Old Tray, New Tricks: Windows 7’s Taskbar and window management tweaks are nice. But its changes to the System Tray–aka the Notification Area–have a huge positive effect.

The new Windows 7 Resource Monitor is awesome, a huge improvement over its Vista predecessor. It has no counterpart in XP at all. If you’ve installed a third-party program that’s hogging CPU, ...

So far, I feel that Windows 7 has had a pretty easy ride, both by tech pundits and tech enthusiasts. People who see and get a chance to spend time with Windows 7 seem to like the OS. There are ...

Old tray, new tricks Windows 7's Taskbar and window management tweaks are nice. But its changes to the System Tray — aka the Notification Area —have a huge positive effect.

Windows 7 adds loads of great shortcuts for switching between apps, moving windows around your screen, moving them to another monitor altogether, and much more. Here's a quick-reference master ...

3. Move All Your Crap from Your Old Machine: Windows 7 actually has pretty decent built-in powers for moving all your crap from your old and busted PC to your new pride and joy, though you need to ...

Windows 7's Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build is now out, which mean's Vista's replacement is just around the corner. We look at all the major features of the new OS.

Right on cue, last night Microsoft released its first monthly rollup of patches for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. You probably woke up to a new set of patches in Windows Update.