1. Shake 'em away
Ever have many desktop windows open? Want to minimize all of them except the most important one? In Windows 7, you can grab the top of the most important open window and shake it about to scare away all of the other open windows. Simple.
2. Snap into place
Simply drag the top of your window to the left or right edge of the desktop to snap and resize the window to one half of the
screen. Drag the top of the window to the top of the desktop to maximize it. You no longer do you have to frustratingly position the mouse at the edge of the window to resize it.
3. Windows+Left / Windows+Right
Depending on the initial position of the window, pressing either of the two combinations once or twice will bring your current active window to the side of the screen corresponding with the direction of the arrow key you pressed. This allows
exactly half of the screen to remain blank, where you may place another window through use of the same process.
4. Windows+Space Bar
Allows the user to preview their desktop beneath the currently displayed windows.
5. Windows+Plus Key / Windows+Minus Key
Zooms in on anything on screen. Similar to the feature on Mac computers.
6. Windows+M or Windows+D
Minimizes everything in one fell swoop. Extremely convenient shortcut.
7. Windows+Tab
Moves to Windows’ Flip 3D function, which allows you to flip through your windows in a large enough scale that it is possible to differentiate text etc.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
Want to download and install a preview of Windows 8 on a computer? This is not the final version that will be released in the fall of 2012 commercially and fully supported by Microsoft.
Ever have many desktop windows open? Want to minimize all of them except the most important one? In Windows 7, you can grab the top of the most important open window and shake it about to scare away all of the other open windows. Simple.
2. Snap into place
Simply drag the top of your window to the left or right edge of the desktop to snap and resize the window to one half of the
screen. Drag the top of the window to the top of the desktop to maximize it. You no longer do you have to frustratingly position the mouse at the edge of the window to resize it.
3. Windows+Left / Windows+Right
Depending on the initial position of the window, pressing either of the two combinations once or twice will bring your current active window to the side of the screen corresponding with the direction of the arrow key you pressed. This allows
exactly half of the screen to remain blank, where you may place another window through use of the same process.
4. Windows+Space Bar
Allows the user to preview their desktop beneath the currently displayed windows.
5. Windows+Plus Key / Windows+Minus Key
Zooms in on anything on screen. Similar to the feature on Mac computers.
6. Windows+M or Windows+D
Minimizes everything in one fell swoop. Extremely convenient shortcut.
7. Windows+Tab
Moves to Windows’ Flip 3D function, which allows you to flip through your windows in a large enough scale that it is possible to differentiate text etc.
Windows 8 Consumer Preview
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
Want to download and install a preview of Windows 8 on a computer? This is not the final version that will be released in the fall of 2012 commercially and fully supported by Microsoft.