I really hate the lack of ability to put things where I want them. Both in 7 and 8. Every time I need to find something it means running a search. I suppose I could put everything on a huge USB stick, then take that away and organise it on an XP machine, and then take the stick back again - but what a bleeding hassle.

I want a small C drive with the OS and programs on. I want a big hard drive with a D partition for copy OS, an E drive for data and downloads, an F drive for copy data, then two optical drives labelled H and I - and then USB sticks and external drives should go on up from there.

I've never yet found a NAS that didn't every so often decide that it, rather than my router, should allocate IP addresses, resulting in a multiple reboot. If I could the I'd put main data on the NAS so I could amend it from any machine on the network.

I have not for some years found the magic setting that will enable me to access any shared file on any network computer from another network computer and amend and save it. The last time I had that working I had one XP machine, one ME machine, two 98SE machines, and a 95+USB machine all happily co-existing on the same network. Never did find out exactly what went wrong...