You can do it in Windows 7. The taskbar has had a major revamp.
There are loads of free utilities that will let you do this, though. Hereis one.
You can with Win 7.
You’ve been able to do this for several generations of Windows. It was likely just a setting or else IE remembering (perhaps incorrectly) its last known size. If it’s still a problem for you, there are probably workarounds.
Yes, PLEASE!
Dear god, no. Admin mode should always be the DEFAULT and people should have to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to access it, but that’s already the way it is in Win 7.
It should not go any further. I know what I’m doing and I want root access. I don’t need my computer hampering my efficiency by double-guessing everything I’m doing; I work faster than the thing can keep as it is.
Yes, but this feature has been available since Windows 95; it just got renamed and made easier to use in Windows 7. It used to be called “Tile windows vertically”.
The thing is, it would pretty much HAVE to be in the file to make it truly portable and not just limited to a certain version of Windows. There are already things likeAlternate Data Streams on Windows and Resource Forks on Macs which do this very thing, but the implementation differences across operating systems, file systems, etc. makes it impractical to have one standard; it certainly wouldn’t be up to Microsoft alone, at least.
What’s wrong with modifying the file to include metadata, anyway? You’re going to be modifying something attached to the file, even if just an envelope, so why not the file directly?
Windows Search (included with 7, downloadable with Vista) does this already – as long as you have the right filters, Searching through PDFs, for example, requires an additional third-party download.
Available in Win 7.
Available in Win 7 and IE 8.
From the desktop, right-click -> Personalize -> Window color (button at the bottom -> Advanced appearance settings.
This is a security risk, but if you really want to, you can disable driving signing in Windows 7.
You can find third-party utilities that make individual programs “always stay on top” or even partially transparent. Google for them if this is a serious need for you.
It can and has been able to since Windows XP, but it requires that the driver actually be present (i.e., manufacturer-supplied, Microsoft agreed)… was was almost never actually the case in reality. The situation seems to have improved greatly with Windows 7, but it’s still not perfect.
[quote=“Balthisar, post:2, topic:549266”]
[li]Clean up the “Documents” folder. All of the crap that lives in there aren’t my documents. I want to manage my documents myself. Admittedly, I’d like a solution for this on Mac OS, too. I deal with it now on XP, 7, and Mac OS by having my own _Documents folder in the Documents folder.[/li][/quote]
I think that was the My Docs’s folder original goal, but third-party applications sometimes like to break design paradigms and store their data in their too (when the %appdata% folder, for example, would be more appropriate)… but that isn’t really Microsoft’s fault.
I agree, this would be nice to have.
You can with Win 7.
You’ve been able to do this for several generations of Windows. It was likely just a setting or else IE remembering (perhaps incorrectly) its last known size. If it’s still a problem for you, there are probably workarounds.
Yes, PLEASE!
Dear god, no. Admin mode should never be the default and people should have to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to access it, but that’s already the way it is in Win 7.
It should not go any further. I know what I’m doing and I want root access. I don’t need my computer hampering my efficiency by double-guessing everything I’m doing; I work faster than the thing can keep up as it is.
Yes, but this feature has been available since Windows 95; it just got renamed and made easier to use in Windows 7. It used to be called “Tile windows vertically”.
The thing is, it would pretty much HAVE to be in the file to make it truly portable and not just limited to a certain version of Windows. There are already things likeAlternate Data Streams on Windows and Resource Forks on Macs which do this very thing, but the implementation differences across operating systems, file systems, etc. makes it impractical to have one standard; it certainly wouldn’t be up to Microsoft alone, at least.
What’s wrong with modifying the file to include metadata, anyway? You’re going to be modifying something attached to the file, even if just an envelope, so why not the file directly?
Windows Search (included with 7, downloadable with Vista) does this already – as long as you have the right filters. Searching through PDFs, for example, requires an additional third-party download.
Available in Win 7.
Available in Win 7 and IE 8.
From the desktop, right-click -> Personalize -> Window color (button) at the bottom -> Advanced appearance settings.
This is a security risk, but if you really want to, you can disable driving signing in Windows 7.
You can find third-party utilities that make individual programs “always stay on top” or even partially transparent. Google for them if this is a serious need for you.
It can and has been able to since Windows XP, but it requires that the driver actually be present (i.e., manufacturer-supplied, Microsoft agreed)… was was almost never actually the case in reality. The situation seems to have improved greatly with Windows 7, but it’s still not perfect.
[quote=“Balthisar, post:2, topic:549266”]
[li]Clean up the “Documents” folder. All of the crap that lives in there aren’t my documents. I want to manage my documents myself. Admittedly, I’d like a solution for this on Mac OS, too. I deal with it now on XP, 7, and Mac OS by having my own _Documents folder in the Documents folder.[/li][/quote]
I think that was the My Docs’s folder original goal, but third-party applications sometimes like to break design paradigms and store their data in their too (when the %appdata% folder, for example, would be more appropriate)… but that isn’t really Microsoft’s fault.
I agree, this would be nice to have.
Oops, sorry for the double-post. Wish Windows could check for those 
No, no. I mean really customize. That’s just a few surface options. It doesn’t allow me to, say, restore functionality to the status bar in explorer that was removed in windows 7 in favour of the pointlessly enormous details pane. Or decrease the spacing between lines that was pointlessly increased in win7 details view mode. Or merge the Toolbar with the Menu bar. Or at least decrease the size of the toolbar as it’s around 3 times the height it needs to be.
That doesn’t actually work in 64 bit systems. Thisdoes but it adds a “Test Mode Build XXXX” watermark to the windows desktop and isn’t really convenient. What I would want is to be able to just say to windows “Hey this driver here? There is no signed driver that has this functionality just make an exception and let me use it without jumping through hoops”.