New Features in Windows Seven

New Features in Windows Seven

Windows seven is very useful & having Faster, more responsive performance.

New features in Windows 7

  

·         Faster, more responsive performance

·          Improved taskbar and full-screen previews

·          Better on laptops

·          Jump Lists

·          Find more things faster with improved search

·         Easier ways to work with windows

·          Better device management

·          Windows Home Group

·         Theme packages reflect your style

·         Take control of problems

·         Share music and videos

·         Introducing Windows Touch

·         Better Tablet PC support

·         Viewing the desktop

·         Previewing open windows with Aero Peek

·         Multiboot operating system with Windows 7

Faster, more responsive performance

 Nobody likes to wait. So we’ve focused on the basics that can impact the speed of your PC. Windows 7 starts up, shuts down, resumes from sleep, and responds faster.

 Improved taskbar and full-screen previews

 You can use the taskbar at the bottom of your screen to switch between open programs. In Windows 7 you can set the order of the taskbar icons and they’ll stay in that order. The icons are larger, too. If you point to an icon, you’ll see a small, preview version of the page or program. If you point to this preview, you’ll see a full-screen preview. To open a program or file, click an icon or one of the previews.

 

 Better on laptops

 Windows 7 helps extend the battery life of your laptop with power-saving features, including dimming the display if you don’t use your computer for a while. Another new laptop-friendly feature, locationaware printing, can automatically switch your default printer when you go from home to school or work.

 Jump Lists

 With Jump Lists, you can quickly find files that you’ve worked with recently.  Right-click a program icon on the taskbar to see a list of recently-opened files. You can also pin files that you use regularly to a Jump List. Some Jump Lists show commands for common tasks, like playing music or videos.

  

Find more things faster with improved search

Thanks to an improved search, you can find more things in more places—and do it faster—than in previous versions of Windows. Just type a few letters into the search box to see a list of relevant items, such as documents, pictures, music, and e-mail. Search results are grouped by category and contain highlighted keywords to make them easy to scan. Few people store all their files in one place anymore. Windows 7 is designed to search external hard drives, PCs on a network, and other locations. It also speeds up your search by displaying recommendations based on previous queries. Overwhelmed by the results? New dynamic filters can instantly narrow results by categories such as date or file type.

Easier ways to work with windows

 Windows 7 simplifies how you work with the windows on your desktop. You have more intuitive ways to open, close, re size, and arrange them. Maximize a window by dragging its border to the top of the screen, and return the window to its original size by dragging it away from the top of the screen. Drag the bottom border of a window to expand it vertically. To compare the contents of two windows, drag the windows to opposite sides of the screen. Each window will re size to fill half of the screen. To see all of your desktop gadgets, drag your mouse to the lower-right corner of your desktop. The open

windows will turn transparent, making your desktop, and the gadgets on it, immediately visible. Want to minimize all open windows? One click and it’s done. If you’ve moved your taskbar, you can drag your mouse to a different corner of the desktop to make open windows transparent.

 

Better device management

Devices and Printers

 In the past, you had to go to different places in Windows to manage different types of devices. In Windows 7, there’s a single Devices and Printers location for connecting, managing, and using your printers, phones, and other devices. From here, you can interact with your devices, browse files, and manage settings. When you connect devices to your PC, you’ll be up and running in just a few clicks.

 Windows Home Group

 Windows Home Group makes it easier to connect to other computers running Windows 7 so you can share files, photos, music, and printers throughout your home. You choose what to share with other members of your home group.

  Theme packages reflect your style

 With Windows 7, you start with a clean desktop and get to decide how it looks. We provide the templates, or themes, and you can choose the color or format. New theme packages include rich backgrounds, 16 window colors, sound schemes, and screen savers. You can download new themes and create your own to share with friends and family. There are plenty of ways to make it yours.

 Take control of problems

 In Windows 7 you get to choose the messages you want to see. Action Center consolidates notifications from multiple Windows features, including Windows Defender. When Windows 7 needs your attention, you’ll see an Action Center icon in the notification area and can find out more by clicking it. No time to look at the alert right away? Action Center will keep the information for you to check later.

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  Share music and videos

 After your pictures, videos, and music are all on your computer, it’s natural to want to share them with other computers in your home. Windows 7 introduces new media sharing and streaming features that make your PC a great home entertainment hub. HomeGroup makes it easy to share music, pictures, and video with other computers running Windows 7. With another new feature called “Play to,” you can play your digital media on other devices in your home.

 Introducing Windows Touch

 Using a keyboard and mouse are great for many tasks, but they aren’t always the easiest way to do things. If you’ve got a touchscreen, you can just touch your computer screen for a more direct and natural way to work. Use your fingers to scroll and zoom. Large touch-sensitive areas on the Start menu and the taskbar make Windows Touch easier to use.

 Better Tablet PC support

 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 create personalized custom dictionaries for handwriting recognition and use the new languages supported in Windows 7. You can also use the new Math Input Panel to write math expressions. Or, just make a quick list on a Sticky Note using the tablet pen.

 Viewing the desktop

 The Show desktop button has been moved the opposite end of the taskbar from the Start button, making it easier to click or point at the button without accidentally opening the Start menu. Show desktop button on the taskbar In addition to clicking the Show desktop button to get to the desktop, you can temporarily view or peek at the desktop by just pointing your mouse at the Show desktop button, without clicking it. When you point at the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar, any open windows fade from view, revealing he desktop. To make the windows reappear, move the mouse away from the Show desktop button. This can be useful for quickly viewing desktop gadgets, or when you don’t want to minimize all open windows and then have to restore them.

 Previewing open windows with Aero Peek

 When you open multiple windows on the desktop, sometimes it can be a challenge to view separate windows and switch between them. You can use Aero Peek to take a quick look at other open windows without clicking away from the window you are currently working on. Point your mouse to a taskbar icon, and thumbnail previews of any open windows associated with that icon appear above the taskbar. If you want to open a window you are previewing, just click its thumbnail.

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 Multiboot operating system with Windows 7

 When you install a new version of Windows, you can keep an older version of Windows on your computer. This is called a multiboot or dual-boot configuration. Whenever you start your computer, you can choose which version of Windows to run.

Multibooting requires separate partitions on your computer’s hard disk for each operating system. If you’re running Windows Vista, you can shrink an existing partition to create additional unallocated space from which to create a new partition.

 If you’re running a version of Windows earlier than Windows Vista and need to create another partition, use a third-party partitioning program. Several third-party manufacturers offer programs that allow you to repartition your hard disk without erasing data.

 Warnings

 ·         You must install the oldest operating system first, and then install the more recent operating system. If you don’t (for example, you install Windows Vista on a computer already running Windows 7), you can render your system inoperable. This can happen because earlier versions of Windows don’t recognize the startup files used in more recent versions of Windows and can overwrite them.

·         Make sure that the partition or disk where you plan to install the new version of Windows is formatted with the NTFS file system. If you are formatting an existing partition that has data on it, all of the data will be deleted. To create and format a partition.

 Note – Thank for Microsoft Corporation