Windows 7 tweaks
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
anyone have any articles they'd recommend that give me the short & sweet on "Here's what's new in Windows 7"
Windows 7 : New Features Explained Using .NET Strange that the article search wasn't picking that up for me. I had to go to Google to find it.
Thanks for the link. Actually, I meant from a user perspective rather than coding. My bad. :)
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One awesome tweak I discovered the other day is how to make Windows Live Messenger (or similar program) minimise to the system tray rather than to the taskbar... Exit out of the application, locate the executable, right click and select properties... select the Compatibility tab, then click to use Windows XP compatibility mode... click OK. When you open the application, it will minimise to the system tray as it should!!
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Here's what's new in Windows 7
- Explorer is painful - when you copy/paste it puts the new item in sorted order, not at the end like previous versions. - The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu. - Opening new windows keeps them grouped on the taskbar rather than putting them on the right hand side...
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_Damian S_ wrote:
- The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu.
Well that's bloody intuitive. Thanks! May have to play with that system tray thing too, just because I can. :)
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_Damian S_ wrote:
- The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu.
Well that's bloody intuitive. Thanks! May have to play with that system tray thing too, just because I can. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
Thanks!
Any time!
Christopher Duncan wrote:
May have to play with that system tray thing too
That was one of the more annoying things - having a couple of chat programs open and taking up valuable real estate on the taskbar... I was soooooooooo happy when I found that tweak!! ;-)
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One awesome tweak I discovered the other day is how to make Windows Live Messenger (or similar program) minimise to the system tray rather than to the taskbar... Exit out of the application, locate the executable, right click and select properties... select the Compatibility tab, then click to use Windows XP compatibility mode... click OK. When you open the application, it will minimise to the system tray as it should!!
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Here's what's new in Windows 7
- Explorer is painful - when you copy/paste it puts the new item in sorted order, not at the end like previous versions. - The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu. - Opening new windows keeps them grouped on the taskbar rather than putting them on the right hand side...
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_Damian S_ wrote:
- The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu.
Anyone found a way to fix this stupidity. XP at work and 7 at home, this really pisses me off. What stupid, freaking, UI designer arsehole decided to swap sides and WHY. Needs to be taken out and have his fingers super glued up his nose.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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_Damian S_ wrote:
- The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu.
Anyone found a way to fix this stupidity. XP at work and 7 at home, this really pisses me off. What stupid, freaking, UI designer arsehole decided to swap sides and WHY. Needs to be taken out and have his fingers super glued up his nose.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Anyone found a way to fix this stupidity.
Get into the habit of right clicking the taskbar and selecting show desktop? :rolleyes:
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I tend to put a lot of icons in the task bar. That said, even using small icons, 7 puts enough spece between them that it looks like every other one is a space. I'm sure there must be a setting somewhere that will allow me to fix this. Any suggestions? Also, while I'm at it, anyone have any articles they'd recommend that give me the short & sweet on "Here's what's new in Windows 7" for those of us who pretty much skipped Vista?
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Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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I like it... I like it a whole lot!!!!!! :-D :-D
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Thanks for the link. Actually, I meant from a user perspective rather than coding. My bad. :)
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesProgrammers are users too! ;P
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I tend to put a lot of icons in the task bar. That said, even using small icons, 7 puts enough spece between them that it looks like every other one is a space. I'm sure there must be a setting somewhere that will allow me to fix this. Any suggestions? Also, while I'm at it, anyone have any articles they'd recommend that give me the short & sweet on "Here's what's new in Windows 7" for those of us who pretty much skipped Vista?
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesI've used FreeLauchBar[^] a lot on XP, which would kind of give you "more start menus" to hold all my quick launches. Haven't tried it under W7, but accordign to their forums the vista version works on it. For the second: Shift right click in explorer now shows you the extended context menu.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Anyone found a way to fix this stupidity.
Get into the habit of right clicking the taskbar and selecting show desktop? :rolleyes:
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_Damian S_ wrote:
right clicking the taskbar and selecting show desktop
Win+D is better, I hope? :)
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_Damian S_ wrote:
right clicking the taskbar and selecting show desktop
Win+D is better, I hope? :)
-muneeb A thing of beauty is the joy forever.
Yep, that too!! I was being sarcastic... ;-)
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One awesome tweak I discovered the other day is how to make Windows Live Messenger (or similar program) minimise to the system tray rather than to the taskbar... Exit out of the application, locate the executable, right click and select properties... select the Compatibility tab, then click to use Windows XP compatibility mode... click OK. When you open the application, it will minimise to the system tray as it should!!
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Here's what's new in Windows 7
- Explorer is painful - when you copy/paste it puts the new item in sorted order, not at the end like previous versions. - The show desktop button is in the right hand corner not the left near the start menu. - Opening new windows keeps them grouped on the taskbar rather than putting them on the right hand side...
I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! If you need a laugh, check out my Vodafone World of Difference application | If you like cars, check out the Booger Mobile blog | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!
The main things that trip me up in the new explorer are... - The right hand pane doesn't always show the folder that's selected in the left-hand tree, even with "Automatically expand to current folder" enabled. I can never remember how to reproduce it but I'm always finding myself looking at an explorer window where the two panes are showing different folders. - Be careful when deleting things. I've accidentally deleted folders on several occasions when I've meant to delete a file inside the folder and then had to get them back from the recycle bin. I don't seem to be able to reproduce it here on my work computer right now but I seem to recall on my home machine if I select a file in the right hand pane but happen to have the mouse pointer over the treeview when I hit the delete key on the keyboard, it deletes the folder that the mouse pointer is over rather than the file I selected. I can't reproduce it at work now for some reason though so maybe it was some other issue. - Tree on the left behaves a little weird in places. For example "Desktop" is located under favorites and can't be expanded. Clicking on it shows folders on the desktop in the right-hand pane. Double clicking on one of those causes the folder to appear as a new root level folder in the treeview on the left, even though it wasn't showing there before. Maybe enabling "Show all folders" resolves this, but I haven't tried. - Documents and Settings / Users is a mess of junctions and symlinks. They also seem to exhibit weird behavior for example I renamed my Users folder to UsersOld in a separate bootable environment and then created a new junction Users that pointed to a different partition (in order to get my Users folder off my solid state disk) but Explorer still shows the UsersOld folder as "Users" (so it looks like I have 2 folders both called Users in Explorer). I've no idea where it is picking up the old "Users" name from but the command prompt dir command shows the correct name.
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Yes!!! That's exactly the kind of cleverness I was hoping for. There's a reason I hang out with you guys. :-D Thanks!
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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