Another thing I’ve found that I miss is the ability to view folder contents in the Column view. On the Mac, in Column view, you can click on a folder and see the folder’s contents, including other folders, in the preview column. Clicking once on an item in the preview column will preview that item, or, if another folder, will preview that folder’s contents, and so on. Basically, as long as you have folders within folders, the Finder will continue to create preview columns until you either find the item you’re looking for, or there are no more folders to click on.

In Windows 7, you can only go one folder deep: to see within that folder, you must open another window — there’s no previewing the contents.

I’ve searched for something that will mimic this ability in Windows, but so far my search has come up empty.