Windows7 - the tumbstone / the nightmare / the watsamacallit

I want to get brief, but doesn't seem like it. So here goes (power just went down, lets see if I finish this before my ups quits)

Windows 7 is the dark ages of system management and administration. Hopefully, you install once for the L-user and if something happens, you use the restore image. If you get paid for installing again, its fine.

It seems that the files, application settings, the stuff we used to copy from 'local settings' is simply renamed to something else, formatted to something else, integrated to some -more obscure than ever- registry entries and are protecting the L-user from mal-doing. [power is back, ups lasted, I'm still typing]

Windows7 again, is not an operating system, is an application, or please explain me 'how is it possible that I got different file listing under windows explorer and a different one in admin mode command line?'. thats also easy to figure since I'm using 2 diff languages. Greek for the interface (cause premium does not let me change it) and English at the command prompt !!! It translates for the user interface, to the local language, a filename that's in translation, and not actual. THATS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?

I'll get back very soon on this, cause I found some very disturbing signs on this so called O.S.

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I'm back..

I am using computers since 1981. I have used many operating systems. I liked only VMS, but since its only available at nasa and the shuttle, I had to use something ... I used M$ cause I believed at a time that it was the only O.S. available for small/ mini systems and after I found Ubuntu, its my distro of choice along with a freebsd mac. I got a server (still) on win2k, my other servers are linux, a laptop with XP, my other laptops are linux and a few days ago got that new laptop with win7. I new that I was getting 7, it just seems that the 7s I was using in my virtualbox (ultimate) were different than the premium 64bit.
Diff memory wise, speed? maybe, structure? ... something. Now I got the real deal, with this real nice thinkpad, but it seems that I'm gonna be using it for a base system running my operating systems in Virtual. Got to strip the system down from all the extras really, almost done it anyway and just use the 64bit machine for what it is. I can do that installing ubuntu x64 too. The vdi's can be copied whenever I decide to switch though.

Now... the win7 might look perfect for L-users. But if they mess something, the only choice is format. I have spend enormous amount of hours, actually "knitting" to restore a broken 3.11, w95, w98, NT, 2000, XP including servers. Now I'll do what people do. Restore the original image, or whatever the user has and charge extra for any minute spent.