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Free Download Windows 7 Product Guide from Microsoft

sampat — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:51:58 +0000

Microsoft has released another free guide “Windows 7 Product Guide” which includes the description of new and improved features in Windows 7.

The Windows 7 Product Guide provides a detailed look at the many new and improved features in Windows 7. The guide is designed as an accurate source of information that can help you to understand how Windows 7 Simplifies Everyday Tasks, Works the Way You Want, and Makes New Things Possible. The guide is also designed to provide IT Professionals with information about how to Make People Productive Anywhere, Manage Risk Through Enhanced Security and Control, and Reduce Costs by Streamlining PC Management. This is not a help and how to guide. Rather, it provides an overview of the many exciting features in Windows 7 and pointers to more information. The Windows 7 Product Guide is available in both XPS and PDF formats.

However, this is not a help and how to guide. Rather, it provides an overview of the many exciting features in Windows 7 and pointers to more information.

Download Windows 7 Product Guide

Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) Tool in Windows 7

sampat — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:19:50 +0000

Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) is a new tool in Windows 7, which is very useful when you want to show the steps that need to be followed to accomplish one or more tasks to someone else. This tool is especially very useful to support engineers as well as software developers which will make it easier to receive a bug or problem ticket in much more detail.

With this PSR tool you can automatically capture the steps that you take on a computer. These steps include a text description of where you clicked and a picture of the screen during each click.

Another interesting feature of PSR is that you can view the recorded steps as a slide show as well.

How to use PSR tool in Windows 7?

1. Open the Problem Steps Recorder by typing psr in the start menu and press enter.

2. Once the Problem Steps Recorder is launched, click on Start Record button to begin recording your steps. You can record any number of steps using PSR.

3. After finishing of all the tasks, click on Stop Record button to stop the recording and save the file.

4. The PSR tool saves the recording in a ZIP file. You can extract the ZIP file by using default extraction feature or any other tools like 7-Zip or WinRAR.

5. Open the MHT extension file to show all the recorded steps in your browser or as a slide show.

By default, PSR tool will not record the text that you type while recording. If you want to add text to your screenshots, use add text comment feature available in PSR tool.

To preset the output location of the recorded file, open Settings in PSR and browse to the desired location. You can also enable/disable screen capture and number of recent screen captures to store using settings.

If you like to teach some features of Windows 7 to your family or friend, then this is the perfect tool for you.

Windows 7 will Feature 36 New Languages and 50 New Fonts

sampat — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:47:19 +0000

The final version of Windows 7 will be released on 22^nd October, 2009 which offers you lots of customization options as compared to beta and RC versions. Windows 7 will be available to the worldwide,the Windows 7 engineering team has added more features to suit the users worldwide such as new fonts, new language packs and also localized themes and customizations.

The final release of Windows 7 will include 50 new fonts and it will be the first version of Windows to ship with more fonts for non-Latin scripts than for Latin-based scripts. One of the major change is for the languages of India. To the nine fonts for Indian languages that was available in Vista, Windows 7 adds forty more. Windows 7 will now include multiple fonts for each of the official languages of India.

Windows 7 localized versions will be available within 2 weeks of the final release of Windows 7. Windows 7 will be released in 36 languages in October.

In addition to the 36 languages that will be released in October, there will be additional languages available for download as Language Interface Packs (LIPs) onto any Windows 7 edition as part of the Local Language Program (LLP). Catalan and Hindi LIPs will be available for download in October.

Windows 7 will also feature themes, backgrounds and sounds for local markets. Local Packs provide customized Windows 7 visual themes for a specific region. These visual themes contain locally relevant wallpaper images, custom aero glass colors, and regional sound schemes.

Via Windows 7 Engineering Blog.

Enable or Disable Jump Lists Feature in Windows 7

sampat — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:19:07 +0000

Windows 7 has one of the new features named as Jump Lists. If you are the user of Windows 7 Beta or Windows 7 RC then you already know the use of this feature. Jump Lists are lists of recent items, such as files, folders, or websites, organized by the program that you use to open them. Jump Lists also allows you to pin your favorites to Jump List, so you can quickly get to the items that you use very often.

This feature is not available in the older versions of Windows operating system. If you don’t like this feature you can disable it by using the following simple procedure:

Go to the Task Bar and Start Menu Properties by right-click on the taskbar.
In the Taskbar and Start Menu properties window, navigate to Start Menu tab.
Uncheck the option named Store and display recently opened items in the Start menu and the taskbar to disable Jump Lists feature.
Click on Apply and OK buttons to save the changes.
If you want to enable this feature again, recheck the same option again to enable Jump Lists feature.