Windows 7 tips & tricks

[dangel]

This is well worth a read whilst playing with the beta:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2...7-secrets.aspx

Some very nice touches in there - i'm using it full-time at work now as well as on my acer netbook.

For those that missed it - read this to fix a bug which causes explorer/installer crashes:

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/0...-installer-bug

[BlueWave]

That second link just allowed me to install Call of Duty 4 again. Thanks!

[dangel]

Yeah it's the worst bug - weird thing is it doesn't start happening immediately. Still, easy to fix.

[Funkstar]

That first link has been posted before

here we go: http://forums.hexus.net/operating-sy...hlight=windows

Still a worthy link though

[dangel]

I did a search as well... gah!

But yes, some very good stuff in there - i'm loving the hotkeys - long overdue!

[Funkstar]

the more hot keys the better in my opinion. I love it when people look confused when i only use the keyboard to do things

[dangel]

Here's one I just found which is so fun:

Windows, --

or

Windows, ++


Zoom in and out! It's so much fun! wheeeeeeee!

[Funkstar]

Works in Opera on Vista too