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Monday, February 8, 2010

Use fingers over mouse in Windows 7 installed touch screen laptops

Windows 7  multi-touchWindows 7 has built-in support for multi-touch capabilities which are soon going to make this screen-based system much more mainstream. The user can access the screen by simply pressing it. Just press the screen and it will display Simple Tap interface. Using your finger, access the screen is the simple and newer way of doing things.

Lenovo release the statement which states that now it would be possible for the companies to create their own “touch icons and applications”. Instead of seeing the traditional cursor, the symbol like a drop of the water would appear on the screen and the user can navigate through the system simply by dragging the finger with in the window something like web browser. And to move on to the next page you just require to press the link to move on to the next page. All these features can be accessed with the single press on the screen and they function mostly the same as they function on the earlier HP TouchSmart.

But the most capturing features are those that use windows 7 touch. By dragging two fingers apart, you can change the size and display of the icons in an Explorer Window. Some touch based games such as Blackboard, Rebound and Garden have also been introduced in it.

Though, touch screen features are intuitive but they can’t be a substitute for a mouse and the keyboard in many cases. Many other multi-touch laptops are going to be out soon, including HPís TouchSmart TX2z and the Fujitsu LifeBook T5010, as well as Lenovo’s well-reviewed Thinkpad X200 convertible tablet.

Acer comes first in the race to unveil its first pieces of the upcoming Windows 7 line up that is a touchscreen laptop and a smaller ultra-portable PC.

The new Acer PCS will enable you to turn pages and browse through media and documents by just flicking the screen. Now it’s no more difficult for users to launch movies, zoom in and out of Web sites. They can easily edit photos and videos, re-size windows and prepare hand-write notes using fingertips over mouse with multitouch screen laptop.

The Aspire 5738PG’s multiscreen flags all these features. Thus Acer has become the latest computer maker to utilize new touch capabilities in Windows 7.

The 5738PG has a 15.6-inch screen, a 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor and an ATI Radeon HD 4570 graphics processor from Advanced Micro Devices. Four GB of system memory, a 320GB hard drive, built-in Web cam and stereo speakers is also included in the system.

The laptop weighs 6.16 pounds with a six-cell battery and would be available at $800 retail price. Three other Aspire Timeline laptops have also been introduced by Acer that will also be ship with Windows 7 – the 13.3-inch AS3810T, the 14-inch AS4810TZ and the 15.6-inch AS5810TZ. The AS3810T run 1.3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor, while the other two systems uses a 1.3 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core SU4100 processors. Each system includes 4GB of system memory, either a 320GB or 500GB hard drive, and a built-in Webcam. The starting price of AS3810T is $800 and $650 for AS4810TZ and AS5810TZ .

Other vendors which have unveiled new PCs with touch screen features include Gateway and Sony.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Microsoft windows 7 multi touch


  • windows 7 touchMicrosoft has introduced windows 7 multi touch technology with the latest Windows 7 that allows you to browse online newspapers, flick through photo albums, and shuffle files and folders by using just your fingers on the desktop. It allows you to zoom by placing two fingers on the screen of a multi touch-compatible PC and spreading them apart. To right-click a file you need to touch it with one finger and tap the screen with a second.

    However, Windows Touch feature in Windows 7 is available only in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions. Apart from that, the start menu and the taskbar in the new Windows 7 sport larger, fingertip-friendly icons. Not only that, all your favorite Windows 7 programs are also touch-ready.

    Interestingly, you can even finger paint in Paint featured in the Windows 7. However, touch technology was also present in Windows Vista but the technological advancement of the feature was not as good and advanced as it is in Windows 7.

    Windows 7 is also introduces handwriting recognition technology, which is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from various sources. Windows Media Center has also been touch optimized. In order to make efficient use of the Windows 7, Microsoft has devised this technology that enables you to browse websites that are compact and not easy to go through with a mouse. Buttons provided in Windows 7 are slightly wider to accommodate being pressed with a finger in touch-enabled displays including touch screens, tablet PCs etc.

    Once you pair Windows 7 with a touch screen PC, it will become very easy to browse online newspaper, flick through photo album, and shuffle files and folder using nothing. For the very first time multi-touch technology has been fully embraced by Windows 7. Every task you want to do will become very simple. If you want to right click, just touch the multi-touch-compatible PC with one finger and tap the screen with another.

    Microsoft has provided with optimized touch interface in Windows 7 with touch screen PC. Windows touch is only available in the three editions of Windows 7: Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate. As you find in iPhones, multi-touch features are bundled in Microsoft Windows 7 with Tablet PC. Touch features gives the freedom of direct interaction. You can work on your computer with simpler notifications. Learn what is going on around you with Windows 7 in just few minutes. It offers you with more control and keeps you at the center of media world. You can have a quick look at videos and update yourself with Windows 7, Internet Explorer, and Windows Live.

    After windows 7 installation windows 7 offers the user with touch gestures which includes the basic of tap and drag, as well as scroll, right click, back, forward, zoom, and rotate. High DPI support has also been improved in Windows 7. The advantage of this feature is that the UI element appears closer and larger which make it easier for the user to access the small buttons with touch. Windows Management has also been improved. The onscreen keyboard, the taskbar buttons, thumbnails, and Aero Peek are designed to work with touch. The users can easily size up and position Windows with Aero snap.
  • Friday, January 15, 2010

    Microsoft Device Stage – A Great Help

    Microsoft launched the new Operating System – Windows 7 in order to overcome the troubles faced by users in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsoft has worked towards providing better and exciting features. One of the great things that Microsoft has incorporated in Windows 7 is the feature that allows you to see all the add-on devices on one screen. This new package of the Operating System is called Device Stage, which takes device management a level higher. Device Stage enables you to interact with any compatible device connected to your PC. With the help of Device Stage you can see the status of your device and run common tasks from a single window. The pictures of the devices make it truly easy to see what exactly is there. You can see exactly what photos are there on your camera, what music is there on your MP3 player, and more.

    Microsoft assures Device stage to be a big part of Windows 7. It will change the way you interact with compatible devices and hardware attached to your system. In simple words, it allows you to see exactly what printer, phone, mp3 player and other devices you have installed on the computer. This management site called Device Stage; let you look at the status of the device and let you run tasks. This surely is a great assistance in linking mobile phones, printers or portable media players to your computer. Microsoft team has worked hard in order to achieve maximum range of partners to ensure their devices are fully device stage compatible.

    As soon as the device is plugged in, it will load drivers almost instantly. As compared to Vista, the process is much faster. Drivers of printers, USB keys, digital cameras, external HDDs are installed within seconds and are instantly accessible to the users. The waiting time of device driver installation in Windows XP and Vista was much longer. Moreover, if Windows7 is unable to find drivers, it will automatically search on Windows Update.
    The overall experience with devices, as compared to the earlier versions, has greatly improved with the help of Device Stage of Windows 7.

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    remove windows 7
    Microsoft launched the new Operating System – Windows 7 in order to overcome the troubles faced by users in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsoft has worked towards providing better and exciting features. One of the great things that Microsoft has incorporated in Windows 7 is the feature that allows you to see all the add-on devices on one screen. This new package of the Operating System is called Device Stage, which takes device management a level higher. Device Stage enables you to interact with any compatible device connected to your PC. With the help of Device Stage you can see the status of your device and run common tasks from a single window. The pictures of the devices make it truly easy to see what exactly is there. You can see exactly what photos are there on your camera, what music is there on your MP3 player, and more.

    Microsoft assures Device stage to be a big part of Windows 7. It will change the way you interact with compatible devices and hardware attached to your system. In simple words, it allows you to see exactly what printer, phone, mp3 player and other devices you have installed on the computer. This management site called Device Stage; let you look at the status of the device and let you run tasks. This surely is a great assistance in linking mobile phones, printers or portable media players to your computer. Microsoft team has worked hard in order to achieve maximum range of partners to ensure their devices are fully device stage compatible.

    As soon as the device is plugged in, it will load drivers almost instantly. As compared to Vista, the process is much faster. Drivers of printers, USB keys, digital cameras, external HDDs are installed within seconds and are instantly accessible to the users. The waiting time of device driver installation in Windows XP and Vista was much longer. Moreover, if Windows7 is unable to find drivers, it will automatically search on Windows Update.
    The overall experience with devices, as compared to the earlier versions, has greatly improved with the help of Device Stage of Windows 7.

    See also
    remove windows 7

    Thursday, January 7, 2010

    Internet Explorer 8 default Browser of Windows 7

    IE 8 Browser for Windows 7Internet Explorer 8 is the default browser that comes with Windows 7. It helps you surf the Internet in a quicker way. New features like Instant search, Web Slices, Accelerators, Compatibility View makes it stand ahead of all other previous versions and of all other competitive browsers like Firefox Mozilla, Google Chrome and others. The browser combines your browsing history with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers in order to take you to more relevant search results. Instant search in internet browsers for windows 7 makes your work simple and displays a list of suggestions the moment you start typing. You can quickly access favorites without wasting time in typing.

    SmartScreen technology
    New SmartScreen technology provides you with instant and complete protection against malicious software and phishing attacks that can prove to be a threat to your security, as well as privacy.

    It has now become easier to find changes on a website with the help of Web Slices. You just need to spot the green Web Slices icon on a site, click it. If any change has been made to the website, the Web Slices icon in your Favorites bar lights up. And, when you click on the glowing icon you can find out what changes have been made.

    InPrivate Browsing
    IE 8 offers InPrivate Browsing to the users which provide the option to prevent browsing history, cookies, usernames and passwords from being saved by the browser, it is comparatively lot more safer than the previous Internet Explorer versions. With In Private Browsing, no one can track your details. Cross-site Scripting protects you from hackers and web attacks. It also protects users from malicious websites from stealing your personal information

    Compatibility View button
    If a webpage doesn’t look right, just click the new Compatibility View button on the Address bar. The button corrects misaligned text or images on pages designed for older browsers.

    Automatic crash recovery feature
    With the help of new automatic crash recovery feature inscribed in Windows 7, if Internet Explorer 8 encounters a poorly built site that causes a tab to crash, only that tab will close, which is affected. All other tabs that are open in that window will remain unaffected.

    With Internet Explorer 8 many of the browser related issues have been solved especially the ones concerned with the security. The risks of browser hijacks and script errors are also minimal. Speed, which was a major issue in the older versions, has also been improved to a great extent.

    Monday, December 21, 2009

    Windows 7 RC review:

    Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is the successsor of Windows 7 beta and gets an edge over its beta due to a series of user-interface changes. In this article we will discuss Windows 7 RC review and the various features it offers

    Windows 7 RC includes the new “taskbar thumbnail overflow feature”. Instead of showing the list of all opened files, Windows 7 RC’s taskbar works with a thumbnail view. You can hover your mouse over the icon and you will be able to see the preview of the program running. Also, Windows 7 RC will allow you to manually pin your files to a “JumpList” for a program that usually handles different file type. Also, in the jumplist all the remote connections are saved enabling you take control of remote PC more easily.

    In previous editions of Windows including the Windows 7 beta, the taskbar setting were saved only after you exit the explorer at the end of session. In case of a system crash or sudden shut-down, the new taskbar settings are lost. However, in Windows 7 RC, the changed taskbar settings are saved after 30 seconds of their implementation.

    The Alt-tab windows switching is now integrated with new Aero Peek feature in Windows 7 RC. While shifting windows you can see the open windows and peek through the desktop as well. RC also offers an enhanced searching tool. It includes longer and more frequent snippet information.

    Windows 7 XP mode support is the most amazing feature that comes along with Windows 7 Release Candidate. It allows a user to run the various XP applications in an XP compatibility box and gives a look as if they are running in Windows 7 directly.

    XP mode feature is sufficient for small businesses but larger business need to also run the older applications. For them Windows 7 RC offers MED-V that allows control over the administrative rights of the PC. This feature will add strength to the XP mode of Windows 7

    Tuesday, December 1, 2009

    Change the Windows 7 Startup programs

    Change the settings for current startup applications in Windows 7 through system configuration tool.

    Follow these steps:
    Step 1. Click the Windows ‘Start’ button and navigate to ‘All Programs’. Right click the ‘Startup’ folder in the menu and select ‘open all users’. This option opens the folder for all users on the computer. Choose ‘Explore’ to open the folder for the currently logged-in user only.
    Step 2. Right-click the folder or file you wish to start when the computer boots. Select “Copy Shortcut” from the menu.
    Step 3. Right-click any white space in the “Startup” folder opened in Step 1. Select “Paste” from the menu list. The program will now launch the next time you start the computer.

    Change the Current Startup Programs:

    Follow these steps:
    Step 1. Click the Windows “Start” button and type “msconfig” in the RUN text box. This opens the System Configuration console.
    Step 2. Click on Startup tab. This tab contains list of all programs installed on your computer.
    Step 3. Check boxes of the applications you like to start when you boot the computer. For programs you no longer want to start, clear the checkbox.
    Step 4. Click “Apply” and close the window. A popup window asks if you want to reboot the computer. Click “Restart” to reboot the computer and save the changes.