Tag: Windows 7 Aero

Seven Tips and Tricks For Windows 7 – Part 3

Change the Scenery.
Windows 7 allows you to personalize your desktop background to suit your many moods with a new shuffle feature for your desktop. You can program your desktop background to shuffle through your favorite images and get a change of scenery as often as you like. To enable the shuffle feature, rightclick on your Desktop and select “Personalize,” then “Desktop Background.” Choose the folder where your favorite images or photos are stored and select as many as you like. Make sure you check the “Shuffle” box, and choose how often you’d like your images to shuffle. It’s a simple way to keep your desktop looking fresh and fun.

Crunch The Numbers.
The new Windows 7 calculator is a number cruncher’s dream. New functionality allows the user to not only calculate in the Standard and Scientific modes, but also in Programmer and Statistics modes. And that’s not all! Ever need conversion formulas for temperature, weight, area, or time? Finding the unit conversion option makes it a snap and takes all the work out of the user’s hands. There are even templates for gas mileage, lease estimations, and mortgage estimations. Read More»

Posted in Windows 7 | No Comments »

TOP 10 – April 2009 Popular Tips

1. Windows Help program

2. Conflicker Checker

3. Free Windows 7 Demo Toolkit

4. Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 for Windows 7

5. Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience – Part 10

6. Windows 7 Aero

7. TOP 10 – March 2009 Popular Tips

8. Automatic Upgrades to Internet Explorer 8

9. Codename Namoroka from Firefox

10. Introducing the Firefox Taskfox Prototype
Read More»

Posted in Computer | No Comments »

Windows 7 Aero

Microsoft has made a range of resources available for download in an effort to streamline the process of leveraging the Windows 7 evolution, focusing, among other aspects of the operating system, on the Aero graphical user interface advances. An illustrative example in this context is what the Redmond company referred to as an intermediate solution addressing managed code developers specifically. The Taskbar Sample .NET Interop Library is a new managed code wrapper that Microsoft hopes will make the lives of managed code developers easier.

“The Taskbar Sample .NET Interop Library allows developers to: create and manipulate JumpLists including tasks and items; display Dynamic Overlay Icons, Thumbnail Toolbars; use the Taskbar progress bar; control Custom Thumbnail Preview, and custom Preview also known as AeroPeek,” revealed Yochay Kiriaty, Windows 7 technical evangelist on the Client Platform Evangelist Group. Read More»

Posted in Windows 7 | No Comments »