Windows 7 Little Changes

Dan Holme

You can’t right-click the Start button and choose “Open”, “Explore” or “Open All Users” or “Explore All Users.” This was an easy shortcut into the Start Menu, but I can forgive Microsoft for this one, as the Start Menu itself becomes less and less important as the ability to search improves.
Scheduled defragmentation of a disk drive is ON. This is not a good default for virtual machines (particularly those with snapshots) or SSD drives. Rumor has it that Win7 will disable defrag on SSD drives—I’ve not yet had time to confirm whether this build does, or does not do that, and for which models of drives. I believe it will require the drive to “report” correctly.

Posted Jan 15 2009, 08:51 PM by danholme