Tips and guides for Microsoft's latest operating system from the team at PC Utilities magazine
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The first thing you’ll notice when you load up Windows 7 it that it looks a little different from earlier versions of the operating system. The most noticeable change is in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen – there are bigger icons which you can rearrange simply by dragging them to a new [...]
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Windows 7 improves on the search features included in Vista to make them even more efficient, which means you can still enjoy rapid results without the background indexing process slowing down your PC. As in Vista, the Windows 7 Search tool can be easily accessed from the Search field at the bottom of the Start [...]
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The new Action Centre included as part of Windows 7 is the natural successor to the Security Centre you’ll be familiar with from XP and Vista. Its remit has been expanded to include maintenance tasks and general PC housekeeping as well as virus scanning and malware protection. The first time you notice the Action Centre [...]
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Digital media is becoming more and more important with each successive version of Microsoft’s operating system, and Windows 7 is no different. It comes complete with version 12 of its now familiar Media Player application, which brings the software into line with the look and feel of Windows 7 itself. If you’ve used previous versions [...]
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