Windows 7 has a lot of new or improved features. One of my new favorite features is the Sticky Notes – they are not only useful but they are fun to work with. You can find Sticky Notes from the start menu. These can be used to create notes and reminders. You can drag them around your desktop and re-size them to your heart’s content. They will stretch as you write and best of all they look like just like Post It Notes. You can even right click on them to change the color. If you would like to clear the notes from your desktop; right click the notes icon in the task-bar and click on close,...

Pin Programs To Taskbar – The Windows 7 Task Bar (the bar on the bottom of the screen) comes with 3 default programs pinned to it; Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, and Windows Media Player. To pin programs of your choice to the task bar go to programs and then right click on the program and choose Pin to Taskbar. You can also drag desktop shortcuts to the taskbar. You can also drag around, rearrange, and delete these icons. Jump Lists – Let’s say we use Word a lot so we pin Word to the taskbar now if we hover the mouse over the Word icon in our taskbar and right click, we will get a jump...

OK, if you’re a geek like me than you already think computing is fun, but Windows 7 has made some significant operating system improvements. In future articles I will go into specific improvements in depth, but today I am just going to share with you some of the highlights of Windows 7 that make it fun to use. One of the best improvements in Windows 7 is the increased speed. Benchmark tests by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes show that Windows 7 blows XP SP3 and Vista out of the water. Windows 7 boots faster and uses less resources, while juggling more resource intensive programs. The OS...