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| Using the Windows 7 Libraries : CONSIDERING USER-DEFINED COLLECTIONS |
| Placing projects, files, pictures, sounds, and other items in this folder means that the user can find them with ease, organize them, search within them, and generally access the things needed to conduct business, without having to consider where the resource is actually located. |
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| Using the Windows 7 Libraries : WORKING WITH KNOWN FOLDERS |
| Known folders are essentially those folders that the system already knows about — they're the folders that the system is designed to provide. The KnownFolders class contains a host of these folder listings as individual properties. |
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| Games and Windows 7 : Installing and Playing Third-Party Games |
| Some games, especially older games, will require a bit of prodding. In some cases, Windows 7 includes compatibility information about certain problematic game titles, and in others you'll need to manually set up the game's shortcut to run in Windows XP or Windows Vista compatibility mode before it will run. |
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| Games and Windows 7 : Using the Games Explorer (part 1) |
| Actually, if this is the first time you've opened the Games Explorer, you'll see a slightly different display: Microsoft provides a window with which you can configure various options related to the Games Explorer and the built-in Windows 7 games. |
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| Automating Windows 7 Installation : Capturing an Image Using ImageX |
| The drive you'll image is almost always the C: drive. However, in some instances where you have dual-boot systems, you may be imaging another drive. The folder where the image will be stored can be on any available system drive that has adequate space, including the drive that you're imaging. |
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| Managing Windows 7 : Maintaining Your Hard Disk |
| With time and use, your computer's contents can become a bit disorganized. As the information stored in the computer gets used, moved, copied, added to, or deleted, the computer's hard disk, or drive, can become cluttered with useless or inefficiently organized files. |
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| Managing Windows 7 : Managing Touch Settings |
| If your computer has touch capabilities, you can customize the way the computer responds to your touch, and the way windows and programs respond when you pan to scroll the window with your finger. |
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| Evaluating Applications for Windows 7 Compatibility : Deploying XP Mode |
| Sometimes you just can't get an application to work on Windows 7 no matter what you do. You've found no upgrades, there is no vendor or third-party fix, you can't rewrite it, and all your efforts with ACT have failed. You have come to the conclusion that the only thing you can do is run the application on Windows XP. |
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| Managing Windows 7 : Managing Navigational and Editing Flicks |
| On a computer that has pen or touch input, you can use flicks to accomplish specific actions. A flick is a short gesture that you make with a pen or a finger, in a specific direction, to accomplish a certain action. You can also customize flicks to perform many different actions. |
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| Windows 7 Mobility Features : Other Mobile Features |
| In addition to the major new mobility-related features mentioned previously, Windows 7 ships with a host of other technologies that benefit mobile workers. This section highlights some of these features and explains how you can take advantage of them. |
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| Windows 7 Mobility Features : Presentations A-Go-Go |
| An obscure but useful feature, Presentation Settings enables you to temporarily disable your normal power management settings, ensuring that your system stays awake, with no screen dimming, no hard drive disabling, no screen saver activation, and no system notifications to interrupt you. |
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| Windows 7 Mobility Features : Windows Mobility Center |
| In Windows 7, the software giant continued the work it started in Windows Vista toward creating a centralized management console called Windows Mobility Center for all of this functionality, and it has preloaded this dashboard with all of the utilities a mobile user could want. Best of all, PC makers are free to extend Mobility Center with their own machine-specific mobile utilities. |
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