Now I know its not a whole lot to be excited about, but the main thing that has made me the happiest is faster network browsing! Yes, I know, small little improvement but the speed of browsing files stored on a my network is considerably faster. Windows XP used to take forever to “explore” the network if you tried to browse by Workgroup and always seemed to have troubles accessing various computers over my wireless network. Windows Vista was a bit faster and was much better at discovering the computers on a network. It would still tend to hang occasionally as it tried to load folders from networked computers especially if they had a lot files. Now, Windows 7! MAN! It is fast at browsing my network and makes it much easier to access files across the network. It copies large files much more efficiently over the wireless too and never hangs when exploring folders.

Thank you Windows team for speeding up the networking features on Windows 7!!

In Vista, if you click on the clock in the bottom right corner of the task bar, then a little calendar widget pops up with a cool analog clock on it like so:

What I realized is that if you click on the Month name it will “zoom out” the scope of the calendar. So if you click on where it says “March, 2009″ you will end up with a month view of the year instead:

You can keep clicking on the text between the arrows and it will continue to zoom out until you have reached a point where it shows just sets of years. Pretty cool little feature in my opinion! I used to just click the little arrows a number of times to get to next year and now I know to “zoom out” the scope of the calendar in order to get to next year. I feel a little stupid for not noticing the feature before whatever. I’ll get over the stupid feeling quickly.