Thought I would just let those of you who haven’t yet had the chance to try out Windows 7 just why this user is so in love with using it and wouldn’t go back to using Vista or XP even if someone paid her to! Many of you will be aware of my ‘how-to’ posts that I do to help other users on Windows Live to get to grips both with the Windows Live site itself and also the Live Essentials suite of desktop applications.
These how-to’s tend to be quite time consuming simply because as I construct the blog post, I like to work my way through each area that I am posting about step by step. This usually entails going to the Windows Live site (or alternatively the application if I am posting a how-to about one of those) and then as I work through each step so that I can write about it, skipping back and forth between Writer and the site page/application in question.
Despite always having them all ‘close to hand’ on the taskbar, this still can necessitate clicking backwards and forwards in order have access to both as I work.
However, in Windows 7 my how-to posts are now a complete joy to do! Why? Because I can have both screens in view at the same time and work across them both, going from one to the other without clicking anything! I just use snap! Writer on the left hand side, the Windows Live feature that I am currently working my way through ‘step by step’ on the right! And because it is visible to me at all times, I then don’t forget the steps I am taking as I transfer them into my post in Live Writer!
The same applies to whenever I need to add a picture from my picture files into my post. All I need to do is have Writer on the left hand side, load up my picture files and snap that window to the right hand side of my screen. Then when I want to add a picture into the post I am currently working on, I click on that picture and simply ‘drag’ it across to the post on the left at the position I want to place it, and ‘drop’ it in place! (Just done that now for this next picture)
You can’t get much easier than that! So for me Windows 7 has made the whole effort of constructing and writing my how-to’s so much easier to do and less time consuming as I no longer need to ‘click’ from one source to the other. I love Windows 7 and would not return to using any of its predecessors for anything. It just helps to make your everyday tasks so much easier to do.
TG 
