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Greetings Earthlings,

I am doing my best to avoid the switch from XP to 7 but am finding that it is getting harder these days. Of course there are the obvious reasons to make the change, like Microsoft's broken version of Security Essentials and soon it'll be Office 2003. There are also mainstream non-Microsoft apps that are jumping on board as well, like Profile. So if I am going to be forced in to the change, I figure I should try to remove as much of the "ugly" as I can.

I am using NSIS to make a little "installer" that will make a bunch of changes to Win7 to make it seem less like a giant steaming pile of crap. For example I plan to have it remove "Libraries" and "Favorites" from Windows Explorer, and I'll probably also include 7tt to get rid of the "Show Desktop" button that won't leave the systray. I am looking for other suggested changes you guys would like to see... what DON'T you like about Windows 7 (that don't involve installing XP)? :-)

S.

NSIS looks interesting, I did not know about that one.

viking60 wrote:NSIS looks interesting, I did not know about that one.

It is pretty cool... I have been using it to write "wrappers" for installs. Basically I got tired of installing apps and then spending forever configuring them, so my "wrapper" will do a silent install of an app and then configure my typical preferences for me. Here's an example:

I also don't like spaces in my paths so I put them all in "C:\Apps\AppName" instead of under "Program Files". This gives me a single .exe that I can run, I get one warning, and then it is installed/configured with no further interaction. Happily, Notepad++ has a syntax highlighter for NSIS as well (though I should change it to show single-quotes with a different background color because it is sometimes hard to see).

My idea for the "Win7Fixer" is to just get rid of as many default irritants as I can and make Win7 as lean as I can. That reminds me, I have to add "Disable Homegroup" to the list. :-)

S.