Windows 7 is junk

i'm sorry, but i'm sure i'm going to offend a bunch of windows users here.
but i've spent more than 80 hours trying to get windows 7 to work correctly on a macbook and have just come to the conclusion that it's a convoluted piece of junk meant to look and feel like snow leopard, but was written for software engineers due to all the stupid hacks and workarounds you have to do to get this thing running correctly.
the latest of which is the registry hack that you have to do in order to get windows file associations working again. once you open a file with another program other than the default, it won't let you change it back (yes, google it), even inside the OS's own feature for doing so, it becomes disabled. how stupid.
i understand that some of you need windows for whatever reason, gaming, etc. in my particular case, i have a friend here in south america who returned 2 defective pc's and went back to the mac, however, she's an architect and has to use Autocad for work and it only works on pc. and unfortunately, there's a license breaking issue with Autocad due to how windows reads the clock, so yet another hack needed to be performed to keep that working.
after scouring trillions of forum posts, i finally have the network adapter and sound working (sort of), and find it hard to believe nobody has the same problem or has a solution. i've posted this problem several times and no answer for a week.
windows 7 x64 on a white macbook. i have speakers working with Cirrus Logic CS4206A (AB99) driver installed. like many people, HEADPHONES still don't work, no matter what i click (setting headphones or speakers as default doesn't work, this is clearly a driver issue).
i thought maybe that the sound card driver (realtek?) might be the other driver that may control this. can't seem to uninstall the default driver and install the realtek ones to even give it a try (another long story).
the sound is louder on the left speaker than it is on the right, another common problem i've read here. and i addressed the low volume by editing the registry to bump up the volume, as suggested by another user in another forum.
i'm not blaming the driver issues on windows 7, and certainly not faulting apple for not keeping up with a different company's OS. but just trying to navigate around windows 7 with all the stupid dialogue warning boxes and "troubleshoot compatibility" workarounds just to get things working is driving me nuts. i can't imagine someone who knows nothing about computers trying to get this to work. what average user edits a registry?
and it's not just bootcamp users, i've scoured windows forums and found all these problems. i have come to the conclusion that if you don't need windows 7 specifically and are just using windows for limited applications on your mac, just go back to XP, it will save you a lot of time and hassle. it's basic and doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but it's not trying to pretend to be something it's not. and it works.
i hate to say it, and this is not meant to slam windows or start a windows vs. mac fight, but windows 7 was written to look and feel like leopard/snow leopard, but coded for left-brain computer engineers. there's nothing intuitive about the experience at all.
well, i'm returning her computer today, got it working as smooth as it can after several attempts, it is what it is. but just like eating at a bad restaurant, i hope i never have to see W7 again.

yes, i would like specific help. i've already posted like 10 times asking the same things and nobody can offering anything. i've searched every forum known to man, and haven't found a solution. it's obviously a driver issue.
yes, windows 7 works fine on the macbook pro.
for some reason it doesn't work well at all on a macbook, late 2009, white.
what is the correct audio driver for either the speakers or sound card to make it work? left speaker is louder than the right. headphones not working. also trackpad doesn't have expose functionality on the macbook like it does on mbp 15, which is what i have. (i use xp, but installed windows 7 on a mbp recently).
yes, i've heard of that saying. the thing is with windows 7, you have to be a freaking computer software engineer to figure anything out. and it's god's gift to mankind especially after vista.
so let's see how expert you are, try helping me figure out how to get the sound working properly.
macbook white, late 2009
speaker/sound driver: cirrus logic CS4206A (A99)
left speaker is louder than the right, there's a bit of compressed sound/echo, no headphone functionality...
network adapter driver: broadcom 43224AG 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n driver
(it works, but not sure if i'm getting full N, using it with time capsule router at the moment)
thanks...

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All,
Thanks for the responses and suggestions. As it turns out, one of my parallel while loops didn't have a wait till next millisecond multiple timer. Once I put that in I did not notice a difference when minimizing or opening the task manager. However, it still doesn't explain why my application refreshed faster before I made the change. I'm using a state machine design approach with one loop that monitors the front panel GUI and another loop that conrols the hardware with specific states. The timer that I was missing was in the GUI loop. I have a theory that the issue is actually some quarky Windows XP thing that, when the task manager is open, it allows more resources to be used. I know, it doesn't make much sense but that is all I could think of. It doesn't really effect my application but I was just curious if anyone else has ever experience this anomaly with Windows task manager before.
As a side note: I noticed that with the task manager opened, my Labview application was using about 65% of my dual core CPU. However, when it was minimized I only saw a utilization of about 40%. (I realize that you can't see the utilization while it's minimized but immediately after I pulled up the task manager it would stay at 35-45% for about a second, then the application would appear to speed up and use around 60-65%) Strange......
Thanks,
Tim S.
Tim Sileo
RF Field Account Specialist
National Instruments
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