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1. mjsabby

   
   Posted on: November 02, 2006 at 12:35PM  

   I guess this may be the wrong place, but I was hoping if Vista before it ships could have this feature :

   Like in *nix, if you select a text in one window and click the middle mouse in any other window or the same, it copies and pastes text.

   Could be a nice tool enhancing productivity!

   Mukul
2. krotch

   
   Posted on: November 02, 2006 at 7:13PM  

   One tweak (guess not really a tweak) is that I like to create a toolbar on my taskbar, undock it, then dock it along the right side of my screen. Then I set it to always be on top and auto-hide. Then I hide icons.

   I do not have this in Vista and it's really annoying, as I hate having icons on my desktop. I have to bring down all my windows to be able to access them. I also don't like them in the taskbar, as I'd like to keep that as uncluttered as possible, to make room for tasks and icons (clock, nvidia display thing, network, etc.)

   Maybe even a gadget that would allow me to show icons would help. Thanks.

   Khan
3. amjoe

   
   Posted on: November 02, 2006 at 8:49PM  

   Great, Now I have to see what of these would actually work on the UMPC. I just posted some details of it here.

   http://onlyumpc.com/news/playing-with-vista-on-the-asus-r2h
4. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: November 05, 2006 at 12:49AM  

   This interactive tool: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide is very cool :-)

   http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx

   No doubt this site will be used frequently after Office 2007 is released.
5. Nick White

   
   Posted on: November 05, 2006 at 12:49AM  

   Hey Posted by krotch:  thanks for the idea, I'll pass it along to our shell and Sidebar teams.
6. Skymax

   
   Posted on: November 05, 2006 at 2:39PM  

   Any chance we can get a "Special Folders" option as in Tweak UI for XP? I keep my IE favorites folder on a network drive for use across several computers but have not figured out how to make this work in Vista.
7. tmike

   
   Posted on: November 06, 2006 at 7:40PM  

   regarding krotch's comment:  i agree that the ability to undock a toolbar would be great.  

   I assume that you DO realize that you can create another toolbar by dragging a folder to the edge of the screen.  I, for example, keep a "folder of toolbars" in my documents.  in that folder, i have separate folders for various of my personal toolbars - e.g., "apps", "folders", "dev", et cetera.  each of these subfolders contains the shortcuts to appear on that toolbar.

   To the the whole process started, i left-button-drag one of them, say, "apps", to the left edge of the screen and the shell automatically turns it into a toolbar.  then i right-click on it to set it to "small icons"/"auto hide"/"always on top".  Then, i right-click and add any additional "sections" that i want.  I even add quicklaunch to the top of my side-edge toolbar so that i have fast access to quicklaunch from both the bottom of the screen and the top of the screen.  (which is very useful at 2048x1536 resolution).
8. jtherrien

   
   Posted on: November 07, 2006 at 11:52PM  

   This isn't a tweak, but I wish it was possible to close programs from within Alt-Tab or Flip-3d but right clicking on the window or something like that.
9. douglas

   
   Posted on: November 19, 2006 at 9:16PM  

   Just curious: Back in XP, the user could change the file-type icon (eg; the icon that was displayed for .reg files, ,doc files, etc). This feature does not appear to be present in Vista RTM. Is this the case, or am I just missing it?
10. Nick White

    
    Posted on: November 19, 2006 at 10:38PM  

    Hey douglas:  while I've not checked this in all cases, I believe you can stil do this in Windows Vista via the same or a very similar set of commands -- have another look.