Better Memory Management Jump Lists Moveable taskbar icons Customize UAC Snap Windows to screen edges Control over System Tray icons Media Player Lightweight mode

Thumbnails can represent devices and applications. Quick Launch Toolbar is gone. Taskbar icons can be moved and pinned as desired by the user. The new Windows 7 taskbar is still the same familiar place for switching between windows. But now it's easier to see, more flexible, and more powerful.

One click access to tasks associated with an application Extends the recent documents feature from XP and Vista and tying it to specific applications. Start menu goes back to the two panes of Windows XP. If an application uses the standard ‘Most Recent Documents’ feature, it automatically gets a Jump List in the Start menu as well as on the Taskbar Jump Lists of new in Windows 7— take you right to the documents, pictures, songs, or websites you turn to each day. To open a Jump List, just right - click a program icon on the Windows 7 taskbar. ( You ' ll also find them on the Start menu.)

Sidebar is gone Gadgets remain, put them where you want on the desktop Peek function lets you quickly make your desktop windows transparent by rolling over the bottom right hand corner of the screen – showing all your gadgets

System Tray is slimed down

Networking made easy Allows users to have the network functionality of a domain without the domain controller Includes roaming profiles Recognizes and groups Win7 computers Share media, files and printers seamlessly

Device Stage  Photorealistic view of the device  List of associated services, information and tasks  Dependant on the Vendor creating the XML document If it works with Vista it will work with Win7.

The old standbys are still here but better than ever and have a new cousin  Paint – Has a Ribbon and the same basic shape tools that were in Word 2003 and natural media brushes like watercolor, pencil and crayon. The control on the Paint ribbon are designed to be used with touch.  WordPad – Has a Ribbon and lets you highlight and indent text, format it with bullets and insert pictures into a document.  Calculator  Sticky Notes

A new ribbon—the strip across the top of the window that shows what Paint can do—makes this tried-and- true program easier to use, with choices displayed out in the open rather than in menus. And Paint's new realistic digital "brushes" will bring your pictures to life in shades of watercolor, crayon, and calligraphy.

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But the fresh calculator in Windows 7 also sports new elements, which are to be found under the Options menu. These let you calculate the duration between two periods of time (date calculation), access a set of four templates designed to calculate lease and mortgage payments, gas mileage and give you a wage estimation. All you have to do is pick the desired worksheet and complete the fields available for the application to calculate the result.

Already as necessary as pencils and paper clips, Sticky Notes just got more useful. In Windows 7, you can format a note’s text, change its color with a click, and speedily resize, collapse, and flip through notes.

Start up and shut down seem to be much faster. Here is shut down button

Collections of wallpapers, color schemes, sounds and screen savers 95% of users change the picture and over 40% of us change it at least once a month. 16 glass colors rather than the 8 in Windows Vista Change the screen resolution by right-clicking on the desktop.

Four Options for notifications from always being notified to never being notified, including only getting warnings when software is installed.

Tries to bring all the functions associated with a device into one place in the new Printer and Devices folder. Each Device Stage is written and branded by the device manufacturer with buttons to common tasks, services and applications. Can include links to online services and customer support if the manufacturer wants to add them.

 Multimedia – works much better with other products such as I- Tunes.  Windows Touch Make your computer work like a huge I-Phone.  Microsoft Windows was announced November 10, 1983 and sells for $ ToTo

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