7 things I don't like about Windows 7

A couple of days ago I have been blogging about the 10 things I like the most in Windows 7. And although I'm quite impressed with Windows 7, there a also some features or changes I don't like about Windows 7 or that couldn't impress me at all.

• Pinning: In Windows 7 you can pin programs to the task bar for easy access. This feature has replaced the Quick Launch toolbar. Although the pinning idea is not too bad at all, it couldn't impress me, and definitely cannot replace the Quick Launch toolbar.
• Once pinned, the task always remains where you pinned it. This makes it difficult to differentiate between open and not open programs.
• There is way to much spacing between pinned tasks. And this cannot be changed.
  
• Opening a new instance of the same program is not possible anymore using a single click.
So no pinning for me and I've restored the Quick Launch toolbar.

• Windows XP Mode: I've been using Microsoft Virtualization technologies for years now. So actually, I'm a big fan of Windows XP Mode, however, there is one show stopper: performance! Compared to running Windows XP inside a Virtual PC image on Windows Vista, performance of Windows XP Mode is a huge step back. Overall performance is below par and watching a video on YouTube for example is pretty sluggish.
• Taskbar layout: The new taskbar has been designed with the big icons in mind. This makes the default task bar way too big! Revert to small icons is possible, but takes too many clicks: you have to tell every toolbar separately to use small icons, or you get the strangest results.
• Action Center: The action center checks your security settings, firewall, virus protection, etc. and notifies you if any problems have been found on your computer. Unfortunately, even if no problems have been detected, the action center keeps sitting in the notification area taking up space.
• Windows Live Messenger: When minimizing Live Messenger, it minimizes to the task bar, not to the system tray as it used to do for the past 10 years. Maybe it's just a habit, but I don't like any messenger to take up space on the taskbar when minimized. In addition, if not minimized, there are two Live Messenger panes on the task bar: one for the actual program, and one serves as the 'system tray' icon. A big no go!
• Windows Explorer navigation and headers: Folder and file navigation and representation seems to be something Microsoft likes to change in every version of Windows. When opening folders by double clicking them in the right pane, the tree view in the left pane does not expand automatically. Luckily, this can be changed under Options.
  Windows automatically changes the headers in the right pane, based on the content of the folder. Although this is somewhat useful, it is a complete disaster for mixed content folders. For example, no matter what content is in a folder, I always want to see file size. For some content, this is not visible by default.
  I'm kinda oldschool, and organize everything in files and folders. I almost never use Favorites and Libraries etc. With every version of Windows, they keep pushing 'My Computer' further down the navigation pane.
• Windows Movie Maker: Microsoft decided to remove Windows Movie Maker from Windows 7. OK, you can download it separately as part of the Windows Live suite, but still, it's annoying that a program that was included in Windows Vista is removed from it's successor.

There are other smaller things that I don't like about Windows 7, but they are not worth mentioning.

What do you don't like about Windows 7?