Easier said than done.
I would guess a very significant number of posters, are neither experts with computer technology or with the use of forums.
I recently read this from the Administrator.
" Be sure to observe that there are mulitple forums for differential category of problems, specifically under "Windows 7 Help and Support". Windows 7 Discussion was not meant to be a support forum, but there are now, literally, thousands of postings in this forum.
Be aware that this problem now also falls under the Windows 7 Support forum itself, where problems with installations, graphics, display, networking, and other problems, which should go under those support forums have been made. The Windows 7 Support forum itself was designed for problems that go outside of the areas covered in other forums on the site."
No rudeness is intended, but, I find it difficult to interpret those paras. If I was browsing for help with a Windows 7 problem, and found this site, my obvious first instinct would be to click in "Windows Help and support". Having done that, instinct would again prevail, and I would post in "Windows 7 Support".
So many of the sub categories overlap, that it would make sense to post in a "general" category. I can indicate many threads here where a problem has been assumed to be in one of those "subs", where in fact it had nothing to do with it.