Installing it is the most difficult part

Windows 7 is probably Microsoft's best tested software up to now. It’s due to the wide spread public beta and release candidate testing period. However, the new operating system appears to cause troubles from the very beginning.

According to information gathered by consumer helpdesk company iYogi, the most spread problem new Windows 7 users experience is dealing with the install. The next most prevalent problem is missing applets or components (such as the change from Windows Mail to the Windows Live version), followed by a missing Aero theme.

Of course, the widely spread install problems for Windows 7 is easily explained by the fact that the software is new and that all new customers who haven’t bought a machine pre-loaded with the operating system have to deal with the install process. Add in the lack of an upgrade option for Windows XP users, and then all the variations of an in-place upgrade from Windows Vista, and you yourselves can guess all the problems that might occur.

Here, we’ve listed the top ten problems, reported by Windows 7 users, according to iYogi’s categorization:

1. Problems with installation: 31 %

2. Missing applets or components: 26 %

3. Aero theme is not running: 14 %

4. DVD drive not found (this happens despite the drive being visible in the BIOS and the standard driver is working): 8 %

5. Hidden extensions (Windows Explorer's default setting in all the versions of Windows is to hide file extensions, as well as system files and folders): 6 %

6. Too many minidumps (by default Windows 7 keeps the last 50; minidumps are the memory images saved on the system when your PC crashes): 6 %

7. Aero snap problems (Windows 7 has a handy new ability to move and resize windows, all in one movement, but sometimes it does not work as expected and can become annoying): 3 %

8. iPhone won't sync with Windows 7 (usually with the 64-bit edition, the iPhone sometimes get recognized but then iTunes returns with the error 0xE8000065): 2 %

9. Custom icons get changed with new theme (when a new Windows 7 theme is applied, custom icons can be lost): 2 %

10. Taskbar problems (In Windows 7, it's difficult to tell at a glance whether an icon is a running application or a pinned shortcut): 1 %