Archive for February, 2007

I installed vista the other day, and in my opinion it is very, very nice, it’s visually perfect, I love it.  The side bar is a great addition, and again looks great.  One of the nicest things apart from the nice 3d task switching, is the small previews of the window contents when you hover over applications on the the task bar. 

I did however come across one usability enhancement that kind of kicked me in the balls.  I had downloaded a nice side bar gadget that put a recycle bin in the side bar, and wanting a nice clean desktop decided to remove the trash can from the desktop. 

So how to remove the recycle bin ? I went to control panel and searched through the appearance and customization settings, right clicked on the start bar and looked for advance options, all to no avail.  Remembering in XP, there was an option in tweak UI to select the icons on the desktop, I then trawled the web search for a vista tweak UI, again to no avail.

Eventually, I resorted to  web search and found an article on how to do it. 

1) Select the recycle bin

2) Press delete.

Sometimes, the most obvious usability enhancements are just staring you in the face.  I’m sure my 7 year old son, would have spotted that one.  I guess you just get used to doing things the hard way sometimes.