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I think this has been the problem in the past. Ive said before that I think the average Windows user is largely responsible for the binary monster of Windows, since the demand (IMO) for better asthetics and more nannying has driven Microsoft to meet that demand adding ever increasing amounts of bloat to the system.

Its actually one area where I give Microsoft some praise, they really have gone out of their way to cater and appeal to, as many of their customers as possible (IMO). Unfortunately in doing so I believe the Vista product was the result of all those demands, and maybe why it had such a hammering in the press.

Speaking as someone who develops software, things like wallpapers (the bells and whistles if you like) are the last considerations made, since the coding and optimization of the core is far more important.

In my opinion if users want to see pretty wallpapers, great, but remember the point of releasing the beta is to iron out important things like bugs and compat.

I dont want to knock the genuine people here who are interested in Win 7, but isnt the purpose of an OS to run as quietly and unassumingly as possible in the background, using as little system resources as possible and act as a launch pad for other software?

Maybe the days of Workbench are long gone, because it seems people in the main put alot of importance into how something looks not how well it operates.

and appologies for my lateness in reply. I missed your comment.