Windows 7: Beta to RC upgrade

Next week, Microsoft will provide Windows 7 RC downloads for regular users. This week, TechNet/MSDN subscribers can already use Windows 7 RC version, from Beta to RC. What changes have been made to Windows 7 during the month? The official Windows 7 blog recently published a technical article that briefly introduces the fresh things that will be seen in the RC version.

1, Aero Peek supports keyboard operation

Aero Peek is a new feature of Windows 7, which will make the selected window display normally, other windows become transparent, leaving only A translucent border. In the RC version, keyboard operations can be performed using keyboard operations, and Aero Peek adds support for "Alt+Tab" operations.

Aero Peek

2, Windows Logo+<#>Shortcuts

As part of the Quick Launch Quick Launch Bar, Windows 7 RC adds a new Windows Logo +<#>Support for shortcut operations (#the order of the programs in Quick Launch), as with Vista, if the IE icon is ranked first in the taskbar, then hold down the Windows icon and 2 , you can start IE. Other operations are as follows:

Press and hold Windows Logo+Interval Tap <#>: Switch between different windows of the same application that opens;

Shift+Windows Logo+<# >: If a program has been started, the shortcut key can open another window of the program;

Alt+Windows Logo+<#>: open the program's popup directory (Jump List); Br>

Ctrl+Windows Logo+<#>: Go back to the last active window of the program;

3, message prompt

In the Beta version, the desktop prompt flashes The movement time is 3 seconds, many users will miss the message prompt, so the time of the desktop message prompt is increased to 7 seconds in the RC version.

4. Taskbar Scaling

In Windows 7 Beta, users can customize which programs can be displayed in the notification area on the right side of the taskbar. You can adjust the display size of the open window on the taskbar. These greatly expand the space of the taskbar, but in the RC version, you can place 24% to 39% more icons before the taskbar is rolled up.

Task bar

Contrast chart

5, Color Hot-track

Color heat tracking function refers to when the mouse passes over the task When the program icon in the column, each icon will highlight different colors, the color is selected according to the color of the icon itself, but when the mouse moves to the thumbnail page, the function is invalid, and the color heat is perfected in the RC version. Tracking function, when the mouse moves to a page in the thumbnail, the page is also highlighted.

Color Hot Tracking

6, UAC

User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 Beta exposed security vulnerabilities some time ago. After some controversy, Microsoft said UAC will be modified in the RC version, the UAC default settings will be changed to the highest level, and any modification behavior in the operating system will be prompted, including software installation, Windows settings modification.

UAC Control Options

7, Windows Media Player

The latest streamlined appearance of Windows Media Player (Now Playing) in Windows 7 Beta is popular with users. In the RC version, Microsoft further simplified it and added advanced settings options to the content menu.

8, Windows Logo + E shortcut

use the "Windows Logo + E" shortcut to open the "My Computer" in XP and Vista, but Windows 7 Beta in opens It is the "LibrarIEs" media library, which makes many users very puzzled and unaccustomed. In the RC version, Microsoft has replaced this feature again.