Windows 7 Review Part 3

This post will be about the small little touches that I have noticed that make Windows 7 more useful.

1. When entering an incorrect password, there is no longer a long pause before you are told that the password is incorrect. In Vista, the computer looks like it has accepted the password, and then a second or two later tells you that you entered an incorrect password, no more!

2. When searching in the start menu, the right pane goes away to make more room for search results.

3. Windows 7 allows notifications to be turned off in increments.

So you no longer need to have unneeded notifications and icons in your system tray.

4. The information section of Explorer is now smaller.

Remember on Vista this was a large and often unusable bar.

5. Network sharing is now a breeze with the Home Group feature.

It makes it easy to set permissions, sharing(both Upnp and file), and puts it all together in an easy to use fashion. The libraries feature(either in the next review or the one after) makes this even easier to do, as you don’t have to set permissions on all of your photo folders, you can just aggregate them and set Library permissions.

One final thing, I managed to get the native resolution working on my monitors using powerstrip(which may appear in a review next week), but I think that the reason I am getting these problems is that my graphics card(ATI x800Pro) is starting to be on the old side where compatibility is concerned.