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7 Taskbar Tweaker Brings Fine-Grained Control To Win7’s Taskbar

6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows 7 only: Love Windows 7’s new and improved taskbar but wish you could fine-tune a few aspects of its functionality — like middle-click to close and other mouse behaviour? Small utility 7 Taskbar Tweaker does just that. More »
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Taskbar Meters Monitor Your Windows 7 Hardware In The Taskbar

5:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows 7 only: If you’re not into Windows desktop gadgets, there is another way to easily monitor your computer’s CPU and RAM: Taskbar Meters puts simple, attractive resource monitors right on your Windows 7 Taskbar. More »
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Lifehacker’s Complete Guide To Windows 7

3:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows 7 officially launches today, but we’ve been testing, tweaking, customising, fixing and writing about this OS for a year now. We present here a guide to everything we’ve learned about the OS, from first install to final settings change. More »
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Pin Any Item To The Windows 7 Taskbar

6:00AM Adam Pash | By default, Windows 7 easily pins any program to the taskbar for quick launching (just drag and drop), but if you want to pin something that isn’t an application, it gets more difficult. Weblog 7tutorials details how to pin any item. More »
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WinExt Is An App-Launching Toolbar For Your Desktop

7:00AM The How-To Geek | Application launcher WinExt adds another toolbar to the top or bottom of your screen, giving you quick access to your most frequently used applications, folders or bookmarks. More »
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More Windows 7 Shortcuts

4:30PM Angus Kidman | As Windows 7 nears its October 22 release, shortcuts for the operating system continue to emerge. Here’s some more ways to manipulate Windows 7’s revamped environment. More »
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Pin Individual Folders To The Windows 7 Taskbar

11:05PM Kevin Purdy | Windows 7’s taskbar lets you pin any running program to the taskbar for easy future access, but it treats folders like second-class sub-items of the Explorer icon. Create a fake “program” to pin individual folder shortcuts to your taskbar. More »
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Get Quick Access To Windows 7’s Jump Lists From The Keyboard

6:00AM The How-To Geek | When we showed you how to master Windows 7’s new Jump Lists feature, there was one extremely useful tip that we left out: you can also access them from your keyboard. More »
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Get More Productive By Mastering Windows 7 Jump Lists

2:00AM The How-To Geek | We’ve already mentioned the new Jump Lists feature in Windows 7 as one of our favourite features, and today we’ll take a closer look at how you can use them to save time. More »
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Win7shell Adds Windows 7 Jump List Support To Winamp

6:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Winamp plugin Win7shell enables support for Jump Lists when using the media player under Windows 7—now you can quickly access frequently used music right from the taskbar. More »