1. Windows 7 Overview
Jay-R Barrios
President | Philippine Windows Users Group
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2. 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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3. Windows 7
• Home Basic
• Starter
• Home Premium
• Professional
• Enterprise
• Ultimate
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4. 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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5. Agenda
• What’s New in W7
• Features
• Installation Types
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6. 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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8. 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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12. 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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13. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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
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screensaver.
23. 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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24. 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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27. BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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28. BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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30. BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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31. 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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32. 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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33. 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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36. BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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38. 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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40. BitLocker To Go: Usage
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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44. Features: Calculator
Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista
Windows 7 Calculator
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45. 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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46. Calculator: Scientific
As with previous Windows versions, the Windows 7
Calculator includes a Scientific Calculator mode as well.
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47. 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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48. Calculator: Programmer
Also new to the Windows 7 Calculator is a new Statistics
mode.
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49. Features: Calculator
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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50. Features: Calculator
Each offers unit-specific options. For example, with temperature, you can
convert to and from Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin
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54. 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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56. 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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57. 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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58. 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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59. 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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60. 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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61. 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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62. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
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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63. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
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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64. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
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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65. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
When offline, some gadgets will display a red time stamp.
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66. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
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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67. Gadgets: Changes from Vista
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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68. 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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69. 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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94. 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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95. 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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96. 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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