Useful things in Windows 7

Just wanted to point out some less obvious things I like about Windows 7... not that it's new anymore.

• Copying Files. Oh yeah, the best thing about Windows 7. Copying a file using Ctrl+C also copies the full filepath to the text clipboard. This is very handy for quickly opening files rather than navigating using a program's open dialogue.


• Libraries. Right click a folder and add to library. They are basically expandable shortcuts. They are great for when you're working with specific parts of a big project (in my case, my work drive and render drive), and don't enjoy the repetitive action of navigating to and fro every morning. There was a hacky trick where you could do this in XP using folders created in the start menu.


• Virtual Hard drives. Yeah, hardly groundbreaking. But its good that they actually support them, even if they use their own hdd format. I think this is most useful for me simply because I run bat files to attach them when I want to do some work. This is the bat script incase my computer blows up and I realise I haven't backed up my precious, precious files.

@echo off
echo > c:\script.scr select vdisk file=c:\W-drive.vhd
echo >> c:\script.scr attach vdisk
echo >> c:\script.scr create partition primary
echo >> c:\script.scr assign letter=w
echo >> c:\script.scr exit
diskpart /s c:\script.scr

:D