Aero Peek Tweak

So, you have Windows 7. Good for you. You would like to shorten the time it takes for the Aero peek to display here are two registry tweaks to use. Use either one or both, depending on your version of Windows 7 and if it is 32-bit or 64-bit.

Edit your registry: I am going to dispense with the cautions on care in registry and backup of it as if you are reading this, you should have some moderate to advanced knowledge of computers.

Open the registry and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

On the right-hand side, you’ll need to find the key for DesktopLivePreviewHoverTime (or create a new DWORD if it does not exist) and double-click to edit it—just make sure to flip the Base radio button over to Decimal before you make edits (unless you think in hex).


The value is in milliseconds, so if you wanted 1 second, you would use 1000, or 500 for half a second, etc. If you want to make it instant, just set to it 0 (which works fine in hex too). The default value is 500, or half a second.

Making it zero (0) is okay too as this simply means there will be no delay. Having the registry entry present and with a zero is needed for no delay. If the registry entry was not present, the Aero peek defaults to half a second

Note that you’ll need to log off, and then log back on, for it to take effect.

Bonus tip for reading this far:
You can also increase the speed of the taskbar thumbnails which are displayed for running apps.

Add a DWORD at the same location as above (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced) named: ExtendedUIHoverTime with a decimal value for the number of miliseconds.

When done, yours should like something like this - if you did both updates.

IE Shortcuts

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Internet-Explorer-8-keyboard-shortcuts

Windows7 in God Mode

Couple of links to walk you through the process
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10426627-56.html

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The Delphi Disciple: "Do you have a .net version?"

Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks

Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks: "Set a new Windows Explorer launch folder
When you run Windows Explorer, it always opens to the Libraries folder. That's fine if you use Microsoft's default file organization, which designates Libraries as the overall container for your folders. But what if you don't? You might prefer to have Windows Explorer open to Computer or any other folder you choose. Here's how to do it:
1. Right-click the Windows Explorer icon on the taskbar (it's the one that looks like a folder), and then right-click the Windows Explorer icon from the context menu that appears and select Properties. The Windows Explorer Properties dialog box appears.

Changing the default Explorer location.

Shake your desktop free of clutter


If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. This can get annoying if you're working on one program and want to minimize all the other windows -- you'll have to minimize them individually.

With Windows 7's new "shake" feature, though, you can minimize every window except the one in which you're currently working in a single step. Click and hold the title bar of the window you want to remain on the desktop; while still holding the title bar, shake it quickly back and forth until all of the other windows minimize to the taskbar. Then let go. To make them return, shake the title bar again.
You can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination -- although doing that is not nearly as much fun.

Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks

Windows 7 tips, tricks and tweaks: "If you frequently run multiple programs simultaneously, your desktop can get extremely cluttered. This can get annoying if you're working on one program and want to minimize all the other windows -- you'll have to minimize them individually.
With Windows 7's new 'shake' feature, though, you can minimize every window except the one in which you're currently working in a single step. Click and hold the title bar of the window you want to remain on the desktop; while still holding the title bar, shake it quickly back and forth until all of the other windows minimize to the taskbar. Then let go. To make them return, shake the title bar again.
You can accomplish the same thing by pressing the Window key-Home key combination -- although doing that is not nearly as much fun."