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In computer news this week 11/25/2009 Goodbye Vista, Hello Windows 7 ... If you
have a Vista pc and you want to upgrade to Windows 7, you should first
download the Windows
7 Upgrade Advisor Utility program from the Microsoft website and run it
on your computer, to see what possible problems you may run into upgrading to
Windows 7. Based on
the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor report, I downloaded and installed the Vista
Service pack 1, as directed, and then I did a backup of my data, and inserted
the Windows 7 installation DVD.
The upgrade took a couple hours, with various warnings and various
reboots of my system, but it finally came up with my old desktop icons on a
new Windows 7 background screen, and I was in a go mode to learn about the
various features and benefits. So far
the biggest benefit has been it hasn’t crashed since the upgrade, and
I’ve had my computer continuously on and rebooted several times. No
hang ups or strange system error messages like I had with Vista,
and it might even be a little faster. If you
click on the Start button – right under Help and Support is a section
on What’s new in Windows 7, and if you click on that it goes into a
web-based
tutorial of major features, and each is shown in a quickly
downloaded 7 second video. These include : Home Group – which is an even easier
Networking program to connect all your computers and printers Jump Lists – to take you right to
documents you use frequently Snap – a quick way to adjust and
resize windows Windows live essentials – a 7 program suite you
need to download if you want to use movie maker – photo gallery, and
other messaging functions Windows
taskbar – a better taskbar with bigger icons and easily arrange
able too. The new feature is that if you have Word and several word documents
open – if you touch the word icon on the taskbar you’ll see
thumbnails of all the open documents, so you can open the one you want. The
way jumps lists work with the new task bar icon is that if you right click on
the icon – you’ll see a list of recent documents you’ve
worked with. And one incredible feature which supposedly Vista had to a
lesser degree but I never tried out, and which I’m sure every pc user
will rejoice at
- a new
Windows Search which will find virtually anything by key word or
phrase. Let me
ask you this question: Have you ever created a document on your computer, put
it somewhere, and then lost it because you couldn’t remember where you
put it ?
You can remember what the document was about, maybe remember some words
in the document, maybe part of the name, but you just can’t find it
anywhere ….. I’ve
been using computers regularly since 1977 and I’ve done this many
times. The new Windows 7 search feature will save you the embarrassment of
losing documents on your own computer, and it will find the words
you’re looking for in Microsoft Office as well as Adobe and other
format files. So after
a whole 2 weeks of using Windows 7,
he likes it … Mikey
likes it ….. so far .. |
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