I know this has nothing to do with DS - but, well, we do need a computer to access DS Boards, don't we ... so maybe it will be relevant to some people.
The hard drive on my 5-year old Dell laptop went a few days ago, taking all of my data with it, although I do have a backup from about a month ago.
I bought a new laptop (ThinkPad) at Best Buy, and all their computers have "Windows 7 Professional." I haven't kept up with operating systems, Vista this, Vista that, but this sounded like a good thing. Now the problems I'm having are about to drive me mad.
Here are the main problems I'm experiencing.
- Uncontrollable zooming in Word and IE. (Moving the cursor with the touchpad causes this.)
- Moving the cursor up to the toolbar in Word causes the pages to flip up or down so I can't keep my place in the document. The Word document page jumps around vertically, top to bottom when moving cursor on page.
- Pasting with cut & paste won't go where cursor is positioned.
I won't even get into the horrid "libraries" that have replaced Explorer. As far as I can tell, you can't organize folders the way you want to. Instead you have to have memorized what's in each file and then "search" for it.
I don't know if the problems is that I just don't know how to use it after having used Windows XP for the last five years, or if the product is defective. Does anyone else have Windows 7 Professional with MS Office 2007?
Thanks.