What unusual things do you do to your Windows install?

[elmopuddy]

Change IE settings so that the taskbar lists each open IE window, not each open tab as a separate instance (this I also find dumb).

How you do that? My google-fu is weak apparently

[just brew it!]

Everything on my systray is what I want to see.

The Taskbar Notification Area is not, nor has it ever been, the Systray.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/arc ... 54831.aspx

That's pretty funny! Just goes to show how things like that can take on a life of their own.

At the end of the day, what matters is when people talk about the "systray", we all know what they mean.

[MaxTheLimit]

When installing windows I uninstall the windows games straight away.
Who actually plays solitaire any more anyhow?

[mikeymike]

When installing windows I uninstall the windows games straight away.
Who actually plays solitaire any more anyhow?

I like the fireworks display on Vista/7

[Ryu Connor]

That's pretty funny! Just goes to show how things like that can take on a life of their own.

At the end of the day, what matters is when people talk about the "systray", we all know what they mean.

Aye, it's a fun fact. It also apparently still matters a great deal to Chen and his team. As the actual text in the OS now pushes back against this misnomer as well.

[axeman]

Change IE settings so that the taskbar lists each open IE window, not each open tab as a separate instance (this I also find dumb).

How you do that? My google-fu is weak apparently

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/78 ... sable.html

To me it makes more sense to have previews on the taskbar for each open IE window, not each tab, but to each his own.

[JdL]

I completely disable UAC.

[Ryu Connor]

I completely disable UAC.

Link

[Waco]

I don't understand why anyone would disable Superfetch. Owning an SSD is not an excuse. RAM is faster than an SSD. I don't want my RAM sitting idle - if I did that - what's the point of having it?

The only somewhat odd thing I do is move my swap and temporary locations over to my striped scratch array of old(ish) 250 GB Hitachi drives. I know putting the page file on my SSD array would be faster...but I can't remember the last time I actually ran into swap and it tends to speed things up to have temporary files extract there (instead of making copies on my OS array).

I guess the other "weird" thing I do is set my HDDs to never spin down. I don't see the point in power/temperature cycling them for no reason.

[Ryu Connor]

I don't understand why anyone would disable Superfetch. Owning an SSD is not an excuse. RAM is faster than an SSD. I don't want my RAM sitting idle - if I did that - what's the point of having it?

The only somewhat odd thing I do is move my swap and temporary locations over to my striped scratch array of old(ish) 250 GB Hitachi drives. I know putting the page file on my SSD array would be faster...but I can't remember the last time I actually ran into swap and it tends to speed things up to have temporary files extract there (instead of making copies on my OS array).

I guess the other "weird" thing I do is set my HDDs to never spin down. I don't see the point in power/temperature cycling them for no reason.

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