They are going to give me a new CD Key to install because mine wasn't working. I used Teny's trick and now I got it to work. So I have a second copy coming for me.
Had another weird issue. I was using Zoombrowser EX to convert RAW images to .TIFF images and transparent windows turned off. After that was done it automatically turned on about 15 seconds later. It's never done that whenever I did it before.
You can remove the gadgets and you can edit so the taskbar programs actually look long rectangle instead of a square with no labels.
The "All Programs" menu opens like Vista.
edit: I'm loving this OS! My favorite features, by far, are the "shake and clean" which let's you see the desktop, the short cut on the bottom right of the task bar that also lets you see the desktop, and the side-by-side windows that is enabled by dragging on screen to the left and the other to the right. Very very useful. The libraries are pretty useful too. The only thing that's annoying me right now is that I can't get the RivaTuner taskbar icon to stay there.