Windows 7 Feature OTD
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Drag a window to the right of the screen to snap & resize it to take up the right half of the screen, then drag another window to the left to snap & resize it to left half. Nifty :) Came accross it by accident - as well as this: jiggle a smaller size window horizontally a few times and all other windows get minimized. Could by handy. Just playing with the latest RC, and feels quite polished. Slight driver issues, but my motherboard is a bit older. It does feel more responsive than Vista, but then I've never spent that much time with Vista.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
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Drag a window to the right of the screen to snap & resize it to take up the right half of the screen, then drag another window to the left to snap & resize it to left half. Nifty :) Came accross it by accident - as well as this: jiggle a smaller size window horizontally a few times and all other windows get minimized. Could by handy. Just playing with the latest RC, and feels quite polished. Slight driver issues, but my motherboard is a bit older. It does feel more responsive than Vista, but then I've never spent that much time with Vista.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Heh... And this article just showed up: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/aero-shake.aspx
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Drag a window to the right of the screen to snap & resize it to take up the right half of the screen, then drag another window to the left to snap & resize it to left half. Nifty :) Came accross it by accident - as well as this: jiggle a smaller size window horizontally a few times and all other windows get minimized. Could by handy. Just playing with the latest RC, and feels quite polished. Slight driver issues, but my motherboard is a bit older. It does feel more responsive than Vista, but then I've never spent that much time with Vista.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
My second day of playing around: love it. Took around 45 minutes for a clean (64bit) install (who cares about Vista?). No driver issues bar an old hp printer for which I downloaded a Vista driver and bam, all done. The only other issue was installing SQL 2008: didn't like that but just ignored the dire warnings and it was fine. Everything else installed without a hitch. Certainly appears more responsive than Vista and looks very pretty: will not be going back.
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My second day of playing around: love it. Took around 45 minutes for a clean (64bit) install (who cares about Vista?). No driver issues bar an old hp printer for which I downloaded a Vista driver and bam, all done. The only other issue was installing SQL 2008: didn't like that but just ignored the dire warnings and it was fine. Everything else installed without a hitch. Certainly appears more responsive than Vista and looks very pretty: will not be going back.
digital man wrote:
The only other issue was installing SQL 2008: didn't like that but just ignored the dire warnings and it was fine
Yeah I had the same issue, also with VS 2008. Service Pack waring as I remember but both seem to operating smoothly. Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
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digital man wrote:
The only other issue was installing SQL 2008: didn't like that but just ignored the dire warnings and it was fine
Yeah I had the same issue, also with VS 2008. Service Pack waring as I remember but both seem to operating smoothly. Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
I installed SQl 2008 first and had no problems with VS. The more I use it the more I like it.
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I installed SQl 2008 first and had no problems with VS. The more I use it the more I like it.
Me too! I've been using it as my primary since Beta and going back to XP would be like going from color back to black and white. Although I do use XP at work. :) Now that they have us hooked I wonder how much its going to cost when they reel us in? Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
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Me too! I've been using it as my primary since Beta and going back to XP would be like going from color back to black and white. Although I do use XP at work. :) Now that they have us hooked I wonder how much its going to cost when they reel us in? Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
I dread to think! We also use XP and I don't know of any corporate that uses Vista (I'm sure there must be). In the meantime I have set up a few VMWare 'Virtual Appliances' using XP. Why? I have no idea! Maybe I'll get Windows 7 32bit and use those instead.
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I dread to think! We also use XP and I don't know of any corporate that uses Vista (I'm sure there must be). In the meantime I have set up a few VMWare 'Virtual Appliances' using XP. Why? I have no idea! Maybe I'll get Windows 7 32bit and use those instead.
digital man wrote:
In the meantime I have set up a few VMWare 'Virtual Appliances' using XP. Why? I have no idea!
:laugh: :laugh: Yeah I did the same thing...it's as if we're hanging on just in case the kid with the ball gets mad at us and decides he wants to take the ball in with him. Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
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Drag a window to the right of the screen to snap & resize it to take up the right half of the screen, then drag another window to the left to snap & resize it to left half. Nifty :) Came accross it by accident - as well as this: jiggle a smaller size window horizontally a few times and all other windows get minimized. Could by handy. Just playing with the latest RC, and feels quite polished. Slight driver issues, but my motherboard is a bit older. It does feel more responsive than Vista, but then I've never spent that much time with Vista.
"For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza
CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.
Ashley van Gerven wrote:
Drag a window to the right of the screen to snap & resize it to take up the right half of the screen, then drag another window to the left to snap & resize it to left half
nice, but a pity it doesn't work well with multiple monitor setups though.
