Windows 7 Migration Tips

General Resources:

• Lifehacker
• Tweaking with Vishal
• Windows 7 Tips

• Microsoft Security Essentials - anti-virus/anti-spyware from Microsoft

• CSMenu (Info) - add classic style start menu to Windows 7 (crashes with .Net error on my system)
• Start Killer (Info) - removes Start button
• Restoring the Quick Launch toolbar
• Restore old style taskbar icons
• "God Mode" shortcut - easy access to system configuration updates
• Run Command - how to add the 'Run' command back to the Start Menu
• Taskbar Tweaker - utility to adjust features of the 'Super Bar'
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Windows Vista/7 keyboard shortcuts
• "Up" in Windows Explorer - Alt+Up now does what Backspace used to
• Add Open with Notepad to context menu - aka "Open with" context menu doesn't appear on files with no extension
• Removing "Libraries" - Remove the "Libraries" option from Windows Explorer (more info)

• Optimizations - tweaks to make Windows 7 faster
• Manual Services - Windows 7 services that can safely be set to manual
• Intel SSD Toolbox - for Intel SSDs on Windows 7

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• http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/thread/7185c13a-5901-4fcf-bf8e-c5336044f05d

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