Personalizing Your Windows 7

Windows 7

Personalizing Windows 7

Spectacular new wallpapers

– Your personal computer will never be dull again. Windows 7 includes a lot of new desktop backgrounds—wallpapers—that range from sublime to silly.

Improved Gadgets

• Gadgets, the popular mini-programs introduced in Windows Vista, are now more flexible and fun. so you can stick your gadgets anywhere on the desktop

Jump Lists

• New in Windows 7—Jump List will take you right to the documents, pictures, songs, or websites you turn to each day. Jump Lists will provide quick access to commands for things like composing new e-mail messages or playing music.

New Ways to Juggle Windows

• Windows 7 comes with three simple yet powerful new features called Aero Shake, Aero Peek, and Snap to help you instantly clear through desktop clutter.

Aero Shake

• Ever need to cut through a cluttered desktop and quickly focus on a single window? Just click a pane and give your mouse a shake. Presto ! Every open window except that one instantly disappears. Jiggle again—and your windows are back.

SNAP

• You can resize open windows simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen.

• Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window.

AERO PEEK• Peek gives you the power to see

thru all your open windows straight to the Windows 7 desktop. What you have to do is point to the right edge of the taskbar and watch open windows instantly turn transparent, revealing all your hidden icons and gadgets.

• It will quickly reveal a buried window, point to its taskbar thumbnail. Now only that window shows on the desktop.

• Peek is included in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7.

HomeGroup• HomeGroup takes the pain out of sharing files and

printers on a home network. Connect two or more PCs running Windows 7, and HomeGroup makes it easy to automatically start sharing your music, pictures, video, and document libraries with others in your home.

• HomeGroup is password-protected and puts you in total control. You decide what gets shared—and what stays private. You can also make your files "read only," so other people can look at (but not touch) your stuff.

• Homegroup can be in any edition of Windows 7, but you can only create one in Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate.

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