Posted By: JoshRoss | Oct 28th @ 8:49 PM
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Sven Groot
Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Win+Shift+Left/Right - Move window between monitors. I use that one a lot. Smiley

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That mixes the obscure, useful stuff with everything else.  I'd like a cheat-sheet for power users, focusing on shortcuts or other tricks (like the Problem Reports Tool) that someone who's pretty fluent with Windows might not have heard of.

 

The taskbar tricks are a great example of the sort of thing I'll be putting into the cheat sheet I'm building--  simple, useful, but completely absent from the official documentation.

Sven Groot
Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

Some really obscure ones:

 

Shift+Alt - change input language (this one can cause trouble when people trigger it by accident).

Alt+Tilde (~) - change IME input mode (e.g. for the Japanese IME, switch between direct and hiragana input).

Installing Virtual PC from MS and installing Windows XP for that is a pretty cool tool!

FWIW, there's already a cheat sheet on the back cover of the booklet that came with Win 7. Has many of the hotkeys mentioned here (though I don't think all of them).

 

I really like the new taskbar now that I'm used to it. Glad I gave it another chance after realising my objections to it were based on how I *thought* I used the taskbar and not how I actually used it. (I thought I read the labels on the buttons and wouldn't be able to use a taskbar without them. Then I realised I didn't read them at all and just clicked buttons based on their icons until I found the right window.) There are a few things I wish the new taskbar did/didn't do, but can't have everything and I certainly wouldn't go back to the old one now.

 

I really like Aero Peek as well. Didn't seem like a big deal at first but being able to quickly focus on a single window, to see exactly what I'm about to activate and where, turns out to be really useful. Another thing I wouldn't want to be without now.

 

Of the new window management gestures, the one I like best is making apps go full-height by sizing them to the bottom of the screen. I don't use the side docking much but maybe that's more useful for people with only one monitor. Not sure if I drag-up-to-maximize or not. If I do I do it without thinking now. I do drag down to restore maximized windows so I guess that's nicer than the old double-click (else I'd still double-click).

 

I never use Aero Shake. Triggering it seems fiddly which makes using it hit & miss and frustrating. It's very rarely something I want to do anyway. (Again, that might be different with only one monitor.)

 

I still wonder why Flip 3D even exists and if anyoneuses it. Smiley Alt-Tab + Aero Peek is way better.

You can also size windows to full height by double clicking on either the top or bottom border.

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