Top 20 Windows 7 Tips
Here are 20 tricks to tweak Windows 7 into the interface that works best for you.
Preston Gralla, Computerworld
Nov 11, 2009 4:31 pm
Illustration: John Mattos
Just got your hands on Windows 7 and want to bend it to your will? No problem. We've got plenty of tips, hacks and secrets to keep you busy for a long time, including automatically opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice, speeding up taskbar thumbnails, finding hidden desktop themes, forcing User Account Control to act the way you'd like, keeping your Explorer searches secret from others, and more.
So check out these tips. If you like them, we'll keep more coming.
Also see the Gallery of the Best Windows 7 Tweaks.
More at: Top 20 Windows 7 Tips - PC World
(But there's even more and better at the following two links here at SF!
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11728-speed-up-performance-windows-7-a.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26476-desktop-shutdown-tweaks-combined.html?filter[2]=Performance Maintenance
Can't go wrong there!
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