Update 1: Due to very high traffic, Microsoft has delayed the public availability of Windows 7 beta. Will keep you all posted as soon as it becomes available.
Microsoft has not announced the revised dates yet. Update 2: Some windows enthusiasts have found the Windows 7 beta direct download links. Start downloading Windows 7 beta from this link. Update 3: Get free Windows 7 Beta Product Keys from this link and activate Windows 7 beta, downloaded from the direct download links mentioned in update 2. Microsoft had announced availability of Windows 7 Beta for public download on January 9 […]. Earlier we posted on how to download Windows 7 beta, from official Microsoft Website, legally.
But since Microsoft did not have proper […]. Your email address will not be published. Share on facebook. Share on google. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. Share on pinterest. Share on email. Leave a Comment Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Windows Software Fixes. Libraries let you group related files regardless of their location, whether in separate drives or networked PCs.
Four preset libraries are included—Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos. You can create as many new Libraries as you like, and when you navigate to any directory, an Include in library selection at the top of the window lets you add it to the library of your choice. When in a library, you can arrange the contents not only by folder, but also by date or tags. Letting people group content in ways defined by use rather than storage location is a move in the right direction, but Microsoft could even take it a step farther by, for example, letting you create a library based completely on content type, say, all videos, rather than making you specify which folders should be included.
Microsoft is betting that the future of PC computing is touch, so the developers designed the OS for it from the ground up. The Windows team has put a lot of thought into making version 7 work with touch interfaces. I tried the feature on an HP TouchSmart, and it's pretty impressive, though I had a little trouble at first resizing pictures by pinching and spreading two fingers.
One cool thing you can do is to draw in Paint with two fingers at a time. When you touch the screen, the location where you touched it, or "touch point" can be represented by a mouse image. You can then click the left or right button of this virtual mouse, but I find it easier to use the default "water drop" feedback image when your finger touches the screen.
Install a program or make any kind of system-level change, and you get interrupted. Microsoft designed UAC to make Windows more secure by preventing unwanted program installations and system setting changes.
And the company claims that, as a result, 60 percent fewer malware infections have occurred in Vista than in XP SP2. Be that as it may, the feature seriously annoyed users. Well, it turns out that you can actually turn this off in Vista, though that hasn't stopped the chorus of disapproval because of the default behavior. So Windows 7 aims to reduce the number of actions that pop up the dialogs and give finer control over what triggers them. This won't solve all the annoyance around UAC, but at least it gives users more control than just "on" or "off".
Another area where Windows 7 reduces distractions is in system-tray notifications. The new OS gives you fine-grain control over what balloons a program will pop up from this lower-right area of the screen. The icon area itself has now been relieved of clutter, so you'll see only a few, with the rest accessible from an up-arrow.
You can turn the display itself and its notifications on or off for each icon. If you like to see all the icons, you can set Windows to show them. You can even turn off the system icons—the Clock, Volume, and Network icons, for example. One new system tray entry, Action Center, takes over for the Security Center icon in previous Windows versions, but also handles notifications from several other Windows features including Updates, Backup, and UAC.
I welcome this reduction of tray clutter, though I'm one who actually doesn't want tray icons hidden—I want to see them all. Microsoft has also modified a trait of the Vista shut-down button that confused some people. By default, clicking on the red "off sign" button in Vista put the computer into sleep mode. This allowed for a much quicker restart—just a few seconds on some PCs.
But users thought the button would completely shut the machine down. Now there's no ambiguity: Shut Down is now the default, and only after you click on the arrow next to it will you see the choices for sleep, hibernate, log out, and lock. Plugging a cell phone into your PC and getting what you want from it can be a pain—you have to decide if you're interested in the music, contacts, or pictures.
The situation is the same for plenty of other devices, too. Printers, for example, do many non-printing things these days, such as faxing and scanning. Microsoft hopes that Device Stage will provide an easier way to access all a device's capabilities.
Basically, for each device, the feature shows a page that includes a picture of that exact piece of hardware and icons for all of its capabilities. Manufacturers create the page in an XML format freely available from Microsoft. Media syncing between a phone and the PC is an example of a task Microsoft hopes Device Stage should make easier. As with Vista's initial driver problems, it's up to the hardware vendors to make this work, but if they don't provide the data, a standard property dialog will display.
If they do supply the data, everyone wins. Only time will tell. Another thing that eases working with hardware is Windows 7's Bluetooth setup process. Now you can just click on the Bluetooth system tray icon, choose "Add a device," and when your phone or other device is discoverable, Windows will generate a password to type into the phone. If it's a device without a keyboard, you can enter a code printed on a compatible device, or pair without a code for things like mice. I did this with an iPhone, and the pairing worked easily and I could then view it in Devices and Printers accessible from the Start menu.
That's a very cool setup system. HomeGroup Comes to Networking One goal of Windows 7 was to make home networking simple enough for any level of user. HomeGroup is the result of this quest. When you join a wireless network, you can choose to set it as a home, work, or public. When you choose the first, you have the option of creating a HomeGroup. You specify which libraries and devices you want to share, and when you hit "Create now" Windows will generate a password. One neat advantage of HomeGroups is that if you move between work and home with your laptop, you won't mistakenly print that recipe web page to your work printer from home: It will automatically go to your default home printer, since you're now connected to the HomeGroup.
Making home networking this smart and simple to set up could really be a feather in Windows 7's cap. We'll need more time to do networking tests, but so far I'm excited by the feature.
In a smaller network related improvement, the new system tray networking icon also simplifies connecting to Wi-Fi, by popping up a window showing all available connections. This saves you from having to open the networking dialog and choosing to show available wireless networking.
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