Windows 7 Super User Guide
We’ve all seen the countless top 10 articles, shortcut guides, etc out for Windows 7, but what really separates this new release from the rest of the Windows herd? Listed here are several features I believe sets Windows 7 above and beyond all previous releases.
Display Projection Management
Along with the standard Presentation Mode that was already available in Windows Vista, you can now control the output settings of your secondary display with a few keystrokes! Just hit WINDOWS KEY + P to bring up the Display Projection dialog and choose whether you would like to duplicate or extend your display, or only show output on your main or secondary display. AWESOME!
Better Font Management
No longer is it a complete pain in the ass and total waste of time to preview and install fonts. Microsoft has integrated an Install button right into the preview interface, so now you can add fonts to your library with one click if you like them, instead of navigating every time to your fonts directory and dragging and dropping the files over. Microsoft also grouped different weight classes for the same fonts into the same preview window for faster comparison, as well as adding support for more than the four standard weights in the “Font Style” dialogs.
Better Standards Support
Windows 7 includes bigger, better, and beefier versions of our age old favorites, Paint and Wordpad. What most articles fail to mention is that Wordpad is capable of reading and saving documents in both the new Word 2007 Office Open XML and the OpenDocument Specification that IBM and Sun have been touting about.
Better Media Support
Windows 7 plays nice with most video codecs right out of the box. Yeah, you can just double click a movie file and it will open in WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER. I’m not joking! Certain videos still require downloading the appropriate codecs, but you can install Shark007’s Windows 7 Codec Pack and never think twice. Not only that, but you can also burn ISO files right in Windows Explorer, just double click your ISO file, insert a blank disc, and click Burn!
Power User Hot Keys
- WINDOWS KEY + HOME
Minimize all other windows behind active window. - WINDOWS KEY + SHIFT + (LEFT OR RIGHT)
Shift active window to the desktop to the left or right of active desktop.
