After waiting a long time on august 6th, Windows 7 finally arrived. The installation was really easy, and I am surprised with the boot time, but then I always am with a freshly installed OS.

Some “nifty” things I found out:

• Command Prompt Here
  I always had a power toy installed which added a context menu to the windows explorer, to open a command prompt at the exact same folder I was browsing. This is now built into windows 7. Just hold shift and right click a folder.
• Explorer in new process
  As you try out the command prompt thingy, you might notice another new context menu “open in new process”. This will open a new explorer window, but different from the menu “open in new window” it will open as a new explorer.exe process. So if one explorer.exe crashes (why should it?), another will still stay open.
• Starting your pinned taskbar programs
  with the windows key combination Win+1, Win+2, Win+3, you can start the programs which you pinned to your taskbar.
• ISO Burner
  really nice.. build in ISO burner. Just double click any ISO file.
• WordPad
  WordPad can open the Office Open XML (Word Files).
• Peek at desktop
  damn… where is my “desktop” shortcut on my taskbar. Searched a few seconds for it and then I found it. On the other hand (right side) of the taskbar, next to the clock. Nice thing is you can also peak @ the desktop by hovering over this “button” .
• your favorite folders pinned
  If you’re always opening the same folders, you can pin them with the Explorer icon on the taskbar. Hold the right-click button down and drag the folder to the taskbar, and it will be pinned in the Explorer Jump List.