Windows 7 not only attracted much attention from the press as a high-tech, but also there are many new interface changes, such as the redesigned taskbar, new file management features, libraries and others. Several tools have been enhanced which is then included with the OS. Here we discuss 10 of the best tools windows 7 which makes the job easier computing.
1. Action Center
Centralized management is hot in Windows 7 and gives you one-stop shopping site where you can take care of security, troubleshooting, and recovery, rather than searching for an applet for each part. Everything is combined in an easy to use Control Panel, where you get a maintenance and safety messages and can view performance information, change the UAC settings, and more.
This is a development from the Security Center in Windows Vista. It makes sense to combine the security settings, system maintenance, and recovery. Action Center has emerged as an icon in the system tray, which displays a red X symbol if there is a problem that needs you are looking for.
2. Problem Steps Recorder
One of the coolest new tool in Windows 7 is the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR), mainly to provide technical support to users of Windows. No matter how hard they try, but users often have problems to accurately describe their problem and steps they take before or after the experience. Sure, Remote Assistance can be a blessing in this situation. But we can not always connect to a user's computer in real time. That's when PSR come in handy.
Problem Steps Recorder is a type of software that records all actions keystrokes, mouse clicks, including screenshots etc. and save the sequence of events in an MHTML document pages. You can start by entering psr.exe PSR in the Start Search box via the command prompt option.
3. ISO burner
ISO image file is a file type that is often used to distribute software. In Windows 7, Microsoft included this as an answer to many users wish list for a long time. Now you do not need to download and install a third-party program to burn ISO files to disk. Suppose you want to create a bootable CD use this tool. This is a simple process: Once you've downloaded. ISO to your hard drive, simply double click and Windows 7 will open the Burn Disc Image dialog box to burn the disc.
4. Biometric device management
In previous Windows versions, biometric authentication and management of biometric devices (fingerprint sensor) required third party software that may or may not be well integrated with the OS. Now in Windows 7 already built in. Windows Biometric Framework, which gives developers the API that you can use to build biometrics into applications. Fingerprint sensor hardware makers, such as UPEK and AuthenTec, in cooperation with Microsoft on developing its framework. Biometric can be accessed through the Control Panel.
5. Credential Manager
Credential Manager is a new feature in Windows 7. This tool is similar in some ways premises password management features in Vista User Account but this is more sophisticated. You can manage the Windows credentials for the various computers that you are signed onto, certificate-based credentials, and others (for e-mail accounts, web accounts, etc.). This is all saved by default in Windows Vault.
Perhaps the best feature new in Credential Manager is the ability to backup anhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd restore Vault. Microsoft recommends that you keep backing up on removable drives, such as flash drives, to back up if you experience a hardware failure. For more information, see Windows 7: Windows 7: Exploring Credential Vault Manager and Windows directly from the website.
6. Projection display and the Windows Mobility Center
If you give many presentations, you will be greeted by a new tool in Windows 7 that makes it easy for you to display projectors in the desktop Windows 7. Just press the Windows logo key + P and you will see a pop-up box where you can make the choice of presentation. The first is the default settings and displayed on computer screens only. The second clone display settings on the computer screen to the projector. A third setting to extend the desktop on both computer screen and projector, and the fourth displays only the settings through the projector and turn off the computer screen.
7. Text tuning and color calibration
Your computer might not work, but your screen is what you see throughout the day. If it does not look good, you do not get the most from your computing experience, and can even cause you eye strain. In Windows 7 there are two tools to customize the look to suit your preferences. You can access the ClearType Text Tuner from Control Panel or from the command (cttune.exe). If you have multiple monitors, you can adjust according to each monitor.
This tuning tool works much like the eye chart at the optometrist's office, and please you choose one that looks best for you. In addition to text tuner, Windows 7 provides color calibration tool. It can be accessed from the Control Panel or from the command line (dccw.exe). It helps you to adjust gamma, brightness, contrast, and color rendition on your monitor to display the best.
8. Disc Repair System
Actually, the Vista Service Pack 1 Beta already lets you easily create disc repair system with friendly graphical interface, but has been removed and re-released in the final in SP1. Windows 7 to improve this function. Just click [Start] and type [System Repair] in the Search box. Click [Create A System Repair Disc] to open the dialog box. To use the disc, please mesukkan in the drive and reboot the computer from the disk. (You may need to set the CD / DVD drive as primary boot device in BIOS) Then you will get a list of system recovery options, which include:
- Startup Repair
- System restore
- System image recovery
- Windows Memory Diagnostic
- Command prompt
9. Better backup utility
In previous Windows versions already include a backup utility, but this tool has been perfect significantly in Windows 7. Vista backup program is user friendly but not very flexible. Windows 7 provides more detailed control over what you want to backup. You can run the Backup And Restore from Control Panel or by typing a backup in the Search box on the Start menu. You can back up files to local hard disk, removable disk, DVD, or another computer on the network (origin diisinkan on the network). Then you can also choose to create a backup folder or individual libraries. You can also exclude certain folders when backing up.
10. PowerShell v2
Windows PowerShell (Figure P) is a shell command-line interface and scripting tools that make it easier for Windows administrators to automate tasks using cmdlets, which are commands that perform a single command, and scripts, which consists of several cmdlets for complex tasks , multi-step tasks. Earlier versions of Windows includes a command-line interpreter (command.com or cmd.exe), but PowerShell is much more powerful, also provided the UNIX environment, this command can automate nearly every function of the GUI.
PowerShell can be downloaded and run on Windows XP or Vista, but in Windows 7 is included in a built-in. PowerShell v2 adds about 240 new cmdlets, as well as APIs and new features, such as the ability to call the PowerShell scripts and cmdlets on remote computer. You can find out more about PowerShell on Microsoft's website.
1. Action Center
Centralized management is hot in Windows 7 and gives you one-stop shopping site where you can take care of security, troubleshooting, and recovery, rather than searching for an applet for each part. Everything is combined in an easy to use Control Panel, where you get a maintenance and safety messages and can view performance information, change the UAC settings, and more.
This is a development from the Security Center in Windows Vista. It makes sense to combine the security settings, system maintenance, and recovery. Action Center has emerged as an icon in the system tray, which displays a red X symbol if there is a problem that needs you are looking for.
2. Problem Steps Recorder
One of the coolest new tool in Windows 7 is the Problem Steps Recorder (PSR), mainly to provide technical support to users of Windows. No matter how hard they try, but users often have problems to accurately describe their problem and steps they take before or after the experience. Sure, Remote Assistance can be a blessing in this situation. But we can not always connect to a user's computer in real time. That's when PSR come in handy.
Problem Steps Recorder is a type of software that records all actions keystrokes, mouse clicks, including screenshots etc. and save the sequence of events in an MHTML document pages. You can start by entering psr.exe PSR in the Start Search box via the command prompt option.
3. ISO burner
ISO image file is a file type that is often used to distribute software. In Windows 7, Microsoft included this as an answer to many users wish list for a long time. Now you do not need to download and install a third-party program to burn ISO files to disk. Suppose you want to create a bootable CD use this tool. This is a simple process: Once you've downloaded. ISO to your hard drive, simply double click and Windows 7 will open the Burn Disc Image dialog box to burn the disc.
4. Biometric device management
In previous Windows versions, biometric authentication and management of biometric devices (fingerprint sensor) required third party software that may or may not be well integrated with the OS. Now in Windows 7 already built in. Windows Biometric Framework, which gives developers the API that you can use to build biometrics into applications. Fingerprint sensor hardware makers, such as UPEK and AuthenTec, in cooperation with Microsoft on developing its framework. Biometric can be accessed through the Control Panel.
5. Credential Manager
Credential Manager is a new feature in Windows 7. This tool is similar in some ways premises password management features in Vista User Account but this is more sophisticated. You can manage the Windows credentials for the various computers that you are signed onto, certificate-based credentials, and others (for e-mail accounts, web accounts, etc.). This is all saved by default in Windows Vault.
Perhaps the best feature new in Credential Manager is the ability to backup anhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd restore Vault. Microsoft recommends that you keep backing up on removable drives, such as flash drives, to back up if you experience a hardware failure. For more information, see Windows 7: Windows 7: Exploring Credential Vault Manager and Windows directly from the website.
6. Projection display and the Windows Mobility Center
If you give many presentations, you will be greeted by a new tool in Windows 7 that makes it easy for you to display projectors in the desktop Windows 7. Just press the Windows logo key + P and you will see a pop-up box where you can make the choice of presentation. The first is the default settings and displayed on computer screens only. The second clone display settings on the computer screen to the projector. A third setting to extend the desktop on both computer screen and projector, and the fourth displays only the settings through the projector and turn off the computer screen.
7. Text tuning and color calibration
Your computer might not work, but your screen is what you see throughout the day. If it does not look good, you do not get the most from your computing experience, and can even cause you eye strain. In Windows 7 there are two tools to customize the look to suit your preferences. You can access the ClearType Text Tuner from Control Panel or from the command (cttune.exe). If you have multiple monitors, you can adjust according to each monitor.
This tuning tool works much like the eye chart at the optometrist's office, and please you choose one that looks best for you. In addition to text tuner, Windows 7 provides color calibration tool. It can be accessed from the Control Panel or from the command line (dccw.exe). It helps you to adjust gamma, brightness, contrast, and color rendition on your monitor to display the best.
8. Disc Repair System
Actually, the Vista Service Pack 1 Beta already lets you easily create disc repair system with friendly graphical interface, but has been removed and re-released in the final in SP1. Windows 7 to improve this function. Just click [Start] and type [System Repair] in the Search box. Click [Create A System Repair Disc] to open the dialog box. To use the disc, please mesukkan in the drive and reboot the computer from the disk. (You may need to set the CD / DVD drive as primary boot device in BIOS) Then you will get a list of system recovery options, which include:
- Startup Repair
- System restore
- System image recovery
- Windows Memory Diagnostic
- Command prompt
9. Better backup utility
In previous Windows versions already include a backup utility, but this tool has been perfect significantly in Windows 7. Vista backup program is user friendly but not very flexible. Windows 7 provides more detailed control over what you want to backup. You can run the Backup And Restore from Control Panel or by typing a backup in the Search box on the Start menu. You can back up files to local hard disk, removable disk, DVD, or another computer on the network (origin diisinkan on the network). Then you can also choose to create a backup folder or individual libraries. You can also exclude certain folders when backing up.
10. PowerShell v2
Windows PowerShell (Figure P) is a shell command-line interface and scripting tools that make it easier for Windows administrators to automate tasks using cmdlets, which are commands that perform a single command, and scripts, which consists of several cmdlets for complex tasks , multi-step tasks. Earlier versions of Windows includes a command-line interpreter (command.com or cmd.exe), but PowerShell is much more powerful, also provided the UNIX environment, this command can automate nearly every function of the GUI.
PowerShell can be downloaded and run on Windows XP or Vista, but in Windows 7 is included in a built-in. PowerShell v2 adds about 240 new cmdlets, as well as APIs and new features, such as the ability to call the PowerShell scripts and cmdlets on remote computer. You can find out more about PowerShell on Microsoft's website.
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