The internet is a vast resource for exploring, communicating, shopping, and learning. But as it has grown in scope and popularity, it has become an avenue for identity thieves trying to trick consumers into revealing valuable personal information, predators stalking instant messaging conversations, and malevolent hackers attempting to infect unprotected PCs with viruses. Windows Vista [...]
The first step in sharing information between PCs is to connect them to a network. Windows Connect Now is a feature of Windows 7 that makes it fast and easy to set up your home or office network and connect additional PCs. In the past, it’s been difficult to get a new network up and [...]
The Devices and Printers folder is a single location where you can access and interact with all your devices. When Windows 7 detects a device it automatically downloads and installs any required drivers. After your device has been installed, it will appear in the Devices and Printers folder with a photo-realistic icon. From there you [...]
Do you have a lot of digital devices like phones, music players, or digital cameras? Device Stage helps you manage all of your devices more efficiently by showing you the status of each and displaying the common things you can do with them in a single familiar window. When you connect portable devices such as [...]
LCD monitors are becoming more popular because of their slim size, crisp text, and superior graphics capabilities. However, you might not be getting all the benefi ts from your LCD monitor that you could. Windows 7 improves support for monitors—especially LCD displays—to help you get the most out of them. You can adjust the size [...]
Windows Live Mail is a great program for accessing Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Calendar, and Windows Live Contacts—and you can even access previously synchronized e-mail, calendar, and contact information when you’re offl ine. POP and IMAP support makes it easy to access and manage thirdparty e-mail services such as Yahoo!, Gmail, and AOL. And, [...]
Are you looking for a better way to share and show off your videos and snapshots? Windows Live Movie Maker makes it fast and easy to make great-looking movies and slideshows from your videos and photos. It’s simple to import standard or high definition video and photos, and have AutoMovie add animations, music, and a [...]
Start, Shutdown, and Resume Windows 7 is ready when you are. It’s designed to start, hibernate, and shut down faster than Windows Vista. We also focused on ways to resume from sleep more quickly and reliably. And because resuming from sleep is much faster than rebooting your PC, you can use sleep when you really [...]
More than anything else, you’ve told us that you care about the basics. No one has the time to deal with PCs that aren’t snappy and responsive or fall short of expected performance—like taking too long to wake up from sleep. And we’d all like to feel more secure, online and off. In other words, [...]
We’ve worked hard to reduce overall memory requirements in Windows 7. For example, hundreds of runtime components now use less memory, while the core memory needs are smaller when the computer is idle. Windows 7 can reduce the memory requirements for each open window by up to 50 percent. In addition, we’ve introduced trigger start [...]