Windows Vista (with Taskbar Shuffle) makes it easy to close programs by middle-clicking their taskbar button. In Windows 7, middle-clicking a taskbar button opens a new program instance. The easy-close solution? Middle-click its preview window.
That discovery comes from Lifehacker reader Felipe, and it adds even more elegant usefulness to the Windows 7 taskbar, and the [...]
The guys over at Hot Hardware ran a performance comparison test of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 hard drive and solid state drive performance. The tests show that there are not differences in hard drive performance between the two operating systems. We already mentioned previously that Microsoft has optimized the SSD performance in Windows [...]
聽
The Hacking Windows 7 Media Center site has definitely been my online discovery of the month.聽 Ever since Windows 7 RC came out I鈥檝e been using Windows 7 on my main media center, and the Hacking W7MC site has provided me with useful tweaks.
The most recent one is highlighting a free app that will remove [...]
Windows 7 is undoubtedly the most exciting new operating system to come out of Microsoft within the past decade–and with good reason.
The user interface is superb, gone are many of the oddball Vista quirks, and the operating system is light and snappy, marking a massive 180 degree shift away from the heaviness and bloat of [...]
Microsoft has released an update to their Speech Recognition Profile Tool which makes it compatible with the Windows 7 operating system. The tool can be used to backup and restore speech profiles which comes in handy for users who work with speech recognition in Windows 7 and follow the Microsoft way of updating the operating [...]
I have 3 media centers in my home and I converted the main rig in my living room to Windows 7 Release Candidate at the start of the month.聽 Overall the experience has been fantastic, but one problem that was bugging me was that whenever I played a mkv file i.e. a HD file, I [...]
Action Center is a new Windows 7 feature that displays system notifications to the user from its icon in the Windows 7 taskbar. The service will monitor certain Windows applications and functions and display problem reports to the user. The majority of problems that can be discovered are security or maintenance related, for example that [...]
One of the new changes that Microsoft has implemented into the Windows 7 operating system is the ability to create custom themes. Now, these custom themes do come not anywhere near the third party themes that exist for Windows XP or Windows Vista as they limit the elements that can be changed. This does not [...]
Recent Comments