Does anyone else absolutely hate, hate, hate those transparent file identifiers at the tops of windows?

[Sorry if I sound a bit like Eloise] But those damn things are just so exasperating! They waste precious processor memory and make the file names impossible to read. I avoided Vista but now I have new machines I have Windows 7. I think Macs do it too and some Linus flavors.

On a windows machine is there any way to get rid of it? Or shall I sue Bill Gates for ruining my eyesight?
GRRRRR
This is a real annoyance—maybe I should have posted in general—but I do like the “relaxed guidelines.”