Windows 7 tricks you may not know

[blackangst1]

Some of these I knew, some I didnt. But, overall a good read.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/arc...windows-7-secrets.aspx

Its a long read so just click link to read it.

 

[ty1er]

nice, thanks for the link.

 

[13Gigatons]

rehash of stuff but useful for some.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Totally missed the Beta Fish thing.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

There's some neat stuff in there, I have one that isn't mentioned. Number 3 shows how you can minimize all but the focused window by hitting Winkey+Home, did you know you can also grab a window's title bar and shake your mouse to do the same thing? Perhaps not particularly useful, but neat Shake it again to get your windows back.

 

[KoolDrew]

ISO burning support is new to me. I never noticed since ImgBurn is one of the first things I installed, so file associations are set to ImgBurn.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
ISO burning support is new to me. I never noticed since ImgBurn is one of the first things I installed, so file associations are set to ImgBurn.

The tool is very basic with no control on burn speed. Other than that issue, it has always done a decent job of burning img files for me.

 

[tommo123]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
There's some neat stuff in there, I have one that isn't mentioned. Number 3 shows how you can minimize all but the focused window by hitting Winkey+Home, did you know you can also grab a window's title bar and shake your mouse to do the same thing? Perhaps not particularly useful, but neat Shake it again to get your windows back.

an y way to disable this? i move windows around by the title bar and end up maximising the damn thing when i dont want to.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: ObscureCaucasian
Totally missed the Beta Fish thing.

It's Betta not pronounced BAY-TA like the greek letter Beta. People are pronouncing it wrong if they pronounce it like the latter. Using the fish as an icon is reinforcement for such misinformation.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I just installed it on a Dell Latitude XT tablet, have it on everything, really like it...

 

[foghorn67]

Nice! Thanks for sharing.