WINDOWS 7KEITH ELDER

A walk through of features of lucky # 7

Remote Team Member From Mississippi

House of Elder

Welcome to Mississippi

Did they finally change Paint.exe?

Biggest question on everyone’s mind

But what about notepad, calculator and word pad?

“Two out of three ain’t bad” - Meatloaf

Notepad

Calculating to new heights

VistaWindows 7

Hidden gems are under the hood!

Wordpad

Desktop and window changes

Windows 7 taskbar (I mean dock, I mean taskbar, I mean dock, I mean taskbar)

Aero peek

Demo

Pinning

Jump Lists

Gadgets

Themes

Themes

Explorer Preview

Productivity

Dual Monitor / Projector

Windows Key + P

Start Menu Optimizations

New Shortcut Keys

Jump to application Windows Key + <num>

Show jump list Alt + Windows Key + <num>

Start new instance Shift + Windows Key + <num>

Last window used Ctrl + Windows Key + <num>

Natively Burn ISOs

User Account Control Settings

Built-in Zoom

Press the “Windows key and (+) / (-)”

BitLocker

Not like Encrypting File System

Encrypts entire drive

Can encrypt USB drives

Problem Steps Recorder

The savior for anyone that has worked in a support role before.

Home Group

Device Stage

Services Splash Page

Taskbar Integration

Windows Media Player

Improved support for video content for digital camcorders Plays .MOV files natively now

Cleaner “Now Playing” view Filters content that cannot be played

(example .m4a or .H263 MPEG 4) Resume from sleep Auto pause for Internet calls

Media Streaming

Setup home PC to allow access to media files when away

Allow other Windows 7 PCs and devices to push media to your Player and control it

Parental Controls

Parental Controls

Backup

Networking

Native Virtualization Support VHD can be run native on the bare metal XP Mode for compatibility Boot Virtual Machines

(guess what? This whole presentation was run from a virtual machine!)

Demo of VHD