I meant the SEP GUI on Win7. They use dumbed-down descriptions of various options so it's hard to know what exactly it's doing (I just want it to check my e-mail for viruses, not make the world safe for Democracy).
Yes, I don't like the Win7 GUI much either (WTF does it take a quarter to half the desktop to show a window with 2 choices?). Indeed, the Task Manager can show more information than 2k or XP. There are lots of stupid things about the GUI, though. The 3D Text screen saver only accepts a maximum of 20 characters. And you can't (by default) "pin" a folder to the Taskbar (though there are work-arounds). If you put the Taskbar on the right edge of your screen, then the "Pinned" buttons take up the whole width of the Taskbar when active (unlike the "quick access" buttons (or whatever they were called) in 2k and XP, so you can only have a single column of such apps now. And you can't (by default) define "hot corners" for the screen savers. And (after 20+ years) the text screen saver still flickers. And ...
Don't get me started on Office 2007.... ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.