Yesterday, I did a video about the Windows 7 features. Unfortunately, YouTube would not take it and I did three podcast and the first one I uploaded, it did not take, so the other two were kind of left hanging, so I’m going to do a repeat here. Sorry that the future videos did not get uploaded like something wanted to see. But I’m basically going to go over some of the stuff that you will see with Windows 7, not the Basic because the other video I did was Windows 7 Basic, this version is running all the feature and stuff and I am just going to show you how it looks. So as you can see, this right here is the Windows 7 desktop. If you will notice, the Taskbar is slightly different in respect that, it doesn’t actually have the titles anymore. But you can put that back on. If you watch the Windows 7 Basic video, you will see that you can still bring back the old Taskbar.
Anyways, so this optimized for touch screen for a Tablet and what not and one of the cool things is if I have everything minimized or even if I have Window up, if I hover over—if you can see that here, the desktop, I wanted the icons, it will show you here what you have running. So I have two Windows and marked open and then I go over for once in my chat room, I hover over it and it will show. I go over to Services window, it will show up here. The same with over here and then it’s really smooth too I have to say. So that digs me up. I have my Flash Media Encoder, if I have these two up. Well if I find—if I have all kinds of Windows all over the place opened and I want to see one, if just hover over here and I wanted to select the chat room, I just hover over and you can see here how it disappears here. You scan still see a little bit of the outline; that is about it but you can see everything else. And everything if you hover over into the corner here of the screen, it will get rid of everything here, so you can see your desktop and hover away.
So what you can do too is this has snapping. So I have my chat room here, open and I want to—if I had even a touch screen, I just take my mouse or my finger if it’s touch screen, bring it all the way to the top, if you can see this, see how it kind of opens up a bit, release and it maximizes it. I don’t have to use the minimizer, maximizer buttons but I can so use them. So that is the way to do.
Another thing is it has—I call it scroll snapping. So if you wanted to reside the Window or not, halfway. If I bring it here and I resize it and then I resize it all the way to the top, you are going to see this, see how it shows up. It will automatically snap it. I can do the same with this one Window, yeah. I can do the same with this Window. Just scroll up. Oh this one can’t maximize; this one is the same. So if I have my Window up here, click. And then instead of resizing it or whatever because it is already stretched to a knot just click the top here, resize it and it will go back to my default setting.
How cool is that? How easy is that? It is easy. It is awesome. Definitely cool feature that they added with Windows 7. That’s going to be totally awesome and like it’s just this follows. This is the Build 7000 right now. You can get your copy at Microsoft.com and test drive it.
I am going to show other—a couple of other few things here. I’ll show you Microsoft—well not Microsoft Paint but Paint. Well Paint is slightly different now. They have some different things now that you can use. It’s actually an upgraded version of Paint and you can actually do some neat effects with it. It’s pretty neat. I happen to like it. So it has got the ribbon now, you will notice a lot of the programs in Windows 7 have the ribbon. Also showing you that—where is it? WordPad is as also slightly different as it does have the ribbon up here.
So a little more information; another tool you will find handy that has been operated in Windows 7 is the Calculator. It’s better. It has been redone. It does not look plain anymore and you can actually do—it’s got some templates built in for you. So like if you want to calculate your gas mileage, it even tells you as binary code, like if I type something, it will show the binary number right here for that, like 0, 1, 00, 1, 1, 00. It’s got some neat little built-in things that would be neat and cool to use especially you know, just bring up the Calculator, go and calculate your gas mileage right then in there. So that is another upgraded thing that they did and I happen to enjoy it.
Other things that I will show you is they have this cool thing called the Snipping Tool. It’s like version two of Screen Shot, you know, you’d be like Ctrl-Print Screen and all that. Well you do the Snipping Tool. It whitens out your desktop a bit and you just select. And then the program will open the Snipping Tool and then you can save it as png.jpeg, anything like that, there is your screen shot. That is cool. That way you know you can only highlight what you want and then save it or not.
Windows 7 definitely has some awesome new features in it and so you do want the old Taskbar. Let’s say you do not like it. If you right click and go to Properties here from the Taskbar, you can click Use Small Icons, so it will make everything smaller, click transfer button when taskbar is full. And there, you got your text and everything. And you can always change it back and it’s really easy. It’s actually easier than Windows Vista. If you want to Customize, right click and click Personalize and then you can have your themes here, there is a pink theme and it will actually change your desktop a background and you can actually go online and get more themes, so it’s pretty neat stuff here. You can go in Desktop background, you can even select what pictures you want and then you can go change picture every 10 seconds, 30 second, 1 minute, 3, 30 minutes, one day, you can shuffler them, you know. It’s just—it’s really cool. So when you come back or what not, you’ll always have a different background and it fades it too. Like as you can see, it fades and it’s got some good pretty good pictures and the pictures in the background are pretty sharp. So you know, optimize for high resolution monitors and stuff. So if you haven’t already yet, get your copy of Microsoft Windows 7 the Beta, it is Build 7000. You are definitely going to love it. I am playing some of my games on it. I was playing Crysis on it. The only problem I had with Crysis is that Windows work in full screen. When I go to select to play in full screen, what it would do is it would crash but it worked in windowed mode and it worked great and actually the 64-bit version worked great too and you know, it’s light on resources, I have to say.
Windows 7 will work on lower and hardware than that Windows Vista use. Also, the boot time is faster. It actually does use less memory but if you have lots of memory, it will actually utilize it. So you know; the more memory the better, obviously but it will actually utilize your memory. It’s a pretty awesome operating system and for the Beta, it is phenomenal. It is like awesome.
So hopefully you enjoyed this; some of the features you can do and some of the little things you can do with Windows 7. Make sure to check our website at mcintec.net, live.mcintec.net and you can also e-mail us with questions at questions@mcintec.net and let me know what you thought in this video. Leave some comments and what not, subscribe here in YouTube channel. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/macintec. Stop in our chat room which is on McIntec IRC, IRC.mcintec.net. It seems that Windows 7 is the height these days and it is totally awesome and I am glad that the chat room actually taught me into actually trying the Beta because you know what Beta’s, yeah you know but running the Windows 7 Beta is actually pretty awesome. It has got a few bucks but it’s Beta. So I am sure they will get them, you know, all sorted out and everything. Been sending lots of feedbacks and stuff, you know, the features and stuff they should adds, some things they can fix or what not, so promise that are high, you know they are still coming up. But I got the tell you, this is going to be an awesome operation system. Mac users may consider buying a PC again and the ‘wow’ does start now. We’ll chat at you later.
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