Os1r1s Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Just Wondering if any neowin members have found out some hidden features on Vista ...As for me i hav'nt..either there is none ... or they are well hidden. :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Blue01 Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 There's the sidebar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Beard(R) Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Is there a way to turn the sidebar on in beta 1 (build 5112)?? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_0002 Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 yeah ... i heard sumitn like that ... but i have been searching all over.... for things like that ... I have actually been bug testing etc.... and haven't found anything like a sidebar..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conformity_Inc Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 Offtopic : In this months Official Microsoft Windows XP Magazine (where Neowin gets a mention btw) David Overton (Senior Partner Technical Specialist (yep, that's his title :p ) @ Microsoft UK) Recommends this http://www.desktopsidebar.com/ For use in XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Beard(R) Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 hmm http://www.desktopsidebar.com/... Its hardly the same though :( I challenge anyone to try and find out who registered that domain though.. all my whois lookups failed. Wonder if its MS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilgore Trout Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 you can add some controls to DVM, like turning off the blur... check here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred65 Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 (edited) It would be cool if we had a thread just for easter eggs/new features. I found a few things including these: In Paint, you get a Crop function, and a magnification slider The event viewer has a new 'sidebar' to load and save logs In the event viewer and services mmc's if you go File, Options, you get a Disk Cleanup dialog page!!! you can also Run the following (there are more) - documents - music - videos - computer - . = Your user profile - .. = users dir In notepad, if you double click in an empty space, the cursor moves to the first col and line of the document. Unfortunatley, you cant close Explorer windows using Ctrl-W. Alt-F4 is annoying. Also, Alt-Space has dissapeared from explorer windows. In task manager, you can right click on a process, and open the containing folder, or display the properties of the file! Ctrl+scroll wheel to change icon size (except desktop and control panel). But you probly knew that already. Edited August 11, 2005 by fred65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchasem Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 finally crop in paint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsteele_7 Posted August 11, 2005 Share Posted August 11, 2005 From everything that I know from what I've read and heard the sidebar IS in Windows Vista but is not on by default HOWEVER I have ONLY heard of this for build 5203 and have read that it is in fact NOT in build 5112 (aka the Beta 1 Build of Vista) There's the speech recognition... it's not really that hidden or secret but it is pretty cool when it works properly of course... the only problem with speech recognition is that it tries to do so many things that I find that much of the time its commands overlap each other and it isn't as context sensitive as it should be. (to get to the speech recognition app go to start>accessories>accessibility>speech recognition) Other than that I haven't really found anything.... Only other thing that comes remotely close is the option in TweakVista 0.6 to slow down animations(ie. when you minimize, close or open a window) when you hold down the shift key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred65 Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Found this too: finally you can rename the recycle bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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