got a good win7 tips and tricks site?Follow

i gave it about a week and a half and little stupid **** is really starting to annoy me.

frakking title bars with absolutely no info, useless nav panes, useless info panes, every goddamn window has a search bar, folders won't remember settings.... i only have 1280x800 to play with and all the wasted space is driving me crazy.

i mean a title bar that is absolutely blank except for the min/max/close buttons. don't get me started on the freaking 8-pixel wide window borders, thankfully i found the windows classic theme that fixed both those issues. frankly, i'd prefer to get rid of the title bar altogether.

heh? the nav pane is the old "my computer" button, except you don't get to open it at your liesure, it's in every stinking explorer window. how is it more efficient to have the same information taking up space in 8 different windows?
it's like the old status bar except it's three times taller to allow two lines of text and it repeats everything i have displayed already in details view. and if i turn it off, i can't see how big that stack of mp3's that i want to export is.
eh, i used the old search function prolly 20 times in about 7 years.

this one is really getting my gander. xp used to save the location and window size for each folder individually; can't speak to details vs icons because all mine were details. this was really handy, because i had my wow addon zip download directory on the left half of the screen, and then the wow/interface/addons folder on the right, and it was super easy to do what needed to be done, especially since each one had a shortcut to the other one. now i can't get win7 to do anything but cascade new windows.

it's a laptop with an ati 4670 card w/1GB gddr. first thing i did when i unboxed it was reinstall windows. then i updated the BIOS, motherboard drivers, video card driver, and audio drivers.










and why the hell is the control panel the only frigging place that arranges alphabetically across the screen? the first time i opened that up looking for 'mouse options' i swear i got dizzy and had to close my eyes.

There are two things you need for Windows 7. The first:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-v2-a-tweak-ui-for-windows-7-vista

and the second:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html

Enjoy!

(also, pressing and holding the windows key and then using the arrows while a window is open does fun things to it!)

found something but haven't tried it out yet:

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/21/folder-position-saver-windows-7/

first impressions: frakking awesome

Edited, Mar 4th 2010 9:25am by axhed

Or click the link already provided in this thread.