This is a neat little tip that a coworker of mine discovered this morning, and it's going to really come in handy on my new laptop. If you don't like the size of the desktop icons in Windows 7, you can easily make them larger or smaller. Simply hover over an icon, click ctrl, and with your mouse wheel scroll up or down. The icon sizes will change as you scroll.

Don't have a wheel mouse? There are other methods for doing this as well, as shown here: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-resize-desktop-icon-in-windows-vista/

Did you know that Windows 7 has a built in tool that can record every step you take during a process, and document the entire process in both screenshots and step-by-step details? It's called the Problem Steps Recorder, and it just made the world of tech support a whole lot easier. It even saves the information as an HTML file and packages it up in a ZIP file for you!

This is going to be great for us because now whenever our QA team finds a bug, they can send us a file that has step-by-step instructions (with screenshots) of how to replicate the problem. Yay! Not to mention the fact that now every time a friend or family member has a computer problem I can just send them a file called "this is how you fix it."

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The more I use IIS 7 on my local development machine, the more I like it (compared to previous versions of IIS). I have to say that Microsoft really did a good job on fixing some of the problems that made IIS a hindrance to local web development. The two most notable features that I've discovered in the last few weeks are the ability for it to have multiple local websites (unlimited websites, actually), and built in local self-signed SSL certificates.

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