{"id":141,"date":"2009-01-11T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-01-11T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T15:01:00","slug":"windows-7-new-maximizing-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/windows-7-new-maximizing-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7: New Maximizing Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the first beta of Windows 7, obviously I had to download it and try it out. I tested it on an older P4 2GHz with only 512MB of memory. I normally run Vista on that machine and 512MB of memory is a little bit on the low side for Vista. When Windows 7 first started I immediately noticed how much smoother and how much more responsive everything feels compared to Vista on the same box. I was really impressed.<\/p>\n<p>In this post I want to explain a new maximizing feature that is currently in the Windows 7 beta. Suppose you start with a Wordpad window in the middle of your screen. On a side note, you can also see that Wordpad finally received a GUI update and now includes a ribbon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (before)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/images\/blog\/windows7_maximizing_feature_before.png\" alt=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (before)\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, grab the Wordpad window and move it to the far left of your screen. Windows 7 will draw a translucent rectangle with the size of half your screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (middle)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/images\/blog\/windows7_maximizing_feature_middle.png\" alt=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (middle)\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you now release your mouse button, Windows 7 will maximize the window to half your screen as in the following screenshot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (after)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/images\/blog\/windows7_maximizing_feature_after.png\" alt=\"Windows 7 Maximizing Feature (after)\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This feature is a pretty useful one in my opinion, especially on widescreen monitors that are getting more and more common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the first beta of Windows 7, obviously I had to download it and try it out. I tested it on an older P4 2GHz with only 512MB of memory. I normally run Vista on that machine and 512MB of memory is a little bit on the low side for Vista. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","tag-windows","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}