Windows7 Overview_MVP Jay R Barrios

Windows 7 Overview

Jay-R Barrios

President | Philippine Windows Users Group

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Windows 7

Formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna is the latest version of Microsoft Windows for use on personal computing, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs and media center computers.

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Windows 7

• Home Basic• Starter• Home Premium• Professional • Enterprise• Ultimate

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Windows 7: System Requirements

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64)

processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

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Agenda

• What’s New in W7

• Features

• Installation Types

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What’s New: Aero Peek

Aero Peek can be used to "peek" behind all of the open windows on your system so you can get a look at the desktop. It can also be used to find specific windows that are open but possibly obscured or hidden by other windows.

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What’s New: Aero Snaps

Aero Snaps provides a number of new ways to position and resize windows. And none of them actually require new onscreen controls, so they work fine with both the mouse and with Windows 7's new touch controls.

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What’s New: Aero Shake

Aero Shake is designed as an adjunct to Aero Peek, though it works a bit differently. In this case, the focus is on the selected window, as you'd expect. And other windows are truly minimized: That is, they disappear from the screen entirely and you don't see a "ghost window outline" as you do with Aero

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What’s New: Aero Themes

Aero Themes is a combination of desktop background, Aero glass window color, sound scheme, and screen saver.

Windows 7 comes with a number of built-in Aero Themes.

Users can create their own by building off of them.

Aero Themes can be saved, of course, and they're also portable, meaning that they can be packaged up and copied from machine-to-machine.

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Aero Themes: Windows 7

The default Windows 7 Aero Theme utilizes the default Sky (clear, light bluish) glass

color, the Windows Default sound scheme, and no screensaver.

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Aero Themes: Architecture

Features a desktop slideshow of six alternating architectural images, the Twilight

(deep blue) glass color, the Cityscape sound scheme, and no screensaver.

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Aero Themes: Characters

Features a desktop slideshow of six alternating whimsical cartoon-type images, the

Taupe (light pink) glass color, the Characters sound scheme, and no screensaver.

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Aero Themes: Landscapes

Features a desktop slideshow of six alternating landscape images, the Slate (dusty

brown) glass color, the Landscape sound scheme, and no screensaver

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Aero Themes: Nature

Features a desktop slideshow of six alternating plant- and leaf-based images, the

Lavender (bright pink) glass color, the Garden sound scheme, and no screensaver.

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Aero Themes: Scenes

Features a desktop slideshow of six alternating artistic images, the Violet (soft purple)

glass color, the Quirky sound scheme, and no screensaver.

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Aero Themes: [Your Region]

This Aero Theme is customized for the region in which you live. It features a desktop

slideshow of six alternating country- or region-specific images, a custom glass color

(medium tan for the US), a custom sound scheme (Delta for the US), and no

screensaver.

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Demo: Aero P/S/S/T

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Features: BitLocker To Go

An enhanced BitLocker with the ability to

protect removable storage devices, such as

USB-based hard drives, flash devices, and

other media.

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BitLocker To Go: Installation

Enabling BitLocker To Go is straightforward:

Simply connected the removable storage

device, open Computer, right-click the

device, and choose "Turn on BitLocker" from

the pop-up menu that appears.

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Either way, the BitLocker Drive Encryption

wizard will start up in a separate window.

After a moment's pause, you'll be asked to

choose between password- and smartcard-

based locking.

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Most individuals will need to use a

password, but many businesses are starting

to use smartcards, which allow

administrators to centrally manage BitLocker

certificates in Active Directory.

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Smartcards provide two-factor

authentication: In addition to the physical

card requirement, the user will still need to

type in a four-digit PIN.

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BitLocker To Go: Warning

Disk encryption is still an agonizingly slow

process. It takes BitLocker To Go over 20

minutes to encrypt a 2 GB USB memory

stick device, for example.

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BitLocker To Go: Tips

As suggested by the BitLocker Drive

Encryption wizard, you can pause

encryption if you need to remove the device

for some reason. If you don't do so, you

could damage or lose files stored on the

device.

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Once the drive is encrypted, you'll notice a

few changes. The icon for BitLocker To Go-

encrypted disks is different, for starters, and

includes a padlock/key overlay.

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BitLocker To Go: Usage

When you remove and then insert a

protected storage device, you will be

prompted to provide a password to unlock

the disk. Once you do so, the normal Auto

Run dialog will appear and the device will

work normally.

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A dialog will appear when you plug the

protected device into any Windows 7-based

PC. You do not need Windows 7 Enterprise

or Ultimate to use this feature, it is instead

compatible with all Windows 7 versions. You

only need Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate

to install BitLocker To Go on a removable

storage device.

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Features: Calculator

Windows XPWindows 2000 Windows Vista

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Windows XPWindows 2000 Windows Vista

Windows 7 Calculator

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Calculator: Standard

This is the classic Windows Calculator and works largely

like all of the Calculator versions included with Windows

95 through Windows Vista. One change is that in

addition to the Memory Clear (MC), Memory Recall

(MR), Memory Store (MS), and Memory Add (M+)

buttons, the Windows 7 version of Calculator adds a

Memory Subtract (M-) button.

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Calculator: Scientific

As with previous Windows versions, the Windows 7

Calculator includes a Scientific Calculator mode as well.

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Calculator: Programmer

New to the Windows 7 Calculator is a Programmer mode that provides such

things as number format conversion (hexadecimal, decimal, octal, binary),

data type conversion (BYTE, WORD, DWORD, QWORD) and the like.

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Calculator: Programmer

Also new to the Windows 7 Calculator is a new Statistics

mode.

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When enabled, Calculator expands to the right and provides angle, area,

energy, length, power, pressure, temperature, time, velocity, volume, and

weight/mass conversion functionality.

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Each offers unit-specific options. For example, with temperature, you can

convert to and from Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin

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Features: Paint

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Features: Wordpad

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Demo: Calculator, Paint, Wordpad

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Features: Gadgets

In Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new

Windows Sidebar environment that hosted mini-

applications called gadgets. (See my Windows Vista

Feature Focus article, Windows Sidebar, for more

information, including the origins of this environment.)

In Windows 7, the gadgets continue on as Windows

Gadgets. But the container environment, Windows

Sidebar, is no longer provided.

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Features: Gadgets

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Features: Gadgets

Calendar. A simple month, year, date, and day of week display in non-configurable orange. Nice touch: Click it and you'll see the full month view.Clock. A decent clock with one major advantage over virtually every downloadable clock gadget I've tried: You can set it to the time in any time zone, not just the system time. Clock is configurable with 8 clock faces, some of which are quite attractive.

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Features: Gadgets

CPU Meter. This gadget features two simple analog-style dials measuring the current CPU utilization and memory usage, respectively. Note that CPU Meter is overly simple and can't differentiate between multiple CPUs or CPU cores.Currency. A simple currency converter.

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Features: Gadgets

Feed Headlines. This gadget is an RSS feed aggregator that links into the RSS feeds you've subscribed to through Internet Explorer 7. It rotates through the currently-unread feeds. If you click a headline, a pop-out window displays the entire feed. Click the feed headline in the pop-out window, and the entire post or article will be displayed in your default Web browser.Picture Puzzle. A simple tile-based sliding puzzle game with 11 different images and timer.

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Features: Gadgets

Slide Show. The requisite photo slideshow gadget, Slide Show can be configured to look for images in particular folders, with different transition types. A View button on the gadget will open the currently displayed picture in Windows Photo Gallery.Weather. A very handy and attractive weather gadget that can be configured for any location worldwide.

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Features: Gadgets

Windows Media Center. The only new gadget in Windows 7, Media Center provides a simple front-end to the Windows Media Center application. Click any of its revolving set of links--Music, Pictures, Music + Pictures, Internet TV, and many others--causes the appropriate experience to startup inside of Windows Media Player.

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Gadgets: Changes from Vista

No more (visible) Sidebar. The Windows Sidebar UI is now removed in Windows 7 because so few people left it enabled even though it was turned on by default. The people have spoken. Note, however, that the Sidebar executable, sidebar.exe, is still running in the background when you have any gadgets displayed. Yep, it's that lame.

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Not running by default. One of the more annoying aspects of Windows Sidebar in Vista is that it was enabled by default, slowing boot-time and providing access to a feature few users wanted. In Windows 7, no Windows Gadgets are running by default when you first install the OS, in keeping with the Windows 7 simplicity and user control mantras.

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Touch enabled. Where it makes sense, Windows Gadgets are touch-friendly and support touch-specific features. This support isn't very sophisticated, to be fair: Primarily, portions of each gadget UI--like the "grippie"--have been enlarged to be more easily accessible via a finger tap.

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Offline support. Unlike the Vista gadgets, many of which relied on live Internet connections to provide a display (like the Weather and Stocks gadgets), the Windows Gadgets included in Windows 7 are designed to work properly when offline as well. When offline gadgets display a "time stamp" to show you how out of date the data is.

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When offline, some gadgets will display a red time stamp.

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No more Notes gadget. Microsoft has removed the Notes gadget from Windows 7 and provides instead a Sticky Notes application that offers similar functionality but integrates with the new Windows 7 taskbar.

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Features: Taskbar

Windows 7 includes an enhanced taskbar that addresses some of the issues of the past by minimizing clutter and putting commonly-needed functions in a single place. And while it is just one of many new UI enhancements in Windows 7, it is also arguably the most obvious because the taskbar is always up front and center, anchored (by default) to the bottom of the screen.

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Features: Windows Media Center

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Features: Windows DVD Maker

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Demo:

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Windows 7: USB Installation

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USB Installation: Demo

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Summary

• Discussed what’s new in W7

• Some of the many features of W7

• USB Installation

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Links and resources:

• http://www.microsoft.com/windows7

• http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/format-learning-snacks.aspx

• http://www.winsupersite.com

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PHILIPPINE WINDOWS USERS GROUP

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Who We Are

The Philippine Windows Users Group (PHIWUG) is

a non-profit local community of Microsoft Windows

users ranging from Server Administrators,

Engineers, and enthusiasts coming together to

share and learn from each other on the topics

related to Windows with emphasis on Windows

Platforms.

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Our Vision

Create awareness to all Windows IT Professionals

and the public on the technology that Microsoft

Servers and Client Systems can offer and how

effective they are for use in business, learning,

entertainment and productivity.

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Who Can Join Us

Membership to PHIWUG is FREE and open to

everyone who wishes to learn as well as share.

This is a community where we share and learn

from fellow Windows users (IT Professionals,

System Administrators, Network Administrators,

and YOU) in the Philippines.

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Contact Us:

[email protected]

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Web:

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THANK YOU!!!.

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Windows7 Overview_MVP Jay R Barrios

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