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01.26.09
New List Of Windows 7 Secret Shortcuts
 By
Darren Straight
Check out this great list of Microsoft Windows 7 Beta Secrets by Tim Sneath. Here's a few of them, so be sure to check out the full list here for the full 30 Windows 7 Secrets!
• Windows Management.By now, you've probably seen that Windows 7 does a lot to make window management easier: you can "dock" a window to the left or right half of the screen by simply dragging it to the edge; similarly, you can drag the window to the top of the screen to maximize it, and double-click the window top / bottom border to maximize it vertically with the same horizontal width. What you might not know is that all these actions are also available with keyboard shortcuts:
• Win+Left Arrow and Win+Right Arrow dock;
• Win+Up Arrow and Win+Down Arrow maximizes and restores / minimizes;
• Win+Shift+Up Arrow and Win+Shift+Down Arrow maximizes and restores the vertical size.
This side-by-side docking feature is particularly invaluable on widescreen monitors – it makes the old Windows way of shift-clicking on two items in the taskbar and then using the context menu to arrange them feel really painful.
• The Black Box Recorder. Every developer wishes there was a way that an end-users could quickly and simply record a repro for the problem that they're running into that is unique to their machine. Windows 7 comes to the rescue! Part of the in-built diagnostic tools that we use internally to send feedback on the product, the Problem Steps Recorder provides a simple screen capture tool that enables you to record a series of actions. Once you hit "record", it tracks your mouse and keyboard and captures screenshots with any comments you choose to associate alongside them. Once you stop recording, it saves the whole thing to a ZIP file, containing an HTML-based "slide show" of the steps. It's a really neat little tool and I can't wait for it to become ubiquitous on every desktop! The program is called psr.exe; you can also search for it from Control Panel under "Record steps to reproduce a problem".
• I Want My Quick Launch Toolbar Back! You might have noticed that the old faithful Quick Launch toolbar is not only disabled by default in Windows 7, it's actually missing from the list of toolbars. As is probably obvious, the concept of having a set of pinned shortcut icons is now integrated directly into the new taskbar. Based on early user interface testing, we think that the vast majority of users out there (i.e. not the kind of folk who read this blog, with the exception of my mother) will be quite happy with the new model, but if you're after the retro behavior, you'll be pleased to know that the old shortcuts are all still there. To re-enable it, do the following:
• Right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars / New Toolbar
• In the folder selection dialog, enter the following string and hit OK:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
• Turn off the "lock the taskbar" setting, and right-click on the divider. Make sure that "Show text" and "Show title" are disabled and the view is set to "small icons".
• Use the dividers to rearrange the toolbar ordering to choice, and then lock the taskbar again.
If it's not obvious by the semi-tortuous steps above, it's worth noting that this isn't something we're exactly desperate for folks to re-enable, but it's there if you really need it for some reason. Incidentally, we'd love you to really try the new model first and give us feedback on why you felt the new taskbar didn't suit your needs.
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About the Author:
Darren Straight a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) and Windows Live Butterfly Expert is a University of Kent Student who is an avid blogger and technology enthusiast who loves the passion of beta testing new products and services from Microsoft.
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