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