Nowadays, fast-developing communication and information technologies trigger an explosion of data on a scale millions of times larger year-to-year, yet your effort and strain on data management also rises. So you might need to find ways to make your computer both more powerful and easier to use. That is what Microsoft's new Windows 7 Operating System was designed to do.
Windows 7 has better ways to find and manage files—like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews—to help you speed through everyday tasks. It's designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way you want it to. With 64-bit support, you can take full advantage of the latest, most powerful processors. Great features like HomeGroup, Windows Media Center, and Windows Touch make new things possible.
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Windows XP ModeRun many existing productivity and business programs designed for Windows XP – additional necessary software is available for download, free-of-charge from Microsoft.
Save Time and Money Resolving IT IssuesTake advantage of the powerful diagnostics and troubleshooters built into Action Center to resolve many computer problems on your own.
Interact with any Compatible Device Connected to Your ComputerDevice Stage makes connecting and working with devices easier than ever with a single interface to manage devices and run common tasks. Plus, the new Devices and Printers folder shows you everything connected to your PC, making it a handy way to check on a printer, music player, camera, mouse, or digital picture frame (just to name a few).
Connect Multiple PCs, with or without a ServerUse Domain Join to connect PCs quickly and more securely to your wired or wireless domain network.
Automatically Back up Your FilesProtect your data from user error, hardware failure, and other problems. You can back up your files to an external hard drive, secondary hard drive, writable CD or DVD, or to a network location.
Share Files across the Various PCs in Your HomeWith HomeGroup, it’s simple to share music, documents, printers, and everything else with the other PCs running Windows 7 throughout your house.
Pros: This thing installed SUPER fast from a clean install. I was upgrading from Windows XP so I purchased a new drive and formated and istalled this directly to it. Boots pretty quick (make sure you have the most up-to-date bios) and shuts down VERY quickly. I really like the new tool bar, and I prefer the search over the big long menus of programs. Having a REAL backup utility built right into the system and support to burn ISO's is a nice addition. Updates and installs seem to go much faster than they did in XP. I like the indexing service that Explorer does for all of my files, but you have to configure it to index everything-(This could take several hours to several days, but it runs in the background -mine finished in 20 hours for 4 TB's of data) The security warnings are not annoying at all, and I find them to be very helpful. The troubleshooting and help dialogues no longer assume that you're dumb and actually help solve problems. *NO MORE UNWANTED EXTRA SOFTWARE!!!!
Cons: The new "Librarys" section in the file system is really a plus and minus. The problem is that it automatically finds pictures and music, but if you have a few backups it may not find the most up-to-date version. iTunes finds the Music file and automatically uses that. This took some time to figure out, and I would have loved if a little pop-up had mentioned what the grouping does when you first open Explorer. Also on Explorer, while indexing makes it faster, the default setup and view is not very friendly. It hides a lot of files and then isn't very clear what drive or location that some files are actually on. Since I'm coming from XP this took some getting used to. All of my Cons were able to be corrected, but they did take me more time than I wanted to spend figuring them out.
Overall Review: More Pros: The system found and installed the following in seconds: Video Card, Motherboard tools, ESATA card, Lite-on DVD drive, Canon Scanner, Canon D40 Camera, both of my monitors(and configured them QUICK), my Keyboard, and my Mouse HOWEVER, even though my printer (Canon Pixma ip4000) is shown to be supported, it took me three tries to get it installed. This is partly because you need to install the printer software while it's turned off and THEN hook it upto the computer. This only took a few minutes, and it was the only hardware issue I had. The video card drivers were the most impressive. It not only picked the correct and NEWEST driver, it also installed the NVIDA Tools so that I could manage the card and my motherboard. I had my card and MB overclocked in about an hour from install. I build my computer about 2 years ago and I still get the following performance indexes: video and gaming 7.1, CPU and Ram both got 6.9 and HD got 5.9. I'm running a gforce 9600 and intel quad