Favourite feature of Windows 7 so far...
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Erm it just works, and without pestering me every five minutes for some security check* *Yes, I pre-order Vista before it came out, yes I'm bitter. :)
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It gets worse. I was even excited when I discovered you can drag and drop the items in the taskbar. Yes, Spring can't come early enough...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I downloaded a tool that allows me to do that in XP. Allows me to reorganize the taskbar tray icons too. I pretty much consider it essential now.
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It gets worse. I was even excited when I discovered you can drag and drop the items in the taskbar. Yes, Spring can't come early enough...
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
if you get bored by the hibernal season, how about doing all of us a favor and implementing code sniffing in forums? :)
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I have found a decent coffee place though. And yes, soy decaf latte free. It's a flat-white and cuppucino only joint. You'd approve of it if they sold beer as well.
Moosehead or Labatte Blue?
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Michael Martin wrote:
Moosehead or Labatte Blue?
? - Just give me a pent shot Latte served in a small bowl, and yes I have had this several times. Failing that two ristrettos if I really need to wake up fast.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen.
That sounded like such a gimmick when I first heard about it, but I use it all the time now. Same with drag to the top for maximize, and drag away for restore - it actually feels frustratingly tedious to maximize and restore windows on XP now.
Chris Maunder wrote:
that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
and see, I've never used that for anything other than showing it off. In actual day-to-day use, I rarely (if ever) need or want to see my desktop. My favorite feature though? The combined launcher+taskbar. It's the first thing I miss on XP machines, followed closely by searching from the Start menu (which I somehow miss even more on Vista, where it technically exists but rarely actually works).
Shog9 wrote:
it actually feels frustratingly tedious to maximize and restore windows on XP now.
What, double-clicking the title-bar is harder than grabbing it and dragging it? Methinks not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Windwos Key + Plus key is becoming my favorite.. Even more so when websites think you want 6px fonts ;)
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Shog9 wrote:
it actually feels frustratingly tedious to maximize and restore windows on XP now.
What, double-clicking the title-bar is harder than grabbing it and dragging it? Methinks not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
When I double-click, the window moves away from my cursor. I have to "find" it again before I can reposition it (to move it where I want it, move it out of the way temporarily, or maximize it again). Dragging means the title bar stays under my cursor - a flick restores, maximizes, restores... I know it doesn't sound like a bit deal... heck, I thought it was pretty much a gimmick when I heard about it. But I no longer have the problem of "missing" the title bar and activating, then clicking something on a background window, something that would happen all too often when using my laptop touchpad. :cool:
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
When I'm at two screens it used to bother me that I could only dock at the leftmost half of the left screen, and rightmost half of the right screen. WIN+ARROWLEFT and WIN+ARROWRIGHT will allow you to use "all four positions". Thank you, Microsoft. WIN+ARROWUP will maximize , while WIN+ARROWDOWN will restore if maximized and minimize to taskbar if windowed. Nice as well. Also, consider WIN+P where you can now easily switch between you monitor and the attached projector. No more fiddling around with Intel/IBM/HP specific software. /Jan
Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
What I really like is that the dragging the window around thing can also be done using Win+Up, Win+Down, Win+Left, Win+Right
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Stuck in Tronno. There's not even any decent snow to cover the grey and make things brighter. I have found a decent coffee place though. And yes, soy decaf latte free. It's a flat-white and cuppucino only joint. You'd approve of it if they sold beer as well.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
"...There's not even any decent snow to cover the grey and make things brighter..." That's because most of the snow fell south of your southern border. I'm fairly certain the good folks around Washington DC would be happy to send some white stuff your way. Truck loads, even. It even snowed, albeit briefly, in Florida. :cool:
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I loved this feature, until I forgot how to use it. I remember I was going to show a friend and "eeerrr, forgot how to do it". Windows 7 is not my work PC so, don't use it very often. I still need to remember how to use this feature.
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i like that the 'show desktop' button has been reduced to a tiny rectangle in the lower-right side of the taskbar. no really, i do. you can just throw your mouse down and to the right, then click. it's almost a gesture, now.
Wow, I had no idea that was even there! I feel so.. stupid.
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Shog9 wrote:
it actually feels frustratingly tedious to maximize and restore windows on XP now.
What, double-clicking the title-bar is harder than grabbing it and dragging it? Methinks not.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Yes, it is. When you double-click the title-bar to restore a window, it then suddenly appears in another place, so you have to search for it in the screen before you can use it again. It's a matter of milliseconds, but it's still tedious. Dragging it away from the maximized state is so much smoother: you just feel everything under your control. I know it's a little thing, but I think it contributes to improve the general user experience.
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Great thread Chris, I took note of all of them and sent them to my home email address! Work PC is sadly still XP... *sigh* :thumbsup:
Mike Devenney
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The ability to speed up your boot time by setting win7 to use more than 1 core to start up (look in msconfig)
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Dragging windows to the side in order to have them dock left/right and take up exactly half the screen. I'm on 2 screens at the office which is great, then at home I'm on one big screen that can now act as two split screens easily. Runner up: that totally cool, totally ridiculous thing where you grab a window with the mouse, shake it, and all the other windows minimise.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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When I'm at two screens it used to bother me that I could only dock at the leftmost half of the left screen, and rightmost half of the right screen. WIN+ARROWLEFT and WIN+ARROWRIGHT will allow you to use "all four positions". Thank you, Microsoft. WIN+ARROWUP will maximize , while WIN+ARROWDOWN will restore if maximized and minimize to taskbar if windowed. Nice as well. Also, consider WIN+P where you can now easily switch between you monitor and the attached projector. No more fiddling around with Intel/IBM/HP specific software. /Jan
Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert