1) Modifiable start menu: What do you mean, Bob? I click Windows, go to All Programs, r-click, and select Open. There I can change anything. The only caveat is that for certain things you have to both modify the All Users version and your user's subset of the Start menu.
2) Authorization to modify own Program Files entry - I absolutely agree with this one. I found it so annoying I started putting stuff like CoH or GoG legacy games into a C:Games folder so UAC would shut up and/or the Virtual Store wouldn't kick in.
When it comes to Win7, my basic take is this: Remember what Vista should have been? That's 7. Win7 is everything good about Vista, with most of the bad things managed or ameliorated to a degree they're no longer so annoying.
I've been running it since a week before official release (yay Campus license and Work-at-Home copies) and I absolutely love it.
2) Authorization to modify own Program Files entry - I absolutely agree with this one. I found it so annoying I started putting stuff like CoH or GoG legacy games into a C:Games folder so UAC would shut up and/or the Virtual Store wouldn't kick in.
When it comes to Win7, my basic take is this: Remember what Vista should have been? That's 7. Win7 is everything good about Vista, with most of the bad things managed or ameliorated to a degree they're no longer so annoying.
I've been running it since a week before official release (yay Campus license and Work-at-Home copies) and I absolutely love it.