As today marks the beginning of the new Windows 7 era there will be many TIPS and tricks I am sure I will be posting. I figured I would start by a no-brainer and that is to turn off the Internet Explorer. Of course you will first want to download two other browsers. Why two? Because you always want to have a back up in case a certain page will not load or looks strange, you can always check it on a different browser. My personal choices would be the
Avant Browser as well as the
Google Chrome browser as it currently ranks as the fastest browser-great for researching. With all the features of "autofill" and "saved information in your account" that the
Avant Browser offers as well as being 100percent "internet explorer emulation compliant" there is no need to have the Internet Explorer and now you have that ability--to turn it off. Go to the control panel and click on PROGRAMS AND FEATURES and then from the top left menu click on "TURN WINDOWS FEATURES ON OR OFF" and from the list, de-select the Internet Explorer and agree to the prompt that you are aware certain programs may not function correctly...
While you are at it, you might want to turn on STICKY NOTES and you do this by confirming the TABLET PC COMPONENTS is checked then
download the gadget here.
UPDATE: The above link actually installs the original 'vista gadget' however to use the newer Windows 7 Sticky key the first time read on!
Not only does the windows feature have to be turned on as I learn from the windows help:
What happened to Sticky Notes?
The Sticky Notes program and the Sticky Notes gadget that were available in previous versions of Windows have been replaced in this version. If you used either Sticky Notes or the Sticky Notes gadget in a previous version of Windows and have upgraded your computer, any notes that you had (either ink or text) should be available in the new version of Sticky Notes.
This version of Sticky Notes doesn’t support voice notes. Voice notes created with the previous version of Sticky Notes are saved in the C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes folder, where C is the drive that Windows is installed on.
By entering "sticky notes' in the search and clicking on the available 'click to open sticky notes' it was really that simple!
Remember with Windows 7 the first thing and what you will eventually learn is the most thing you will be doing is using the 'start menu button (or windows key) and typing whatever it is you are wanting to use and you will immediately get a list of things as you type. The more you use this the quicker you will learn that you do not need to know where everything is!
