ITT Your favorite Windows Features

[Daddy]

I love Windows Update.


It knows to restart my computer automatically when I leave it on overnight to download a large file. 

It knows how much I love checking for updates, selecting them all, downloading and installing them, then checking for updates again since more magically appear each time.


I LOVE WINDOWS UPDATE

[PLEASEHELP1991]

Start menu
Taskbar
active desktop

[snoorkel]

group policy snap-ins and Roles. they've designed such a lovely system where instead of simply downloading a software package and installing it, you can just search through pre-defined compatibility lists until you find the one closest to what you need, and install it with a user-friendly Installation Wizard! if something you need isn't listed or elaborated in the role's settings, it probably won't work anyway, so windows just saves you the trouble of finding that out yourself by disallowing you from even trying.

also, installation wizards.

[bluaki]

I also love Windows update, especially since it knows I love to get prompts asking if I want to restart which know that I want it to restart by itself if I don't respond to it and that when I'm running a full-screen program I don't want to know about the prompt until it starts rebooting.

The filename restrictions are also very useful. I'm glad Windows prevents me from using most non-alphanumeric symbols on my keyboard to name files with and complains and misbehaves when it sees a file left by an inferior OS with a bad name. It's also nice that Windows prevents me from managing confusing symbolic links.

Windows's lack of a useful shell is great and prevents me from wrongly opening security holes with something like an SSH server.

[silvertone]

these are probably the geekiest posts i have seen on this forum.

[snoorkel]

these are probably the geekiest posts i have seen on this forum.

go play some Tiger Puzzle on your dashboard macfag

[silvertone]

go play some Tiger Puzzle on your dashboard macfag

i dunt have tger

[PLEASEHELP1991]

i dunt have tger

leopard

[don't let's]

Windows key + l

I love Windows Update.


It knows to restart my computer automatically when I leave it on overnight to download a large file. 

It knows how much I love checking for updates, selecting them all, downloading and installing them, then checking for updates again since more magically appear each time.


I LOVE WINDOWS UPDATE

And I love how I figured out to turn that particular feature off many years ago.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

Windows key + l

that's not an unique feature though...

[Thyme]

that's not an unique feature though...

but it's a windows feature that's what the OP asks

my favorite windows feature is the windows

[PLEASEHELP1991]

my favorite windows feature is the windows

[bluaki]

but it's a windows feature that's what the OP asks

my favorite windows feature is the windows

I'm sure you'd love Windows 8, then

[don't let's]

Well what other operating systems use the windows key?

[Thyme]

I'm sure you'd love Windows 8, then

jokes aside this is the main reason why i'm strongly opposed to windows 8