Post on 28-Jan-2015
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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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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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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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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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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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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: 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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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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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BitLocker To Go: Installation
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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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BitLocker To Go: Usage
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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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BitLocker To Go: Usage
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BitLocker To Go: Usage
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Features: Calculator
Windows XPWindows 2000 Windows Vista
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Features: Calculator
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gadgets: Changes from Vista
When offline, some gadgets will display a red time stamp.
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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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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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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: 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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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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Windows 7: USB Installation
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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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