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Windows 7 free download

So here we are. Microsoft has released thier best operating system to dat and you want it. No Wonder. Its blazing fast, stable and not bad looking as well. It runs on less of a pc than vista and therefore can be used on all those systems that vista buried in the mud.

Simplifies Everyday Tasks

• Taskbar. The go-to spot for launching programs and switching windows, the taskbar has been completely redesigned to help users work smarter, cut clutter, and get more done, with features such as thumbnail previews of Web pages, documents — even running video.
• HomeGroup. Users can easily share their files and printers with other PCs running Windows 7 in their home.
• Windows 7 Device Stage. This shows the status of all connected devices such as cameras and mobile phones, and makes it easier to synchronize and manage them.
• Photos and videos. Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker (available via download) offer customers great, free options to edit photos and videos and easily share them with loved ones.
• Snap. Users can drag an open window to the screen’s border to automatically re-size it. Snap two different windows to the left and right borders for a perfect comparison.
• Shake. Users can click on a window pane and shake the mouse to minimize all other open windows, then shake the pane again to restore the windows to their original sizes.
• Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft’s fastest, easiest and safest browser ever offers smart new features such as Instant Search, Accelerators and Web Slices to help users get more out of the Web.

Works the Way Users Want

• Faster on, faster off. Every Windows 7 user will benefit from the focus on underlying performance, faster startup, resuming and shut down time, and enhanced power management.
• Mobile made easier. All of a user’s mobile computing settings are in one place with the Windows Mobility Center.
• Protecting the PC. Safeguarding the data on a PC is easier with advanced backup capabilities and the free Microsoft Security Essentials download to help protect users against viruses, spyware and other malicious software.

Makes New Things Possible

• Windows Touch. Users can interact with the PC with a touch-screen monitor, using their fingers and multitouch gestures.
• PlayTo. Users can stream their digital music, videos and photos to other PCs or devices such as an Xbox 360 console connected to the TV.
• Internet TV. New content providers and an improved interface make it even easier to watch TV on the PC.
• Rich gaming and graphics. Windows 7 includes performance enhancements that take power gaming and entertainment to a new level, with 64-bit support and DirectX 11 graphics.
• Location-aware printing. Documents are sent to the right printer whether it’s at home or at the office. And with Offline Files users can work offline and automatically synchronize between a PC and documents on their office network.

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Written on 21 November 2009 by mobo under Articles, Uncategorized, Vista, Windows 7 with No Comments

Windows 7 Remove your users’ local-admin rights

If you haven’t already pried away your users’ local-admin rights, now is the time. Yes, I know it’s hard. Laptop users are especially difficult to wean because the help desk can’t walk them through complicated fixes over the phone. But there’s also that “shadow” IT organization—department gurus and admin wannabes who find applications that meet certain tactical needs, then scurry around with thumb drives installing the apps with no regard for interoperability testing. And don’t even get me started on the kind of trash that average users install on their machines when they have local-admin rights. It’s amazing how the most unsophisticated user, incapable of so much as a password reset without help-desk support, can find a way to install complex multi-tiered client-server front-end applications if the reward involves shopping or sports.

Even if you muster the political strength to deny local-admin rights to the majority of users, as soon as you take those rights away, apps start to break. An astounding number of applications insist on writing to protected portions of the file system and Registry.

Windows 7 simplifies the switch to standard-user operation. Background processes redirect changes away from protected areas into user-controlled areas. That alone should resolve many issues that you might have encountered with standard-user operation with XP. There are also some simple but critical improvements that help standard users, such as the ability to change time zones, a task that required local-admin rights in XP and Vista. Ditto for changing screen resolution, doing an ipconfig /refresh to get a new DHCP address and installing optional updates.

The Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) contains a Standard User Analyzer (SUA) Wizard to help with vetting your apps. SUA provides an elevated-privilege launch platform for an application. Then, while the app installs and runs, SUA ferrets around inside looking for subtle issues that could keep it from running as a standard user. When it’s done, you receive either a clean bill of health for the app or a list of items that need remediation.

Written on 29 October 2009 by mobo under Uncategorized with No Comments