There are some people whose definition of "good" is "Apple." You can never win on this turf: anything that isn't Apple, is bad; anything that is like Apple, is

There are some people whose definition of "good" is "Apple." You can never win on this turf: anything that isn't Apple, is bad; anything that is like Apple, is a copycat. The people who have more useful information are probably those that hop on OSes all the time and spend a majority of their time in pre-7 windows flavors. I never played with W7, but I would probably be annoyed by that dialog box if I see it in a normal situation. Right now I can see two attacks to this problem. First, for the config-philic person, allow them to choose during OS install whether they would like to be exposed to configs-galore. For those who don't just go with the defaults and allow them to enable configs-galore themselves later. The (cognitive) memory cost here is 1 item: where to find the option to enable configs-galore. Second, pop up these kinds of window depending on how close the action is to the OS install. If it is within a few days, my memory of "fresh OS install" is salient and it would not be surprising for me to see config dialogs pop up here and there. If it was over 2 weeks though, I'm most likely coasting already and would hate to see something disrupt my flow. Other than that, though, that dialog box looks fine to me. I don't find it the least bit confusing. In fact, the choices it gives are quite complete and pleasing as such. /Mac user on a daily basis.