but it like a grouping of folders. The default library looks to like its your profile folders.

They have renamed the "Documents", "Music", and "Pictures" folders back to all having "My ..." in front, just not on the Start Menu.


I'll add more as I find it