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Windows 7 – Jump Lists

posted on January 13, 2009

Windows Media Player JumpListI installed Windows 7 Beta on Saturday to my laptop. It had just finished installing and was I just starting to check it out when Tracey noticed I was done. She then asked to borrow the laptop and she logged on to the machine so she could surf the web. I had wanted to try out some of the new features in Windows 7 Beta but I guess that would have to wait. Tracey had important business, (FaceBook or something like that), so I would have to watch Saturday Night Live while Tracey played on the laptop.

I should point out, Tracey was pretty much a novice on the computer when we first started dating. She just started using a computer on a regular basis back in September. She was using a desktop I had but then she discovered my laptop over the Christmas holidays and now I have had to give up my laptop pretty much whenever she wants. Which I don’t mind actually, eventually I’ll get her a laptop that she can call her own.

So Tracey got to play with the new Windows 7 build before me and one of the new features I helped her discover were the jump lists.

Jump lists are a menu option available by right clicking a program in the taskbar. In the picture, you’ll  notice how by right clicking on Media Player icon, you can get a quick list of things to do with Media Player. For example, you can then listen to music you just recently listened to, resume the last playlist played or play all the music. Microsoft Excel will show a list of recently opened files.

Tracey really liked Internet Explorer’s jump list which shows the pages you recently visited. For her, it allows her to open and launch Internet Explorer on a page she was recently at. Tracey, being a creature of habit, only has a small list of pages she checks out daily so she can do that to open up where she needs to be. For me, it means less time having to help her find the page she wants to look for.

While there are other changes between the PDC build and the Beta build, this is probably one of the best UI changes.

 

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Windows 7 Beta is Available Now

posted on January 10, 2009

Just got the word that Windows 7 General release is now available on the Windows 7 website. Also make sure you patch the release for the mp3 flaw.

I also noticed in the release notes that if you have an iPhone and install the 64 bit version of Windows 7, and you install the 32-bit version of iTunes and your phone will not sync up properly. To get the 64 bit version of iTunes, go to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes801forwindows64bit.html.

I am also looking for an antivirus for Windows 7 and when I do find one, I’ll post a link.

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Windows 7 Beta

posted on January 9, 2009

The Windows 7 Beta was to have been released to the general public and you were to get the beta through the Windows 7 page at Microsoft.com http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/. Having went to the page and looking around, I clicked on IT Pro. From there a page comes up and says basically that the interest in Windows 7 was so great that were experiencing some problems because of the heavy traffic. They will be adding more resources so that the download experience will be better and then will be posting the beta. Check out this link to the Windows 7 Team Blog for the latest information. 

If you went to TechDays here in Canada, remember that free TechNet subscription you received in your box of Techie Crunch? Well, here is a chance to get some value from it. Go hit the TechNet site and download Windows 7 from there.

If you don’t have a TechNet or MSDN subscription sit tight and know you will be able to get it soon.  Apparently, Windows 7 was showing up before the beta went live in the torrent streams, but it wasn’t the correct version in some cases, as you can see in this post on Softpedia . My suggestion is to wait it out and get the correct version straight from Microsoft. Don’t waste your time and bandwidth downloading something that may be no good, or worse, tampered with and made into a security risk.

 

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