Windows 7

[MTBikerTim]

Win 7 rocks because of two things:
1. Press the start keyboard button type program name press enter and program is running.
2. Symlinks, Windows now has symlinks.

And yes I know both these things existed in Vista but vista was a god awful pile of junk. It infuriated me no end. It was slow and unstable and so fat it made everything crawl. Thankfully Microsoft spent more time optimizing and less time adding new features to win 7 by the looks of it.

And on Brian's Up directory button point. The button is gone but if you click the folder name in the address bar you can go back a folder easily or two folders even easier. Took me a little bit to get used to as I was so used to the up button but now I'm used to it I think it is was better. Hell I even hated that it didn't expand out all the folders in the folder tree. Then I realised how much of a pain the expanded folders were and went back to the default config.

Tip for anyone who likes to move their documents, music and pictures or any other folders around. Use symlinks. They work well and you can do some really neat stuff to end up with a very tidy setup. I have been using symlinks in Unix style OSs for years and so often I would go to do something in windows and cry when I realised it wouldn't be as simple as a symlink.