Windows 7 Tips and Tricks

1. Use Keyboard Shortcuts on windows 7 Use the mouse, you can drag-n-dock windows to either side of the screen, or drag it to the top to maximize it. These keyboard shortcuts are even faster:

Windows+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow dock the window to the left and right side of the screen
Windows+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow maximize and restore/minimize
Windows+M minimizes everything
Alt+Up, Alt+Left Arrow, Alt+Right Arrow navigate to parent folder, or browse Back and Forward through folders in Explorer
Windows+Home minimizes/restores all open windows except the active window
Alt+Win+# accesses the Jump List of program number ‘#’ on the taskbar
Windows Aero is qutie cool aswell but you will need half decent graphics to enjoy,
Windows+Tab

2. Pin Control Panel to the Taskbar

PinControlPanel

You cannot pin the Control Panel to the taskbar via the Start Menu or by drag and drop. Open the Control Panel and right-click its taskbar icon to pin it to the taskbar. An advantage of this is that Control Panel’s Jump List allows quick access to recently used functions. Also any program can be pinned by right clicked

Turn off UAC (user account control) Click start then your picture, then click change user account control settings pull slider all the way down. Restart for changes to be apllied.

4, Make the system use all cores to boot up and make all your ram visible, click start type msconfig in the box. Click boot, advanced options if your CPU has more than one core tick the box that says Number of processors and highlight the maximum amount of cores, then tick the box to allocate maximum memory sometimes ticking this box can stop some of the vista widgets from seeing all your ram but it is still there. If you right click my computer properties you can see the ram installed. 5, Change size of harddrive manage unallocated space and create new volume. Right click my computer, manage,disk management

5.Windows Vista-Style Taskbar. I wasn’t initially a fan of the Windows 7 taskbar when it was first introduced in early Windows 7 builds, but as the design was refined in the run up to the beta, I was converted and now actively prefer the new look, particularly when I’ve got lots of windows open simultaneously. For those who really would prefer a look more reminiscent of Windows Vista, the good news is that it’s easy to customize the look of the taskbar to more closely mirror the old version:

To achieve this look, right-click on the taskbar and choose the properties dialog. Select the “small icons” checkbox and under the “taskbar buttons” setting, choose “combine when taskbar is full”. It’s not pixel-perfect in accuracy, but it’s close from a functionality point of view.