| Working with E-mail, Contacts, and Events : Select a Contact Address |
| After you have some e-mail addresses and names in your Windows Live Contacts list, when composing a message, you can select the address you want directly from Windows Live Contacts instead of typing the address. This is much faster and more accurate than typing the address by hand, particularly if you are sending the message to multiple people. |
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| Working with E-mail, Contacts, and Events : Create a Contact Category |
| You can organize your contacts into one or more categories, which is useful if you want to view just a subset of your contacts. For example, you could create one category for your work colleagues, another for your family members, a third for people working on a current project, and so on. |
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| Sharing Your Computer with Others : Create a Homegroup |
| You can share documents and media easily with other Windows 7 computers by creating a homegroup on your network. A homegroup simplifies network sharing by making it easy to create a homegroup and share documents, pictures, music, videos, and even printers. |
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| Sharing Your Computer with Others : Change a User's Name |
| If the user name you are using now is not suitable for some reason, you can change it to a different name. If you are running Windows 7 under an administrator account, then you can also change the name of any other user on the system. |
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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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| Configuring Startup and Troubleshooting Startup Issues : What's New with Windows Startup |
| Windows 7 includes a few improvements to startup. Most significantly, setup now automatically installs Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). WinRE, which includes the Startup Repair tool, was available for Windows Vista, but it was not automatically installed. IT professionals could configure the required partition and install the tools to the computer's hard disk, but this was not done by default. |
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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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| Repairing and Removing Programs : Changing and Repairing Programs |
| Some large programs let you choose how you want to install the program. For example, you may be given options to do a Minimum Install, Typical Install, or Complete Install. You might do a Minimum or Typical installation to conserve disk space, but later discover you need a feature that only the Complete install would have provided. |
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