I LOVE using Windows 7.  I keep on going “oh, that’s nice” when I discover things, so what are my top LOVE’s:

• Speed – it runs much, much better on my laptop and does NOT keep the hard disk chattering
• Thumbnails – when you hover over a thumbnail it hides all the other windows and shows you that one on the screen
• IE tabs shown as thumbnails.  I use IE tabs a lot and sometimes finding the right tab is hard. In Windows 7 I can flick through the thumbnails in the task pane and it flips through the tabs
• Jump lists – you now get a recently used list for any application – so Excel just shows the Excel recently used files, Word the word documents and so on.  The are available by the program icons, but also if you right click on the program on the task bar
• Opening another copy of the program – hold shift and click on the icon in the task bar and another instance is spawned
• Fixing icons onto the task bar – now if there is a program you always start, fix it to the task bar and it will be there with the jump list before you even start it
• Colour coding of task bar icons.  When you are downloading a file in Internet explorer you see a green bar progressing through the task bar icon – you can see how far through the download it is without having to open the window.  Also, copy some files and minimised the dialog.  The icon will turn red if you need to give it runs out of space, for example
• New Resource Manager – oh, what a diagnostic joy.  Want to see how long it takes for comms for a particular application – select it and look at the network tab.  It will show you each connection and how each connection is performing.
• Dragging items into the favourites bar in Explorer, so that “always using” folder is always right at the top of the list

There are many more items, but I just wanted to share some.  Tim Sneath has also documents a whole gamut of items I love on his blog - Tim Sneath - The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets.

Ttfn

David