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Martin Brinkmann is an Online Journalist from Germany who discovered his love for technology in high school. He is currently working as a freelancer for several publications and runs his own Internet website Ghacks

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Windows 7 to Extend Readyboost

The German computer magazine Winfuture revealed in a recent post that Microsoft will extend Readyboost support in Windows 7. Readyboost was introduced in Windows Vista and was used to add flash drive caches of up to 4 Gigabytes to the system. The main intention of Readyboost was to provide lower end systems running Windows Vista [...]

 1Nov2008 | Martin | 11 comments | Continued
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A Close Look At The Windows 7 User Account Control

There is not probably a single Windows Vista user who is not annoyed by Vista’s User Account Control. Not many computer users on the other hand would say that the UAC is a waste of resources and not beneficial to system security. What Microsoft did not make right in Windows Vista was to find the [...]

 31Oct2008 | Martin | 6 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Introduces New Font Management

The options to install, uninstall and manage fonts has not been changed in a Windows operating system since Windows 95. At least not in a remarkable way. The only solution so far was to rely on third party applications that would offer font previews and a comfortable solution to install and uninstall them. The fonts [...]

 31Oct2008 | Martin | 2 comments | Continued
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Q&A With Steven Sinofsky at PDC 08

Steven Sinofsky sat down with some convention attendees for a Q&A session. An interesting aspects of this discussion was if it would be possible to install Windows 7 on a notebook with touch capabilities (yes). Windows 7 boot time was another interesting topic. Microsoft changed the way services work in Windows. In Windows Vista services [...]

 31Oct2008 | Martin | 5 comments | Continued
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ClearType Text Tuner Integrated Into Windows 7

A new entry with the name ClearType Text Tuner is available in the Windows 7 Control Panel. Previous operating systems provided users with an on and off switch for ClearType but no configuration options beyond that. Microsoft Powertoys provided access to a ClearType Tuner which provided access to a wizard that would walk the user [...]

 30Oct2008 | Martin | 0 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Multi-Touch Video

Multi-touch was another known feature of Windows 7 which was already demoed in May of this year. The PDC 08 did not fail to provide additional information to the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7. New Hardware and APIs ensure that all applications that run on Windows 7 can provide multi-touch features to the user. Basis [...]

 29Oct2008 | Martin | 4 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Sensors Explained

Windows 7 Sensors was one of the first new functions that was spotted in one of the early builds of Windows 7 although it was not clear what the feature was all about. Some light was shed on Windows 7 Sensors at the PDC 08 conference in Los Angeles. Now what exactly are the sensors [...]

 29Oct2008 | Martin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7

The second video about Windows 7 that has been released by Channel 9 shows an interview with Mark Russinovich about the technical aspects of the Windows 7 operating system. It should be interesting to software developers and users who are interested in the Windows 7 Kernel.

 29Oct2008 | Martin | 1 comment | Continued
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Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience

Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience was one of the first Windows 7 videos of the PDC 08 conference that have been uploaded to Channel 9. The video shows David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the changes and enhancements in Windows 7 in regard to finding and organizing files. They [...]

 29Oct2008 | Martin | 3 comments | Continued
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Windows 7 Desktop Windows Manager Cuts Memory Usage By 50%

Long Zheng posted an interesting screenshot taken from the presentation by Anantha Kancherla which was about
Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware. It contained a sheet that mentioned that Windows 7 will cut memory usage in the graphics system of the Windows 7 Desktop Windows Manager by 50%. The same chart mentioned that [...]

 29Oct2008 | Martin | 3 comments | Continued
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