Windows 7: Opinions?

[Bob Schroeck]

The ability to "pin" favorite documents to the icon for an app right on the startup menu is very useful.

What does that mean?

Okay, instead of going into a "recently used documents" menu off the start button, Win 7 now hangs the last few docs you've opened off the menu entry for the app that they open under.  Example:  If you hover the mouse over, say, Notepad for a second instead of clicking it (or you click the little ">" that appears to the right of it), a menu of the last few text files you opened in Notepad appears to the right, "hanging off" the Notepad icon/entry, with the title "Recent".  To the right of each file in this list will appear a "pushpin" icon -- click that, and the file you just selected will always appear as a choice to open in Notepad, at the top of the list, in a separate section labeled "Pinned".  I used this every day -- I've pinned my generic cover letter and the plain-text version of my resume so I can open them with basically two clicks of the mouse and without having to navigate to the directory where I keep them (which is different from the one I normally work out of while doing my job searching).
And this works for every application.  Your web browser of choice will have the last 10 URLs you used as its "Recent" list.  Your media player will have the last ten media files.  And so on, and so on.

I don't like the fact that the program menu off the start
button is no longer editable -- or even just rearrangeable, as I
recall. Hell, I'm not even sure where it's physically located on my
disk any more. I remember going looking once and not finding it.

OUCH.
Does that mean you can't sort them into Games or Utilities folder? Can
you not seperate the "run program" icons from the "contact
manufacturer's website" icons and put the latter elsewhere

Unless I've missed something, nope.  I've tried, although I haven't spent hours trying to figure it out.  Mind you, most apps do install into their own folders in the menu, you just can't seem to create your own.  But the program menu has its own search function built right into it, so you don't need to scroll through dozens of folders and icons if you know what you want.
BTW, if anyone here knows how to get Win 7 to let you reorg the program menu, please let me know?  Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.