Sweet Windows7 Tips And Tricks That Make Life Easier

Pin Programs To Taskbar – The Windows 7 Task Bar (the bar on the bottom of the screen) comes with 3 default programs pinned to it; Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and Windows Media Player. To pin programs of your choice to the task bar go to programs and then right click on the program and choose Pin to Taskbar. You can also drag desktop shortcuts to the taskbar. You can also drag around, rearrange, and delete these icons.

Jump Lists – Let’s say we use Word a lot so we pin Word to the taskbar now if we hover the mouse over the Word icon in our taskbar and right click, we will get a jump list, which is a list of all of the recent Word documents we have been working with.

Aero Shake – If you have a lot of Windows open on your desktop you can grab the top of a window you want to view and shake it and all of the other windows will minimize, if you want to bring the other windows back, you can use the keyboard shortcut combination of the Windows Key + Home Key.

Windows 7 Performance Enhancements for Laptop Users

If you put your laptop to sleep and come back and hit the resume button it will reconnect to your wireless network in seconds.

Another nice enhancement for Windows 7 laptop users is location aware printing. If you routinely print to multiple printers from your laptop and you have Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate. You can set up default printers for each network you use. Then you won’t have to manually switch printers when you move between locations. So when you print at work, Windows 7 will automatically print to your work printer. When you print at home, Windows 7 will automatically select and use your home printer.