There are a couple of new features in Windows 7 that help you liberate the multimedia content from your PC and stream it to other devices around your home. You can even stream to your laptop no matter where you are in the world – all you need is an internet connection to do so. The two features that...

Remember WindowsBlinds? Back in the day, this was the go-to tool for customizing your Windows user interface. By allowing far more modifications than any theme or desktop background change would provide, WindowsBlinds became a popular way to give your computer a whole new look and feel. Over the years,...

There’s no question multi-touch enabled hardware is going to be invading many homes and offices in the years to come, and it’s exciting to see how some software makers are already building applications that take full advantage of the multi-touch experience, aided by support baked into modern operating...

Undoubtedly, a key aspect of the evolution from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is the new graphical user interface of the operating system. At least equally important, if not even more so, is the way in which, with Windows 7 Microsoft is bringing natural user interfaces to the mainstream. And the Redmond...

Windows Server 2008 R2 was released to manufacturing concomitantly with Windows 7. However, the latest iteration of the Windows Server platform was shipped to customers ahead of its client counterpart. In addition to providing the actual RTM bits for purchase, Microsoft is offering additional resources...

While it has received indisputable accolades as Microsoft’s best operating system to date, Windows 7 is no stranger to problems either, albeit to an extremely smaller degree than its predecessor, Windows Vista. Some of the issues reported by Microsoft involve failed Vista to Windows 7 upgrade attempts,...

If you have wondered what programs are automatically configured and loaded when you startup, Autoruns, by Microsoft will give you that information. Autoruns is an MS download program that will show you locations, and startup order of many programs. It will provide you with information about Explorer...

Security Compliance Toolkit Microsoft released new Security Compliance Toolkits today to help Microsoft customers: plan, deploy, and monitor the security baselines of computers running Windows 7 and BitLocker Drive Encryption, plus many other products. You are given a choice of  preconfigured security...

Here’s a post about the newly published Introducing Windows 7 for Developers, by Yochay Kiriaty, Laurence Moroney, Sasha Goldshtein and Alon Fliess. (The book’s ISBN is 9780735626829, and it contains 416 pages.) You can read the Foreword by Mark Russinovich here. Chapter 7 Building Multitouch...

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run...