It doesn't transfer your programs. Only your personal documents... if you bothered reading the HUGE warning that told you that before you upgraded you wouldn't be so angry.
To unpin you right click on something and click unpin. To make your bar small/show window titles/not group similar items, right click the startbar and click properties.
Small bar - Check "Use small icons"
Unhide window names - Taskbar buttons: Combine when taskbar is full
Show all icons in tray - click the up arrow then customize and uncheck hiding of icons (forgot exact words)
In the time you posted here, waited for responses and tried a lot of things to share your programs, you could have already finished installing them fresh and new .
Usually when you install a new OS (whether you upgrade an existing one or do a fresh install), it is best to reinstall all the programs. Any other way to get around that laziness can cause troubles later.
So.. It's useless. Don't know what you mean by "upgraded". It's a new computer..
The main problem is that, Microsoft will cease supporting XP in later years (Until 2014). Once they stop supporting, it's very advisable to start migrating to Windows 7. But still, XP is usable, just that there won't be newer software or games made for XP.
You don't need to worry much about having a 64-bit operating system, just that some softwares can't run in the operating system's 32-bit compatibility mode.
The reason that XP is fine is that XP is already mature (Probably in the 50s in human age), thanks to its legacy status and 3 service packs, which I don't see much in Windows 7 (Around the age of 16 in human age). All it needs, is time. Just be patient about it, and let Microsoft fix the bugs for you.
Is your XP genuine? Some people preferring to move to Windows 7 is due to this.
And, don't worry about the advanced features in Windows 7. As long as you stick to the basics of exploring and navigating around, you'll learn them.
I'm not sure about new games supporting XP, but it's up to the developers to decide. It's best for you to do a little research on this, and see for yourself. My opinion, is that games will start decreasing its support for XP, shift the standards up a notch, increase the system requirements, and possibly other things. There's a good chance that XP will not be able to cope with this change.
1. the resource manager
2. the search box in the start menu
3. the new "taskbar" (especially the "hide all" button)
things that I like in xp:
the "up one level" button in windows explorer
anyways, sorry this isn't going to help you much, but i found a program that looks for what programs what you have installed in xp, saves itself onto a flash drive or something, then goes and downloads newer versions of those programs for your win7 when you install it, makes re-installing much simpler, but I can't seem to find/remember that program anymore.. only used it once, but it worked for most of my programs
I think you have all your questions covered, so I'll just add in some contrast and say I absolutely love Windows 7 - it's the best Windows so far, ever.
I will always do a fresh install to avoid problems that can occur with upgrading. I also use 3 partitions, one of which will only contain Windows and drivers. That way I can wipe this partition and still keep the data on I have on the others. Of course it still means I need to re-install problems but it does mean that I can keep any data associated with them. This setup is also really helpful if I get a virus (not that I have ever had that problem).
For Chrome you can 'Sync' with your old version (stores all themes/bookmarks on the web)
Then retrieve them all by simply logging in with Sync on your new install.
Signatures can be edit in your account profile. As for the old stuffs, I'm thinking it's because Blizzard is now under Microsoft, and because of Microsoft Xbox going the way it is, it's dreadful.
@tom_mai78101 I must be blind. If I go on my profile I don't see any area to edit the signature; If I go to account details (settings) I don't see any signature area either.
You can get there if you click the bell icon (alerts) and choose preferences from the bottom, signature will be in the menu on the left there https://www.thehelper.net/account/preferences
I bought an Ender 3 during the pandemic and tinkered with it all the time. Just bought a Sovol, not as easy. I'm trying to make it use a different nozzle because I have a fuck ton of Volcanos, and they use what is basically a modified volcano that is just a smidge longer, and almost every part on this thing needs to be redone to make it work
So, 2.5mm longer. But the thing that measures the bed is about 1.5mm above the nozzle, so if I swap it with a volcano then I'm 1mm behind it. So cool, new bracket to swap that, but THEN the fan shroud to direct air at the part is ALSO going to be .5mm to low, and so I need to redo that, but by doing that it is a little bit off where it should be blowing and it's throwing it at the heating block instead of the part, and fuck man
I didn't realize they designed this entire thing to NOT be modded. I would have just got a fucking Bambu if I knew that, the whole point was I could fuck with this. And no one else makes shit for Sovol so I have to go through them, and they have... interesting pricing models. So I have a new extruder altogether that I'm taking apart and going to just design a whole new one to use my nozzles. Dumb design.
Can't just buy a new heatblock, you need to get a whole hotend - so block, heater cartridge, thermistor, heatbreak, and nozzle. And they put this fucking paste in there so I can't take the thermistor or cartridge out with any ease, that's 30 dollars. Or you can get the whole extrudor with the direct driver AND that heatblock for like 50, but you still can't get any of it to come apart