Review: Windows 7

New Media Streaming Feature, As Well As The New Taskbar Windows 7 Device Stage, Networking Homegroup And Windows XP Mode Make Much More Than A Service Pack For Windows Vista, Although Both Operating Systems Share Many Underlying Plumbing. This Means That We Have Not Seen The Problems We Have Seen With The Vista Compatibility. But Lighter Footprint Of Windows 7 System Allows Greater Speed And Slightly Faster Performance. It Covers All With High Reliability As A Rock, And Microsoft May Have Only One Winner.

An Obstacle, However, Is The Absence Of A Path Official Upgrade To Windows XP, Which Affects A Large Number Of Users Who Avoided Vista. Fortunately, Microsoft Offers A Price Upgrade For The Company And The Age Of Two Generations, XP (Price Is Detailed Later In The Story). One Solution To This Dilemma Worthy XP Upgrade To 7 In The Form Of Application Laplink Software PcMover, Moving Applications, Settings, User Accounts And Documents From XP To Windows 7 On A Smooth Workflow And Controllable.

Editions & Setup

There Will Be Three Editions Of Windows 7 For Sale: Home Premium (Upgrade $119.99, $199.99 Full) Professional ($199.99 Upgrade, Complete $299.99) And Ultimate ($219.99 Update, Complete $319.99). Anyone With A Valid Copy Of XP Or Vista Is Eligible For The Upgrade Price. Most Users Choose One Of The First Two, With Professional Obviously In The Workplace And Technophiles Hardcore Users. Ultimate Includes Everything From The Other Editions, But Does Little More Than The Ability To Encrypt Usb Drives And Switch To One Of 35 Languages​​. (The "Ultimate Extras" Day Of Vista Have Disappeared)

A Fourth Edition, Starter, Will Be Pre-Installed On Some Netbooks, But Not Available In Stores. Starter Eye Candy Like Aero Glass Will Take Place, But We Found Most Netbooks Run Windows 7 As Normal In PC Labs. The Home Basic, Vista Is Seen In The Party (In The United States - To Be Made Available To Developing Countries), So Home Premium Is The Only Option For Housing. Note Also That It Is The List Price, And You Can Expect To See Reductions Over Time. Also Note That Microsoft Offers A License Upgrade For Only $29.99, And Parts Suppliers Have Offered Student PC OEM Versions Without All The Packaging And Support, For $99 (Home Premium), $134.99 (Professional) And $174.99 (Ultimate).

There Will Also Be The Lowest Of The Best Editions Of Windows 7 Editions "Updates At Any Time". Upgrade Starter To Home Premium Will Cost $79.99, Home Premium To Professional Will Cost $89.99, And Home Premium To Ultimate Will Cost $139.99. Finally, A Family Pack Pricing Option Will Allow The Installation Of Windows 7 Home Premium On Three PCs For $149.99 - A Pretty Sweet Deal Compared To Individual Licenses. Also Note That Microsoft Recently Announced Volume Discounts For Business Customers.

The Installation Of The Operating System Routine Has New Icons And A Pair Of Display Screens ("Checking The Performance Of The Video And So On") With A New Star Effect. Even The Login Screen Of Windows Home And Have Won A Green Patterned Background. The Installation Does Not Allow Me Intelligently Configure The Operating System While My Laptop Was Unplugged. And The Installer Asks You To Check For Updates In The First Inning, I Recommend To Accept It.

If You Want To Upgrade, You Must Run Vista SP1 Or SP2 And 12.9GB Free Disk Space. Remember, The Upgrade Of The Facility, Which Will Keep All Your Programs And Documents For The New Operating System Is Available Only For Vista Users. Users Of XP And Other Versions Of Windows Will Choose Custom And Make A "Clean" Install.

Installation

I Installed Windows 7 On A Dell Mini 10 Netbook, A Dell XPS M1330 And HP Touchsmart. The Installer Can Format Or Create New Partitions If You Select The Custom Option. Installation Took 30 Minutes On A Machine That Already Had The Candidate Of Windows 7 Installed, As RC Version Took About 20 Minutes On A Blank Partition. Programs And Data From The Previous Installation Directory "Windows.old" As Vista Print Setup. Installing A New Blank Partition Does Not Require This Step, If The Installation Is Faster, 24 Minutes, Slightly Slower Than Installing The RC Took. But All These Times Beat The Devils Vista Requirements A Minimum Of 45 Minutes To An Hour.

After Installation, However, I Had A Problem With The Laptop Graphics Driver, My Windows Experience Was 1, And I Did Not See The Aero Desktop Effects. Make The Right Driver Installed Was Much Less Automated Than It Should Have Been, Had To Go To The Dell Website And Find The Driver. The Installer Found And Installed The Correct Driver On The HP Touchsmart And Some Netbooks I've Had The Program, But A Netbook Had The Same Problem With The Graphics Driver. There Have Been Other Reports Of Problems With Laptop Driver, But You Can Go To The Manufacturer's Website And Get The Driver Itself, And Not Be A Problem If You Buy A New Laptop Windows 7.

Taskbar & Interface

After A Year Of Show Siamese Fighting Fish Aka Betta (Get It? Beta?) The Image Of The Central Office Is Now A Redesigned Windows Flag. One Starting Characteristics That Disappoints Me Is That The Noise Is Identical To The Vista Boot. You Think Microsoft Would Organize A New Startup Sound Hot Operation Of A New System. The Interface Default Theme Has Its Own Look, However, Vista Users Feel Especially At Home. Even Updating XP Users Have Problems With The User Interface, But Will Not Be Able To Cling To The Past.

Microsoft Has Hired Some Very Talented Artists To Create Images Of New Topics, Including Architecture, Caricatures, Landscapes, Nature, Art Whimsical Scenes And Views Of The United States. High Contrast Options Base And Simplify The Display For Low Power Machines Or Users Of No-Nonsense Type. There's Even One That Looks Like Windows Has Long Called Classic. But No Emulation XP Theme On Windows 7, As It Is In Vista, But It Is A Mode Of Windows XP Professional And Later Versions That Allow Emulation XP - More On That Later.

When The Operating System, Which Looks A Bit Elegant Eye Candy: Colorful Dots That Become The Windows Flag Colored. The Toolbar Also Has A Notable Change In Depth Look At This New Cornerstone Of The Interface.

In Short, The Buttons On The Taskbar Are Higher Than In The Past (But You Can Make Them Smaller Again). You Can Choose To Merge All Instances Of An Application On A Single Button Or Keep Everything Separate Or Combine Only When Space Is Short In The Taskbar.

Buttons Light Taskbar When The Mouse Passes Over, With Dazzling Corresponding Buttons Of The Same Color. They Also Show The Thumbnails Side By Side With The File Names Of All Application Documents Is Open And Full Size Previews When Hovering The Mouse Over The Thumbnail. Clicking On A Thumbnail Opens The Application, Loaded With The Doctor In Question. Now You Can Move To Any Position Of The Buttons In The Taskbar You Like. Finally, An Option To Pin (Or Permanently Fixed) Icon On The Taskbar To Be Always Present. This Is A Good Thing, Because The Quick Launch Icons Are Gone In Windows 7.

The Start Menu Of Windows 7 Is Almost Identical To Vista, Except That Applications Can Now Display What Is Called A Shortcut List When Mouse Over An Entry Pass. This List Represents A Selection Of Files And More Recently And Frequently Opened And Played With The Program Operations. Note, However, That Only Works For The Wide Range Of Start Menu, Not When You Click All Programs, And Only Works For Programs That Implement Specific. Another Difference Is In The Start Menu Options To The Right Of The Program List : Network And Connect To The Left, And Then Click Devices And Printers Option Has Been Added. Presumably, Microsoft Now Expects Users To Visit The Internet And Control Panel For The Internet Network Tasks.

Gone Also Is The Sidebar, Despite The Gadgets That Have Lived In The Moment Can Float Freely Anywhere On The Desktop. If The Screen Is Covered By Windows Applications, The New Desktop Feature Can Reveal These Gadgets Peek Do All The Windows On The Desktop Transparent When The Mouse Is Passed In The Lower Right Corner Of The Screen. I Prefer The Explicit Nature Of The Desktop Icon In XP And Vista, Not Intuitive Click The Unmarked Corner. I Also Noticed That From Time To Time All My Windows Disappear If I Moved The Cursor To The Corner Unintentionally.

Peek Is Known As An Improved Aero Desktop. Another Improvement Of This Type Is The New Behavior That Maximizes A Window When You Drag It To The Top Of The Screen. Slide Down And Returns To Its Previous Size. If The Office Is Full And You Want To Focus On The Window You See, " Shake " The Mouse On The Top Window And Moving The Mouse Quickly From Side To Side - Minimizes All Windows Screen.

Another Improvement Aero Allows Movement Of Two Windows On Opposite Sides Of The Screen To Fill Exactly Half Of The Screen In Each Sides. For This To Work, You Must Enter The Title Bar With The Mouse And Drag It To The Edge Of The Screen. I'm Not Excited By Dragging A Window To The Top Edge Of The Screen To Maximize, But If You Change The Size Of A Just Enough To Hit The Top Or Bottom Edge, The Window Is Maximized Only Vertically - Very Useful. Double - Click Again Maximizes The Window, Too.

Libraries

Windows 7 Has Its Share Of Very Visible Changes In The User Interface. After Spending Oh And Ah The Taskbar Spiffed-up, More Likely To Find The New Look Of Old Explorer, The Most Dramatic Difference. Click The Icon In Windows Explorer On The Taskbar, Or Open Computer From The Start Menu, And You Will Get A Window That Displays Not Only The Standard Tags Hdd Extensible, But Also A New Feature Called Libraries.

Libraries Are Just Under Favorites In The Navigation Pane

Win 7 Libraries Are Metafolders Effect. The Idea Behind Them Is Simple: We Have Massive Hard Drives With Files Scattered Everywhere, And The Organization Of Our Resources By The Hard Drive And Folders (which Are Always Linked To A Hard Disk) Is Ineffective. Like Vista, Windows 7 Provides A Set Of Favorites To Help The Organization - A Folder Is Moved To The Navigation Pane, Create A Link To That Folder, But Libraries Organization Has A High Level Even More.

Win 7 Comes With Four Existing Libraries : Documents, Music, Pictures And Videos. Of Course, Vista And XP Include Calls Documents Folder Or My Documents, My Music, Or Music, Etc., Within Each User Profile (and Easily Accessible From The Computer Or Workstation) To So You May Wonder How Windows 7 Improves Anything Here. The Answer Is That The "My Music" Folder (To Use An Example) Contains Files And Subdirectories In A Directory Called My Great Music - And It Is This File In A Specific Location On Your Hard Drive. However, The Library "music" In Windows 7 May Contains Links To Files And Other Directories And Subdirectories Across The System. Think Of The Security Office In A Large Building : On One Side Of The Screen Can See The Camera Feeds From Any Number Of Places In The Building. It Is Not As Metatags Files, Allowing Windows To Search More Efficiently And Accurately, But Windows Says That You Need To Consider Some Issues, Such Disparate Group. With Win 7 Libraries, You Can Add All Desired Locations For Each Library, And The Library Open All Locations Will Be Accessible From The Inside. And To Do Everything, If You Join Multiple Computers In A Homegroup On Windows 7 (Which We Will Discuss Here Solutions In The Coming Weeks), You Can Share Entire Libraries As Easily As You Can Share Files Or Directories.

To Show How Libraries Work, I'll Create A New And Call It "Email Archiving". Within It, I Want The Links To All The Files On My Various Hard Drives And Partitions That Contain Data From Outlook (pst) Which Was Stored In The Years. Whenever A New Instance Of Windows (2000 Or So) Is Installed, I Reinstall Office, And The Creation Of A New Outlook Data File. So I Import My Calendar, Contacts And Some Records Of Last Year's Outlook Pst File, But I Often Leave A Lot Of Data In The Old File Format. In Addition, I Have Many Files And Backups Scattered Small. This New Library Allows Me To Collect Them All In One Place, So If I Need To Find This Specific E -mail For Six Years, I Do Not Have To Do Nearly The Same Amount Of Excavation.

To Create A Library, Open Windows Explorer, Click The Item In The Library, And Select New | Library. Name Of The Library You Want - For Me It Is Archived Emails. Click On The New Folder And Select Properties. Now, Click Include A Folder And Navigate To A Folder You Want To Be Part Of This Library. Select The Folder And Click Include Folder, Repeat The Process For All Folders To Add. Optimize The Drop-down Menu In The Library Dialog Box Allows You To Specify Windows 7 If You Want To Follow This Library Articles General, Documents, Music, Pictures, Or Videos, It Would Be Helpful If You Can Also Specify The Types Of Files, But It Is A Good Start.

From This Point, Windows 7 Will Be Chosen To Follow Your Library And Automatically Updated Every Time You Change Your Content Folders. This In Itself Is Useful, But Windows 7 Runs On It, Providing A Detailed View Of The Default Library. Folders To View Files And Subdirectories In The Monitored Directory Expands, Allowing You To Easily Navigate To The File Or Folder You Want To Open.

The Detailed View Of The Newly Added Library

You Can Add Locations To The Library In Many Ways. First, You Can Open The Properties Dialog Box Of The Library `s New Box And Click Include Folder. Second, You Can Use The Browser To Find A File Or Folder And Drag The Item To The Section Of The Library In The Navigation Bar, Pause Until The Subtitle Is Made Of Link Folder. Third, You Can Right Click On Any Folder And Select Include In Library, Selecting The Desired In The Resulting Sub-Menu Library. You Can Also Create A New Library By Dragging A Folder (Not A File) For Libraries Game Itself, Where Windows 7 Prompts You To Create The New Library.

Creating A New Location By Dragging A Library Item

Finally, The Different Locations Can Be Changed By Clicking On The Following Link To Includes Label, Which Appears At The Top Right Of The Browser Window When You Select A Library. The Result Is The Library Dialog Box Locations, Where You Can Add Or Remove Additional Elements.

Managing Libraries From The Library Locations Dialog

In My Case, When I Added All My Old Outlook Folders To The Library Of Archived E-mails, I Had A List Of Nine Directories Containing Several Subdirectories, Each With One Or More Pst Files. Suddenly All My Old E-mail Was Accessible To Me, Do I Want To Watch, Or Browse Old Posts. Of Course, The Use Of Libraries To Locate Music Files, Document Files, Or All The Different Photoshop Files Can Be More Useful For Most Users, But For Me The Library Function Worked Perfectly For Me Noncontrolling Very Specific Types Of Data.

The UAC And Other Interruptions

Dam Messages Account Control (UAC) Has Been A Constant Source Of Complaints About Vista. Install A Program Or Make Changes To The System, And You're Interrupted. Microsoft Designed UAC To Make Windows More Secure By Preventing Installations And Changes In The Configuration Of Unwanted Software System. The Company Says That, Therefore, 60 Percent Fewer Malware Infections Occurred In Vista Than XP SP2. Perhaps, But Seriously Annoying Feature For Users. You Can Actually Disable These Interruptions In Vista, But It Did Not Stop The Chorus Of Disapproval. Reduce The Number Of Shares Dialogues Appear And Give You More Control Over What Triggers Windows 7 Aims.

In The Configuration Panel Of The New UAC Slider Is A Four Extreme Positions, Two Of Which Are Long Notify Never Notify. This Will Not Solve All The Inconveniences Of The UAC, But At Least Gives Users More Control Than "On" Or "Off". Another New Strategy For Windows 7 To Reduce Interruptions Is The "Auto - Elevate" List - A White Applications That Are Green Light To Bypass UAC Confirmations List.

User Account Control

Less Frightening But Equally Annoying Is The "I Just Said "Scenario. You Start A Program And UAC Immediately Asking If You Want To Run This Program. D'oh! Of Course You Do! Users Can Really Get Steamed About It, Even Users Administrator Must Simply Click Yes. Imagine The Frustration Of A Standard User To Enter An Administrator Password Or (More Likely) Will Find A Supervisor To Enter The Password. A Thousand Times This Precaution Can Prevent A Malicious Program Launch, Assuming (And This Is A Big Assumption) That The User Was Alert Enough To Select No. 999 Sometimes It Is Just A Pain.

On The Engineering Windows 7 Blog, Microsoft Engineers To Emphasize The Idea That The Uac Confirmation For Each Sensitive Action Is Good, Because "The Forces Malware Or Poorly Written Software Are Revealed And Sound. Approval Before They Can Potentially Harm Your Computer" The Same Reasoning Gave Us The Old (And Now Obsolete) Personal Firewall That We Inundated With Pop-Up Consultations - Ugh Incomprehensible!

in Fact, Microsoft Designers Admit That UAC Can Not Really Keep The Malware, Since Users Do Not Know Enough To Adequately Meet Your Specifications. Most Users Just Click Yes And Let The Program Do What He Wanted Anyway. Microsoft 's Own Figures Show That Users Click Yes 90 Percent Of The Time. This Is Usually The Right Answer, But The User Of The Message Can Not Be Distinguished From A Uac Prompt Scary Message On Perfectly Valid UAC Scary A Malware Attack.

Big Ideas

9 In Windows Blog, Microsoft Engineers Commended For The Fact That The Uac Made ​​developers Wary Technical Programs That Unnecessarily Require Administrator Privileges. (thanks, Guys, But You Could Not Have Found A Way To Beat The Developers Online Without Torturing Users ?) Ultimately, However, Says Uac Problems. For Example, Research Shows That Windows Itself Represents About 40 Percent Of All Requests UAC's. No, Seriously ! A Component Of Windows Trying To Do Something Important And UAC Stops Until You Give The Green Light. They Say, " We Can Expect Fewer Instructions Windows Components " In Windows 7 The Objectives Of Improvement With Windows 7 Are As Follows:

• Reduce Unnecessary And Redundant Requests UAC
• Ask Your Customers The Confidence That They Are In Control
• Make UAC More Informative
• Ensure A Better And More Obvious Control Over UAC
• Beta Showed Progress Toward These Goals And Others In The Release Candidate. UAC In Windows 7 Final Is Much Less Annoying Than Vista.

Clearer Choices

When The Symbol Vista Uac Says "Windows Needs Your Permission To Continue", Windows 7 May Ask, "Do You Want To Allow This Program To Make Changes On The Computer?" Or "You Need To Provide Administrator Permission To Rename This Folder". Microsoft Said That The Focus Groups Showed That These Modified Messages Are Easier To Understand.

Vista Users Have The Ability To Disable UAC, Windows 7 Provides Short Alternative Locking. By Adjusting A Simple Slider, Users Can Choose Between Four Different Levels Of Notification. In Addition To The Less Restrictive, Are:

Level 1 Always Notify Me When Programs Try To Install Software Or Make Changes To The Computer, And When I Make Changes To Windows Settings.

Level 2 Notify Me Only When Programs Try To Make Changes To The Computer. Do Not Tell Me When I Make Changes To Windows Settings.

Level 3 Notify Me Only When Programs Try To Make Changes To The Computer (Do Not Dim My Desktop). Do Not Tell Me When I Make Changes To Windows Settings.

Level 4 Never Notify Me When Programs Try To Install Software Or Make Changes To The Computer Or When I Make Changes To Windows Settings.

Level 5 Is The Default. At This Level, The System Changes Initiated Programs Trigger UAC, But The Configuration Changes Made ​​by The User Are Not. Turn Up The Volume To Level 4, And Even Changes Initiated By The User Can Turn Uac And Vista. Level 2 Is The Same As Level 6 Except That The Screen Is Dimmed. That Is Why It Is Less Shocking, But Without The Benefit Of A Secure Office There Is A Small Possibility That The Malware Could Finagle Their Way Into The Process And Interfere With The UAC.

I Used To Think That The Level 1 Means Uac Is Disabled, But That Only Helps Me Clear Off The Pop - Ups. If You Are The Administrator, All Programs - Good And Bad - Can Make Changes In The System Smoothly. Standard Users, Any Action That Could Have Triggered A Uac Window Just Silently. Ouch!

A User Study Showed That Users Of Microsoft Who Received A UAC Prompt During A Windows Session Were More Likely To Report That Irritating Prompts. (I Could Say That). Are Also Found No Significant Difference In The Defense Of Malware Between Levels 3 And 4. That Is Why We Chose The Less Stringent Level 3 By Default, And That Is Why You Must Leave The Default

Resisting Key Stuffing

Earlier This Year, Security Experts Said That The Uac Dialog Configuration In Windows 7 Beta Was Vulnerable To Attack. If The Level Of The Uac Is Set To No, The Maximum User-mode Program Could Be Fully "Key Filling" - Sending Simulated Keystrokes To Control UAC Dialog. Monitoring Security Blogger Larry Seltzer Points Out That This Attack Only Works If You Run In Administrator Mode. Uac Is Meant To Encourage Everyone To Run As A Standard User. Seltzer Continues To Note That The Same Type Of Attack Could Do Much More Damage If Applied To Other Control Panel Applets. Microsoft Has Not Ignored The Problem, But Fixed By Forcing The Uac Dialog Box To Function As A High Integrity Process, They Say, "Prevents All The Mechanics Around Sendkeys And Work, Etc.." It Seems Certain, The Configuration Dialog UAC Completely Ignored I Wrote A Small Program To Send Keystrokes And Mouse Clicks False. Would Be Even Happier If Any Attempt To Reduce The Level Of Protection Always Triggers A Pop UAC With The Grayed Office - It Would Be Difficult To Break.

Device Manager

In Addition To The New Icons, The Old Control Panel Device Manager And A New List Of Versatile Jump, As We Shall See, If You Click The Buttons On The Taskbar. The Same Control Panel Receives Minor Changes. A New Menu Appears To The Search Box In The Control Panel. This Allows You To Change The Display Of The Default Category For A View That Displays All The Elements Of The Panel.

Many Of The Options On The Control Panel Were Encompassed By The Devices And Printers Control Pane, Or Moved To The Operating System Elsewhere. Cleartype Tuner Text, For Example, Is Always Easy To Control The Screen. Some Of These Changes Are Striking, However. What Happened To Sideshow ? For Those Who Are Interested In This Technology, Long Neglected, Do Not Worry. I Added A Sideshow Device Of Windows 7 (Beta Remote Ricavision Now Canceled) And Installed The Drivers And Control Panel Appeared. It Seems That Some Elements Are Provided To Appear Only When Necessary - Which Is Logical.

Inside Windows 7: Device Stage

Brandon Leblanc Of Microsoft Technology Described Very Well In The Windows Experience Blog, Calling It A " New Visual Interface That Makes It Easy To Find The Things You Want To Do With Your Devices On Your PC With Windows 7. " With Device Stage, A Image Photo - Realistic Your Gadget Can Live In The Taskbar, Which Provides One-click Access To Relevant Applications, Services And Information.

device Stage To Work, Windows 7 Loads A Set Of Custom Xml Files (And Possibly Custom Drivers) The First Time You Connect A Printer, A Scanner, Either. And It Is Not Only Or Usb Connections, Leblanc Noted That Device Stage "does Not Work Only For Devices Connected To A PC With Windows 7 Via Usb, But Also Bluetooth And Wi-Fi, And In Many Cases, No Software Installation Is Required. Device Stage, With Additional Drivers May Be Required Automatically Retrieved From Windows Update. " Maybe In The Last Iteration Things Will Work Without Problems, But It Proved A Bit Of A Challenge For Me So Far.

The Reason Behind Device Stage

So Where Did This Idea Come From, Anyway? We Can Find Some Clues In A Winhec Presentation By Dennis Flanagan, Director Of Program Group For Microsoft. In This Paper, Dennis Noted Problems With The Devices In Windows Vista:

• Conflicting Views And Entry Points
• The Views Are Functions, Not Devices
• Mark As Sponsor And Scalability
• Many Partners Are Build Similar Applications For Common Tasks
• No Current Route Advice And Services Recommended

This Is Complicated To Explain That Each Device Makes Its Way Into Vista, Since Microsoft Does Not Really Offer Device Manufacturers Guidance On This Front Way. To Check The Level Of Your Printer Ink, You Probably Need To Access A Custom Application Written For Brother, HP, Or Something Else. Copy Music To Your Most Likely Involves A Custom Application From Motorola Or Nokia. Flanagan Points To Inconsistencies In Microsoft Vista With A Screenshot:

Maybe You Have Not Noticed, After Adjusting Things As They Are, But There Are 17 Control Panel Applets, All Designed To Help You "do Things With Your Stuff." You Want To Set Your Modem? We Have A Special Group For It. Need To Synchronize Your Pda? Access The Windows Mobile Device Center. Have A Tablet PC? Thank Ink And The Control Panel Of The Unit. Ugh.

Device Stage Can Do For You

Simplify The Experience Of Panel, By Deleting Some Of Them (such As Adding Hardware, Bluetooth, Printers, Scanners And Cameras) Windows 7 Aims And Transfer Its Functions To The New Devices And Elements Printers. It Is A Good Thing, Even If Microsoft Has Not Really Pushed It Far Enough. A Disparate Collection Of Control Panels Is Always Included, But Should Not Be. Why The Keyboard And Mouse Still Deserve Separate Control Panels ? Modems S, For The Love Of God? Yes, They Are Still In Windows 7.

That Said, The New Devices And Printers Section, If It Works Correctly, It's Great. Vista Group Manager Vestige Of Control Devices Since The Early Days Of Windows, Not Something I Would Suggest To My Mother Familiar. Instead Of Considering The Idealized Version Shown During A Winhec Keynote Separated By Max Morris, Director Of Microsoft Capital Program:

All Your Computer Should Appear In The New Control Panel With A Picture Perfect Image To Start. Note That The First Option Labeled Rolanday-df Is The Main PC, Presented As A Single Item Rather Than A Set Of Components. This Is An Easy Way To See Everything At Once, Your Computer Equipment, But The Real Heart Of Device Stage Is What Happens When Something Access There. Double-click Any Device In The Panel And Get A New Screen For That Specific Device, One Of The Two Parties With A Beautiful Photo, Company Logo, Key Functions, And A Series Of Tasks. It Looks Like This:

In This Panel, You Can See Some Facts About The Device, In This Case, The Battery And The Free Space On The Sony Walkman NWZ - S738F. You Can Also See The Different Things You Want To Do With The Device. Here Sony Allows You To Manage The Media In The Walkman, Configure Synchronization, Read The Manual, And Promote Access (Hyperlink To Record Technical Support Or Access). Better Yet, The Device Automatically Adjusts To The Taskbar, If You Have Easy Access To Your Mp3 Player, Printer, Monitor, And Everything Else At All Times.

Device Stage Depends Manufacturers Creating A Series Of XML Files For Each Device, With The Device Metadata : Its Size, Capacity, Name And More. Think About It, Microsoft Said Morris, And Conceptually Similar To The Album Cover Music Cd. File Defines A "disposition" Of A Device (Behavior. Archive Xml And Graphic Mark), One Determines The Types Of Tasks You Can Perform. Without These Files, A Device Is Only A Small Form Of Equipment, But Appears In The Devices And Printers Panel, But Double-clicking It Takes You Into Archaic Device Manager (yes, He Is Still Alive In Windows 7). You Can Have The Functionality There, But It Feels Primitive Compared To The Beautiful Images In A Suitable Product Of The Unit Step Compliance.

Windows 7: Hands On With Device Stage

The Real Goal Of Device Stage Is To Expose Functionality, Making It Easier To Work With Your Gadget. To Get An Idea Of What This Means, Let's Take A Look At What Is Happening With Some Devices When Connected To A Computer With Windows 7. I Have Three Different Devices That Work Today: A Canon Mp980 (which Worked Perfectly), A Nokia N95 8gb (who Worked Laboriously) And A Sony Walkman (which Showed A Surprising Feature).

Have You Noticed That A MFP In Particular - Appears In Windows As Five Or Six Different Parties? And They Seem Completely Different, Too : Start A Scan And It Is As If Windows Has No Idea Who Is Being Printed. Device Stage Is To Unify These Features, And It Does It Very Well. Right-click The Icon In The Taskbar That Automatically Installs Canon Mp980 Produces A Jump List With All The Features Of The Mfp In An Ideal Location. Do You Want To Scan Or Print, Or Edit Your Preferences All Right There, As Is The Link To Purchase The New Ink, Of Course.

The Nokia N95 8GB Works In A Similar Way, Although They Device Stage To Work Properly, It Was Not As Easy As It Should Be. Compatible Products Are Supposed To Place Their Icons In The Taskbar Automatically. Not So With The Nokia N95, Although I Suspect Step Conventions Devices (such As Exactly When And How It Happens) Still Need To Be Coded. This Is Not Necessarily The Fault Of Nokia, In Other Words. Anyway, Once It Is Working Properly, The Right Mouse Button On The Icon In The Taskbar (Or Right-Click A Slide Your Mouse Click) A List Of Common Functions Useful Hop Obtained. These Lists Easier To Manage Music And Images On The Phone, Access Manuals, Software Downloads, Photos And Videos To Import Products, And So On.

The Sony Walkman Nwz-s738f Is A Horrible Name, But Really Smart Gadget, At Least When Connected To The Computer Right. See The Screen Shot Above And The Description Of The Device Banner At The Top Of The Window Gives You A Quick Update, I Have 5.45gb Of Free Space And My Battery Is Fully Charged. To Me, It's A Bit Large Enough Data And A Very Convenient Location For Access. Now Check What Happens When You Simply Cursor On The Taskbar Walkman:

Mousing Over The Icon Music Player Displayed An Image Of The Device, Three Icons Under The Bottom Window. I Hovered My Mouse On The Right, Which Gives Information About The Storage Capacity Of The Device. The Medium Is The Life Of The Battery, And The Icon On The Left Provides Synchronization. Neither The Canon MP980 And The Nokia N95 Has This Level Of Interactivity Added To Simple Mouse Gestures, Although The Windows Experience Blog Shows A Nikon D90 Reveal Similar Pieces Of Data. Neat!

As With All Scenario Hardware Support, Right - Click The Icon In The Taskbar (or Left Mouse Click And Scanning) Offers A Menu Of Frequently Accessed. In This Case, You Can Configure Synchronization, Media Management, Search For Files And Open The Manual. There Are Some Other Cool Items, Too. Click On The "New Features" And Standard Training Device Window Opens, With A Browser On The Lower Half Of The Band. In Fact, I Did Not Bring Any New Features, Just A Page On The Sony Website For The Device. But I Can Not Imagine New Downloads Or Options Are Highlighted On The Site And Is Visible To Consumers Through These Links.

Questions And Problems

It's Not All Wine And Roses, However. Because Device Stage Is Still In Beta Stage, Two Compatible Devices I Tried Worked The Same Way. For Example, The Nokia N95 Insists On Opening A Second Window By Clicking The Icon In The Taskbar. The Canon Mp980 Icon Expands Simply Expands To Include Your Name Instead Of An Image. The Latter Behavior Seems Smooth. But On The Other Hand, The Mouse On The Icon Of Nokia Phone And A Picture Of The Screen Clean, Full Is Obtained, Move The Mouse Over The Tray Icon Canon Tasks Does Not Seem To Anything If The Printer Is Off Or On. Where Is The Image In High Resolution?

In Addition, Some Devices Are Automatically Installed Icons Taskbar, So That I Should Clarify Some Manually (Right - Click The Window In The Taskbar And Selecting The Appropriate Option). Suppose A User Wants Not All Elements Of The Applet Panel Devices And Printers Control To Appear In Your Taskbar, For Example, I Do Not Need Constant Access To My Mouse In The Same Way That I Do My Mp3 Player Or Phone. In General, This Feature Offers Many Promises And Actually Simplifies Access To Gadgets. In Addition, Part Of The Fun In Buying A New Computer Is The Design Of The Device, And See These Beautiful Pictures Adds To The Experience. If Microsoft Can Soften The Few Remaining Quirks, Device Stage Can Help Transform The Way People Use Windows And Devices That Connect To It.

Designed For Touch From The Ground

Microsoft Is Betting That The Future Of Computing Is Touch PC, And Put A Lot Of Thought Into Making Windows 7 Work With Him. I Tried The Touch Interface On An Hp Touchsmart, And It's Great, But It Was Initially A Little Difficult To Resize Images By Pinching And Dissemination Of Two Fingers. The Operating System Is A Mini- Keyboard To "Tap", Which Emphasizes The Tablets Without Keyboards May Appear. I Must Emphasize That The Multitouch Does Not Work Right After Installing The Os, I Had To Download And Install Additional Drivers.

Touch Capable PCs Come With Windows 7 Include Microsoft Touch Pack For Windows 7, A Set Of Six Multi-touch Optimized Applications And Games Designed To Develop Value Windows Touch In Windows 7. It Consists Of Three Casual Games And Three Microsoft Surface Applications That Have Been Ported To Windows 7. Microsoft Did Not Make The Package Available For Public Download, But Fingers Crossed It Will Be Soon. The Globe Included Application Is Particularly Cool, Allowing You To Zoom In And Out And Rotate Using Multitouch.

One Of The Cool Things You Can Do Is Draw In The Paint With Two Fingers At Once. By Touching The Screen, Where You Have Touched, Or " Point Of Contact" May Represent The Image Of A Mouse. Then You Can Click The Right Mouse Left Or In This Virtual Button, But I Find It Easier To Use The Default Image Information " Drop" When Your Finger Touches The Screen.

Windows 7 Homegroup: Networking Made Easy

Microsoft Has Long Been Trying To Make Networking Easy To Use, With Automatic And Easy Access Shared Files And Folders House Connections. Windows 7 Feature Called " Group Home, " The Company Seems To Have Succeeded. I Say ''Seems" Because I Have Not Been Able To Explore All The Ways To Make Homegroups Dysfunction, And I Have Come To Expect Failure. But In Fact, I Have Not Managed To Make My Home Group Is Wobbly At All, Then Perhaps We Are Finally Here.

Homegroup Allows You To Create A Home Network With Integrated And Scalable Capacity Sharing And Access. This Is An Interesting New Feature In Windows 7, And Works Only With Windows 7, So Vista, XP, Mac, And Linux Can Not Join The Fun. Windows 7 Allows You To Define Three Types Of Networks At Home, Work And The Public Sector, And A Homegroup And Can Exist Only If The Networks On All Computers Are Put At Home. To Configure The Network On Your Windows 7 PC As Start, Open Control Panel And Select Network And Internet, Then Network And Sharing Center (you Can Also Access The Network And Sharing Center, Click The Network Icon On The Status Bar System). Verify That Under The Network Icon You Show "Home Network". Otherwise, Click The Public Network Or The Network Connection Works And Choose The Home Network In Place.

From There, You Can Create A Homegroup. After Setting Up Your Home Network, In Fact, Windows 7 Will Take You Directly To The Create Residential Dialogue. If Your Network Is Already Set To Start, Click On The Link Titled Choosing Residential Options And Sharing, And In The Next Dialog Box, Click Create.

The Next Step Is To Choose What Type Of Media You Want To Share With Other Members Of The Homegroup. The Options Are Pictures, Music, Videos, Documents And Printers (oddly). These Options Represent Libraries Of Windows 7 Created By Default During The Installation On Each PC, And Turn To The Default Folders Created In Each User Profile. In Essence, What You Choose To Share One Of These Elements Is To Give Another PC Access Homegroup Those Specified In Your User Profile Folders. In My Case, For Example, This Means That C: \ Users \ \ Neil Pictures, C: \ Users \ Neil \ Music, And So On. The Group Home Allows Users To Access The Folder C: \ Users \ Public Folder On Your Hard Drive. You Can Add Other Places That Can Be Shared With The Homegroup Later, As We Shall See.

Once You Have Completed This Step, Windows 7 Displays A Screen Containing A Password For Your Homegroup, As We Shall See, A Second PC, You Will Need The Password To Join The Homegroup. For Now, Do Not Forget To Save Your Password (just Select And Copy Text In A File Or An Email Message, For Example) Or Making A Paper Copy Of The Information, Including A Brief Set Of Instructions For Other Users.

Click Finish And Your Homegroup Is Set. The Final Dialog Box, Properties, Gives You The Ability To Change The Password That You Set Access And Sharing Of Advanced Settings Screen, But There Is One Important Thing That Does Not Allow You To Do So, At Least Here Is To Add Libraries, Folders Or Files In The Residential. This Seems To Be A Little Strange Omission, Since The Point Is Access Homegroup Customization Resources.

Finally, Windows Has Some Networking Easy Home. Here's What You Need To Know.

At This Point, Even If It Is Not Really Necessary, Check The Settings Screen Advanced Sharing, Click Change Advanced Sharing Settings. In The Dialogue Of Two Rear Element, Click The Arrow Next To The Home Or Work.

There Is A Large Screen Six Options, A Useful Guide On How You Configured Windows 7 Home Network (in Fact, All Of These Networks Use Windows 7 Basic Simple Configuration Options) Here. The Most Important Consideration In The Advanced Sharing Dialog Box Points Are Network Discovery (Allowing Others To Find Their PC), File Sharing And Printing, And Sharing Media. Without These On, Largely Lack The Point Behind Having A Homegroup, First: Seamless Sharing Between Computers In The House Of Files That Are Stored In A Central Location And A Single Large Disk Files To Be Added Constantly.

Once You Have Set Up The Homegroup Computers Are The Network Can Join. For This, The User Of Each Computer On Network And Sharing Center In The Control Panel Of The Computer And To Click On " Choose" Homegroup Resources Is Opened, The Screen That Asks " Do You Want To Join The Group Home? " And Displays That Are Available. Click Register To Become A Member Of The Household.

When Your Computer Is Attached To The Housing, A Link In The Dialog Box, You Browse To The Windows Help Screen On How To Access Homegroup Resources. This Is A Good Introductory Material For Users Who Do Not Know This Type Of Allocation Of Resources, Especially Those Who Do Not Know Their Own Resources.

By Default, All Libraries Created With The Installation Of Windows 7 Are Shared On The Homegroup. You, However, Limited To These Libraries When Shared. As You And Other Members To Add Libraries, You Can Share Each Manually. Open Bar Library Tasks And Find That You Want To Share. Right Click It And Select Share | Homegroup. Two Of These Options: Read And Read / Write. If You Want Other Users To Access The File But Not Add Their Machines, Select Read, If You Want The Library To Be Fully Functional For All Users, Select Read / Write. You Can Share Individual Folders Or Even Files In The Residential, Therefore, Despite The Records In Libraries Is By Far The Most Effective Way To Do This.

To Change The Current Exchange Library, Click The Library And Select Share With Your Choice By Selecting The Desired Option.

More Media, More Places

Windows Media Center Has Experienced Dramatic Changes Between Windows Vista And Windows 7. Eagle- Eyed Users Will Notice That Playready System, Microsoft Drm To Protect Nuevo Recorded Tv Programs, It Is Updated To Version 1.3 (See If You Can Sign Highlights Programs And Features Control Panel It An Initial Media Center Setup). The Inclusion Of Internet Tv (still In Beta 2) Guide Is A Great Leap Adelante Even Exponiendo Tienen Built For Pleasure Tv Ip-based Tv Tuner.

Recent Promotions Esfuerzos Although Their Stage Matches It Movies, News, Sport Otras Categories, Content Is Too Low, The Planned Integration Of Hulu, Tv.com, Tv Y Otra Ip Based There. Sin Embargo. Integrate Netflix With Windows 7 Media Center, Without, However, Are A Great Ventaja, And Microsoft Has Hinted At It More Dichos Ads Horizon. Microsoft Search Engine Bing And Msn Both The Game Content From Hulu, Are Therefore Not Unreasonable To Expect Him To Jump Al Content Media Center In Windows 7.

DLNA Technology, A Unique Feature Of Windows 7 Allows For Some Neat Connected Computers In The Same Network. An Element Of Pop-up Menu Juego Bed To Submit A Video, Photo, Song Otro PC Device. But To Play Is Disabled By Default. Permitirle In A PC By Selecting "allow Remote Control Of My Player It " Y Usted Will Be Able To Send Archives On PC Otros En El Mismo Group Hogar, Is The Sea From The Windows Media Player Click Hacienda Directly To A File In Explorer Windows There. This Function Pruebas Manera More Impressive.

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Microsoft También Hacienda Is That Clogs Easier Access Remote Content In Wmp. Una Nueva Function That Jumps To The Eye Is The Possibility Of Allowing Them Access To The Media At Home Through The Internet. In The Sequence Menu In Wmp, Select Allow Internet Media At Home... Where You Can Sign A Linkage Identifier Online. In The Present, The Only Identifiers Online With Windows Live Are Reconocidos, And The Feature Works In Usted If You Are A Member Of A Network Domain (for That You Generally Only If It Is A Place Of Trabajo) Yes, There The Home Team Is A Public Network. Windows Live Id, You Will Need To Download Windows Live Id Sign-in Assistant Software (Read Request).

Links You Cuenta Windows, A Line In The Cuenta Teams And They Can Sign Up For Access To Multimedia Files Stored On A PC Internet Content, On Entering The Cuenta En Línea En El Otro. Lleva Su Laptop To A Local Coffee Shop Tienda And You Can Register Remote Transmit Music From Su Su Desktop PC At Home Knew. What The Media Is Muestra As A Shared Library In Wmp - Which Suponiendo Dejado Usted Su PC And Ejecutarlo.

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One Possibility Is Codec Ayuda Are Cooler System That Is Responsible For Converting Multimedia Archives On The March As It Falls Works, For Example, Leaves A Film Icon Icon File In A Video Capable Mp3 Jugador It. This Is Demonstrated In This Year's Computex, But Manufacturers Of Appliances, Apoyo De Los Are The Key - Note Them On Ipod Are Compatible. The Transcoding Power También He Aprovechar Graphic Material, Aunque This Means That Sellers Need To Add Graphics Support Specific Drivers. In Hemos Tinted To Test The Possibility Of Drag And Drop Transcoding Yet.

Windows Live Essentials, Internet Explorer 8

In An Effort To Reduce Disk Space Requirements And Installation Time, Windows Does Not Come Preloaded With The E-Mail Program For The First Time In A Decade. In Addition, Photo, Video Editing And Blogging And Instant Messaging, Evacuated To A Landfill In The Form Of Windows Live Essentials. The Updated Applications Offers You A New Look For These Applications And Features To Enjoy. The Email Application, For Example, Allows You To Add All Your Pop Or Imap Accounts In One Interface.

Web Services With Windows Live Have Been Updated With Social Networking Features Such As Status Updates To Members Inviting Them To "network." Groups Can Share Photos And Conversations With Web Services And Live Messenger. A Key Element In The New Windows Live Hotmail Lets You Send Photos Without Clogging Inboxes Of Your Contacts, You Can Simply Store The Photos On Web Servers Instead. Applications Living Is Not As Bright As The Ilife Applications, But In Some Cases For Services Actually Offer More. And Free Web Space Is Included, While The Mac You Have To Pay A Few Hundred Dollars Per Year For A Mobileme Account, Which Gets Very Similar Capabilities. Windows Live Seems To Be A Much Better Deal In This Area.

The Operating System Does Not Include Ie8, Which Is A Significant Improvement Over Its Predecessors. The Browser Offers A Leader In Safety In Its Class, And Adds Some Very Smooth Aids, Such As Web Slices And Accelerators Navigation. The Default Mode Is Compatible With The Standards, But Still Offers Backward Compatibility Button. A Bar Predictive Address This About Firefox, But The Lack Of A Download Manager And Robust Extension Ecosystem Hold The Browser Again. For The First Time In Over A Decade, The Operating System Allows You To Completely Uninstall The Browser If You Choose.

New Accessories

In The Professional Developers Conference Last Year, Microsoft, Windows Honcho Steve Sinofsky Joked That The Team Decided It Would Be A Good Idea To Update The Paint Calculator And Accessories At Least Once Every 15 Years. Therefore, Both Applets And Wordpad Finally Get An Update That Includes The Ribbon Interface Introduced In Office 2007. Film Office Takes Some Time Getting Used To, But The Painting Is Quite Simple Images So Culture, Etc. Much Easier. The Film Also Makes Sense If You Use A Touch Interface.

The Calculator Adds New Statistics And Programmer Modes, And You Can Cut And Paste From It In The End! Calculator Now Also A Function Of History, So You Will Not Have To Redo The Tickets You Want And Closed Again. We've Added Templates For Common Calculations Such As Fuel Consumption, Mortgages And Leases Estimates. Unit Conversions Are Very Easy Now, Too. New Accessories Are Long, But Nevertheless Welcome.

Windows 7 For Business

There May Be Many Reasons To Switch To Windows 7 At Home, But What About At Work? Naturally, Large And Small Businesses Have Been Thinking About The Possibility Of Upgrading To The New Operating System. Some Analysts Say Is Inevitable For Companies Ignored Windows Vista And Stuck With XP If They Want To Keep, You Need To Consider Windows 7 Computers Continue To Age.

So Windows 7 It ​​worthwhile To Abandon The Known-if-not-beloved XP? What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Specific Smes? Visit Our Arguments For And Against The Upgrade. The Following Points May Help You Make A Decision That Affects Your Work Day For The Better. Firstly Because Of The Update.

You Should Upgrade To Windows 7:

You Can Still Use XP Applications

If You Need To Program The Speed Of Windows 7, But Have Applications That Only Work Eight, Windows XP, Windows XP Mode Can Save You Money. This Free, Downloadable Add-on For Pro, Enterprise And Ultimate Versions Of Windows 7 Allows Its Older Programs Work Like Native Windows 7. XP Mode Does Not Require A Separate Copy Of XP Under License. Sure, You Can Get The Same Thing With The Third Party Software, It Will Cost.

Searching Is Much Better

If You Are A Professional Organization Will Not Have To Search Your Hard Drive. But The Possibility That All Employees Are Equally Talented Is Also Likely That Steve Ballmer With An Iphone. Research Is The Application On The Web, And Windows 7 Have Finally Done In The Operating System. Vista Includes A Search Box On The Interface, You Will Find In The Start Menu, Control Panel And Windows Explorer. Windows 7 Is The Results That Count. You Can Reduce Performance When You Get Up Too. The Search Bar Keeps Track Of What You Wanted, So You Can Find Things Quickly Again. There Is A Movement To The Right Of The Search Results, Too. Finally, You Do Not Have To Worry About Employees Are Organized With Respect To Digital Data.

Better Drivers Support

The Old Systems Had Difficulties With Updates To Vista, Because Of Lack Of Support Driver For The Hardware. Heck, They Did Some Newer Systems. This Is Unlikely To Be The Case With Windows 7. It Has More In Common With Vista Not, And Vista Had Plenty Of Time To Get All The Mounting Hardware You Need. Better Yet, Windows 7 Is Designed To Go Directly To The Download Page Main Driver Provider If It Is Not A Compatible Driver.

Directaccess Can Be The Best Access

Directaccess Is Just That : To Manage Their Access To The Corporate Network From Any Location Through A Secure Tunnel Ipsec And Ipv6 Without The Use Of A Secure Virtual Private Network (vpn). Do Not Worry About The Cost Of Your Ipv6 In Windows 7 Comes With Ipv4 Ipv6 Transition Technology That Integrates With Existing Networks. This Is A New Way To Connect Safely. The Trick : Your Network Must Be Running Windows Server 2008 R2, If This Solution Does Not Work For Offices Without Dedicated It Staff. If You Have Windows Server, Only Takes A Few Clicks To Connect Customers Via The Web. It Is Much Easier To Configure A Vpn Server. Users Can Authenticate With Active Directory, So That The Windows 7 Solution Not Only Provides Network Permissions, But Can Push Software Updates To Users As If They Were Connected To The Intranet Of The Company.

Enterprise: Better Features

Many Good Things About Windows 7 Enterprise (which Is Basically Windows 7 Ultimate Oem Included In Enterprise Systems) More Directaccess, Including Security And Management. This Includes Bitlocker, Which Encrypts The Entire Hard Drive, And Bitlocker To Go, Which Is The Same On Removable Usb Flash Drives. Applocker Allows It Professionals To Specify Exactly Which Programs Run On Windows 7, So Users Can Not Bring In Games From Home. And Other Languages ​​are Supported. None Of These Elements Requires Windows Server 2008 R2 To Work, But Necessary If You Want To Use Management Tools Server 2008 Windows 7 Group 4.0 Advance Directives To Control From Afar.

Users Face Less Hassle

It May Be Subjective, But All Those Who Use Vista At All To Install A Known Fear Of Attack That Struck When A Screen Went Blank For A Second-sharing Program. But Instead Of An Accident, Which Has A Feature, Not A Bug, Control (uac), Which Was Forced To Approve The Installation Of Programs (among Other Things) Account. Uac Is Still In Windows 7, But It Is Much Less Intrusive. In Addition, The Control Panel Because It Is Much Simpler, With Just A Scroll Bar That Indicates The Degree Of Control It Should.

Whole 64 Bits

Not That You Can Not Get A 64 Bit Version Of Vista, But Each Box Comes With Windows 7 32 - And 64-bit Version Inside. You Want It If The Hardware Allows. 64-bit Work, For Example, With More Than 4 Gb Of Ram, And If You Have An Older Cpu And Less Ram Than This, Do Not Worry. You Only Get An Activation Key, However, Even If It Seems That There Are Two Versions Of The Os On The Box. (use The Utility To Protect The Freedom To Determine If The System Can Even Handle A 64-bit Operating System. Also Offer Microsoft Upgrade Advisor.)

Useless Bloatware: Minimum

Say Goodbye To Use As Windows Mail Or Movie Maker Extras. You Have To Get Them From The Windows Live Web Site In The Future, If Desired. (see Below For More Information On Mspaint And Wordpad, However.) This Is Not The System Vendors Are Pushing Some Shovelware On Their Company Computers, If You Buy In A Store Trying To Stop The Using PC Decrapifier For A Pre-cleaning Work.

Work More

In Our Tests In PC Labs, We Found That Windows 7 Starts A Few Seconds Faster Than Vista On The Same Hardware. It Is A Precious Time During Which Your Employees Can Be Productive! Well, That Will Last A While, Until The Installation Of New Software And Daily Use Slow Startup Time, But With The Right Hardware, Windows 7 Should Zing Along Fast Enough For All Uses.

Keep Your Biz With Windows XP

No Learning Curve

There Is An Invisible User To Upgrade An Operating System With The Greatest Number Of Significant Changes To The Interface As The Price Of Windows 7 Training. Windows 7 Is A Looker And Has A Great Improvement, Especially On XP. But After Nearly A Decade, XP Users Know Back And Forth And Bring Them Up To Speed On Windows 7 Could Take The Time Your Business Can Not Afford. Even Programs Such As Wordpad And Mspaint Have A New Interface (the Ribbon Of Microsoft Office 2007), Which May Cause Some Users To Race.

Direct XP Upgrades: No

Think You Can Just Pop A Disc On A Windows 7 System And Upgrade The Operating System, But Leave The Software And Data Intact? Think Again. Microsoft Only Allows "in Situ" Updates For XP-Vista Users Must Format Your Hard Drive And Do A Clean Install. Laplink Has An Elegant Solution Iyogi, Meanwhile, Offers "migration Assistance" To Help Move The Data (but Not Programs), But They Cost Money And Time To Use. If You Agree With Nuclear-and-boot-and-relocation Scenario, Why Update And Wonder If XP Is Responsible For New Windows 7 Problems?

New Hardware Needed

You've Been Running XP For Years Very Well On Computers That Are Top Of The Line In 2001. The Chances Of Taking Windows 7 Are Rare. We 're Not Just Talking To Update A Couple Of Components That Will Be The Time To Get All The New Systems, Which Can Be Costly, Even Though Computers Are Cheaper Today. Remember, At Least, Requires 1 Gb Of Ram And 16 Gb Of Disk Just Installed 32-bit Version Of Windows 7 Space. Need More Ram And Disk Space For 64-bit Or Go For A Run XP Mode. In Addition, Installation From Disc Requires A Dvd Player. You Can Bypass This Requirement, However, By Copying The Files To A Usb Flash Drive Boot, Instructions Are Available Online At Various Places, Including Here. Slipstream Installation On A Usb Stick Has The Advantage Of Giving You The Same Windows 7 Image To Put On All Company Computers.

Advances Leaving Windows 7 May Be More An Evolution Than A Revolution, But That Does Not Mean They Are Not For Your Business If You Have The Proper Equipment, And Money To Buy It, And Users Can Manage Change. If This Is The Case, Take The Plunge. Expected To Find The Update, I Have An Interface, Security, Research, And More Like Operating System. But If You Do Not, Be Sure To Let Us Know.

Hands On With Windows 7's XP Mode

Vessels Windows 7 Release Candidate With A Feature Called Windows XP Mode (XPM), Which Has Long Since Left Windows Users Excited. XPM Is Designed For Users To Run Older Applications Still Compatible With Xp, Most Particular Purpose Business Programs, It Will Not Run Smoothly (or At All) With Vista Or Windows 7. 
XPM Is Similar To The Feature That Finally Kills XP Convince XP Users To Upgrade To Windows 7 Without Fear Of Incompatibilities. 

In Fact, The Beta Version Of XPM Is A Mixture Of Clever Programming, Terrible Kludges, Missed Opportunities And Challenges For The Ingenuity That Even Windows Users With More Experience. To Be Fair, However, This Is Indeed A Beta, And Do Not Expect Much Will Change Between Now And The Final Version.

XPM Microsoft Designed For Small Business Users, But I Doubt That Many Of These Users Will Be Encouraged By The Current Beta Version, Which Can Be Downloaded Free. Beta Versions Of Microsoft Virtual PC And Windows XP Mode Can Be Downloaded From The www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtual-PC/ May 5 

In This Story, I Will Describe How XPM Started The Way Microsoft Recommends, With All Its Imperfections And Crafts. Then I Will Describe Some Tips And Tricks, Based Solely On My Own Experience, That Will Help XPM Works Much Better Rev Microsoft Should Have With You. Finally, I Will Talk About How Previous Versions Of Mac Os X From Apple Include A Compatibility Layer That Has Just That Is The Problem With Microsoft XPM.

How To XP Mode Is Supposed To Work

XPM Allows You To Run Legacy On The New Operating System Applications To Do Two Things : First, XPM Allows You To Use A New And Improved Version Of Microsoft Virtual PC To Run A Full Free Download "virtual" Copy Windows Xp On A Window That Contains A Desktop Windows XP Is Displayed In A Window On The Desktop Of Windows 7.

Second, XPM Allows You To Install Applications On The Virtual Copy Of Windows XP, In Exactly The Same Way That You Install In A Normal Installation Of XP. This Means That You Can Run Applications Seamlessly From The Windows 7 Desktop, As If They Were Windows 7 Applications. In This Second "transparent" And Does Not See The Windows XP Desktop. Instead, We See Only The Window That Contains The Application Based On XP. All Virtual Windows XP System Runs Invisibly In The Background.
when You Save A File From An Application Running In Seamless Mode On XPM, The File Is Saved By Default In The Same Documents Folder Using Windows 7. But If It Works Perfectly Integrated Application Can Also Save Or Open Files On Any Drive Or Folder Anywhere On Your Windows 7 Installation.

You Run Windows XP Mode As A Window Or Full Desktop XP Integrated Application, You Can Use The Windows Clipboard To Transfer Text And Images Between Windows 7 And A Program Running In XP Mode. Just Copy Or Cut And Paste Between Two Programs Running On Both Operating Systems In The Same Way That You Want To Copy Or Cut And Paste Between Programs Running Normally In A Windows Version You Are Currently Using.
XPM Is Designed To Run XP Compatible Software Does Not Work On Windows Vista. This Category Includes, For Example, Earlier Versions Of Adobe Acrobat Such As 7, Which Still Works Perfectly On XP, And The Cost - Conscious Companies May Prefer To Retain Rather Than Being Forced To Upgrade For A Cost Hundreds Of Dollars Per Seat. Other Products - Vista XP Using Dislikes Are Older Pim Applications, Such As My Favorite, Instant Recall. Companies Do Not Want To Buy New Equipment Or - Like Printers That Can Have XP Drivers, But No Drivers For Vista.

XPM Works Almost All Software Can Run Windows XP, Probably The Only Exceptions Are A Few Games That Detect Who Are Engaged In A Virtual Machine And Not Start. Unlike Previous Versions Of Microsoft Virtual PC, XPM Can Power Usb Devices Such As Cameras, Mp3 Players And Other Mobile Devices, Printers And Wireless Network Adapters. In Addition, Unlike Previous Versions Of Virtual PC You Can Share Those Mentioned In The System Folders "Home" XPM Can Access All Drives And Used By Your Windows 7 System.

Windows 7's XP Mode: Getting Started

To Install XPM, You'll Need The Right Combination Of Hardware And Software. Your Hardware Must Include A Processor And Motherboard That Supports Hardware Virtualization Technology, Sometimes Called VT-D, AMD-V Or Vanderpool. Most Systems Of Medium And High-end Sales In The Last Two Years Should Be Safe, But Not All, And Some Quad-core Processors Are Not Compatible With The Technology. Even If Your System Supports Hardware Virtualization, You May Have To Find The Option In The Bios Of The System Is Turned On. If You Are Not Sure If Your System Supports Hardware Virtualization, Visit This Microsoft Web Page And Download And Run Intel Or Amd Cpu Identification Utility That Can Tell. The Same Page Explains How To Turn The Technology In Many Standard Bios. [[ Editor's Choice (05/06/09): We Originally Reported That Mothers Under Two Plates Should 
Be Safe, But Later Discovered That It Was Incorrect. We Regret The Error.]]

Your Operating System Must Be Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise Or Windows 7 Ultimate. The Downloadable Release Candidate Currently Installed Windows 7 Ultimate, So The Rc Version Is Ideal For Testing XPM. Then You Need To Install An Update To Version 5 Mb Small RC, Which Can Be Found By Visiting The Microsoft Update Page, Where You Can Download Windows Virtual PC.
finally, On The Same Site, You Will Need To Download Windows Xp Mode, Which Is A 445mb Installation Program That Develops On A Virtual Xp 1GB. With Two Landfills, Make Sure You Download The 32 Bit Or 64 Bit, Depending On Whether You Are Running 32-bit Or 64-bit Windows 7.

Your Next Step Is To Start Small Installation Windows Virtual PC Program And When Prompted, Restart The System. After This, Install Windows XP Mode. The Installer Displays A Screen That Shows Your Username XP Mode Is "User" (You Can Not Change It) And Asks You To Create A Password. In The Same Dialog Box, You Must Check A Checkbox "Remember Credentials (Recommended)" If You Are Not Prompted To Enter The Password When You Start XPM. The Next Dialog Box Asks If You Want To Enable Automatic Updates, You Should Definitely Do, So XPM Will Update Automatically Without Your Intervention. Finally, After About Ten Minutes Of Background Activity, A Virtual Windows XP Desktop Will Open A Window.

You Probably Want To Customize The Desktop And The Start Menu Of Your Virtual XP System. For Example, May Want To Open The Control Panel And Then Folder Options And The View Tab, And Tell XP Not Hide Extensions For Known Types, So Files. Doc Files Displayed In Explorer With The Extension Doc.. You Can Also Open The Control Panel Window, Click On "Appearance"Then "Effects" And Enable Cleartype To Smooth Edges Of Screen Fonts.

You Also Want To Install A Printer For Applications That Run In XPM Can Be Printed On The Same Printer Using Windows 7. If The Printer Is Connected Via A Usb Cable, All You Have To Do Is Go In The First Line Of The Virtual Machine Menu, Click Usb And Then Click The Line That Says "Join " Followed By The Name Printer. XP Will Install The Printer Drivers To Be Provided By Inserting The Installation Cd That Came With The Printer, Or By Running The Internet Explorer Browser On Your Virtual XP System, And To Find, Download And Install The XpP Drivers The Printer.

Network Printing: The First Rough Spot

This Is Fairly Easy If The Printer Is Connected Via A Usb Cable. If You Have A Printer Connected To The Network, Then You Are About To Fall On One Of The Most Egregious Kludges XPM Microsoft. As Microsoft Explains In "Evaluation Guide" Downloadable Virtual PC On Their Website, You Should Go To Control Panel "Printers And Faxes" In Your Virtual XP, Click "Add A Printer" To Start The Installation Printer Wizard, Select "Local Printer Attached To This Computer" (And Uncheck The "Automatically Detect And Install My Plug And Play Printer"). The Dialog Box For Selecting The Printer Port Appears, And You Must Open The Combo Box, Microsoft Says "Select One Of The Digital Ports TS".

The Result Will Be A List Of Ports With The Label And More "TS0001". (TS Mean Terminal Services, Which Is The Technology Of XP Mode Software Uses To Communicate With Your Windows 7 Installation). One Of The Numbered Ports Leads To Your Windows 7 Printer, But No Way To Know Which One!

The Only Thing To Do Is Choose One Of The Ts Ports, Continue With The Wizard, Install The Drivers For The Printer When Prompted, And Then When You Reach The Last Page Of The Wizard, Click The Button To Print A Test Page. If The Test Page, You Chose The Right Ts Number Is Printed. If The Test Page Does Not Print, You Chose The Wrong Number, And You Must Go Back And Repeat The Process Until You Find One That Works. I Do Not. What Was I Thinking When Microsoft Did Not Provide A Dialog Box That Lets You Choose Windows 7 Printer Name?

In Windows Explorer XPM, All Units Of Windows 7 Is As Network Drives. For Example, If Your Windows 7 Is The Name Roscoe, And You Have An I On Your Windows 7 Machine Explorer XPM "E Roscoe". It's Not As Easy As To Be Able To Use The Same Unit Of Traditional Drive Letter "E:\" To Describe The Same Drive In Windows 7 And XP, But Good Enough. If You Are An Expert, You Know How To Use The Network Drive In Explorer Function To Assign Drive Letters To Traditional Units XPM Shows That Network Drives. (Do Not Try This If You Do Not Already Know, And Understand The Procedure).

After Solving The Basic System, The Next Step Is To Install The Applications You Want To Use XPM. I Experimented With The Installation Of Office 2003. (Office 2003 Running On Vista, And Parts Of Office 2003 And Office 2007 Can Be Installed On The Same System, But Without Virtualization XPM, Outlook 2003 And Outlook 2007 Can Not Be Installed On The Same Machine). Also I Installed An Old Program Called Word To Html Conversion Transit.

Here I Found One Of The Niftiest Features Of XPM: When You Install A Program In Full Screen XPM, A Shortcut To Run The Program In Perfect Fashion XPM Is Created In The Windows 7 Start Menu, Click All Programs | Windows Virtual PC | Virtual Windows XP Applications. This Allows You To Run These Applications Without Problems, Without Opening The Full Desktop XPM.

This Sounds Good In Theory, But My Experience Was Not So Perfect. My Office 2003 Shortcuts Appeared Duly In The Start Menu Of Windows 7, But I Was Puzzled At First To See That The Shortcut Installed Html Transit've Somehow Not Appeared There. I Finally Realized That XPM Shortcuts That Are Created Automatically In The Start Menu Of Windows 7 Are Those That Are Created In The Start Menu For All Users XPM - Not In The Start Menu For Any User. Because Html Transit Creates The Shortcut In The Start Menu Folder In My Personal User Start Menu, Not The All Users Folder, The Shortcut Does Not Appear In The Start Menu In Windows 7. To Resolve This Issue, Click The Start Button In XP, Select "Open", Then "Programs" Folder And Dragged The Html Transit Program Shortcut To The Xp Desktop. Then Click The Selected Open All Users Button Again Start Menu, And Dragged The Shortcut In The All Users Folder. After That, The Shortcut Duly Appeared In The Start Menu Of Windows 7 As Well.

A Minor Surprise In Windows XP Mode Is That You Can Not Drag And Drop Files Between The XP Desktop And Windows 7 Desktop. This Feature Drag And Drop Part Of All Previous Versions Of Virtual PC And Microsoft Did Not Say Why He Fell From XPM.

Working With Windows 7's XP Mode

Once The Program Is Installed, You Are Ready To Use The Application In XP Mode Without Problems. First, Hibernate Should Install Windows XP, Go To The Virtual PC Window Action Menu Frontline And Selecting Close. This Hibernation System - A Necessary Step Before You Can Start Mode Seamless XP.

Note That If You Change The Basic Parameters Used By The Virtual PC Applicatio, Such As The Amount Of Ram Available In The Virtual XP System Will Close, Not Only Prolonged The Virtual XP Before.) This Is Done By Selecting "Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete" In The Menu On The Top Line And Select "Stop". Then You Can Change Settings Such As Ram Available, Click The "Windows Virtual PC" Entry In The Start Menu And Select Settings From The Context Menu.

An XP System Is In Hibernation, Perform An XP Application In Transparent Mode, You Must Open The Start Menu In Windows 7, Double- Click The Application From XP To Perform, And Wait A Few Seconds While It Is Open In A New Window Windows 7 Desktop. Before Applying Opens XP, You May Need To Respond To A Notice Of Windows 7 To Choose To Start The Virtual Machine Or Virtual Application, Select The Virtual Application.

Does It Work? Yes, But Not As Well As It Should. I Wrote This Article In Word 2003 Works Well On XPM, And I Guarantee You That You Do Not Want To Have The Same Experience I Had Unless You Really, Really Need To Use XPM.
With XPM, Everything Works Slower Than An Application That Runs Natively On Windows 7. File Access Was Very Slow And Timed Backups Kept Grinding Application To A Halt. 
Sometimes The Edge Of The Window Disappeared And Reappeared Unpredictably. Worst Of All, The Entire Application Window Has Disappeared Several Times From The Desktop Without Warning, And Seemingly At Random. After The Panic At The Thought That I Had Lost My Last Changes, I Realized That I Could Usually Bring My Document Window Is Open, Simply Click On The Word 2003 Shortcut On The Start Menu Windows 7. But Sometimes I Had To Close Virtual PC Task Manager And Run The Application Smoothly Again, Waiting Patiently To Be Initialized. I Think I Would Not Want To Go Through That Again.

Do Not Even Think Of Using XPM For Dos Games, Although You Can Get The Games To Run, They Run Too Slowly To Be Worth The Effort. And Do Not Waste Time - As I Did - You Try To Run Older Applications Of Ms - Dos XPM Hope To Run In Full Screen In The Way Used To Work In XP. Ms-Dos Applications Do Not Work In Full Screen On XPM And XPM Tend To Slow Down To The Point Where You Think Unobtrusive.

Leaving Dos Users In The Cold Is A Small Problem, But The Discomfort Is More Remarkable Than Any Customizations That I Had Carefully When Full Desktop XP XPM Works Had No Effect On Applications That I Found In Integrated Mode. Paradoxical As It May Seem, The User Running The System Full XPM Account - The One With The Desktop Visible - Is Not The Same As The User Running Applications Smoothly XP Account. This Means That Any Customizations Made To A System Of Full XPM Not Affect The Interface Illustrated By The Board In Exactly The Same Way As The Customizations Made By A User On An Xp Or Vista Have No Effect On The Application Interface Seen By Another User On The Same System.
there Was, For Example, Changed The Theme Of My Windows XP Classic Complete Virtual System - But The Edge Of The Window In My Integrated The Theme Of Windows XP Applications Is Still Used By Default. I Noticed The Folder Options On My XP System Gvirt_np_nns_nnps __ < __ Boxes Full Virtual Dialogue To Show Extensions For Known File Types, But The File Extensions Are Still Hidden When I Used The Open / Save In Word 2003 Works Perfectly File. Microsoft, What Were You Thinking?

Even More Surprising Is The Fact That Microsoft Provides A Problem That Has Bitten Me When I Installed Office 2003. Whenever I Tried To Close Word 2003 And Return To Full XPM Office, I Have A Error Message Stating That The Program Wizard Upgrade For Customers Still Running In Session Of Word 2003. What Happened Is That Word 2003 Had Automatically Started Annoying Magician Who Asked You To Join A Program That Sends Data To Microsoft On How To Use Office. Because The Mode Of Integrated XPM Does Not Give This Wizard Window To Appear In, And Thus No Way To Tell The Wizard To Close And Go, There Is An Obvious Way To Clear The Error Message XPM.

Lucky Seven

Although Some Experts Claim That Windows 7 Is Just A Service Pack For Vista, It Is Much More Complicated Than That. Microsoft Has Certainly Addressed Many Complaints About Vista, As The Lack Of Backward Compatibility, The Long Start-up And Installation, Disk And Memory Footprint Overall, And The Inability To Remove Ie. But The Company Has Also Added A Number Of New Interface That Make The New Effective And User-friendly Operating System Support. Figure Devices Better Network Performance And Disk And Memory Footprint Smaller And Polished Handling, And It Is Difficult To Call This Other Than A New Operating System And Void All.


In Windows 7 Reduced Size And Better Performance On Less Powerful Machines Would Be Enough To Make It A Better Os Than Its Predecessor, And There Is Not Much To Say About The New Operating System. I Wish Windows 7 Had Fallen The System Registry, Which Can Slow A Computer Down Over Time. But It Seems That Microsoft Has Made The Right Moves To Turn Around The Ship After Its Ill-fated Voyage Windows Vista. Now That You're Here, I Can Say With Confidence That Windows 7 Reputation In The Way Windows Vista Does Not. I Highly Recommend : It Is By Far The Best Os We've Seen From Microsoft.

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