At least two of the problems you have were also sometimes present in various
earlier windows vesions.
One you did not mention is network cards not responding after sleep.
Most of the problems actually end up as a result of BIOS, Hardware, or third
party drivers.
Sadly, one of the worst offenders was a chip mfr/oem that is still very
commonly used as a source of support chips.
"CD/DVDs cannot be reliably ejected from any machine "
"I have yet to see one that will reliably complete the shutdown process if
it has been in
sleep mode"
"c_atiel" <> wrote in message
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> First: I like Win 7. I am moving all machines to it and replacing older
> machines.
> Now the short version:
> I have Win 7 machines on a mix of Intel/AMD/desktop/laptop: I have yet to
> see one that will reliably complete the shutdown process if it has been in
> sleep mode for more than a few seconds. These are all high quality
> relatively new machines and a couple came preloaded with Win 7 so it is
> not an "upgrade" or older hardware issue. I have seen registry fixes
> posted on websites but these do not work.
> I have yet to see a Bluetooth enabled laptop that does not drop the
> connection to Microsoft's own Bluetooth mouse frequently when reactivated
> from sleep. I gave up using the bluetooth mouse on the laptop I most
> frequently use because of this.
> If Windows Explorer is not opened in a sufficiently large window the
> highlighted file selection will jump randomly to a different selection. I
> thought this was an aberration in the RC but it persists in the commercial
> release.
> CD/DVDs cannot be reliably ejected from any machine using the button on
> the drive, whether a newly burned disc or a commercial optical disc.
> Usually, but always, the software eject in Windows Explorer has to be
> used. In my experience this is a universal Win 7-64 annoyance.
> I cannot be the only user seeing these oddities in Microsoft's latest and
> greatest.
>
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