Windows 7 - what can it do for YOU?

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Ok, so I finally upgraded our home PC. It was a dinosaur. 6yrs old with a staggering 1gb of RAM running XP. Heavy photo editing on Photoshop CS5 or Lightroom would bring my computer to its knees!

I'm really loving this new OS, but aside from the new layout and interface, what are the really cool tips/tricks/secrets that make Windows 7 really shine? I like the new taskbar, but what else can you do??

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I love the very simple feature of the drag a window to the side to get exactly half the monitor or drag it up to get full screen. I remember thinking it would be useless but I use it all the time now.
The new feature for having multiple IE windows up is great too, instead of it filling the whole taskbar, you simply hover over the 'e' in the taskbar and all your windows come up in miniature allowing you to pick the correct one without mistake.

2 very simple things I thought would be useless to me but I use them constantly and love it.

Edit: I also like the hardware monitor gadget, sits in the corner all small and unobtrusive on the desktop. It only shows RAM and CPU usage % but I like it.
 
I like how when you drag stuff to the left, or right...it makes the window just as high as the screen, but only to half the screen.


that, and how networking actually works, how clean the TCP stack is...aswell as a few other minor things
 
...for me ? ...absolutely nothing (its older relatives did enough damage back in the day)

but for you....you can install it as the second OS on your future Mac :D
 
Not sure on what u used to use but the home group feature is cool I use a hp touchsmart for my main tv and I can pull videos or files off of my other laptops in the house.
 
I bought a high end hp laptop with windows 7 recently. Macbooks are too expensive so I thought I would go pc for portable photo editing purposes. I returned the hp 3 hours later. For what I need from a pc, I'll stick with my 4 year old dell with xp and CS4, tyvm.
 
A little trick is using the windows key + tab instead of alt + tab to shuffle through what is currently running (e.g Photoshop, Firefox, Desktop etc).

It has the same function as the old way it just looks cooler.
 
Personally I would disable aero. It speeds it up quite a bit. I have about as high end of a laptop you can have and I disabled it on mine along with a few other things and saw a noticeable speed increase.
 
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