Though we should never underestimate Microsoft's ambitions, this hidden feature has useful, if less grandiose value. This feature allows you to get to an extended Control Panel and see, adjust virtually all Windows settings in one place.

Ina Fried, who blogs at cnet.com's "Beyond Binary" site http://news.cnet.com/beyond-binary, explains how:

"By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it with a certain text string at the end, users are able to have a single place to do everything from changing the look of the mouse pointer to making a new hard-drive partition.  

A small, frustrating thing for Windows users is when the Taskbar moves to a new place on the Windows desktop. The Windows XP Taskbar is the toolbar that usually sits one row high on the bottom your screen. It is the toolbar that begins with the "Start" button that gets you to other useful stuff--optional "Quck Launch" toolbar, "Open Programs" and your "System tray items." Yes, the Taskbar as a whole can go top, bottom, left or right and can be two or three rows tall and so on, and when it moves, we get frustrated.  

More and more people use webmail as their everyday email program. Google GMail and Yahoo Messenger are the two  most popular, despite some loss of desktop convenience compared to  Outlook or Thunderbird. A big frustration is not being able to quickly forward a page you are reading or document you are working on as an email attachment.