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Windows 7 6965 icon set

As stated in the heading these 6965 attractive symbol sets are built by Windows 7 that may change by the official Windows 7 release date. These Windows 7 icon sets will easily work for both Windows XP as well as Windows vista.

These icons are very fresh that provide a great Windows 7 feel to your current desktop and laptop. So feel free with Windows 7 icon sets.

Windows 7 Professional

Windows 7 Professional is the second Windows 7 edition next to Windows 7 Home Premium that Microsoft made available for customers and OEMs worldwide. This edition basically have been Windows 7 Business but was renamed by Microsoft to reflect that it is not only aimed at business but also at professionals. Some say that it was done to make the decision for Windows XP users easier to switch to the new operating system as one of the Windows XP editions was named Windows XP Professional.
Windows 7 Professional contains all features that Microsoft has build into Windows 7 Home Premium
• Full Windows Aero support.
• Home Group (Create & Join)
• Multi-Touch
• Premium Games
• Windows Media Center
Plus the following:
• Windows Server Domain support.
• Remote Desktop Server support.
• Location aware printing.
• Encrypting the file system
• Presentation mode
Resource: http://windows7news.com/windows-7-faq/windows-7-professional/

Windows Phone 7 Development Tools released by Microsoft

Even though the Windows Phone 7 is still some months away from consumption, Microsoft is taking pains to deliver development tools to make applications available. A while back Microsoft released a limited version of the Windows Phone 7 binaries for developers, but shortly afterward someone opened them up to explore their content.

Microsoft has released an updated set of Windows7 phone tools for developers to help them get closer to provide applications on the marketplace. But now there are a few new features to take a look at.

Additional feature is the phone interface. It delivers a visually simple but comprehensive and straight way to make a call. You can work through your contacts or bring up a number directly, If a call is in progress you can then continue to work in other apps, and the call status will be displayed in the top status bar. You can set up three-way calling, or send audio to Bluetooth or to the speakerphone. You can even throw your conversation counterpart on hold.

This new release has been tested to work with the release of Visual Studio 2010. There is an updated Windows Phone 7 OS image for the Windows Phone Emulator. The Pause/Resume events are now supported, and there is limited support for launchers and choosers.

Several problems are fixed that are reported before like:
Design time skin refresh issues have been addressed. If the tools are installed as the admin user, non-admin users are now able to install them to the emulator. Problems with the incremental deployment of projects have been fixed. When the error message appears, “Connection failed because of invalid command-line arguments,” the problem causing it has been fixed. If a Windows Phone node was not appearing in Visual Studio 2010 on non-system drives this problem has been fixed.

Resource: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wpdev/archive/2010/04/29/windows-phone-developer-tools-ctp-refresh.aspx

Windows 7 Circle Dock

Windows 7 circle dockEveryone thinks that Windows 7 surely brought something more user friendly features and this is true. Yes it has so many aspect that you will enjoy surely.

 This is not by any means an official Microsoft Windows 7 release, but comes in the form of Open Source.

 Windows 7

  • Offers Drag and Drop shortcuts, files & folder to add it to the taskbar
  •  Allows You to rotate the dock items with wheel or arrow keys
  •  Facilitates to Change the image show for the icon and change the skins
  •  Offers you to view Dock on the mouse location by pressing F1 key
  •  Provides Reorder the dock items on the dock bar by drag and drop
  •  Can run from USB drives
  •  Offers a cool icon replacement mode
  •  Facilitates Working in all Windows Vista and Windows XP
  •  Easily works with multiple monitors
  •  Launch programs from a circular dock
  •  Allows You to add more and any icon of your choice
  •  Includes support for French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian, Indonesian, Serbian, Croatian, Chinese, Spanish, German, and Danish

 This is quite a useful add on for your current Windows desktop, Windows 7 will of an advanced version of this, but for now you will have to use the open source version.

Windows 7 Calculator

Windows 7 calculatorMany people are facing problem regarding working of the Windows 7 Calculator. The reason for this is that you need to have Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 installed. You should download the Microsoft.net framework 3.5.

Thanks go out to “Grdcityboy” From http://deviantart.com for this great Windows 7 tool for windows XP & windows vista.

Enjoy this great Windows 7 tool, don’t forget to say thanks to Grdcityboy for his great work on this.

Ultimate Windows 7

Windows 7In just the first six months of the sales of Microsoft managed to implement more than 100 million copies of OS Windows 7! According to experts, if the new version Windows itself does not compromise, and consumer interest will remain on the same level by the end of the year 2010 will be sold around 200 million copies of the operating system. This phenomenal rate of sales will pay back with interest fail, which suffered from Microsoft Windows VistaAnd may lead to the return of the software giant’s products at the forefront in the list of the most popular users around the world. It seems that soon Microsoft will return its dominance in the software market!

According to the analyst company Technology Business Research, while Vista has passed, and at the same competitors Windows – Apple and the team of developers Linux – could not take advantage of unpopularity from Microsoft. During all this time, while redmondtsy worked on next version Windows, They had a chance to pull the blanket over himself, raising the market share of its own platforms, but now the screen that appears, according to figures provided by Microsoft, was closed to them. Of course, the best scenario for the Redmond company is now – is to maintain and consolidate the leading position, customer confidence, which deteriorated after Vista.

Indicator of success will be adoption of the new OS, not only by ordinary users, but corporate customers, who are already planning to move to Windows 7At least the next couple of years. Interestingly, despite the obvious shortcomings of the previous version of the product, Microsoft did everything possible not to lose business partners, perhaps the reason for this – really weak competition from other operating systems. Yes, customers were not happy with Vista, but since it is still nothing left, continued to use it.

According to Microsoft, over 10% of PCs worldwide are currently working under Windows 7. Furthermore, only in the first quarter of 2010 the volume of supply software increased by 25%. Of course, analysts Microsoft a bit cunning. Maybe it’s not so much the amazing quality of their product, how much that people began to gradually withdraw from the global economic crisis, customers are beginning to replace outdated computers, sales partners grow, passing the success of the chain.

Analysts Microsoft said revenue growth in the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 to 28%, in which the company planned to earn $ 14.50 billion. Success Windows 7Undoubtedly play a not insignificant role, reinforcing the company’s position in the international market. Having a product to receive this feedback, Microsoft will be able to literally crush the competition, because consumers will now have fewer and fewer reasons to seek an alternative product the software giant.

Resource:  http://news.mydiv.net/news/view-windows-7-vne-konkurencii.html

Make your Microsoft Windows 7 Secure

windows 7Latest Windows 7 security becomes very necessary because of its dominating feature, which has increased the global demand of its installation.

Windows 7 security is the top most dominating feature, which has raised the global demand of its installation. There are plenty of new features along with some good modification in the previous features and the operating system offers enhanced security for both online and offline activities.

Microsoft has blessed its new operating system with some innovative features, such as DirectAccess, Biometric Security, Applocker, Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). Besides, there has been a considerable improvement in previous features, like Windows Secuirty Center of Vista has been presented in a more effective way as Action Center, BitLocker has been revised to perform advanced job.

With the modified and innovative features, like BitLocker, you can share your data with your colleague without any worry, DirectAccess helps to share your office network in a secure manner, when you are on move. With Action Center, you can troubleshoot the problems arising with software and hardware conflicts in a much better way. BitLocker feature, which is useful for encrypting your data files, is not available with the Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. It has been observed that the files encrypted are hard to recover, in case of any data loss.

Windows 7 Firewall has been modified to a great extent, now it can filter both inbound and outbound traffic of your computer’s network. Windows Defender can be customized well, under the Advanced Setting option, available in Control Panel, for quick, complete and partial scanning of your computer’s memory. While in Vista, you were permitted for doing only basic setting. In addition to this, you can also customize it as per your need to scan public network, home network or work network. Moreover, you can perform scanning of each one at the same time, it was also restricted in earlier Vista, where you can do scanning of one network at a time. Next improvement has been done with the restriction from User Account Control, which doesn’t allow others to perform any setting change over your PC in your absence.

With effective Windows Firewall, Windows Defender and software, you can keep your computer safe from viruses and ensure good performance. Adding on, you can remain free from frequent computer’s issues like sluggish performance, slow startup, blue-screen error and computer’s freezing. You can keep your Windows registry in sound condition, which is the God father of your computer.

Understanding the global threat about cyber-crime and other malicious software, Microsoft has done a complete overhauling in the security feature of Windows 7. With the new operating system, you can share your computer’s data and peripheral devices like, printers and scanners in a much secured manner.

Advantages and disadvantages are always associated with any development. There are some limitations in Windows 7 security, like Windows Firewall has been observed to be getting disabled on attack of some sophisticated viruses. Windows 7 still using the same encrypt arithmetic as the previous versions of Windows. That means that if you need to reset Windows 7 password, you can just use the similar methods like Windows Vista or XP. Sometimes you even have to use some Windows 7 password recovery software that is used for Windows 7 password reset. Further, it also raises issues while installing some new programs or making some download from any website. Windows Defender needs to be configured well after each and every new installation work you perform on your computer.

For attaining better security over your Windows 7 installed computer, you should keep your Windows update enabled, when you are online. Status of Windows Defender should be monitored on regular basis. In addition, your computer must have a compatible antivirus program.

Resource: http://www.wuhanlink.com/tutorials/Microsoft_Windo_1539144_0_article.html Read more »

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