What’s Shaking in the Windows 7 Beta: The Windows!
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I am running Windows 7 on my TouchSmart PC, as well as within a virtual machine on my Mac. I have the Aero Basic scheme going in the VM, sadly. However, even in Basic mode, I can still show you a feature that’ll have you jumping around. It’s called Aero Shake.
Not only has 7 been upgraded to give you more features from your taskbar, it also includes new ways to manage your workspace! You can shake the foreground window to minimize other open windows in the background. When you want to focus on a single task with a desktop filled with open windows, just grab the title bar of the frontmost window and shake it back and forth. It will minimize all of your other windows – freeing you from having to minimize them one-by-one. Another shake will restore all of those windows right back to where you had them before.
Remember, you can also drag and drop a window to the edge of the screen to maximize it, and click on the title bar again to restore it to the previous size. We covered that tip earlier.
There you have it… just one more way that Microsoft is scoring big with Windows 7.
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14 Comments
Iggy
January 24th, 2009
at 2:43am
Haven’t done the shake. But been running Windows 7 as my main OS on my desktop for two builds now. I’m needing to get our laptop setup running it as well.
wez
January 24th, 2009
at 3:46am
Awesome feature.
Hahaha shake shake shake.
Wira
January 24th, 2009
at 4:50am
What are you doing dude? That so ugly hwaha. But thanks for your information.
pisa shit
January 24th, 2009
at 4:52am
Chris, i love your show but…What’s Shaking in the Windows 7 Beta: The Windows!
Please dont ever do that *BLAH* again. You look very damaged and retarded and it’s not even funny.
reg. Pisa
Chris
January 24th, 2009
at 5:07am
Just have to say this is the most annoying video you have done. Sorry…
Brian Patrie
January 24th, 2009
at 8:11am
“You can shake your windows by just grabbing the title bar and shake it.” My, what an astute observation! ;P
I can’t imagine myself preferring dragging a window to the edge of the screen to maximise it over double-clicking the titlebar. In fact, i suspect that such a feature would annoy the crap out of me ever time i did it WITHOUT intending to maximise.
Brian Patrie
January 24th, 2009
at 8:20am
[Is it really necessary to filter "cr*p"? It makes me look like an indiscrete guttermouth (as opposed to the discrete guttermouth that i am). It wouldn't be so bad if there was a preview feature; at least then we'd know what we're in for.]
Ray
January 24th, 2009
at 9:33am
I think Chris has been sitting in front of his computer to long!
Harvey
January 24th, 2009
at 11:36am
This has got to be the stupidest Windows feature I’ve seen so far!!!
How is taking your hands off the keyboard, moving your mouse across the screen to a window bar, and then shaking the window, and then retuning your hands to the keyboard a “cool feature”? Isn’t it a lot easier to just press an F key (Exposé) and continue your work?
Of course it is, but Apple has patented Exposé, so Microsoft comes out with this convoluted method.
The other really stupid thing about this Window shaking method is that it only works if the window you want to show is already on top. If a window is hidden by other windows you have to move all of the other windows away first, and then do your shaking. This is supremely DUMB!
Brandon Paddock
January 24th, 2009
at 12:10pm
Windows Key + Home key works too :)
glenn V
January 24th, 2009
at 12:24pm
Linux does this better, and has been doing it for over 2 years.
So we are at the point now where microsoft is playing catch-up.
won’t be too much longer now!
Brandon Paddock
January 24th, 2009
at 1:20pm
Harvey – you obviously aren’t familiar with the Windows operating system. Windows users don’t have to “move all the other windows away first.” They have a window management features called the “taskbar” that lets them quickly and easily switch to a particular window. They can then use the mouse gesture or keyboard shortcut to hide all other windows. This can be quite useful when wanting to copy something to or from the desktop, for example.
I don’t really see how this compares to Expose (which is generally Apple’s answer to the window switching capabilities of the taskbar).
Brian –
I use the drag-to-top function all the time. Part of that ability is also the ability to drag a maximized window *down* to restore it. This works extremely well on multi-monitor systems where I can drag a maximized window from one monitor to the next and have it maximized there, all in one natural motion.
Dizzledorf
January 24th, 2009
at 3:25pm
Is the TouchSmart touchscreen software working on Windows 7?
Matt
January 24th, 2009
at 6:20pm
Jesus Christ, I couldn’t sit through even a minute. That was one of the most annoying videos I’ve BLEEEEGH.