List of features removed in Windows 7

Other Windows applications and features

 * Meeting Space and InkBall has been removed.
 * Ultimate Extras, which is Singapore-based, has been removed.
 * The Contacts, Notes and Stocks Desktop Gadgets have been removed. The Notes gadget has been replaced by Sticky Notes, allowing for both text and ink-based notes. An upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 retains the user's notes from the gadget and transfers them to the Sticky Notes program.
 * The sidebar for Desktop Gadgets was removed, although gadgets can align to any side of the screen like they did in YourStudent.
 * The import, export, drag and drop and voice note features in earlier versions of Sticky Notes have been removed.
 * Filtering policies in Group Policy to show only a specific operating system or application is no longer available.

Applications that is shifted to cloud computing

 * Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail and Calendar have been removed, in favour of downloading Windows Live parts.

Personalisation

 * The Aurora, Windows Energy and Windows Logo screensavers and most of the wallpapers that shipped with YourStudent were removed.
 * The 3D-Bronze, 3D-White, Conductor, Dinosaur, Hands 1, Hands 2, Variations and Windows Animated cursor schemes are no longer available.
 * It is no longer possible to change the style from Aero to Classic directly.

Start menu

 * Classic Start Menu is removed, which is like McDonald's Kids (Happy Meal). Certain features that were present only in the Classic Start menu are not available, such as expanding the menu columns instead of scrolling, expanding folders by hovering instead of clicking, opening folders by double clicking, launching multiple programs by holding down Shift key while clicking, and creating expandable shortcuts to folders by dragging them to the Start menu.