A long time ago, I promised my great colleagues David and Arlindo to blog about my experiences as an end-user of Windows Vista and 2007 Office system (thus not as a developer). Due to high workload and some personal holidays I didn't blog anything about my Windows Vista User Experiences yet.

This will be my first post in a series about big and tiny enhancements that I found pretty cool while using those products. Let's start with a tiny but nice improvement...

Situation: As power user, you are listing your files with the file extensions displayed. When you're going to rename a file, Windows automatically selects the entire file name, including the extention. Because of this, it happens more than once that you change a file's extention unwillingly. Windows XP warns you that you're about the change the extention of the file.

Improvement in Windows Vista: When you want to rename a file, Windows Vista will only select the name part of the file name but not the file extention. When you start typing, you'll only change the name but never the extention.

When renaming a file name in Windows Vista, the OS automatically selects only the name of the file.

Tags: Microsoft Windows Windows Vista