30 tips for win7

30 tips for win7

 

Tim sneath, senior director of platform promotion at Microsoft, a client Technical Expert, recently wrote an article on his blog "client platform men's meditation" to introduce 30 new features on Windows 7 users. Let's take a look at the following: Great, Windows 7 Beta has finally been released to the world! We are proud of what we have achieved in the past few months. In many ways, it builds a new level of quality for the version released by the test operating system, and is built on the basis of Windows Vista, windows 7 has made a lot of efforts on the user interface and underlying architecture, and introduced many new features and improvements to support new hardware, it provides deep users and mild users with better tools to manage digital life and enable new forms of application experience.
In future blog posts, I will spend some time exploring these details. Of course, there are already many articles on in-depth analysis of Windows 7, windowssupersite and ARS technica provide detailed projects. I will also pay special attention to the windows7 interview series posted on C9 by Yochay kiriaty. They provide internal messages for many of the most important new features.
Now, I will focus on some "secrets" of Windows 7: In the past few months when I used Windows 7 at home and in my company, we found and collected many small changes and enhancements we made in this version. These are not enough to be written into marketing documents as "Features", but features that will soon be missed once you use the old Windows version. Some people think that we intentionally hide functions to make windows easier for mild users, but if I want to say something, we have invested more effort to make Windows 7 more satisfying for deep users. To pay tribute to those of us who find little-known in the new operating system, I posted my longest blog post in history. If you have downloaded and installed Windows 7 beta recently, I think you will like these 30 secrets. Start it!
1. Window Management
You may have seen that Windows 7 makes window management much easier: You just need to drag the window to the edge of the screen, you can put it "Dock" to the left or right half of the screen; similarly, you can arch the window to the top of the screen to maximize, double-click the upper/lower border to keep the window width unchanged and maximize the height. You may not know that all these actions have shortcut keys:
Win + left arrow and win + right arrow move to left/right dock;
Win + up arrow and win + down arrow maximize and reply/minimize;
Win + Shift + up arrow and win + Shift + down arrow maximize window height and restore.
Features of the left/right dock are particularly useful on the wide screen
2. Projection Display
Enough of the odd OEM graphics card driver tools on the laptop to get a projection, right? You will be happy to know that projection in Windows 7 will be very fast: as long as you slam win + P, you will quickly see this pop-up window:

Use the arrow (or continue to slam win + p) to switch the settings of "No projection", "image screen", "extended screen", or "Close screen. You can also use displayswitch.exe

 

3. in-ear monitoring
Do you want to get a document in a window without interrupting it? Press win + home to minimize all other windows. The current window position remains unchanged. Slam win + home again to restore the original window.
4. Multi-display window management
Previous tips demonstrate how to dock a window on a monitor. A more sophisticated shortcut key is that you can use the win + Shift + left arrow and win + Shift + right arrow to move the window to another display, and keep it unchanged for the relative position in the upper left corner of the display.
5. dedicated for logging on the command line
The most popular option in Windows XP power toys is "Open command prompthere", which allows you to browse the file system using the GUI, and then right-click the menu to open the command line in the current directory. In Windows 7 (also in Vista, but not many people know about it), you can right-click to achieve this effect. If the current directory is a network location, a drive letter is automatically mapped.
6. We live in the global village
If you try to change the wallpaper, you will probably notice that there is a set of wallpapers corresponding to the region you selected when installing windows (if you choose the United States, you will see Crater Lake inoregon, The Arches National Park, A beach inhawai 'I and other places) In fact, according to the language you choose during installation, several sets of wallpaper solutions will be installed, but other wallpapers are in a hidden directory. If you feel an exotic call, you can go to C:/Windows/globalization/MCT to view a bunch of wallpapers in the wallpaper directory in each country. Double-click the theme file in the theme folder to rotate all the wallpapers in the country (currently, wallpapers in some countries are just similar ).
7. Black Box
Every developer expects a way for the end user to simply and rudely record the steps to reproduce the problem of the machine specific to the user. Windows 7 is available! We use the built-in detection tool problem steps recorder internally to send back product feedback. It provides a simple screen recording tool to record a series of actions. Once you click "record", she will write down your mouse and keyboard operations and screenshots, and write down the user input annotations. Once the Record ends, it saves everything as a zip file, which contains an HTML-format user operation "Animation ". This is really a useful tool. We should install it on every computer. This tool is named psr.exe. You can also find it in the "record steps to reproduce a problem" category on the control panel.

 

8. Font
Someone will be glad that we have cut down the Add fonts dialog box that faithfully served windows for 20 years. (Of course, it has been left empty. The simplest font installation method is to drag and drop the font to the font folder on the control panel ). But now it is easier to install the font. We made a "Install" button in the font preview:

In addition, Windows 7 also has many new features that can meet font obsessive-compulsive disorder: by weight grouping, hiding fonts Based on region options, directwrite API's new text rendering engine, the general font dialog box supports more weight than the four "standard" weight. For example:

 

 

9. Gabriel
In addition to the above font features, Windows 7 contains the refined font from the Tiro typeworks. It uses the OpenType layout to provide a variety of format sets, decorations, and gorgeous hyphens:

 

10. Who moved my browser?
If you feel it takes a long time for Internet Plug-in to open a page, check which plug-ins you have installed. A useful improvement in Internet assumer8 is plug-in Initialization measurement. You can quickly check whether you are stuck in a plug-in loading step. Click Tools/manageadd-ons, and then scroll to the rightmost side of the list to see the loading time. On my machine, I noticed a problem with the research plug-in installed in office2007, because I never used it, And I disabled it in the same dialog box.

11. Moving furniture
Unless you have read the demo, you may not know that the icon position in the new taskbar is not fixed. You can sort the shortcuts on the taskbar or applications that are running. Better yet, in the order of numbers, you can slam win + 1, win + 2, win + 3 and other new instances that start the first five icons. For example, I like to slam win + 5 on my machine to open a new notepad2.
Even less, you can drag the icons in the system prompt bar to rearrange them, or move them out of the hidden icon area. In this way, it is easy to customize your system to show what you want only where you need it.
12. Install from USB flash drive
I have a Samsung nc10 Netbook (pretty good). We want to install Windows 7 Beta on this machine to replace the pre-installed XP. Like most netbooks, it does not have a built-in optical drive, and I do not have a USB DVD drive that can be started. Solution: I found a 4 gb usb flash drive and formatted it as FAT32. I used xcopy E:/F: // copy E/F (E: DVD disk, F: USB disk ). Starting from a USB flash drive is not only easy to install, but also faster than installing on a DVD on a desktop.
It is worth noting that Windows 7 is more suitable for netbooks than any previous version of Windows: it consumes much less memory and disk space than Vista and is optimized for solid state disks (for example, because random access is as fast as sequential access, it does not fragment the disk, and it uses different methods to delete files to reduce the loss of the Solid State Disk ).
13. Also, click the Quick Start bar!
You probably have noticed that the Quick Start bar is disabled by default in Windows 7, and it is not in the toolbar list at all. Obviously, the concept of hanging a set of shortcut Icons has been directly integrated into the new taskbar. Based on early user interface tests, we feel that most of the users (unlike those of you who come to visit my blog) will like the new mode, but if you really like the old behavior, you will also be happy to know that the old shortcuts are still there. To enable it again:
Right-click the taskbar and select toolbars/new toolbar.
In the folder selection dialog box, enter the following path and press Enter:
% USERPROFILE %/appdata/Roaming/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Quick Launch
Close "lock the taskbar", right-click the separator bar, and turn off "show text" and "show title" to display "small icons ".
Drag the separators to arrange the positions and lock the taskbar again.

If the above steps seem not simple enough, we don't really want you to use them again. But if you have to use it for some reason, it is still there. In addition, we hope you can try the new mode and tell us why you think the new taskbar is not easy to use.
14. Drag
The jump lists feature allows applications such as Windows Live Messenger to provide Task-based portals. Jumplist replaces the default right-click menu in the new taskbar. Another way to access him is to (especially if you are running winodws7 on a MacBook without right-clicking it) Click and drag it up ". This was originally designed for touch screen devices like HP touchsmart.
Another place you can "drag" (not officially used by Microsoft) is the IE8 address bar, which opens and extends the browser history, favorites, and similar projects. The slower you draw, the more obvious the animation effect.
15. Standard Support
Every Windows 7 evaluation I read mentioned that WordPad and paint use ribbon similar to Office to present functions. However, few people rarely mention a small and good-looking feature: WordPad can now read and write the office open XML file format compatible with Word 2007, and also supports the ODF format promoted by IBM and Sun:

 

16. Windows Vista style taskbar
In earlier versions of Windows 7, I did not particularly like the new taskbar, but as its design improved in near Beta, I turned to favor the new look, especially when I opened a large number of windows at the same time. For those who prefer Windows Vista, the good news is that they can easily customize the Vista-like appearance.

Right-click the taskbar, select properties, and select "small icons". In the "Taskbar buttons" setting, select "combine when taskbar is full ". This is not accurate to each pixel, but it is similar in terms of functionality.

 

17. Desktop glance
There are still some noteworthy details on the taskbar. You may see the small rectangle in the lower right corner: This is the feature called "Aero peek", which allows you to see the icons and gadget on the desktop. I want to say that there is also a shortcut key: Slam win + space.
18. Improve the running permission
Want to quickly start an application hanging on the taskbar as an administrator? Very simple-press Ctrl + shift and slam the icon at the same time, you can immediately start it as an administrator (assuming that your account has sufficient permissions)
19. Please try again
I don't know how to use this. If you have already opened an application on the desktop (for example, a command line window) and want to open the second instance of the same application, you do not have to go back to the Start Menu. You just need to press shift to slam the taskbar icon, and he will open a new instance instead of switching the window. If you do not need a keyboard shortcut, use the shortcut key (naturally, this technique assumes that your application supports multiple instances ).
20. Private window switch
Another feature that deep users may like is to switch between multiple windows of the same application in a way similar to "Alt + TAB. For example, if you open five outlook message windows and ten other windows, you can press Ctrl to slam the outlook icon in the taskbar and quickly switch between outlook windows. This will switch sequentially in five outlook windows, much faster than opening Alt + tab and then easily identifying the smaller thumbnail to find the message window you want.
21. taskbar Traversal
Another "secret" windows shortcut: Win + t move the focus to the taskbar. Then you can use the arrow keys to select a specific window or group, and press enter to start or activate it. You can also Press ESC to cancel.
22. Wide Screen Technique
Almost every display sold today, whether it's a laptop or a monitor, is a wide screen. This may be good for watching DVDs, but when you want to work, you sometimes feel that the vertical space is not enough.
The result is that the first thing I do when configuring a new machine is to erect the taskbar on the left of the screen. I can understand why we do not do this by default-we can imagine that the enterprise IT department will be furious, they want to train everyone again-but you should not be bound by the default settings in the X resolution era as a deep user.
In the past, Windows had insufficient support for "vertical routing" like myself. You can put the taskbar up, but it looks like a later design-the gradient tone is wrong, and the Start menu is a bit weird, you will feel like a second-class citizen. In Windows 7, the taskbar seems to be designed by default with vertical la S. The icon works well at the vertical side of the screen, and the shortcut keys, like win + T, automatically switch from the left and right arrows to the up and down arrows. The overall effect is that you have created a more suitable workspace.
Try it -- especially if you have a x netbook, you will be grateful for the extra area. On the first day, you will feel a little unaccustomed, but I assure Chairman Mao that you will soon enjoy it.
23. Pin Your frequently used folders
If you are always working in four or five fixed folders, you can pin them directly to the taskbar. Right-click the folder and drag it to the taskbar. It will be automatically pinned to the jump list of explorer.
24. Start explorer from my computer
If you are processing files other than the "document" folder, you may want to change the default startup folder of Windows Explorer to enable "my computer" at startup ":

In the Start Menu, find Windows Explorer (in the attachment), modify properties, and change target:
% SystemRoot %/assumer.exe/root, :{ 20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}
If you want to change the icon that affects the taskbar, You need to unpin it on the taskbar and then re-pin it. The new shortcut will take effect. It is worth noting that the windows + e shortcut key still displays the default docment library view: I have not found any change here.

 

25. cleartype text fine-tuning and display color calibration
If you want to tune the display for image and text display, we have a built-in tool. The effect was amazing: My notebook display looked much refreshed after a slight addition of dark text color and a slight gamma adjustment. You will adjust the brightness contrast on your new 42-inch HDTV. Why not make the same adjustment on the computer screen that you face all day long?
Do not open cttune.exeand dccw.exe, or you can run it on the control panel.

 

 

26. Burned ISO

If you don't find it, you can easily miss it: you can double-click any DVD or CD. ISO image file, you will see a useful small program for you to burn it into a blank disk. You don't have to go around with suspicious sharing software tools!

 

 

27. Windows Movie Maker
Windows 7 does not contain a movie editing tool. -- It moved to the Windows Live essenessenpackage with photogaller, mail, and messenger. Unfortunately, Windows Live moviemaker is currently in the early beta phase, and most of the original feature sets are missing (we are rewriting this application). You may feel that there is no choice. Needless to say, we have a better solution when launching Windows 7, but now the best solution for early users is to use Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (with the same features as the latest version on Windows XP ). It has fewer special effects and transfer than Vista and does not support HD editing. However, it is sufficient for editing family movies.

Download the Windows Movie Maker 2.6 from here:
Http://microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? Familyid = d6ba5972-328e-4df7-8f9d-068fc0f80cfc

 

28. Hide the Windows Live Messenger icon
I hope the first thing you do after installing Windows 7 is to download and install the Windows liveessenpackage (if not, you will miss a large part of the Windows experience). If you are an im-intensive user, you may like the way Windows livemes occupies the taskbar. You can easily change the status and send messages:

On the other hand, you may want to put Windows Live Messenger in the system icon bar as before, so you can cheat it to do the previous behavior. Disable Windows Live Messenger, edit the shortcut attributes, and set it to run in Windows Vista compatible mode. Done!

 

29. The fish
I am surprised that not many people understand the joke hidden by the Siam douyu on the default wallpaper, so I will continue to hold on to this secret. You can find some clues on Wikipedia.
30. When all other methods fail
Sometimes your character is too bad-you can't start the system, and what you really need is something that can be immediately started into the command line for you to start up. Windows 7 can now create a system Repair Disk. It is a winodws that can be started from a CD, including command lines and a set of system tools. Click "system repairdisc" in the search box of the Start menu and you will find this tool [from bbs.bitscn.com]