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Assignment

FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTER

Topic: Windows 7

Submitted to
MR.BABAR
By
ABDUL HAMID & SAJJAD HUSSAIN
M.Sc(Prev)

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRNMENTAL SCIENCE

Introduction to windows 7
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Windows 7 is the latest release of Microsoft Windows,, a series of operating

systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home
and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs.
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general
retail availability on October 22, 2009, less than three years after the release of its
predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server
2008 R2, was released at the same time.

Features of windows 7
Windows 7 includes a number of new features, such as :

1) advances in touch and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks,
improved performance on multi-core processors,

2) Improved boot performance, DirectAccess, and kernel improvements.

Windows 7 adds support for systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics
cards from different vendors (Heterogeneous Multi-adapter),

3) A new version of Windows Media Center. a Gadget for Windows Media

Center, improved media features,

4) the XPS Essentials Pack and Windows PowerShell being included,

5) And a redesigned Calculator with multiline capabilities including

Programmer and Statistics modes along with unit conversion.

6) Many new items have been added to the Control Panel, including ClearType
Text Tuner, Display Color Calibration Wizard, Gadgets, Recovery,
Troubleshooting, Workspaces Center, Location and Other Sensors, Credential
Manager, Biometric Devices, System Icons,

7) Display Windows Security Center has been renamed to Windows Action

which encompasses both security and maintenance of the computer.
Readyboost on 32bit editions now supports up to 256 Gigabytes of extra
allocation.

8) The default setting for User Account Control in Windows 7 has been
criticized for allowing untrusted software to be launched with elevated
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privileges without a prompt by exploiting a trusted application Microsoft's

Windows kernel engineer Mark Russinovich acknowledged the problem, but
noted that malware can also compromise a system when users agree to a
prompt.

9) Windows 7 also supports images in the RAW image format through the
addition of Windows Imaging Component-enabled image decoders, which
enables raw image thumbnails, previewing and metadata display in Windows
Explorer, plus full-size viewing and slideshows in Windows Photo Viewer and
Window Media Center.

Advantages and Disadvantages Of Windows 7

Windows 7 have the following Advantages and Disadvantages.

Advantages

1. Windows 7 is faster than its predecessors, both in terms of installation and

boot up time.

2. Calculator has been enhanced with some new features like unit conversion,
calculations like fuel economy and auto lease payment.

3. WordPad in Windows 7 has improved much better and look similar to the
Microsoft Office Word. It can be used to open, edit file names with docx
extension which was earlier introduced with MS-Office 2007. Word prediction is
the new feature in Word Pad. Realistic brush has been added in Paint.

Microsoft facilitates in windows 7, to download some eye-catching themes and

background images from its own Microsoft website or from RSS feed. It allows
the user to customize every part of the themes and save for our future use or send
to the windows 7 users.

5. It also supports advanced touch and handwriting recognition.

6. Windows 7 supports Virtual Hard Disks with the support of enhanced

performances of multi core processors.
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7. Windows Media Player 12 has got much enhanced features in the Windows 7
and drag and drop option has been added which were not there in the previous
versions.

8. Windows 7 allows the user to make the best use of graphic cards from the
different vendors.

9. Bit locker is a feature which provides encryption for the internal drives in
vista, but it is extended to the external drives in windows 7. This makes backup
and restore much easier.

10. Default settings of User Account have been eliminated, to protect form the
unauthorized software to be installed.

11. Windows 7 has included a new concept, jumplists which organize the
recently used files as well as web pages.

12. More than that, it also allows the user to overcome the clutter in the desktop
by introducing three new features Aero Peek, Aero shake and snap.

13. Home networking has been made much easier than its previous operating
systems and is probably safe from hackers.

Disadvantages

1. Some of the users are not satisfied with the new features, because, they need to
buy out additional resources such as RAM, etc to make use of them.

2. It is expensive than the previous Microsoft operating systems.

3. Some of the users have problems such as; their system hangs after installing
Windows 7

4. If the user has got an HP multifunction printer, and its driver being upgraded
to the Windows 7, then the printer doesn’t response to the print commands. So,
the user needs to go to the new HP solution Center to resolve this problem.
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5. Windows have specific themes for United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Japan,
South Africa and Australia, if the user is not from the above country and he wish
to have a specific theme of his country, he will not get that, hence the user will
not satisfied with that feature.
6. Some of the features like Start Menu user interface, Windows Ultimate Extras,
Ink Ball, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Calendar
Windows Mail called Windows Live Essentials were included in Vista are
removed in Windows 7.