The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

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Jason Cartwright — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:37:21 GMT

Great tips, some work in Vista 2.

Dugie’s Pensieve » Blog Archive » Windows 7 v7000- a week’s roadtest in review

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:37:49 GMT

PingBack from http://blog.windowsvirtualization.com/virtualization/windows-7-v7000-a-weeks-roadtest-in-review

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

vasudev — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:13:51 GMT

Windows 7 seems to natively support DivX.

The Bumper List Of Microsoft Windows 7 Secrets

mandown — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:28:01 GMT

As most of you know the talk on the web over the last few days has been about Microsoft Windows 7 and it’s release into beta status. Those power users keen on having a look on what’s new have been frantically downloading it to get it installed. I now

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jaymelbe — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:22:54 GMT

Really interesting ! I have not played that much with 7 right now but I really like most of the new feature.

Something is a little disturbing in the 1st secret ... why aren't there any way for this : maximizes and restores the horizontal size ?

It is less useful than the vertical maximizing but we should also be able to do this for 4:3 resolution.

I like the 22nd secret.. I will try this one as soon as I get my UMPC which will be the perfect toy to try this secret !

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jamebo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:53:41 GMT

Ping back from :

http://www.cnblogs.com/LoveShrek/archive/2009/01/13/1374937.html

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Marc Brooks — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:58:08 GMT

Awesome summary. Can you please tell us why Windows 7 STILL does not include the ability to mount ISO files as a virtual drive? Don't make me burn coasters, please!

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Toph — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:16:14 GMT

Great roundup. And I like the fish. :) Clever clever.

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Ruud de Jonge — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:21:07 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx Schaamteloze

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Mike Halsey — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:55:15 GMT

Okay I read Wikipedia but I'm still confused... what's with the fish?

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secretGeek — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:56:55 GMT

Nice run down tim.

(another name for the siamese fighting fish is "betta" -- is that it?)

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cam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:52:04 GMT

What no Songsmith! I'm buying a Mac. Seriously though, can we haz the concept of sudo on Windows. Administrator should not be the default account for base installs, and it should ask me for my password before executing anything with Administrator permissions.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Richard Hay — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:16:14 GMT

Great job and some very interesting things to be cheked out - thanks!

Windows Seven : Cas pénible de l’icone de Windows Live Messenger 2009

Blog Technique de Romelard Fabrice — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:42:09 GMT

Quand on installe la Beta 1 de Windows Seven, puis la suite Windows Live (Messenger, Mail, Writer, …)

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Sam Law — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:45:43 GMT

Hey thanks so much, I chuckled at the subtle betta fish, some of those will definitely come in handy, especially the vertical task bar.

De interne tips en trucs met Windows 7

Tony Krijnen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:27:04 GMT

  Nieuwe toetsenbord combinaties: Windows toets + Linker pijl – Dock links Windows toets + Rechter

Windows 7 Beta, fishing for clues

The things that are better left unspoken — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:47:13 GMT

Since Saturday January 10th, Windows 7 Beta (build 7000) has found its way to a lot of people downloading

Windows 7 Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Marc: My Words — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:47:28 GMT

Windows 7 Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Marc: My Words — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:47:54 GMT

… this bumper list of tips, tricks and secrets pops up from Tims . Cool, and just makes me more excited

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AnandK — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:51:34 GMT

Wow, thats a pretty exhaustive list ! Thanks for putting it all in one place.

Pingback http://www.winvistaclub.com/forum/windows-7/26676-list-windows-7-secrets-tips-tweaks.html#post125023

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Chief — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:21:03 GMT

(another name for the siamese fighting fish is "betta" -- is that it?)

Wikipedia states that Betta is pronounced as the greek, Beta.

Windows 7 “Secret” Features

rosslotharius.com — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:25:25 GMT

Typically I keep my posts focused on CRM but I have been testing Windows 7 since the PDC build and I

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Digital_Utopia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:29:29 GMT

Re: secretGeek

Yup that's what I'd guess the joke's about. Had one of those when I was a kid, it was named "Alpha" :P

(same color too :D)

30 Dicas para o Windows 7

Chilá na NET... Ah e no .NET também... — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:03 GMT

Bela lista de dicas para o Windows 7 feita pelo Tim Sneath . Clique aqui para conferir. Abraços. Chilá

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Mike — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:07 GMT

The 'Black Box Recorder' - have it running while the 'plane' is in the air. Don't switch it on after the crash.

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Chilá — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:53:32 GMT

Enjoy the fish?

I really wonder why that fish is there... wiki did not helped... see you...

De interne tips en trucs met de Windows 7 Beta

Tony Krijnen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:00:56 GMT

  Nieuwe toetsenbord combinaties: Windows toets + Linker pijl – Dock links Windows toets + Rechter

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BrianK — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:05:25 GMT

Thanks for this list! I've also installed Windows 7 on my Samsung NC 10 and - other than some difficulties with setting up wireless (had to switch it and the router to WPA2-Personal from WPA-Personal for some reason) - I have been pretty happy with it.

On the Quick Launch bar, I still use it and will probably continue to do so (now that I know how). Usually the first thing I do when I set up a computer for myself is move the Quick Launch bar to the right-hand side and leave the task bar on the bottom (though usually set to auto-hide). Vista made that harder to do, and Windows 7 even harder, but at least I have that option. I generally put all the apps I use on a regular basis on it (which is quite a few), and there just isn't enough room with it on the task bar.

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Clifton Griffin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:17:09 GMT

Fantastic post. Windows 7 is truly impressive.

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Hevo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:34:42 GMT

"Enjoy The Fish" - Nice one. You'll have to change it for release.

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Robert C Cain — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:38:14 GMT

Great tips, already proving useful. I installed Windows 7 over the weekend and have been slowly reinstalling my applications, so far my experience has been very nice. (I've been blogging my progress reports).

I do have to agree with Marc Brooks though, when are you going to get native support for mounting an ISO file? With all the ISOs you distribute via MSDN/TechNet, I'd think it'd be a natural.

Sure, I understand the average consumer or business user doesn't particularly need the functionality, but with the plethora of 3rd party ISO mounters out there it can't be that hard to do, and seems like it'd be worth it even just for your internal use.

Heck you wouldn't even have to integrate it into or ship it with the OS, just release a ISO mounter yourself, maybe one with basic functionality so 3rd party vendors could still add value.

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John — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:41:48 GMT

But still can't create an ISO file ?

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Bruno — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:45:22 GMT

WOW ! I really see some WOW for Windows now !

Great artcle !

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Bill Pytlovany — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:47:24 GMT

Great list of tips. I've definitely bookmarked this page.

Will be glad when the beta fish is gone. Fish freak me out and I didn't enjoy seeing it on my desktop. ;)

Bill

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Windows Guy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:48 GMT

I didn't know few things.Fine, but you can get a detailed working How to install Windows 7 using USB drive in the below link:

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vista-from-usb-drive-detailed-100-working-guide/

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TheCyberKnight — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:59:37 GMT

The "Betta Fish".

This is a "beta" version. Nice.

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Peter van Dam — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:07:23 GMT

I completely missed the ISO burner, and the [windows button] + arrow keys functionality, thanks!

Don't forget about the [windows button] + the number of the icon in your taskbar counted from the left to run/open/reopen the program

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mahjong — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:13:09 GMT

The Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens), also known as the "betta fish" or just "betta".

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Rick Barraza — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:26:47 GMT

Hey, I got my quick launch back! And maybe I'll try side docking again (but right hand side for us lefties :) Thanks for the awesome tips!

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Tim Burga — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:12:37 GMT

The fish was a nice touch. I wonder if the analogy can be taken a step further - if you install two Windows7 instances on the same box will they fight to the death?

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

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rtpHarry — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:16:06 GMT

i think its the entire latin name "Betta splendens".

just because on channel 9 they were saying this is one of the best windows betas they have ever made (stability and feature completeness wise) hence splendens / splendid.

no?

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

News — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:07:38 GMT

It’s great to see Windows 7 Beta finally released to the world! We're very proud of what has been

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Matthew Ventour — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:19:08 GMT

i agree with ISO mounting, but i would also like to see a more accessible way to mount and work with VHD files too.

currently only an admin can mount and access a VHD and it can only be mounted via Disk Management.

it would be super cool if one could say right-click an ISO or a VHD and choose Mount from the shortcut menu. killer!

of course other utilities like Daemon Tools would still be best at supporting a wider range of images but at least for VHD, it would be nice if you could download an ISO and mount it to install as opposed to having to burn it to a physical disc.

likewise, mounting a VHD backup to grab that one document would be a time saver, since one wouldn't have to switch user to mount and access the VHD just to get at that old presentation.

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SAZMD — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:35:13 GMT

Thanks for the tips. I have used the Quick Launch bar for as long as I can remember, and am glad to see I can bring it back. I also like having certain apps minimize to the system tray. What I like about both of those is the ability to keeps things ordered. I keep common icons in Quick Launch, less common ones pinned to Start, and minimize some to system tray to keep the clutter out of the taskbar but still have those programs running (Mail, Outlook, Messenger, uTorrent, etc). I feel that by bringing everything out onto the taskbar, it makes for more clutter and less organization. Frankly, that is why I don't like the Mac OS X Dock (though the W7 taskbar is far superior to the Dock if you ask me). Being able to move things around on the taskbar is nice, but it doesn't solve the clutter problem without frequently reorganizing the taskbar. For me, that's a step back from Vista. On option to automatically reorganize the taskbar as apps are opened and closed (open apps to the right, closed to the left) would be nice.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Stuart Anderson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:49:26 GMT

re: 24

right click on the taskbar icon, right click on windows explorer, add "space [drive letter]:" to the target box to start in a specific drive.

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Randolpho St. John — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:57:28 GMT

I'd like to third the request for ISO file support, both in terms of mounting and creating. I hate third-party tools since they're almost always adware or buggy; some native support would be really nice, even if it's a downloadable addon.

Also, the Betta joke was pretty funny.

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Lee... — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:02:57 GMT

Hey Tim, nice post.

I'm assuming that when 7 goes RTM there will be a picture of a Goldfish as the desktop background ;-)

Betta fish, lol...

Sneak Peak of the Windows 7 MSDN Flash Newsletter.

Nigel Parker's Outside Line — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:12:40 GMT

If you’ve been missing these updates previously subscribe to MSDN Flash... If you have disconnected yourself

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Miguel — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:17:28 GMT

DisplaySwitch command-line switches:

/internal

/external

/clone

/extend

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ASPInsiders — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:23:47 GMT

Found this great list of Windows 7 “secrets” via Shawn Wildermuth on twitter . I think my fave is between

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thudman99 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:24:07 GMT

The ability to mount an ISO rather than burn it would be a very useful additional feature

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anony mouse — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:34:39 GMT

"It’s also worth noting in passing that Windows 7 is far better suited to a netbook than any previous operating system"

You seem to be forgetting the miriad of Linux distributions that are tailored specifically for netbook use.

Windows 7 is a great improvement for Windows, but many of the touted features have been standards in Linux desktops for several years. Free download, USB installation, docked windows, running with elevated rights... It's good you're catching up after falling behind with Vista, but the only added bonus I'm really seeing between Windows 7 and a Linux distribution is the Microsoft branding.

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SAZMD — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:36:07 GMT

One additional comment to my previous one. It doesn't surprise me that the new taskbar tests well, most people's desktops and taskbars are a cluttered mess of icons and running programs. While the new taskbar is actually neater for these people, it is more of a mess for those of us UI neatness freaks. Please give us a choice and allow for even more customization of the UI by power users.

Oh, and add another vote for mounting iso's. Great idea.

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DavidinCT — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:36:40 GMT

Very nice list, some things I knew others I did not.

Nice "betta" fish...heh, got that one when it loaded up....

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br0adband — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:38:11 GMT

Brilliant list, even I learned some new stuff that will come in handy. And yes, I just moved my Taskbar to the left side of the screen and will give it a go for a week if I can handle it. When Windows 95 first came out so long ago, I almost wished I could find the person directly responsible for putting the Taskar at the BOTTOM of the screen and beat him or her to a pulp. I still can't understand it... it's basically the first thing I modify on a new installation, right to the top of the screen where it should be.

But this left side position is intriguing, so we'll see what happens.

Thanks for the list...

Windows 7 is awesome

Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:40:36 GMT

I think it's safe to say that MSFT learned a great deal from the initial Vista launch and it's

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Annie Blevins — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:56:47 GMT

Thanks Tim, I appreciate knowing the secrets of Vista SP2, oops I mean Windows 7.

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Doug — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:59:56 GMT

About time MS decided to add an iso burner, as much as they only recognize that format.

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bob e — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:08:05 GMT

cheers, many improvements I even like the fact the desktop background image rotates.

I was happy with Vista actually and this feels right at home except faster! http://www.flannelplanet.com

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Oliver Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:26:58 GMT

I was a side locker for a while, but I converted to a top-side auto-hide task bar. Why top? Top is where menu bars go. If I want to control explorer, I go to the top of the window. If I want to control my PC, I go to the top of my screen. I compliment that with Rocket Dock autohidden at the bottom of the screen.

But on the subject of screen real estate recovery, one feature I'd love to see in 7 is "minimize to preview". What you've done with the task bar is very nice, but it's still a 1D list. Allow me to grab the title bar of a window and "swirl", minimize the window and pop a preview onto the cursor instead which can be moved like an icon, double clicked to restore the window or popped to the taskbar if it's become clutter.

That's it - after 26 hours with 7, all I have is that suggestion so far. It looks like 7 will be to Vista what XP was to CE :)

One hiccup - I changed my theme to Landscape. When I tried small icons for the task bar and then turn it off, the opacity strip didn't regain it's size. Now if I move the taskbar to the left, the opacity strip moves to the top of the screen rather than going vertical.

Only other niggle so far - have to run SharpKeys to get my apple keyboard's alt/command the right way round :)

See http://kfsone.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/win7tb.jpg

As a Vista naysayer, may I just say "YAY!" :)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:27:57 GMT

Don't forget [b]Win + Home[/b] is a new shortcut to minimize ever window EXCEPT the active one.

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Derek — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:40:02 GMT

I'm not a fan of the removal of the quick launch feature. It creates additional work to launch new instances of programs, such as IE, and their position is not fixed on the tool bar. I use a double high task bar and pinned applications move all over. I also do not like having to find an IE window and right clicking to start a new IE window. This creates additional work and clicks to do something very simple.

After re-enabling the quick launch feature, I'm 1000x happier with the task bar and I like the new features it has. Just give us one click access to re-enabling the Quick Launch menu for those of us that like. I tried the new behavior for several days, and found myself cursing quite frequently.

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Tom Mason — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:59:58 GMT

It's interesting that the Globalization wallpaper for Australia, Canada, and South Africa are all the same.

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Stu Taylor — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:07:56 GMT

Brilliant post, i have sat here and done all those tips, i love the vertical taskbar especially on the second monitor on my mutisetup works a treat.

The snapping on resize is a nice touch, well done guys

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gary — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:12:05 GMT

also, middle click won't launch another instance if you jave intellipoint installed. it's flip-3d by default.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

axelriet — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:21:29 GMT

A few more:

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/13/5-great-new-features-of-windows-7/

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mark Sowul — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:55:52 GMT

Great list! Overall I'm pleased with Windows 7, except 1) lack of Windows Media Player taskbar miniplayer, 2) lack of sidebar (you could move gadgets onto the desktop in Vista, why take away the sidebar? At least make it optional), 3) revamped tray - seriously, WTF?

Loads of Windows 7 Tips and Tricks

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:07:56 GMT

Tim Sneath in the team put together a really detailed list of nice features which you get with Windows

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Darren Neimke — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:20:56 GMT

Regarding the wallpapers... I can't see the following path on my Win7 filesystem:

C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Darren Neimke — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:56:34 GMT

Nevermind, figured it out

Tools|Options -> Untick 'Hide protected operating system files'

I had previously only Shown Hidden Files/Folders/Drives

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Bink — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:18:26 GMT

Thank you very much for this! Very helpful!

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Arthur P — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:23:14 GMT

Tim,

I chose not to read any blogs \ postings for Win 7 until after I had run it withing VPC for a couple of days .... We've installed it upon a HP2133, and whilst it runs quite well it lacks the aero interface; and James O pointed out that you'd already covered a couple of my observations ....

Guess I'll be installing it onto the NC10, and see whether it degrades or improves the battery life.

I like the new appearance of the taskbar, but I do want the QL bar back.

Otherwise great betta ... someone has a sense of humour

Arf's

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GoodThings2Life — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:06:10 GMT

Great tips!! Thanks!

Now if only I could sort the All Programs list so that folders were at the TOP again!

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Larry Smith — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:37:45 GMT

First of all, add YAVFIS (Yet Another Vote For ISO Support). I'm actually surprised that mounting VHDs made it before ISO support.

Also you left out my favorite cute new interface feature -- "shaking" the caption bar to minimize all but that window (aka the GUI version of Win+Home).

Windows 7 Secrets

PWStrain — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:53:00 GMT

Tim Sneath , “Client Platform Guy”, has posted a list of 30 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks.   His blog

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:46:23 GMT

How does the booting from USB work? xcopy doesn't copy over the boot sector, does it? Can someone explain this? Am I missing something?

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

buzzup.com — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:21:06 GMT

It’s great to see Windows 7 Beta finally released to the world! We're very proud of what has been accomplished over the last months; in many ways

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Sean — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:50:16 GMT

Windows Explorer doesn't seem to comprehend the taskbar features. Shift + Clicking, Win + 1-5, Win + E just brings the explorer window you already have open to the front.

Hidden Secrets in Windows 7

Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)" — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:12:15 GMT

Tim Sneath just posted a blog item titled " The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets ", lots of neat tricks,

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noahric — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:27:14 GMT

(Don't know if you'll get to this feedback, but anyway)

Middle-clicking on a program to open a new instance instead of the existing instance seems like a bad decision. While it is nice in that you're basically using the only other button available on the mouse to provide that (perhaps important) action, I think you'll find there are two issues.

1) People really don't need to do it as often as you think - I can't think of the last time I've wanted to do that on my mac, which follows a similar default model for the dock (clicking the icon switches to that app).

2) In every other multi-document interface (e.g. tabbed interfaces), middle-click tends to mean "close the tab". In fact, I get miffed whenever I use an app where middle-clicking on the tabs doesn't work. Firefox, IE, Visual Studio, and I'm sure others also follow this paradigm, and I've now built the muscle memory that middle-click = close. I'm sure I'll try it on Win7, too, and be /really/ disappointed that it does the /opposite/ of what I wanted.

Kudos, though, on a strong beta release :)

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Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:58:22 GMT

Nice information! Allthough a lot of these already work in Vista.

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techdribble — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:45:08 GMT

Some great stuff here many thanks. I will say that even after a bit of use I am not a fan of new taskbar much prefer the old taskbar/quicklaunch combo. Trying to launch a second instance of a program (Visual Studio mainly) has to be done via the menu as clicking on an existing instance just uses that instance..

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

N. P. — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:58 GMT

Yes, but there is no ISO mounting or creation. Other OSes have had it for ages! What is so difficult about it?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

David B — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:00:59 GMT

Wow, I totally just caught the BETA fish reference =)

I feel a bit slow today. (You may want to mention for those who don't know that clicking, then dragging/shaking the window does the same as Win + Home)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mike Brown — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:30:02 GMT

I understood the fish reference right away because I used to have one...someone pointed out the 7 bubbles coming from it's mouth to me.

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

El blog de Lluís Franco en Geeks.ms — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:30:46 GMT

Gracias al gran Juls , acabo de leer un excelente artículo sobre Windows 7. Es de lectura imprescindible

Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Technoeuphoria — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:39:31 GMT

Check out this blog post from Tim Sneath for some tips and tricks on on Windows 7. Tim Sneath : The Bumper

Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets | nerdd.net

nerdd.net | news and opinion — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:51:32 GMT

\r\nWindows 7 adds a great deal of polish and refinement to both the user interface and the underlyi

Windows 7 Fieber – Second Level

Marco Scheel aka GeekDotNet — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:57:34 GMT

Es ist so weit… die Welt hat nur darauf gewartet :-) Ich hatte direkt am Donnerstag Abend den MSDN Download angeworfen und auf Freitag als ersten Windows 7 Tag gehofft… leider kam es anders. Der Download ist mehrfach abgebrochen. Der Download Speed ist

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Jeff Lewis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:04:43 GMT

"I Want My Quick Launch Toolbar Back! "

Actually, what I really want was an insanely useful feature that existed until XP - then went underground in Vista (you could still do it - but you had to wrestle with Vista to do it) - but seems finally completely gone now.

You used to be able to take a folder and smack it against the side of the desktop, turning it into a toolbar. What i would then do is remove the title, the icon labels and then switch to small icons.

Why?

You could stick shortcuts for lots of apps there and launch them in one click. You can also drag-drop a file onto the icon to open that document.

Here's a jpg of my current desktop to show what I mean. (Yes, I also keep all my hard drives on the desktop - I tend to do everything in the desktop).

http://www.werewolves.ca/lj/desktop.jpg

I know the new taskbar kind of does this - but it would be very difficult to put this many applications on the dock. Maybe if they were more closely spaced.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

superna — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:21:06 GMT

Why do you still use C:/ ... drives for user interface if internally you use more unix-like paths (.e.g /Volumes/UUID/..) ?

In 2009 we are still blocked by your A:/ to Z:/ mount points !

It would be useful to be able to use the internal mount points naming scheme easily without breaking anything !

It would be a good feature, all other recent OSes does it....

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

El blog de Lluis Franco — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:59:52 GMT

Gracias al gran Juls , acabo de leer un excelente artículo sobre Windows 7. Es de lectura imprescindible

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Alan.Roberts — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:05:00 GMT

Overall I like the new taskbar. Not sure about having each tab in IE show up in its own preview though. If I minimize IE (with a bunch of tabs open, I often have a dozen or more) is there a quick way to restore it (with the last tab I was on still active) without having to remember which tab I was on and without having to use multiple clicks (i.e. on the IE icon and then on a specific tabs preview)?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Ilya — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:00:39 GMT

А бета тоже активировать нужно или нет?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Byron — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:17:53 GMT

I wish the Favorites in explorer could contain folders that can open and show links. In XP I could do it, but miss it in Vista and Win7. See my video on my skydrive... sorry about the audio: http://tinyurl.com/MyWin7Wish

“Secretos” interesantes de Windows 7, por Tim Sneath

Windows Server — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:33:38 GMT

Ahora que ya es pública la beta de Windows 7, creo de lo más interesante divulgar esta entrada del blog

30 Windows 7 nippi

Tehniline evangelism — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:36:43 GMT

Kolleeg evangelist Tim Sneath on oma blogisse kokku kogunud 30 huvitavat nippi ja trikki Windows 7 kohta.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John Jnes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:38:13 GMT

Jmm, I am starting to think 7 might not be a rehash of Vista

www.anonweb.pro.tc

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Marc Klink — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:42:08 GMT

Interesting tricks, but no meat to them. Smoke and mirrors. Why can I not open the Documents folder? Why the move to a Unix-like file system hierarchy after such disdain by MS towards Unix?

Everyone I know that has used Windows since 95 wonders why the menu system is designed to inhibit those who wish for logical organization, and drill down structure.

Windows 7 Beta and VPC 2007 Incompatibilities

Brownsblogging — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:12 GMT

Windows 7 Beta and VPC 2007 Incompatibilities

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mitch — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:49:28 GMT

On the topic of side-docked taskbars, i wish you could REVERSE the order of the taskbar. IE the start button is still in the bottom left corner, the tray is in the top left corner and programs on the taskbar stack upwards.

Why, oh, why, cant this be a feature!?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Xjs — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:50:23 GMT

I somehow feel reminded to Mac OS X or Linux (having a lot of those features for ages) when reading e. g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27. ;-)

Sorry, couldn't resist. But I'd appreciate if Microsoft did something decent with Windows 7 again – the last decent Windows I saw was 3.11.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

bvs — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:04:42 GMT

Excellent list, one that justifies the blogs.msdn.com domain!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ScaredyCat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:33:13 GMT

Yeah, but did they fix the search?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Darine — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:42:07 GMT

A whole bunch of really ridiculous and useless smarffle.

When will MS learn that 99% of what they added to DOS is totally useless. Please take away IE. Throw out all those stupid dinky user interface enhancements. Throw out System Repair and just do a simple Disk Image tool For the sake of sanity, get your act together MS.!!! Windows 7 is a load of overhyped garbage and should be trashed immediately.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

R.T. — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:54:46 GMT

I'm glad Microsoft finally got around to finishing Vista.

Windows 7 Features

Doug Bornyk — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:37 GMT

I liked Tim Sneath's post on Windows 7 features so here's a link to his Blog

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

WindowsFan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:39:51 GMT

Nice to know that Windows Live Movie Maker will be improved before Windows 7 is released - it needs it.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Eiffel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:46:45 GMT

Hi. It's intersting, but what if i want the old Xp taskbar style ( could use the W7 theme wich look better ) and Programs and not Vista style ? I use Visat in Classica Style as I cannot use the Programs window for productivity reason. It'a extremelly annoing to search for programs in that small windows especially when you have a lot !

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

pixielou55 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:09:17 GMT

I have a question about Word 2007 - write protecting part of the document and being able to write protect part (but not all) of the header/footer. Can anyone help me? Please e-mail me at pixielou55@hotmail.com. Thanks!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

planetarian — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:09:34 GMT

"2) In every other multi-document interface (e.g. tabbed interfaces), middle-click tends to mean "close the tab". In fact, I get miffed whenever I use an app where middle-clicking on the tabs doesn't work. Firefox, IE, Visual Studio, and I'm sure others also follow this paradigm, and I've now built the muscle memory that middle-click = close. I'm sure I'll try it on Win7, too, and be /really/ disappointed that it does the /opposite/ of what I wanted." -noahric

Actually, middleclicking the buttons opens new instances like middleclicking links in a browser, and if you middleclick the taskbar thumbnail previews, it will close them ala tabs.

the buttons are like links, the thumbnails like tabs.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

JT — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:18:22 GMT

I like that the Siamese fighting fish a.k.a. betta is actually staring right where the old fish icon used to be in Vista Ultimate, as if ready to fight it :D

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Masta — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:27:01 GMT

had a Beta a while back, called it Masta.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jeremy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:28:24 GMT

Congratulations! You're that much closer to having the feature set of OS X. A few more releases like this and you might even be considered an honest-to-goodness operating system (ignoring security and stability issues, of course). Keep up the good work.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

alekso — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:44:32 GMT

A big list but very little on security!

Btw, NO THANKS! I'm staying with Ubuntu! :))

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Kevin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:01:23 GMT

I'd like to see sticky notes become a gadget instead of a window... that way when we use Win+Space, we can see our notes...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Marco — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:09:24 GMT

I really like the speed and responsiveness. Now it's going to be a matter of having Windows7 my base OS and use WindowsXp in VMware for legacy software.

List of Windows 7 Secrets, Tips, and Tweaks

LetsBlogAbout.NET — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:19:36 GMT

List of Windows 7 Secrets, Tips, and Tweaks

The Ultimate Windows 7 Feature List

The Stone Blog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:34:55 GMT

Tim Sneath on his MSDN blog provides what is an amazing list of Windows 7 new features, as well as methods

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

djRob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:13 GMT

"ISO Burning.

No more grappling for shareware utilities of questionable parentage!"

Can this applet mount ISO file as a virtual drive as PowerISO (http://www.poweriso.com) can? No it can't.

First do sth better than PowerISO before you start offending competition.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:48:08 GMT

@Marc Brooks;

With all the focus, and some of it grosely misguided or misdirected especially when it comes to the RIAA, on piracy and and likes of that ill conceived brain child DRM....you want Microsoft to provide a method to mount .iso files natively?

I can see the news now..."Microsoft aids pirates by allowing virtual .iso mounting. Story at 10"

As much as i'd like that to be a feature also, unfortunately, we live in times where the misguided and misdirected, and often abusive and intrusive, "mis adventures" of the anti-piracy efforts are quickly painting operating systems into the proverbial 'corner'.

Windows 7 Beta on a Mac Mini

Sujit's .NET and Windows Ramblings — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:24:37 GMT

I have a Mac Mini at home which I use from time-to-time for doing some development on OSX. I also have

Awesome list of Windows 7 Secrets

Eschew Obfuscation — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:53:05 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx You’ve probably

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

lasean — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:10:53 GMT

If you have dual-monitors Win+Shift+Left Arrow and Win+Shift+Right Arrow swaps the active window between monitors.

Interesting reading: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ISV blog-voer — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:13:03 GMT

I loved this blog post of Tim Sneath so decided to share it with all of you :-)   Check-it out!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Ricky Cadden — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:37:26 GMT

I'm using the Win7 Beta on my Fujitsu P1610 (tablet) and have REALLY been enjoying it, specifically over the XP Tablet Edition that came installed on my machine. Win7 runs faster, better, and less power hungry. I'm also really enjoying the new tablet input updates, as well.

Thanks so much, btw, for #13 - I'm a heavy user of the QuickLaunch, and while I don't mind the new layout, I'm really rather annoyed at the wasted space with the new layout, especially as compared to QuickLaunch. There's too much empty space on either side of the icons, or else I'd just stick with that.

No matter, I've got my QuickLaunch back, so I'm once again a happy camper.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Steve Kudelko — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:40:21 GMT

I really like the idea of a System Repair disk in Windows 7. For this purpose, so far, I've just been using a version of WinPE without any customizations. If I create a system repair disk using Windows 7 now, will that system repair disk expire when the beta expires, or does the system repair disk not follow those restrictions?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jandler — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:44:34 GMT

"Hopefully your first act after Windows 7 setup completed was to download and install the Windows Live Essentials suite of applications (if not, then you’re missing out on a significant part of the Windows experience)."

If people doesn't know about it they won't. I hope that you will added a feature inside Win7 as a link or something to a microsoft software store or something that shows all these free goodies that people can used either from MS, partners or other comps. A single place where people can go and get the software to complement their windows experience. Search, select, install done. Instead of doing search through google. Sort through results, find where to download, etc etc.

Windows 7 tips and tricks

Gold Coast — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:46:12 GMT

One of my new years resolutions was to minimize the amount of linking (“Hey, so and so just blogged this”)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mike — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:50:25 GMT

Why is there no DreamScene in W7?

Some awesome Windows 7 tricks

Virtual Varia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:26:05 GMT

Tim Sneath posted this last night, and I wanted to share it with all of you Windows 7 users out there. 

Windows 7 beta - useful tips

Switch Systems Blog — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:55:26 GMT

There's a very useful blog entry to some keyboard shortcuts and other nuggets of information about the new Windows 7 features. My favourites : WIN+X (launches mobility centre) WIN+1, WIN+2, WIN+3... (launches taskbar items) PSR.EXE Enjoy the Fish!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Aric A. — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:56:36 GMT

Heh...and here I thought I'd found all the little tweaks. Thanks for the post.

"I’m surprised that not many people seem to have caught the subtle joke with the Siamese fighting fish that is part of the default background"

Really? I assumed nobody was bothering to mention it because it was such an obvious pun. :)

Tippsammlung zu Windows 7

Teamzille.de — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:24:43 GMT

Die Beta ist noch keine ganze Woche verf�gbar, schon finden sich �berall im Internet die ersten Tipps und Tricks zur Anpassung und Verbesserung des Systems. Das Interesse scheint wesentlich gr��er als bei Windows Vista zu sein, denn dort war dies nicht

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jeff Lewis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:40:33 GMT

#12 Installing from a USB Memory Stick.

Mmm.. no - that probably won't work on most netbooks. The NC10 might be smarter than most though. I just tried it with the Acer AspireOne netbook (currently the most popular) and ran into two problems.

First, "xcopy <srcdrv>:\ <dstdrv>:\ /e /f" doesn't actually work. You'd need "xcopy <srcdrv>:\*.* <dstdrv>:\ /e /f". Mind you, I did this on XP, so perhaps the Win7 xcopy is smarter. Still /e /f doesn't tell it to create a bootable partition and load the booter onto the stick.. sooo.

Second, it doesn't write a boot partition out, so there's no way for the netbook to find the bits it needs.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jeff Lewis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:50:25 GMT

Two more quick comments:

First - will we EVER see a keyboard shortcut to create a new folder? like Windows-N or something? I'm always amazed this one never gets added.

Second - my GOD the Mac and Linux trolls are obnoxious. Are they THAT insecure about themselves that they have to actually go LOOKING for places in which to act sanctimonious in order to feel superiour?

Constructive criticism generally gets you farther than being a jerk, guys.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Don — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:32:07 GMT

Regarding Tip 21, it's worth nothing that you can type in the name of the task button you want too.

E.g. WIN+T, "l", "i", "b", ENTER

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Aj — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:11:38 GMT

I agree with Jeff Lewis above, the xcopy thingo will not work without putting boot info on the usb key.

seems to me, that this was not tried by Mr Sneath...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Aj — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:13:20 GMT

That is UNLESS, she did an upgrade from her existing pc?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

SAZMD — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:10:39 GMT

Yup, the trolls sure are out in force. I'll stick to constructive criticism.

I second the concern about the lack of Windows Media Player taskbar miniplayer. The thumbnail doesn't have a volume control and is not as convenient as the taskbar.

Another poster above said:"If I minimize IE (with a bunch of tabs open, I often have a dozen or more) is there a quick way to restore it (with the last tab I was on still active) without having to remember which tab I was on and without having to use multiple clicks (i.e. on the IE icon and then on a specific tabs preview)?"

I agree with that concern. I miss just clicking on the taskbar to toggle minimizing of an application.

I also find Explorer and WMP 12 rather drab in appearance. Vista has a much sharper and more striking appearance. Some of us actually like that stuff.

Giving users more choice increases the ability to please a wider group of people. Please consider that.

Windows 7

Віктор Шатохін [MSFT] — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:00:38 GMT

Саша Ложечкин http://blogs.gotdotnet.ru/personal/allo/ поделился ссылкой на заметку о новинках в Windows

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Brandon Paddock — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:35:24 GMT

superna -

You are not at all limited to the C: through Z: mount points. You can take a drive and mount it at C:\AnotherDrive\ if you want. Drives don't need to have drive letters. It's just that most people are familiar with the drive-letter-per-drive system, and so are most applications.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ice — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:07:14 GMT

Great post, thank you, found a couple of very interesting things. Please keep posting updates, if you find new stuff. The only thing I find anoying right now about Seven is that there is no way to redefine Win+E shortcut, but I can live with it, even though I am not much of a My Documents + My pictures + My music and other things like that guy.

Other than that, I have to say, tried to install Vista Business, but it really slowed down my lappie, and photoshop CS3 was really annoying on it, Seven runs really smooth until now ... I don't know if I'm convincing myself of that because of the hype, but it really seems to me that it's better than Vista; I am actually considering purchasing this one ( my Xp and Vista Business are OEM versions, came with the lappie). Hope they refine and tweak it even more, it's really nice to have that much eye candy and performance in one package ( and I have to say, was considering switching to MacOS X when Microsoft announced that Windows XP updates will stop shipping in).

For the record, my lappie is a Dell Vostro 1500 non-custom, 2 gigs of ram, install went smooth, everything was detected (even the annoying card reader), and only had 1 minor problem with the wireless adapter, it got disabled by the Troubleshooter and I couldn't re enable it, had to reboot, and ... all the rest runs fine.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

varadii — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:44:11 GMT

Great article and thanks posters for research on be(t)ta fish ....

I'm another quicklaunch fan, just counted, I have 30 shortcuts in the quicklaunch popup and 3 more in the always visible part - this way I hardly ever use start menu, it realy should be a checkbox to restore this.

I want to add a vote to the ISO mounter too.

And somebody maybe could explain what's the use of the ancient explorer "feature" of hiding known extensions - this is the first thing I disable on every new installation, it seems to me confusing and without any benefit.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jimmy S — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:18:55 GMT

I love the enhancements to the window manager.

I really wish it had built-in support for snapping windows to corners and screen edges. That is something I do all the time, and wish was built into Windows. What say you? Can this be added in to the beta? Pretty please?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Byron — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:56:02 GMT

I tested dual boot in VPC: XP on drive C, Win7 on drive D

All worked as expected.

Then I tried it on my desktop

Vista on partition C, and wanted Win7 on partition D

However, Win7 install changed my partition D to C and hid my C partition. Not what I wanted.

Any one know how to force it to install on D and keep it that way.

I want to share my greenware on C

大揭秘Windows 7的30个新特性

Felix Wang | Evangelizing the Next Web — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:06:48 GMT

资深的平台布道总监，客户端技术达人 Tim Sneath 最近在他的博客《客户端平台男的冥想》上撰文介绍了Windows 7用户面上的30个新特性。下面就让我们来一看究竟吧： -----------------以下文字译自tims-----------------

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

b0 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:27:21 GMT

I just installed Windows 7 and it's great. Never used Vista, i have now dual boot XP with 7 :)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Sven — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:56:05 GMT

To be able to boot from the USB drive for installation you need to make sure it's formated correctly.

For example you could you diskpart in a command prompt like this

diskpart

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=fat32

assign

exit

Once you have done that you use xcopy to copy the files following this example:

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

That way you can boot from the drive and it has everything on it.

Worked fine for me.

links for 2009-01-15

Things That Once Were — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:02:27 GMT

Sizzle JavaScript Selector Library (tags: jquery javascript framework selector) Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets Currently installing the Win7 beta in VMWare Fusion as I type this. (tags: windows7 tricks) BART officer arrested on murder

Windows 7 Beta

Random thoughts of a dev — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:33:46 GMT

Hi all, Sorry I haven’t posted in a while but I have been experiencing some alias issues, but it’s all

Netbooks: Installing Windows 7 Beta from a USB stick

Community Blogs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:59:05 GMT

Netbooks don't have disc drives so how do you install a new OS? You can use a standard DVD drive

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Peter — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:07:11 GMT

Tip #12 does indeed work. I installed Win 7 on an Acer Aspire One using this trick and it worked a treat. Not sure exactly how it works but I suspect its something to do with EFI.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:22:17 GMT

Already the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_removed_from_Windows_7 has got started. I always get the feeling that I'm at the mercy of Microsoft because they always remove *several* features from every version of all of their software products. Developers can get their way around by writing own solutions, poor end-users are left with nothing. Should I continue using Vista to publish and subscribe to calendars, view installed Winsock LSPs using WinDefender's Software Explorer feature, or for using Meeting Space, playing InkBall or enjoying DreamScene? These are far more valuable to me than fancy eye-candish gestures and window management productivity boosters.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mr. Drably — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:37:26 GMT

OMGGZZZ a new font?!!!111 Really!

X-D

What a sad, sad list of features.

Windows 7 is failing more as each day goes by.

About the only good thing in Windows 7 is the lack of applications which are being moved to the Live suite. This means I wont have to look at that garbage in my menu's anymore.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Cythrawl — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:23:29 GMT

@ Mr. Dably

Why dont you crawl back under the bridge you Troll?.. Why don't you install, use and then make a comment that's constructive?

"Windows 7 is failing more as each day goes by."

Really failing?... Its not even out yet (only in beta) and its failing?.. Why? Because you said so in your oh-so l33t Internet speak?

Seriously You have just joined the sea of a-holes that populate the internet nowadays...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

James Cornell — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:41:03 GMT

Thanks Tim for the accessibility shortcuts, they are very helpful. Microsoft should put out a reference card on their site for every one of these, even if they are not used often.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mark — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:53:11 GMT

All I've been wanting from Windows for about the last decade is a taskbar on each monitor when using multiple monitors. Instead I have to keep using some 3rd party software for each version of Windows. This is a pretty fundamental request, is it not?

Does Microsoft just not care about the multi-monitor user? Are there not enough of us?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

goatofmendez — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:26:15 GMT

"Building on top of the Windows Vista foundation" eek! you just lost yourself a hell of a lot of users with that one line alone. You'd better extend the XP support time.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

valorisa — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:29:25 GMT

Hello,

The complete command is :

xcopy e:\*.* f:\*.* /E /F (where e: was the DVD drive and f: was the removable drive location).

valorisa

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

alekso — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:57:36 GMT

Again!! What about SECURITY????

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John Barnett MVP — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:02:20 GMT

Excellent set of tips. I must admit, though, i'm still having trouble finding the MCT in Globalisation to check out the different varieties of screen backgrounds. (Windows 7 Ultimate v: 7000)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

superhobo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:10:58 GMT

Today I booted back into XP after a week of using 7.

I've never hated XP so much :(

Still love both :D

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Raymond — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:13:57 GMT

Trying out tip 24, I found out that rightclicking Windows Explorer in the jumplist allowed me to open properties and change the setting! Yay :o)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

pmbAustin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:01:31 GMT

My biggest issue is I hope Windows7 FINALLY fixes the problem of other windows that want attention popping up over existing windows you're working in. Vista went a long way, but that still happens occasionall, and I've still had some windows even steal focus when they did it. Other times, they just pop up, obscuring what I'm doing, but don't get focus, and no amount of Ctrl-Tabbing or Alt-Tabbing will make it go away, as the window manager is obviously confused. I actually have to click on the window to activate it, and then minimize or dismiss it, or click BACK on the window I was working on to finally get it back in the foreground.

This is such a basic thing, I really hope some work has been done on this.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Sean H — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:05:28 GMT

RE: # 3 - Cut Out The Clutter.

As noted, Win+Home is a shortcut key to minimize all the non-active background windows, but there is another way you can do this called Windows Shake. Just click and grab the top bar of the active program and shake the window back and forth a few times with your mouse and all the non-active windows will minimize. Shake the window again to bring them back.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Gary — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:08:45 GMT

I only ask... how different is this from Vista to justify tossing over many hundreds of dollars yet again? I am probably one of a few quite content with Vista x64. Runs flawlessly for my needs. At least this time they aren't forcing an upgrade to obtain DX11 support (or as I hear).

I am not going to buy a new OS every 1-2 years at that price tag. Especially if the features and enhancements it brings are purely cosmetic/aesthetic in nature.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Chris Liphart — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:34:13 GMT

Just a thought on the usage of the taskbar on the side: It would be great if you could "flip" it so that the start menu and icons stack from the bottom up with the clock and tray up top. That way those with the muscle memory of clicking the start menu in the lower corner wouldn't have to retrain so much.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

pmbAustin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:31:51 GMT

I agree with others, like Chris Liphart above, that there should be a task-bar properties option to "flip" the bar. This not only has great value on the side-mounted bars (put the start button in the lower corner and have the icons stack upwards), but it also might have value for left-handed people or in RTL cultures, in a bottom or top-mounted task-bar, with the start-button on the right, with the icons 'stacking' right to left.

It seems a worthwhile option to add.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

pmbAustin — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:36:53 GMT

I know this isn't addressed in Vista or Windows 7, but I hope it is addressed at some point in the future, perhaps a service pack. It's something that frustrates and annoys me to no end.

In Windows Explorer, if you're doing drag/drop of files from the right pane to a fold in the folder pane on the left... if you hover just a fraction of a second too long, the folder will spring open to show all the sub folders. Now, this is fine in most cases, but if there are a LOT of sub-folders, or if the folder that's springing open is towards the bottom of the window... suddenly your drop target moves out from under you. If you release the mouse button, suddenly you're copying/moving files to the WRONG FOLDER.

It should really be a basic tenant of good UI design that a drop-target isn't going to spontaneously and unpredictably move on you just by hovering over it.

I'd love to see the controls fixed so that when the folder springs open, the parent folder of all the new sub-folders STAYS IN EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE, with the sub-folders extending off the bottom of the window if necessary (requiring you to scroll to see them if you really want to). This would eliminate the problem of drop-targets moving around in Windows Explorer, causing you to either try really hard to target the folder and release the mouse button before it springs open... or having to pre-open the folder and then position it, so you can drop files into it without any surprises.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Kanten — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:59:00 GMT

I would love to see a "Quick Launch" icon in the taskbar, perhaps combined with the library icon. When you mouse over it you would see a preview window of all the program shortcuts you put there. The size would be the same as the shortcuts on your desktop (or adjustable for people who like to customize). This preview window would grow or shrink as you added/subtracted programs/shortcuts. I mentioned combining this with the library icon because when you mouse over it nothing happens. A click would open the library like it does now and mousing over it would open the quick launch window with any programs or files you want to put in it.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

kristian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:30:02 GMT

totally agree! i just started using the taskbar on the left side after reading this (good read!) and i keep clicking the clock when i want to open a program. :)

Windows 7 마케팅 문서에는 찾기 힘든 기능, 1 편, 프로그램 창 관리

Korea Evangelists — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:20:13 GMT

Microsoft 본사 Evangelism 팀에서 Director로 근무하고 있는 Tim Sneath가 Windows 7에 관해서 잘 알려지지 않은 기능을 블로그 를 통해 공유했습니다.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Luis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:29:59 GMT

Anyone knows how to restore the status bar in windows explorer. I accidentally removed it and I can't find how to put it back.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Matt — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:08:35 GMT

Bring back the ability to add and use the Quick Launch toolbar. This is an incredibly useful and takes up much less space and clutter on the taskbar than the new interface. Don't just catter to the masses and forget about your power and business users. I have close to 60 quick launch icons of apps I use regularly and it is much easier to find and launch those apps then having to scroll through the start menu with vista and windows 7. Would be nice if there was an option to enable a fly-out of the programs folder like in XP and before.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Nodda Seven Fan — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:43:04 GMT

Microsoft claims that you can run 7 with an 800mhz processor. Minimum recommended processor @ 1ghz with 1gig of ram. The only problem that I noticed between my machine that ran Vista Ultimate (2ghz AMD Single Core 32bit, 1gig DDR, ATI 512gig video card, 320 EIDE HD) was that Vista used all hardware drivers needed to make a purely stable machine, 7 did not. This little wonder called WARP 10 consistently MAXED OUT my processor at 100% when it called for ANY video rendering. Opening windows, animations, moving icons, always pegged and held the CPU at 100% until the system anticipated you were finished. I installed 32bit version on my single core 3ghz X64 machine with 4gig DDR (server), same problem. CPU at nearly 100%. WARP uses the CPU instead of the GPU for rendering. Be wary of this. When you install 7, and after the updates are on your machine (unless it is a dual core 3ghz or better) it will severely lag, dog out and suck bad bad bad. Otherwise the warmed over and updated (more compliant Vista) 7 was a joy to use. The new features were nice. Now all that Microsoft needs to do is to find a happy medium between the two, allow us power users more flexibility with the hardware settings and they MAY have a winner.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Server Services — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:41:39 GMT

Thanks for providing very useful information. Great tips, already proving useful. I installed Windows 7 over the weekend and have been slowly reinstalling my applications, so far my experience has been very nice.

Thanks & Regards

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

David R — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:16:51 GMT

Fantastic selection of tips Tim, thank you. I feel really spoiled with the number and quality of interface enhancements, and am constantly suprised and delighted by them. I was worried the new taskbar would be an Apple dock clone, which I don't get along with, but it remains a taskbar and the enhanced functionality is just awesome!

I liked Vista, after the drivers were sorted and the odd bug fixed, but "7" deals with residual irritations such as UAC and episodic sluggishness, takes the interface to a whole new level. This is by a big margin the best OS I have used.

Suggestions:

ISO mounter again

Win-E having an option to chage the default to something other than libraries

New folder keyboard shortcut

Get the Excel team to provide an SDI option!

Cheers

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Alan.Roberts — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:22:44 GMT

I think it is Organize/Layout/Details Pane

More hidden treasure in Windows 7 beta

The W Blog — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:34:39 GMT

I’m running the new beta as my main OS and am loving life.  The 64-bit version has been really solid

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Doug — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:07:00 GMT

The only issue I've had with the new task bar that prompted me to create a quick launch toolbar was that I have a document that I frequently open. I'd like to have single click access to it. Quick launch provides that but the taskbar doesn't.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Ashik — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:15 GMT

I have to say windows 7 came a long way...even though this is a beta version it seems just as stable as any other operating system. Excellent work!

PS: i like that "enjoy the fish" i got the joke at 1st search on wikipedia! I was laughing my ass off when i read it...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Daniel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:37:29 GMT

Nice list. I had made my own list with some similar tricks, with a couple different ones as well: http://programming-designs.com/2009/01/windows-7-tips-tricks/

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

jack — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:07:14 GMT

Goode olde Quick Launch is all about opening multiple instances with one click as mentioned above. Being combined with brand-new task bar it fits my needs more than ever.

So please don't drive it away to the opposite side of world that System Registry actually is for most of users.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

jennmar — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:40:52 GMT

Fantastic list, Tim!

But one of my favorite Windows 7 features didn't make your list: http://blogs.msdn.com/jennifer/archive/2009/01/13/my-favorite-feature-in-windows-7.aspx

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jaber — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:09:54 GMT

IMPORTANT NOTE:

24- Starting Explorer from “My Computer”, your target:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

will make explorer open folders/drives in new windows instead of the current window open.

this target will fix it:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Kmoore — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:26:23 GMT

as an old Xp user, I bought my Acer aspire 8920 that came with a pre-installed Vista Home version which I hated! totaly clustered with applications that would hardly ever get used. So when Win 7 beta was available, this was installed on to the 2nd partition for testing purposes. but I found it so stable and clean, that I will now install it as the Primary system on my acer one.

Great features and thanx for the tips Tim,

Nice to see that MS is going in the right direction.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:04:49 GMT

When you are working on the Movie Maker, PLEASE include all the save options for movies that there are in the 2.6 version. Pretty Please??? That is what made me go back to the 2.6 version in Vista as there wasn't enough options for saving movies.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

GreyBat — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:31:46 GMT

Now.... if you REALLY want to make use of the left-side toolbar (IMHO!), widen it to accommodate (recommended) 6 small toolbar icons, and set to autohide. In Taskbar Properties, set TaskbarButtons to Combine when taskbar is full, or Never Combine - anything to show the label of the task. Find and activate the Quick Launch toolbar as in tip 13 above, and load it up with your favourite apps. (Make sure Title is off, Text is off, and Small Icons is selected - I WISH you could to these all at once rather than requiring 3 right-clicks!)

Finally, search for, download, and install a great utility called TaskBarActivate, which allows you to delay when the hidden taskbar pops out if you brush the edge of the screen. So it stops unintentional brushes!

You'll easily be able to access all your favourite apps with one click, and can see what windows in a convenient column and MUCH more clearly than when they are all strung across the bottom.

Then get really fancy by creating new toolbars, and organizing your icons - apps, utilities, music, etc.!!!

One more comment on the GREAT list: Re tip 24: I agree - there should be a way to change the default Win+E to show Computer. You can sort of do it by pinning a shortcut with "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root," in the target, then using Win+1 (if its the first pinned item) to start it.

Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

It's my life... And I live it... — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:09:58 GMT

These are some neat features. Interesting joke about the Siamese fighting fish . Not sure if that is

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

More Windows 7 Toolbars — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:50:11 GMT

Hello,

is there a Way to (re)enable the multiple "Automatic Hidden"

Taskbars (Toolbars) on all Side of the Desktop.

I use this essential (!) Feature since Windows 9x,

to keep the Desktop clean.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Shane — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:02:28 GMT

TOP TIPS!!!

Makes me love Windows 7 even more!!!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mark Payton — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:08:54 GMT

Great list of tips and some great improvements in the OS. Too bad more wasn't done for us Tablet PC users, though. Many of these excellent shortcuts are challenging if not impossible with the pen.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Matt K — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:33:28 GMT

Sticky notes needs to be able to minimized to tray! And we need to be able to put a link to "computer" in the task bar, not just a generic explorer!!!!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

blankzebra — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:55:30 GMT

by blankzebra - http://blankzebra.wordpress.com

@Sven: You cannot select USB disks with 'diskpart'! You need MBRWiz - lie no.1

@Sneath: The whole described procedure to install Windows 7 on USB is purely FICTIVE! Did you have a nightmare? - lie no.2

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

mehrlicht — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:32:20 GMT

as for tip #22... I've always hidden the taskbar... so it's indiferent if it is in the bottom or on the side...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Kemmac — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:57:08 GMT

Once I installed Beta Windows Seven. I just couldnt believe it so simple and great to work/play with just like the Windows XP. I just complete delete entire Vista which I dearly despite. So now offical I'm using Beta Windows Seven 32 and 64 Bit on my split partition. Once again I'm enjoying the computer all over again. I just hope it will have success in future,

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jack — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:02:24 GMT

Thank goodness I have my Quicklaunch Toolbar back!! Thank you :)

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Mike — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:05:13 GMT

Have you tried dragging a maximzed Word 2007 (or PP 2007) window in Windows 2007

does not work for me !!

Mike

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Janne — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:58:18 GMT

Yes, please give us "Mount ISO" in the Windows 7 RTM!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Anthony — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:03:14 GMT

I had already figured out how to bring back the quick launch bar but I can't seem to drag it and dock to either side of the screen.

Pinning apps to the task bar is great but only for those that you use frequently, I commonly have over 20+ apps in the quick launch so it just wouldn't make sense (or even physically fit) along with the task bar.

Being able to move it to the side is one of the only things that I have missed in Windows 7.

The only other thing is being able to select the classic Start Menu, I much prefer the cascading menu rather than the in-place navigation.

Great list of "secrets" though, some new ones for me there.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Stu — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:20:21 GMT

I'm a web/database programmer. I don't want a bunch of pretty screen real estate hogging pop-ups, tip bars, info gizmos extra information and ways to search through the dozen windows I have open. If one is halfway competant, the tools available in many of the earlier Windows products already do that.

I don't want to drill down through a half dozen directories to find "My" this and "My" that. I want to set up explorer to go directly to a director (not "My" folder) and show me a list of files with extensions and details. If file extensions were the default, it would put half the malware makers out of business. Instead we have all these people double clicking partial file names and hoping for the best.

Every version of Windows comes with more wasted screen space, more flashy distracting gizmos, and useless tools that help the intellectually challenged stumble around in magic mushroom land trying to find the latest file they lost and come up with something mind blowing to do with it.

If I wasn't such an old fart I'd learn a new platform, but in the mean time, I'm encouraging all my IT students to start down another path if they actually want to create systems that help business and government store and manage data.

Vista is viewed by every results oriented developer and information worker I know as a bloated, time wasting pig. I was hoping MS would turn that around, but it looks like W7 is just a bug fix version of Vista.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

AdamV — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:04:18 GMT

Hopefully installing this week, and moving to 64 bit (at long last).

Great list - I am always on the lookout for keyboard shortcuts, and lesser-known functionality. I keep forgetting how the win-x key for the mobility centre gives that presentation mode option on Vista and doing stuff the long way round.

What's with the whining comments about how late this is for an ISO burner from MS? You can use cdburn or dvdburn from the command prompt with a free utility from the Windows 2003 (yes, more than five years ago) resource kit. Works fine on XP and Vista (and 2003 of course). So they only just put a GUI on it. Big deal. If you know what an ISO is and why you might want to burn one, I hope you can use a command line.

Now - mounting, I agree, is overdue.

Anyone not quite ready for the upgrade who wants the window-docking functionality should check out GridMove (originally suggested on donation coder here: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=3824 ). I use this withe several custom grids for checking web designs in different resolutions, as well as docking windows around my 24" widescreen.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:17:43 GMT

I used your suggestion to make the windows explorer start with the computer drives. But now when I click on a drive to access the folders, it opens in a new window. I have the folder options set to open in same windows. Is there a way to stop this that you can share? Thanks in advance...

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

John — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:21:18 GMT

After posting the last thing I did I found this in the blog comments. Shoulda looked before I jumped eh? Thanks for this:

IMPORTANT NOTE:

24- Starting Explorer from “My Computer”, your target:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

will make explorer open folders/drives in new windows instead of the current window open.

this target will fix it:

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

water — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:31:20 GMT

Thanks! I showed my Linux friend the world of Windows 7 with the help of this blog. It shows a lot of hidden and useful features of 7.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Tom Kirby-Green — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:14:57 GMT

I'm so happy with the beta. Running Windows 7 'in anger' at home and at work now and aside from client support, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, is going to be a complete non event for me. Please, MS, get '7 out in 2009!

Oh - and Kanten's idea to have Sticky Notes become a desktop gadget so we we can peek at them using Win+SPACE is brilliant.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Matt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:16:56 GMT

Its nice to know this stuff. I have to say Windows 7 seems very mature for a beta, may be incorrect as I am a first time beta tester for operating systems. These little features as mentioned are growing on me. I currently dual boot between Windows 7 and Vista but I find myself using 7 more and more. Most of the things listed were features I didn't even know existed.

This comment was written while running Windows 7 Beta.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Adam — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:11:40 GMT

You can open multiple instances of windows explorer as long as you don't have the default folder already open. eg. the library.

All you have to do is browse to another folder then middle click on explorer or win+E and wallah.

Windows 7 Beta anti-virus

Architects Rule! — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:03:54 GMT

Interesting info for those among you who use Windows 7 Beta and…while talking about Window 7 Beta…I have

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

alh84001 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:02:50 GMT

These are some fantastic tips, thank you for sharing them.

The one problem I have is with tip #24. I'm sure it works great with vanilla 7 installation, but since I've installed Live Mesh the shortcut of Windows Explorer I get in the taskbar leads to Live Mesh Folders and has the Live Mesh folder icon. It does that now even if I change the shortcut back to just explorer.exe. Any tip on how to resolve this?

P.S. regarding tip #22. Wouldn't it be nice if taskbar supported the mouse scroll wheel, so that if I had many windows open I wouldn't have to go to the right of the taskbar and scroll down if I wanted to change the window with just the mouse. How does that have anything to do with tip #22? Well, in vertical mode, one would not scroll left/right as it is now, but icons would just continue down one by one. Though it's probably late this far into development cycle that would make the new taskbar just perfect.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Gage — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:36:49 GMT

Hah! I caught onto the joke about the fish the first day it I downloaded Windows 7 "Beta"

If anyone want's to know it, read this:

That fish on the backround of windows 7 has another term. The term you ask? well it's "beta" of course.

Since the only windows 7 that is out right now is in 'beta' form, why not make a small joke about it?

That's exactly what Microsoft did when they decided to put a beta fish as the backround!

Running Windows 7 on a tablet

The Problem Solver — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:56 GMT

Today I installed Windows 7 on one of my laptops. Not my main machine, I am not quite ready to take the

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Stu — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:39:35 GMT

Tim,

I didn't know dissenting opinions would be disallowed, or maybe you didn't get my last message... So let me try to be a little more constructive.

Perhaps the magicians at Microsoft could see their way clear to putting in a "developers" wizard. This would cater to experienced users who know what they are doing, where they are going, where they keep their files, how to access their favorite utilities and are only interested in getting to their work and getting it done as quickly as possible, using the fewest keystrokes possible and accomplishing their goals without the need for constant entertainment.

Thanks

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

sara p — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:18:10 GMT

Nicely done and its quite informative. There are couple of stuffs which I need to try it out...Windows 7 is lot better than vista.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Leo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:20:50 GMT

Something else I found:

Speed up the taskbar’s thumbnail display

For myself, the delayed response in hovering over icons in the taskbar can be annoying when I’m trying to get work done quickly. With a little registry tweak you can speed it up and get things done quicker.

Press WinKey + R to bring up the run command, type regedit, and press enter.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Control Panel > Mouse and double click MouseHoverTime

Change the value from 400 to 50 (or whatever value you want, the delay time is in milliseconds) and press the OK button.

Restart your computer and voila! Faster response time.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Kanat Bektemirov — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:23:30 GMT

hey,

thanks for great tips.

i know one hotkey too, would you please post it as a 31 and say by <b>Kanat Bektemirov</b>.

ok here it is:

if you press CTRL+roll MOUSE WHEEL it will zoom on browsers,

and on explorer it resizes the size of the icons. it a very cool hotkey, you do ur icoz size however you want.

Algumas telas legais do Windows 7

Chilá na NET... Ah e no .NET também... — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:03:52 GMT

Pessoal, andei pesquisando e achei um post muito legal com 30 dicas para o Windows 7, aqui . Realmente

Windows 7 Secrets ;-)

Open XML, VSTO, Deployment, .NET und anderes — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:32:15 GMT

Nachdem viele Newsletter und Magazine rund um Windows das Wort “Geheimnis” [oder was Microsoft ihnen

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

sanjeeva prasanna — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:08:47 GMT

I need a product key please for win 7

Os Segredos do Windows 7

MSDN | Portugal — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:23:22 GMT

Tim Sneath apresenta, no seu Blogue, os seus 30 segredos favoritos para os que já instalaram o Windows

Windows 7, enfin une autre histoire…

Dick Lantim's blog — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:02:50 GMT

Je me suis pris quelque jours de congés pour la période ces fêtes et j’en ai profité pour me faire une

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

gafs — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:45:43 GMT

The good old explorer.exe Command-Line Switches still works. So why use %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

when e.g.

explorer.exe /n, /e, c:\

works as always?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Arthur — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:31:07 GMT

I personally use the taskbar in the Vista-like mode. It would be great if the open applications were automatically moved to the right in the list, though, the mix of icons and icons w/text gets ugly.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

macmind — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:36:43 GMT

Love the artical and Love Win 7 and add my vote for an ISO mounter

Does anyone know how to get my PocketPC phone to work (mount and sync)? In XP you installed ACTIVESYNC. In Vista, it was built in but it's gone in Win 7.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Bob Ama — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:30:00 GMT

I didn't rush out and buy vista so I could wait even longer for all these 'features'?

iMac here i come....

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Anon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:53:58 GMT

Why doesn't 7 remember the size & position of individual folder windows? It always uses the size & position of the last explorer window open (even if it's a completley different folder). VERY ANNOYING.

Windows 7 Beta

Simon Ince's Blog — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:55:20 GMT

I can’t believe it, I still haven’t installed Windows 7. And it isn’t for lack of trying. If anyone would

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Nemanja Cosovic — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:03:10 GMT

So, what have your ripped off from Mac OS X this time around?

Or, are you still waiting for Snow Leopard? :D

New and Notable 282

Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:33:51 GMT

Agile/ALT.NET Scott Ambler on Criteria for a Disciplined Agile Team Scott Bellware - Good Design is Easily Learned Mike Cohn on Establishing a Common Baseline for Story Points Hanselminutes Podcast 146 - Test Driven Development is Design - The Last Word

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

sounder — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:45:57 GMT

Lovin' the Taskbar on the left side of my screen. One problem that I'd like to see addressed, though: pressing the start button should spawn the Start Menu BESIDE the button, not under it, where it blocks the taskbar buttons.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

dnick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:08:20 GMT

This is the most informative thing I've read about 7 so far.

On the quick launch question in 13 - the new model works fine for me. I generally run about 4-5 items on my quick launch toolbar.

My boss puts every app he ever uses on quick launch - two rows of about 10 icons each. For him, I'm pretty sure the new model is not going to work. I'm glad you posted the workaround so he doesn't go into withdrawal.

Noticias 23-Enero-2009

La Web de Programación — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:34:23 GMT

Ronda de noticias, y descargas añadidas a la sección correspondiente : Windows Live Calendar sale de

Windows Management on Win 7

Dave Froslie - Microsoft Development on the Prairie — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:48:49 GMT

It’s been a few days since I installed Windows 7 in my laptop. I now have installed SQL 2008, Visual

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Pratyush — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:34:20 GMT

Some good new tips, thanks for sharing them.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Syscata — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:28:04 GMT

I have try it! The Taskbar is looking good.

My Windows 7 Theme Pack

Mike Swanson's Blog — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:10:23 GMT

I've been running the Windows 7 beta for awhile now, and I'm in love! If you're relatively technical

Tous les petits secrets des nouveautés de Windows 7

ASP.NET Français Blogs — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:23:39 GMT

Alors vous aussi vous testez Windows 7 ? Alors vous voudrez sans doute passer un petit moment à lire

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ghkj@kk.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:20:02 GMT

Like most of the end users care of these,they want all their older apps and software to run properly,tell your buddies at the test labs to make a list of compat popular software + do all the testing

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Adam — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:29:21 GMT

Finnally a Windows versions that will kick mac osx' ass. lol Mac can never beat windows and this is a fresh example how the mac mania will come to end with the begining of win 7. i hav tried all windows editions, linux and mac osx too. but windows comes always on top dispite a few little problems. ppl like mac because they dont hav to support a zillion hardware. they are closed to limited software as well as hardware. whereas windows has covered a lot of hardware as well as software. mac os x is just pretty looking thing with limited funtionality. for example you just cant cut and paste huge files on the same drive, you have to copy, that means lots of space wasted if ur on low space. and if u hav to burn 4 gb file god it hopelessly take forever. ppl dont know faults of mac n go on praising it. dont blame windows its the best thing in the world n no wonder its the prefered os in the world . the statistics shows n i think win 7 will bring those macoholics to their senses

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

piaqt — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:40:16 GMT

Thanks for the "vista compatibility mode" tip about Messenger. One problem: although it's still in the Startup section of the registry, and "run at startup" is selected in the options pane, I have to start it manually. Any fix for this?

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets by Tim Sneath

Canadian Developer Connection — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:37:42 GMT

With some time to catchup today I found this on Tim's Blog..... I thought it was pretty interesting.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

shitals — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:56:35 GMT

I'm one of the user who fanatically looked for lost quick bar after installing Windows 7. I used it all the time for one click access to 90% of the programs I use. I would typically have about 25 icons in my quick bar.

Few problems with Win7 (and somewhat serious):

1. Anything in Quick bar should be moved to new task bar's pinned program at the time of upgrade from Vista.

2. As I've 25+ pinned programs, the big icons don't work. The scroll bar that appears when task bar gets full is ugly, inelegant and non-productive. There should be some short of quick auto-scroll. If switch to small icons then those icons don't use full space (there is "huge" black rectangle around them). In other words, small icons are too small and don't efficiently use space.

3. Many of my apps (Outlook, IE, Word etc) almost always have multiple windows open. This means to get to an open window now it almost always requires two clicks (one to click on task bar icon and other to click on thumbnail). This is bad design.

I don't think I would like new task bar design until these problems gets solved.

Menno takes the Win7 dive

A CRM Riff — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:22:24 GMT

From Menno te Koppele's CRM Freak blog, "I recently made the plunge into Windows 7 wonderland and I am

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Ali — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:56:08 GMT

Hi Guys,

Do you know where I can find information on how to develop a template for the calculator in Windows 7?

Thx

Menno takes the Win7 dive

A CRM Riff — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:00:30 GMT

From Menno te Koppele's CRM Freak blog, "I recently made the plunge into Windows 7 wonderland

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Al — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:58:05 GMT

Hey Guys,

Very nice article. Do you know of where I can find help on creating templates for the calculator in Windows 7?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Shay Erlichmen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:28:48 GMT

One more for the list:

Copy a file in the explorer, Paste it into a edit box and you get…. The full file name!!!

Now if that only worked with drag n' drop…

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

TheKeg — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:42:32 GMT

@pmbAustin

Halleluja brother!

I can't tell you how many times I've dragged-and-dopped files into the wrong folder because my drop target has expanded and scrolled away! ARGH!

C'mon MS... it's broken, and you know it!

גליון פברואר של MSDN Pulse נשלח למנויים

Guy Burstein's Blog — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:23:31 GMT

גליון פברואר של MSDN Pulse נשלח למנויים כמה ימים באיחור, נשלח היום גליון פברואר של MSDN Pulse למנויים

The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

הבלוג הרשמי של Windows Vista & Windows 7 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:48:11 GMT

שוב שלום, בין כל הכתבות שאני נתקל בהן לגבי Windows 7 לאחרונה (שרובן ככולן מהללות את גרסת הבטא ששוחררה

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

DRAKE — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:40:49 GMT

I tried running Windows 7 Beta on VMWARE, It installed perfectly except for the soundcard . But Office 20007 refused to install . Finally selecting compatibility mode and taking ownership of Windows\winsxs directory worked. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening ?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Jorge — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:13:22 GMT

can install windows 7 in PC pentium III with 512 ram?

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

LEMONed — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:39:58 GMT

Great tips! Thank you Tim!

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

I'm sure lots of people would love to add a "/e" in it. Without it "My Computer" will always open a new window when you click whichever drive/folder/place.

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

My 2 favorite Windows 7 blog posts

VolkerW's WebLog — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:17:49 GMT

I have more than 2 but these two are at the top. Brandon Live : Windows 7 Beta hotkey cheat sheet Tim’s

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Josh — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:03:40 GMT

Hi, the only thing I don't like about windows7 is that we, the users, cannot view the source code and modify it and learn how it works like we can with Ubuntu and gnome and other Linux distros. Microsoft should make their software open source free software just like Ubuntu with the gnome desktop.

My 2 favorite Windows 7 blog posts

News — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:46:04 GMT

I have more than 2 but these two are at the top. Brandon Live : Windows 7 Beta hotkey cheat sheet Tim

Preston Hunt's Blog — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:53:59 GMT

I've been using the Windows 7 beta for a few weeks now. It's a winner! The [http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets] from MSDN Blogs has a great walk-through of some of the

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Tony — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:12:17 GMT

Great set of tips. I was already loving Windows 7, but now can't wait to get home and try some of these out..And I was wondering why the fish?

@Josh Extreme wishful thinking. I'm a fan of Ubuntu and Open Source, but I very much doubt that MS will ever go down that path for their OS's.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

samoth — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:58:39 GMT

tip #22: I've been doing exactly the same for a long time now. I totally agree!!

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

mIKE — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:07:05 GMT

Tip # 24: Are you referring to the Explorer on the task bar that always opens to an area I NEVER actually use?? If so, that is one great tip!

Windows 7 Links

Springboard from mortarboard to onboard — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:08:30 GMT

The buzz around Windows 7 continues to grow with great new features like AeroShake , integration with

Windows 7 Secrets from a Microsoft Insider

آرش آقاجانی (Arash Aghajani) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:51:17 GMT

Tim Sneath از شرکت مایکروسافت در مقاله ای که در وبلاگش منتشر کرده، لیست کاملی از موارد پنهان و مخفی،

Setting the family loose on 7MC, Final Four update and more...

Media Center and Me — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:29:03 GMT

I took the plunge this weekend and moved my main Media Center PC up to the Win7 beta. The upgrade process...

Problem Steps Recorder (PSR.exe) + Windows Error Reporting = Another tool to help find solutions to software defects

WER Services — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:23:07 GMT

Technorati Tags: PSR , WER , WER Services , Problem Steps Recorder , Repro Steps There is a bunch of

Ctrl+Tab works in Visual Studio, too.

Nathan Brixius — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:47:43 GMT

I have been brushing up on keyboard shortcuts ever since I installed the Windows 7 beta on my laptop.

re: The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

Fred Mackie — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:07:25 GMT

This is a much more comprehensive list of tips than the one on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd451022.aspx. Thanks!

Time to Plan. . . What Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 can do for your business

Rapid IT Support . . . Blogotron — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:25:55 GMT

<p>With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in the release candidate stage and getting close to general availability, it's a good time to determine the potential benefit these two new operating ...