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Whats coming in Windows 7


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Unlike Vista, which introduced a large number of new features,
Windows 7 is intended to be a more focused, incremental upgrade, with
the goal of being fully compatible with applications and hardware.
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Presentations given by Microsoft have focused on
Performance improvements
A redesigned Windows Shell with a new taskbar
A home networking system called HomeGroup
Multi-touch support

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Some applications that have been included with prior releases of Microsoft
Windows will, instead, be offered separately as part of the freeware Windows
Live Essentials suite. These include:
Windows Calendar
Windows Mail
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Photo Gallery
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Windows 7 includes a number of new features, such as
Advances in touch and handwriting recognition
Support for virtual hard disks
Improved performance on multi-core processor
Improved boot performance
Kernel improvements
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Windows 7 adds support for
A redesigned Calculator with multiline capabilities including
o Programmer and Statistics modes
o Unit conversion
Systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards from different
vendors
A new version of Windows Media Center
Improved media features
A Gadget for Windows Media Center
The XPS Essentials Pack and Windows PowerShell
o With the XPS Essentials Pack you can quickly begin reading and
generating XPS Documents. It contains XPS Viewer EP to read XPS
Documents and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer to output files to
the XPS Document format.
o Windows PowerShell is a command line scripting technology that
provides IT administrators automation of system administration
tasks.
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Many new items have been added to the Control Panel, including
ClearType Text Tuner
Display Color Calibration Wizard
Gadgets
Recovery
Troubleshooting
Workspaces Center
Location and Other Sensors
Credential Manager
Biometric Devices
System Icons
Display
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Windows Security Center has been renamed to Windows Action Center which
encompasses both security and maintenance of the computer.
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Internet Spades, Internet Backgammon, and Internet Checkers, which were
removed from Windows Vista, were restored in Windows 7.
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Users will also be able to disable many more Windows components than was
possible in Windows Vista.
Internet Explorer 8
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Center
Windows Search
Windows Gadget Platform
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Go to Control Panel Programs and Features and select Turn Windows
features on or off to get the following choices:


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Windows 7 includes 13 additional sound schemes
Afternoon
Calligraphy
Characters
Cityscape
Delta
Festival
Garden
Heritage
Landscape
Quirky
Raga
Savanna
Sonata
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A new version of Virtual PC, Windows Virtual PC, is available for Windows 7
Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions.
It allows multiple Windows environments, including Windows XP Mode, to run on
the same machine, requiring the use of Intel VT-x or AMD-V processors.
Windows XP Mode runs Windows XP in a virtual machine and redirects displayed
applications running in Windows XP to the Windows 7 desktop.
Furthermore, Windows 7 supports mounting a virtual hard disk (VHD) as a normal
data storage, and the boot loader delivered with Windows 7 can boot the
Windows system from a VHD.
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The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) of Windows 7 is also enhanced to support
real-time multimedia application including video playback and 3D games. That
means the Direct X 10 can be used in a remote desktop environment.
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The three application limit will be removed from Windows 7 Starter.
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Theme packages reflect your style
With Windows 7, you start with a clean desktop and get to decide how it looks.
Microsoft provides the templates, or themes, and you can choose the color or
format.
New theme packages include rich backgrounds, 16 glass colors, sound schemes,
and screensavers. You can download new themes and create your own to share
with friends and family. There are plenty of choices to make it yours.



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Spectacular new wallpapers
Windows 7 includes a slew of new desktop backgroundswallpapersthat range
from sublime to silly. Or try the new desktop slide show, which displays a rotating
series of pictures.


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Locking a machine without a screensaver
It isnt uncommon for IT administrators to want their corporate machines to auto-
lock after a certain amount of time. Windows 7 will allow this functionality even
when no screensaver is specified.
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I have been using Windows 7 mostly on a Celeron processor and have good
performance even with numerous documents (Word, Excel, Notepad, WordPad,
and Paint) and Web pages open simultaneously. At times, this has also included
Windows Media Player.



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Improved taskbar and full-screen previews
The taskbar has seen the biggest visual changes.

The new taskbar, or superbar, combines the features of what was the
taskbar and the Quick Launch bar in previous versions of Windows.

Previews let you easily see and control your open documents, Web pages,
and even running video. Hover over a thumbnail, and it morphs into a full-
screen preview.

Pin favorite programs on the taskbar for easy access.

Rearrange them any way you like by clicking and dragging.

Taskbar scaling

Open with

Quick Launch Shortcuts

New Alt-Tab Shortcut

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Initially, after Windows 7 is installed, the taskbar contains icons for only Internet
Explorer 8, Windows Explorer, and Windows Media Player. Each of these may be
unpinned from the task bar.


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If you point at the icon on the taskbar of any running application, Windows 7 will
display a preview of all the windows that application has open. These previews
are signicantly larger and more legible than what was provide in Windows Vista.


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Just as you have been able to pin applications to the Start Menu, you can now
also pin applications to the taskbar.


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Also, you can pin the Recycle Bin to the Task Bar.


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And while discussing pinning programs, programs cannot pin themselves to the
taskbar when they are installed, this is a task expressly reserved for the user.
Yea!!!
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You can rearrange the icons on the task bar by clicking and dragging.

Before


During


After

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Taskbar scaling means that space reclaimed on the taskbar by unifying Quick
Launch Bar with the taskbar, by collapsing open windows, and by cleaning the
notification area allows about 24-39% more icons to appear on the taskbar before
the taskbar scrolls; depending upon resolution, icon size and assuming the default
notification area.
Using a display with 1024 by 768 resolution, you can get fifteen large icons or
twenty-two small icons displayed before the taskbar begins to schroll.
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Open with allows you to click on a files icon while holding the shift key down
and drag it to an applications icon on the taskbar. This will open that file in that
application.


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Quick Launch Shortcuts enable you to launch any of the first ten applications on
your taskbar by simply pressing both the Windows Logo key and any numeric key.
If any of those applications have any open windows, you can scroll through just
those windows by repeatedly striking the appropriate numeric key while holding
down the Windows Logo key.
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The new Alt-Tab shortcut gives you a preview of each window as you cycle
through the applications.


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Jump Lists
If you have an application on your taskbar, you can quickly get to the files most
recently opened with that application by right-clicking the applications taskbar
icon. You'll see a list of recently opened files and you can also pin files that you
want easy access to on a regular basis.
What appears in a Jump List depends entirely on the program. The Jump List for
Internet Explorer 8 shows frequently-viewed websites. Windows Media Player 12
lists commonly-played tunes.
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(Jump Lists) from the Start Menu

You can also access Jump Lists from the Start menu for any application with an
arrow head () to its right.


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(Jump Lists) from the Taskbar
Jump Lists can be accessed from the Taskbar simply by right-clicking on the
applications icon.


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Tasks
In the same maner as Jump Lists are displayed, some applications
provide shortcuts to tasks that application can preform.



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Aero
The Aero desktop experience, available in the Home Premium, Professional, and
Ultimate editions of Windows 7, mixes cool graphics with useful new ways to
manage your desktop.
Aero visual hallmarks include subtle animations and translucent glass windows,
which you can personalize. Pick from the included color palette, or create your
own custom tints with the color mixer.
There's more to Aero than style. Aero Shake and Aero Peek cut through desktop
clutter by quickly closing open windows or turning them invisible.
Unlike in Windows Vista, window borders and the taskbar do not turn opaque
when a window is maximized with Windows Aero applied. Instead, they remain
transparent.
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Aero Snap (New ways to work with windows)
It takes fewer motions to do basic things. And Windows 7 is smart about how you
work with windows.

Dragging a window to the top of your computer screen maximizes it

automatically.
o
When a window that is maximized is moved, the window is restored
to its previous state.

Dragging a window to either side of the screen resizes it for easy side-by-
side comparisons with other windows.

Dragging the top or bottom edge of a window to the top or bottom of the
screen expands the window to the entire height of the desktop. (The width
of the window doesnt change.)
o
To return the window to its original size, drag the title bar away from
the top of the desktop, or drag the bottom edge of the window away
from the bottom of the desktop.

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Aero Peek
Simply hover over the button at the right edge of the taskbar (to the right of the
time/date display ), and all open windows turn transparent, revealing
all your hidden icons and gadgets. Clicking this button minimizes all windows, and
clicking it again restores them.




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To quickly reveal a buried window, point to its taskbar thumbnail. Now only that
window shows on the desktop.
Peek is included in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of
Windows 7.

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Aero Shake
Ever need to cut through a cluttered desktop and quickly focus on a single
window? Just click a pane and give your mouse a shake. Voila! Every open
window except that one instantly disappears. Jiggle againand your windows are
back. (Who says the old mouse cant learn a new trick?)
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Libraries
Librariesnew in Windows 7make it easier to find, work with, and organize
files scattered across your PC or network. A library brings your stuff together in
one placeno matter where it's actually stored. The result? You get more done.
Say you're assembling a family album from snapshots stashed on an external hard
drive, your spouses PC, and your work laptop. In the past, hunting down specific
shots would've been a chore. In Windows 7, you simply create a library, name it
something (perhaps, "Family Photos"), and then tell Windows which far-flung
folders your new library should include. Your photos are still physically located in
three different spotsbut now they show up in a single window.
Windows 7 comes with libraries for documents, music, pictures, and videos. But
you can personalize these, or create your own, with just a few clicks. There's
more. You can also quickly sort and shuffle your librariesfor example,
documents by type, pictures by date taken, or music by genre. And easily share
libraries with people on a home network (see HomeGroup).
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Location-Aware Printing
Do you routinely print to multiple printers from your laptop? Now you don't have
to manually switch printers when you go from, say, home to work. Windows 7
does it automatically.
The new feature, included in the Professional and Ultimate editions of
Windows 7, works like this: Whenever you print, Windows 7 remembers which
network and printer you're using. Next time you return to that spot, Windows
automatically switches the default printer to match the one you last used. You
can also manually pair printers and networks.
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Windows Live
Windows Live helps synchronize all of the ways you communicate and share
things onlineby giving you one place to go to chat, e-mail, share photos and files
you've created, and stay connected with the people and things that matter to
you.
Starting with Windows 7, the Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Photo Gallery,
and Windows Live Movie Maker programs will deliver e-mail, contacts, calendar,
photo and movie making functionality for Windows. By delivering these programs
and services online, it's easier to keep them up to date and deliver the latest,
most innovative capabilities.
Windows Live will also continue to offer the core services at the hub of your
online experience: E-mail accounts, online contact lists, instant messaging, file
sharing, and calendars from any computer or web-enabled phone. You told us
that you wanted to have your communication services together in one place and
so weve made Home.live.com the place that helps you keep your life in sync and
extends the reach of your Windows 7 PC.
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Windows Live Essentials
Windows Live Essentials is free software that makes a PC running Windows 7 do
more great things. Things like e-mail, instant messaging, photo editing, and
blogging.
Windows Live Essentials is available from the Windows Live website. The free
download includes:
Messenger
Chat instantly with friends and family on your PC or mobile phone.
Photo Gallery
Find, fix, and share your photos.
Mail
Manage multiple e-mail accounts (like Hotmail) in one place.
Writer
Compose your blog, add photos and video, and then post it on the web.
Movie Maker
Turn your photos and videos into great looking movies and slide shows.
Family Safety
Manage and monitor online activities so your kids stay safe.
Toolbar
Search instantly from any webpage.
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Devices and Printers
Access all of your connected and wireless devices from the single Devices and
Printers screen. From here, you can work with your devices, browse files on them,
or manage device settings.
When you plug in a device that supports Device Stage technology, Device Stage
displays a single window that gives you access to common device tasks, such as
synchronizing media and downloading ring tones.

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HomeGroup
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HomeGroup makes it easier to connect to other computers and devices on an
existing home network, so you can share files, photos, music, and printers
throughout your home. To experience it for yourself, you have to have at least
two PCs running Windows 7. Once youve set up HomeGroup, you can use the
Network and Sharing Center to choose what you share with other members in the
HomeGroup.
You can join a HomeGroup in any edition of Windows 7, but you can only create
one in Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate.
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Action Center
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Action Center consolidates alerts from 10 Windows features, including Security
Center and Windows Defender in a central place help keep Windows running
smoothly.



Action Center lists important messages about security and maintenance settings
that need your attention. Red indicates important items while yellow indicates
suggested tasks.
To view details about either Security or Maintenance, click the heading or the
arrow next to the heading to expand the section. You can choose to hide types of
messages that you dont want to see.
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You can see whether there are any new messages
in Action Center by placing your mouse over the
Action Center icon in the notification area on
the taskbar. Click the icon to view more detail, and
click a message to address the issue. Or, open Action Center to view the message
in its entirety.
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User Account Control
User Account Control (UAC) notifies you before changes are made to your
computer that require administrator-level permission. The default UAC setting
notifies you when programs try to make changes to your computer, but you can
control how often you are notified by UAC by adjusting the settings.


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Always notify
You will be notified before programs make changes to your computer or to
Windows settings that require the permissions of an administrator.
When you're notified, your desktop will be dimmed, and you must either
approve or deny the request. The dimming of your desktop is referred to as
the secure desktop because other programs can't run while it's dimmed.
This is the most secure setting.
Default - Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer
You will be notified before programs make changes to your computer that
require the permissions of an administrator.
You will not be notified if you try to make changes to Windows settings that
require the permissions of an administrator.
You will be notified if a program outside of Windows tries to make changes
to a Windows setting.
It's usually safe to allow changes to be made to Windows settings without you
being notified. However, certain programs that come with Windows can have
commands or data passed to them, and malicious software can take advantage
of this by using these programs to install files or change settings on your
computer.
Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer (do not
dim my desktop)
You will be notified before programs make changes to your computer that
require the permissions of an administrator.
You will not be notified if you try to make changes to Windows settings that
require the permissions of an administrator.
You will be notified if a program outside of Windows tries to make changes
to a Windows setting.
This setting is the same as "Notify only when programs try to make changes to
my computer," but you are not notified on the secure desktop.
Because the UAC dialog box isn't on the secure desktop with this setting, other
programs might be able to interfere with the dialog's visual appearance.
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Never notify
You will not be notified before any changes are made to your computer. If
you are logged on as an administrator, programs can make changes to your
computer without you knowing about it.
If you are logged on as a standard user, any changes that require the
permissions of an administrator will automatically be denied.
If you select this setting, you will need to restart the computer to complete
the process of turning off UAC. Once UAC is off, people that log on as
administrator will always have the permissions of an administrator.
This is the least secure setting.
If you set UAC to never notify, you should be careful about which programs you
run, because they will have the same access to the computer as you do.
This includes reading and making changes to
protected system areas,
your personal data,
saved files, and
anything else stored on the computer.
Programs will also be able to communicate and transfer information to and from
anything your computer connects with, including the Internet.
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Media sharing
We heard how much youd like easier ways to share music, photos, and videos
among the different PCs in a household. So, when you set up a HomeGroup or
stream media from within Windows Media Player, your music, pictures, and
videos are available on the other computers and devices in your home.
Play To
Play To, new in Windows 7, makes it easy to play your music on other PCs or
devices around the house. Just right-click the tracks youd like to hear and select
Play Tonow you're a DJ.
Play To works with other PCs running Windows 7 and devices compliant with the
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) media standard. Today, that includes
popular products such as the Sonos Multi-Room Music System, Roku
Soundbridge, and Xbox 360.
Windows Media Center
Watch, pause, and record live TV. Listen to your tunes. Show off your photo
collection. Enjoy online entertainment. And do it all from your living-room couch.
Is it any wonder critics call Media Center the hidden gem of Windows?
In Windows 7, we've made it even betteradding great new features (many
suggested by you) and visual touch-ups. Windows Media Center is available in the
Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7.
More watching
Windows Media Center supports more global TV standards and tuners, including
digital and HD. It also now plays more popular audio and video formats
including 3GP, AAC, AVCHD, DivX, MOV, and Xvid.
Easier media sharing
Enjoy recorded TV shows, music, and videoeven when it's not stored on your
PC. The new HomeGroup feature makes media available to any PC with
Windows 7 in the house.
Windows Media Player 12
Designed by media lovers, for media lovers. Windows Media Player 12 plays more
music and video than everincluding unprotected songs from your iTunes
library! And, the players window is also more kempt.
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Windows Touch and Multi-touch
Touch your computer screen for a more direct and natural way to work. Use your
fingers to scroll, resize windows, play media, and pan and zoom. Large touch
areas on the Start menu and the taskbar make it easy to use.
You can even finger paint in Paint!
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Handwriting recognitionnew additions
Handwriting recognition takes a big step in Windows 7. Beginning with greater
accuracy and speed, Windows 7 improves pen input in several ways. You can
write math expressions, create personalized custom dictionaries for handwriting
recognition, and use the new languages supported in Windows 7. Of course, you
can also use the pen to just draw a picture.

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Snipping Tool
Snipping Tool captures a screen shot of anything on your desktop, like a picture or
a section of webpage.
Snip a whole window, a rectangular section of the screen, or draw a freehand
outline with your mouse or tablet pen. (Or your finger, if you're using a PC with a
touch-screen.) Then you can annotate, save, or e-mail the image using buttons
right in the Snipping Tool window. Snipping Tool is available only in the Home
Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7.


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Magnifier
Magnifier is a help to people with low vision, but everyone will appreciate its
ability to enlarge hard-to-see text and pictures. Full-screen mode magnifies the
entire desktop, and lens mode zooms in on particular areas. Inside the Magnifier
window, you can click buttons and input text as you normally would.
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Sticky Notes
You can use Sticky Notes to write a to-do list, jot down a phone number, or do
anything else that you'd use a pad of paper for. You can use Sticky Notes with a
tablet pen or a standard keyboard.

Windows 7 supports notes of different colors.

You can place multiple notes lying all over your screen.

Keep typing and your note will automatically increase in length.

You can now simply drag and resize the note according to his wishes.

The notes are readable via the taskbar previews.

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Speech
Windows Speech Recognition now works betterand with more programs. So
instead of using the keyboard, you can just tell your computer what to do. Start
an e-mail by speaking the recipient's name, surf the web without a keyboard, or
dictate your documents.
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Narrator and visual notifications
Windows 7 can read on-screen text aloud and describe some events (like error
messages), helping you use your computer without the display. With Audio
Description, you can hear a narration of what's happening in a video. Windows
can also replace sound alerts with visual cues like a screen flash, so system alerts
are noticeable even when they're not heard.

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Improved gadgets
Gadgets, the popular mini-programs introduced in Windows Vista, are now more
flexible and fun. Microsoft has done away with the Sidebar, so you can stick your
gadgets anywhere on the desktop.


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Performance improvements
Sleep
Windows 7 is designed to sleep, resume, and reconnect to your wireless network
more quickly.
Windows Search
When hunting for something, you want answers, not delays. In Windows 7, search
results pop up faster. Sorting and grouping of search results is also significantly
quicker. Results are now grouped by category and contain highlighted keywords
and text snippets to make them easier to scan.
Windows 7 is also designed to search external hard drives, networked PCs, and
libraries. You can instantly narrow them by date, file type, and other useful
categories.
USB devices
When you plug in a portable flash drive or other USB device for the first time,
Windows 7 can have it ready for you in seconds. If you've used it before, the
wait's even shorter.
Leaner and less busy
Unlike its predecessors, Windows 7 is designed to run speed-sapping background
services only when you need them. Not using a Bluetooth device? Then the
Bluetooth service in Windows 7 stays off. Windows 7 is also less memory hungry
than Windows Vistaanother under-the-hood tune-up that can boost overall
performance.
64-bit support
A 64-bit PC can handle larger amounts of information than a 32-bit system. Since
it can use more RAM4 GB and upa 64-bit computer can be more responsive
when you're running lots of programs at once.
If you tend to have a lot of programs open simultaneously or need to switch
frequently between programsor if you just want to be sure your PC can take
advantage of the larger amounts of memory available today64-bit is a great
choice. If you run only one or two programs at a time or have older hardware and
software that isn't supported by a 64-bit PC, a 32-bit system is a good choice.
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Faster, more responsive performance
It starts up, shuts down, resumes from standby, and responds quicker. Youll have
fewer interruptions and can recover more quickly from problems when they do
occur because Windows 7 will help you fix them when you want.
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Extends battery life with power-saving features
Windows 7 runs with fewer background activities so your PC processor doesn't
work as hard and draws less power. Other innovations include less power-hungry
DVD playback (handy on long flights), automatic screen dimming, powering off
unused ports, and a more accurate battery-life indicator.
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Networking
Windows 7 makes it a cinch to view and connect to networks on your laptop
wherever you go. Just click the networking icon on the taskbar. View Available
Networks displays all your wireless and wired optionsWi-Fi, mobile broadband,
dial-up, or corporate VPN. One more click, and you're connected.





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Windows XP Mode
It's the best of both worlds: The new Windows XP Mode lets you run older
Windows XP business software right on your Windows 7 desktop.
The feature, designed primarily with small- and medium-sized businesses in mind,
comes as a separate download and works only with Windows 7 Professional and
Ultimate. Windows XP Mode also requires virtualization software such as
Windows Virtual PC. Both are available free on the Microsoft website.
To download Windows XP Mode or learn about its system requirements, visit the
Windows Virtual PC website.
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BitLocker Drive Encryption
How can you help protect your data from loss, theft, or hackers? The answer:
BitLocker.
Improved for Windows 7 and available in the Ultimate edition, BitLocker helps
keep everything from documents to passwords safer by encrypting the entire
drive that Windows and your data reside on. Once BitLocker is turned on, any file
you save on that drive is encrypted automatically.
BitLocker To Goa new feature of Windows 7gives the lockdown treatment to
easily-misplaced portable storage devices like USB flash drives and external hard
drives.
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Making DVDs and CDs
Windows DVD maker to make video disks
Windows Media Player to make audio (music) disks
Windows Explorer to make data disks
(Windows Media Player has an option make data disks, but it will only
include files that are multi-media. It will omit all other files.)
Windows Disc Image Burner to burn .ISO disk images
(Double-click on an ISO image or right-click and choose Burn disc image)
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Types of discs you can burn with Windows Media Player
Disc
type
Description
Audio
CD
This is ideal for making custom music CDs that you can play using any car
or home stereo.
Content: Music only
Capacity: Up to 80 minutes
Playback devices: Almost any CD player, including those found in
home stereos, car stereos, and computers.
Data
CD
This is a great option if you have lots of music and a car CD player that can
play Windows Media Audio (WMA) files (the type of music file that most
people have in their Player Library). It's also handy for backing up your
media files.
Content: Music, pictures, and videos
Capacity: About 700 megabytes (MB), or roughly 8 hours of music
Playback devices: Computers and some CD and DVD players. The
device must support the file types that you add to the disc, such as
WMA, MP3, JPEG, or Windows Media Video (WMV).
Data
DVD
Because of its larger capacity, this type of disc is used for all the same
reasons you would use a data CD, but especially if you have a larger
volume of files that won't fit on a single data CD.
Content: Music, pictures, and videos
Capacity: About 4.7 gigabytes (GB), or roughly 54 hours of music
Playback devices: Computers and some DVD players. The device
must support the file types that you add to the disc, such as WMA,
MP3, JPEG, or WMV.
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Windows 7 will include Internet Explorer 8 (except in Europe).
When you start Internet Explorer for the first time, you are given the option to
use two new featuressearch suggestions and Accelerator previews.
Search suggestions displays a list of other possible search terms as you type your
search term into the search box or Address bar. You can continue typing, or use
your arrow keys or mouse to choose one of the suggested terms. Search
suggestions are offered by many search providers, and can be turned on or off in
Manage Add-ons.
Accelerators use text that you select on a webpage to perform tasks such as
opening a street address in a mapping website or looking up the dictionary
definition for a word. Accelerator previews display information in a small window
when you rest your mouse pointer on the Accelerator. The Accelerator gets the
information by sending the text you've selected to the webpage or web service. In
many cases the preview will show you the information you're looking for without
requiring you to leave the webpage you're on. Not all Accelerators have previews
or provide enough information, however, so you still might have to click the
Accelerator to open the webpage or web service where you can perform your
task. You can't turn off Accelerator previews separately, but you can choose not
to use Accelerators.
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Internet Explorer 8 Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/welcome.aspx
Available now, Internet Explorer 8 includes innovations to the Address bar,
search, tabs, and the Favorites bar that help you efficiently surf the web. Internet
Explorer 8 brings more information to you, with less effort.
Search is one of the most frequent and important things you do online. As you
type a search term in the Internet Explorer 8 search box or Address bar, you can
see relevant search suggestions from your chosen search provider and your
browsing history. Click a suggestion and the search starts immediately so that you
don't have to type the entire word or phrase.


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Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators
Accelerators provide direct access to the online services you use everydayfrom
any web page. Just highlight some text and click the blue Accelerators icon. For
example, if youre interested in the location of a business featured on a webpage,
you can use the Live Maps Accelerator to get an in-place preview of a map
displayed directly on the page.



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Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices
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Web Slices let you instantly see changes on a website without going to it. You can
subscribe to specific content within a page and monitor things like auction items,
sports scores, entertainment columns, and weather reports. Internet Explorer 8
delivers updated information directly to a Web Slice in your Favorites bar, without
leaving the page you're on.


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If a Web Slice is available on a page, a green Web Slices icon will appear in the
Command Bar. Click on this icon to easily subscribe and add the Web Slices to the
Favorites Bar so you can keep track of that "slice" of the web.



Or, hover your mouse over an item on a webpage. If that item incorporates Web
Slice functionality, the Web Slice icon will appear. Click on the icon to add this
"slice" of the web to your Favorites Bar.


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When new information becomes available, the Web Slice will become highlighted.
When you click on the Web Slice in the Favorites Bar, it previews relevant
information. Clicking on the preview takes you directly to the site for more
information.



To delete, right-click on your Web Slice and click Delete.
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However, in Internet Explorer 8 when I clicked on Turn on subscribing to Web
Slices, the IE displayed the following:



Does this mean there will be a background process running that will take
processor time from my running applications?
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Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View
If a webpage doesn't look right, just click the new Compatibility View button on
the Address bar. The button corrects misaligned text or images on pages designed
for older browsers.
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Things Ive noticed

Time AND Date
Windows XP and Vista, by default, would only display the current time in the
system notification area, but not the current date.


Windows XP Windows Vista




To have Windows also display the current date, I often reconfigured the taskbar
to double height.



Windows 7, by default, display both the current time and date.


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AutoPlay at Boot
When Windows 7 is booted with an external hard drive attached, the AutoPlay
window for that device is opened.


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Closing IE
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Automatic Settings of Display Resolution
Windows 7 will automatically detect a new display and set the display resolution
to the optimal (recommended) settings.
Notice that each time I connected a different display to the PC, Windows 7 made
the adjustments in resolution automatically.


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Installing a printer
When installing a network printer, Windows 7 will search the network for
available printers.



Vista, also, did this, but if you are moving to Windows 7 from XP, this is a new
feature. With Windows XP, you had to specify the IP address of any printer being
installed.
I also found that Windows 7 did not contain drivers for the printer I was installing,
an HP Color LaserJet 3600, and HP did not have drivers listed for Windows 7 at
that time. This, however, did not prove to a problem since Windows 7 uses the
same drivers as does Vista.
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Hide empty drives in Computer folder
Using Windows XP, when you connect a Universal Card Reader to a USB port,
you see a multitude of drives appear in the My Computer folder. Windows
provides no assistance in guessing which drive contains your SD card (or CF card).
(Yes, one of these drives does contain a card.)


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Windows 7, also, displays all drives (even those without media).


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However, theres a new folder option, Hide empty drives in Computer folder.


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When enabled, only the drive containing the (SD) media appears,

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unless you also have Show hidden files, folders, and drives enabled. Then, the
empty drives appear, but are grayed out.


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Always show icons
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Copy and Replace

When there are duplicate files while copying (or moving) files to a new location,
Windows 7 will identify which of the two files is newer.
It also has an option to do this for the next ## conflicts which provides the
equivalent of yes to all and no to all.
In prior versions of Windows (prior to Vista), there is a choice for yes to all but
no choice for no to all. (Actually, you could effect a no to all action by holding
down the shift key while you clicked no, but this was poorly documented.


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Open in New Window

When browsing through a drive with Windows Explorer, you can now choose to
open a folder in the same windows or a new window. Previously, you had to make
this choice in Control Panel Folder Options. (In prior versions of Windows, you
could accomplish this by holding the shift key while double-clicking the folder, but
this was also poorly documented.)


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WordPad
WordPad now has a ribbon like the Office 2007 applications,



and also has Increase Indent and "Full Justification" of text.
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WordPad, like Word 2007, will show you a preview of a change of type-face or
font-size before it is applied.


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Paint
Paint, also, has a ribbon;



plus Crop, Free-form Selection, Transparent Selection, and Ready-made Shapes.
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Calculator
Calculator will now let you view a history of your calculations.


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The Scientific mode has some additional mathematical functions.


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Besides the Standard and Scientific modes, Calculator not has two additional
modes:
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and Statistics


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Each of these four modes can be augmented with worksheets for Unit conversion,
Date calculation, Mortgage, Vehicle lease, or Fuel economy.


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Things I Found Missing
When you right-click on the desktop background, you get the following choices:



Wouldn't it be nice if you had an option to delete the current background from
the slide show?

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Things I Wonder About

Windows 7 Installed on Multiple Drives
Finally, I noticed that when I installed Windows 7 on a computer with two hard
drives, each with no partitions allocated, that Windows created the C: drive on
the second physical drive by default.


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In summary
So, thats a peek at just some of the features youll be seeing in Windows 7.
Theres a lot more to come, so get ready to see even more of what you asked for
as we continue our work on Windows 7. Watch for more details. If you try early
versions of Windows 7, thanks in advance for your interest and help in making it
the best version of Windows yet. We hope youll see your fingerprints all over it.
(The Gospel according to Microsoft.)
Information about Windows 7 is preliminary and subject to
change.