The RAM and XP question

[frogbeastegg]

At this point the only thing keeping me from reformating and returning to XP is the money investment. I didn't buy that RAM and fork out for this torture on a fancy disc in order to use XP with an extra 1.5GB. I hate windows 7. It's a feeling which grows with each hour of use. Or should that be abuse?

Ok. Directx fixed. Another hour down the toilet with little to show for it. Yet more illogical, senseless problems fixed by doing nothing much other than repeat the same step over and over until windows realises it's meant to do something. I have to fight for every single tiny step forward and it's exhausting.

Next problem. It's simple. I want to be able to get at my games quickly and easily. Since I'm now starting to install them I want to get that solution set up and work with it as I go. Fine. No problem. Easy, right? Easier than in XP thanks to all these fancy interface improvements and that games folder and so on. Right?

No.

The games folder is useless and hasn't automatically picked up anything I've installed so far. Manually creating the shortcut is a pain in the rear. It also won't let me organise the links how I want. I want things split up by genre. I don't want some great fat mass of 50+ alpha order icons.

So how about desktop icons? I used to use them as my primary access method. Problem: default size has icons roughly the same size as the tiles on my roof. I hate large icons, and I hate cluttered desktops. So I hit google and find you you can re-size the icons by holding control and using the mouse wheel. Great, problem solved, right? No. It only applies to icons already on your desktop. New ones are still huge. Attempting to resize via ctrl+mouse affects everything equally, so everything is stuck being different sizes. Now I have to bin a bunch of icons in order to get everything back the same size.

Ok, last resort. Start menu folders. My old secondary access method. One folder called games which needs to go on the first part of the start menu, then various genre folders inside it which house links to the games. problem: can't create any folders whatsoever. Problem the second: moving the existing games folder causes windows to whine at me and delete the start menu entry when I try to use it because "It isn't in the right location" No - that's because it's where I want it!

Also, please stop using this awful, awful list view for every folder on the computer. It's hard to find things. My eyes don't like it much either. I like tiles. Tiles! That's why I always choose it. Oh, wait - in windows 7 the choice only applies to a single folder. No global setting. Or if there is it's buried somewhere daft. So I have to toggle every last folder on the machine manually, or use a view I detest.

So I can't organise my stuff at all, can't access anything quickly, and generally am running slap bang into yet more stupid, inane barriers. Now I see why steam is so popular - it's the only way I currently have to arrange anything in a half decent manner.



I'm out of patience, will, and generally don't give a damn any more. I'm out of all possible interest in playing anything on my PC or even using it for anything. It's too much trouble. Far, far more than it's worth.

And somebody please, please tell me how to get firefox to recognise English spelling. I am not interested in becoming American and I'm mighty tired of seeing it class my language as an error! It didn't do this before. I turn spellcheck off and it insists on turning itself back on. Joy. Boundless, endless joy.