About the only feature I miss that has actually been removed from Windows 7 (compared to Vista), has to be the Default Email and Internet links on the Start Menu.
The main reason I liked this was that you could right click, say Internet and choose Internet Properties, which would take you to the aforementioned Control Panel item.
The cool part was it even worked with other browsers, like Firefox:
Now the thing is, previously I thought that on Vista you couldn’t right click on the Start Menu, but that they had re-enabled right clicking the Start Menu. However it seems that there is a setting to enable or disable that even in Vista. Previously I was thinking, “Nice, they put back right clicking on the Start menu”.
Since discovering that you could use the Internet and Email items on the Start menu in this way, it has just made the removal of this feature in W7 that much worse. Only because I thought it was cool.
Now I must add: I haven’t actually had much need for this feature, even on XP at work so to be honest I probably wouldn’t miss it. The reason I particularly like this is that it integrates with alternative browsers not just I.E. But so far this is the only thing about W7 that I miss (I know, I know, I don’t even use the feature) that doesn’t have much of a work around. (Yes, I know you can pin them, but that’s not the point….)
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