IJAM: Good features of Windows 7

glennmagusharvey

Tray icons are now hidden in a drop-up menu rather than an expandable cluster.  Especially if you're using only one taskbar row, this is much more convenient.

Quick Launch is still available as a feature.

Taskbar can be changed back to working like Windows 95/98/XP taskbar (separate tab for each window, no programs pinned).  (Though right-clicking tabs doesn't bring up the classic Restore/Maximize/etc. menu immediately; you have to mouse-over and then right-click the popup.)

Allowing filesystem locations to be copied out of and pasted into Save As and Open dialog boxes, for significantly faster navigation.  Allowing access to them via Alt+D hotkey.  "Breadcrumbs" feature allowing for quicker navigation (not having to go back up to a higher-level folder and load that in order to go into its subfolders; just click its dropdown in the breadcrumbs).

Nyktos

You can rearrange your taskbar. That's enough to make me give it the thumbs up over XP from a UI perspective.

glennmagusharvey

what does your taskbar look like?  I don't think I've used any Win7-specific features other than the show desktop thing in the corner.

glennmagusharvey

http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

Right-click

* Jump list (default)

* Standard window menu

YES PLEASE

 

And I can tell it to show tooltip rather than big-ass preview when hovering!  I can now reset the hover time to a reasonable amount (rather than like 10 seconds)!

And Taskbar Inspector looks useful.

Unknown_Entity

Holding ctrl when right clicking a taskbar entry = old style context menu.  Little known trick.