After 15 years using Windows, I switched to Mac for a year to 'give it the old college try'. I worked through the initial frustrations of 'how can I do this?' that is expected, and after a year I eagerly ran back to Windows. I couldn't be happier. This is going to drive Mac faithful crazy, I know, but the Mac OS is…

I love this trick and have used it for several years. I don't like a cluttered desktop that has program icons on it, so my desktop only has files and folders for stuff I am currently working on. I take shortcuts to all my programs and put the shortcuts inside the 'c:\users\USERNAME\favorites\favorites bar' folder. …