Fuzzy,

There's 2 things that covers drives that you might be having trouble with. One is powering down and the other is showing empty drives.

Powering down is in Advanced power setting.

 

Showing empty drives is in folder options under the view tab.

Open windows explorer, Alt + F to bring up the menu, choose tools, folder options. Click on the view tab and uncheck "Hide empty drives in the Computer folder".

I miss RightClick.......but, I do like 7 a lot.

I think 7 is great! I've had it since it was released, and I find it stable and bug free. Alot of cool new features too, jumplists, wallpaper slideshows, ect. It runs faster than Vista as well  

Been a happy camper with Win7 x64, had no issues!

I just ordered Windows 7 last week, but it still hasn't come yet.

I've been really looking forward to see how it runs on my PC.

The Hawk likes Windows 7, However, he feels that Microsoft should have named it Windows BlackHawk

Audiafox is unsure of how to reply to the Hawk regarding that oddly narcissitic grammar tense and suggestion.

Blame MS...they claim Windows 7 was MY idea ....

Well it was, wasn't it?.... MY idea.  When Win 7 was still in beta, I remember reading the forums on MS' Win 7 page and seeing that several user ideas/suggestions were being adopted/considered.

Thing is, without doubt, Win 7 is by far the best OS MS has ever produced.  I have been using it since the public beta and have been extremely happy with its performance, reliability and ease of use. 

One thing that annoys me, however, is having to have public folders on a single user machine, having stuff I installed as Administrator assign portions of itself to a public folder.   There are no other users on my machine... nor will there ever be, so the public folder is totally unnecessary.... superfluous, except that some software devs insist on putting stuff in there.  For mine, all Windows installations should be single user by default, with the option to add other users IF required.

 

I've used Windows 7 since the RC and now have the Ultimate version. I have never had a single issue with Windows 7 and I've used all previous versions of Windows (both 32- and 64-bit where applicable). What a wonderful relief Windows 7 is! This makes the once-upon-a-time great Windows XP kinda just "okay." Combined with WindowBlinds 7, Fences Pro and ObjectDock, Windows 7 is just pure daily pleasure at work and home.

Is it me or has anyone noticed that it does seem to take Win7 a while to shutdown in comparison to XP(never used Vista). While I know the focus(in ads and such) has been on startup and coming out of hibernation speeds, which it does seem to do a tick faster than XP, but the shutdown takes about twice as long with basically the same amount of third party stuff running. Usually it's something not noticed, but I am one to stay in the room till I hear it totally shutdown just in case so I notice it regularly.

Foe me 7 shuts down just as quick as other OS I have used.

 Win 7 shuts down almost instantly for me... vista took at least a minute

I think I found my issue with the shutdown speed. My Asus probe doesn't like to play nice and shutdown when told to. Sometimes it throws up the force shutdown dialogue. If i shut it down ahead of time Win7 shutsdown quite a bit quicker.

i will be getting it for my new computer shame they didn't make vista to be useful oh well at least they gave us somthing well worth it, hopfuly there won't be another vista or xp 64 anytime soon, apple seems to like failing as well on something new and useless aka ipad.

microsoft are not as good as apple with phones ipods but they do have more software and games, people seem to be not that smart on microsoft the platforms since viruses are mainly made for that.

it will be a while before they can replace xp entirely with win 7.