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Windows 7 users: We are upgrading to Windows 7 at work within the next few weeks. What was your biggest challenge from XP or Vista?

Posted by Walt_Disney (aka Walt_Disney) Aug 22 '12, 08:27

I dont have it at home...yet so I dont know what to expect.

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User Access Control - the yes/no prompts on install is the thing people complain about the most. -- nm - Inigo Aug 22, 08:30 6
- what is this? -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 22, 08:46 3
  - Here you go -- (link) - Inigo Aug 22, 08:51
  - You don't remember because you turned it off, too. Everyone did. - Mop (197 lbs) Aug 22, 08:51 1
    - Not that I've gotten it working, but according to what I'm seeing online, using Metro Apps in Windows 8 requires UAC to be on -- nm - oblique Aug 22, 08:52
- I disabled that in the first minute. -- nm - Mop (197 lbs) Aug 22, 08:45 1
  - WD may not be able to since he's at work. -- nm - Inigo Aug 22, 08:52
I love it. Win7 itself is great. It's the Office Products that, as ST mentioned, take getting used to. - Mel Profit Aug 22, 08:29 1
- Yeah, I have no quibbles with Win7 (and I'm a Mac guy). It's really stable and I rarely induce a crash. -- nm - spamlet Aug 22, 08:49
It's not all that different from Vista. From XP, there's stuff that changed but it's still Windows. - spamlet Aug 22, 08:28
Software compatabilty issues. -- nm - Spawn Aug 22, 08:28

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