[Off-topic] xaccers:
The classic menu was removed form W7. It enabled users to work more efficiently (especially for the physically impaired where keyboards aren't practical or quick). Quick launch for most commonly used programs, nice and neat without taking up too much space. First menu for regularly used apps (ie just click on the start button), and so on depending on frequency of use.

Instead now we have to hack the quick launch toolbar back into existance, clicking on the IE icon pinned to the task ribbon doesn't bring up a new instance of IE it just opens or minimises once instance (you now have to right click it to then be able to open a second instance), applications are grouped so you can't use your own work process, and woe betide you click on a well populated group in the start menu by mistake! Having to use the search function exposes the failings of the menu system.

The great thing about XP/Vista taskbar is that you can see, without having to put the mouse over each app, what they are. Grouping of apps is a feature which only becomes bearable in W7 because of the popup preview (an improvement on the Vista preview I have to say).

Jump lists to to recent docs is a great feature.

It shows the shortcomings of the menu system in W7. It's also, as I've mentioned before, not very user friendly to those who find typing difficult.

It's also not helpful to those users (oh there are hundreds of them unfortunately) that don't know the name of the app they use, the sort that say they aren't running XP but 2007 (what they mean is office), that navigate to the apps by the icons, that think their monitor is the computer and the thing under the desk is a "hard drive"

So users shouldn't be able to customise their computers? You're not an iPhone user are you?

Except in W7; right click network icon in system tray > Open network and sharing center > move up and click on Manage network connections > right click network connection

Classic menu; Click start then flow through settings (no 2 second wait unlike W7's menu) > network connections > right click the network connection

Heck you can even do that just as easily using only the keyboard.

It's not because office has a doc open. I'd love to be able to tell you which app is causing it, but W7 doesn't tell me. System tray is empty of all but W7 icons. I've seen it on several W7 machines, some just after W7 has been installed from scratch.

You what? I think you'll find there's a difference between Public and All Users.

The all users profile is used to apply settings etc to, I'm sure you can guess; all users.

In Vista/W7 it was moved to C:\ProgramData. The all users desktop etc was moved over the the Public profile.

So now if you install an app and it adds shortcuts to the All Users start menu, but you want to move it to the desktop, it's no longer in the same tree, which when you're using scripts to do things becomes a PITA.

I'll give you an example, from a cmd prompt, do a dir in the following directories:

C:\users\all users\desktop

C:\users\public\desktop

Now they're the same location, you can test this by making a directory in all users\desktop and it will appear in public\desktop, but do a dir again and nothing.