Cool things discovered in Windows 7 (6801)

[Quillz]

so far it looks like tons of 'minor' improvements, but together they make a huge difference.

i hope they make it REASONABLY priced.

What would you consider a reasonable price?

[Berserk87]

What would you consider a reasonable price?

i would say its reasonably priced for the most part, but i have a tv tuner card, and id like to be able to use remote desktop...which is not included in the basic/premium versions.

[dudeman69]

What would you consider a reasonable price?

10$

[SMELTN]

something kinda cool but weird on my laptop is. When I go away from it long enough, were the screensaver kicks in, or where it shuts the monitor off, when I come back to using it. The screen fades in, instead of just shaking the mouse/clicking the keyboard and it instantly shows back up.

Anyone else having this? Do you like it or not?

[JOHW]

Your computer has gone sentient!

[Suren]

something kinda cool but weird on my laptop is. When I go away from it long enough, were the screensaver kicks in, or where it shuts the monitor off, when I come back to using it. The screen fades in, instead of just shaking the mouse/clicking the keyboard and it instantly shows back up.

Anyone else having this? Do you like it or not?

sensors maybe?

[Ambroos]

something kinda cool but weird on my laptop is. When I go away from it long enough, were the screensaver kicks in, or where it shuts the monitor off, when I come back to using it. The screen fades in, instead of just shaking the mouse/clicking the keyboard and it instantly shows back up.

Anyone else having this? Do you like it or not?

This fading, when exactly does it start? Have you already touched anything when it started?

[Berserk87]

ill be setting up a dual boot of win7/vista when i get home.

[SMELTN]

This fading, when exactly does it start? Have you already touched anything when it started?

yeah. When I click on a key on the keyboard or shake the mouse.. You know.. the normal way you would get a computer out of sleep mode.. On Vista (and xp for that matter) when you do that, the desktop just shows back up, its like from black to bright... no transition or anything.. But on 7.. It is a slow fading in from black to desktop.

[Ambroos]

yeah. When I click on a key on the keyboard or shake the mouse.. You know.. the normal way you would get a computer out of sleep mode.. On Vista (and xp for that matter) when you do that, the desktop just shows back up, its like from black to bright... no transition or anything.. But on 7.. It is a slow fading in from black to desktop.

Smooth I gotta say ^^

[zeke009]

Anyone had a chance to play around with the home networking features? Isn't there something new in there allows you to setup a "group" or something along those lines?

Time to keep an eye out for any MS offers for a free copy of Win7 when it hits RTM. That's how I got Vista Business + Office 2007 Pro and I just picked up Vista Ultimate the other day at a Technet Event. FFRRRRREEBIES! ;)

EDIT: HomeGroup that is what I was thinking of...

[Examinus]

I really like the new features, and already when I go back to Vista it feels out of date. The idea of having to customise it every time a new build is released is a bit off-putting though.

One question: does anybody know how to configure enhancements in WMP12?

[Doli]

Is the snipping tool from Vista in Windows 7? Great program

[JOHW]

yes the sniping tool is in Win 7

[Suren]

I really like the new features, and already when I go back to Vista it feels out of date. The idea of having to customise it every time a new build is released is a bit off-putting though.

One question: does anybody know how to configure enhancements in WMP12?

it is now in the now playing mode only. just click on the right (on the top) most button in now playing mode. plus WMP 12 has a new Dolby related enhancement as well.

[Berserk87]

Is the snipping tool from Vista in Windows 7? Great program

why would they get rid of THE GREATEST FEATURE EVERRRRRRR :p

[D e v i a n t]

Take a look at Windows Media Center on the XBOX 360. This already has the codename Fiji-now called TV Pack. You can now stream and watch Divx Movies directly from Media Center. Where as before is in the old media extender, you had to go to media blade-videos and then have XBOX download a update to watch Divx from the media blade-videos.

Lots of cool new features for playback, Movie info, New Menu's, New Navigation....Excellent!

[ahfunaki]

So far I'm liking 7. One of my favorite things so far is when I installed it, it automatically edited the bootloader to include both vista and windows 7 since I'm dual booting. Pretty nice...

[Berserk87]

So far I'm liking 7. One of my favorite things so far is when I installed it, it automatically edited the bootloader to include both vista and windows 7 since I'm dual booting. Pretty nice...

ive got 30 minutes left, until i can try it out.

[SMELTN]

So far I'm liking 7. One of my favorite things so far is when I installed it, it automatically edited the bootloader to include both vista and windows 7 since I'm dual booting. Pretty nice...

+1 (Y) worked like a champ for me I need to go in and lower my time setting though, just haven't done it yet.

[ProiektHat]

Google chrome seems that is not working?! anyone can confirm that?

[3 of 7]

The first 2 shots are the the hidden partition.

The Third one is a breakdown of some sizes with Firefox,Thunderbird and AVG8 (no safesearch) installed.

[3 of 7]

Here's something I like. You can have the Solution Center ( formerly Security Center ) monitor things individually instead of simply turning the messages all on or off like in Vista.( really dumb idea )

[SMELTN]

yeah thats pretty nice

[-Hiroshi-]

A hidden partition, yeesh, not sure how I feel about that.. :/