Windows 8 is an awesome OS with lot of new features and improvements including fast start up and shutdown. I have been using this OS since its first testing version and it has improved a lot now in its final testing version. However, one problem that I often encountered in my dual boot Windows 8 Windows 7 system is disk check error when booting into Windows 7.
In Windows 8, Microsoft replaced the tool bar in Windows Explorer with its popular Ribbon interface, which is not only gives easy access to commonly accessed functions, but it also looks more beautiful. This new ribbon interface provides a strip of options that changes depending on what you’re doing. If you would like to implement the Ribbon interface to your Windows 7, here is how it is with Better Explorer.
Mouse Without Borders is a freeware application from Microsoft Garage project, which lets you control multiple computers seamlessly using single mouse and keyboard. It does not require any extra hardware to do the job and can be perform tasks like copy text, image, screenshot from one machine and paste to other machines, drag and drop file across machines, set Bing image as logon screen, etc.
Microsoft has released a new hotfix update (KB 2581464) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 to boost the performance of USB storage devices. This hotfix enables you to increase the maximum transfer size of a USB storage device from the default 64KB to 2MB, which will increase the performance of some USB devices.
Would you like to get the Mac OSX Launchpad functionality in your Windows 7 or Ubuntu Linux? Here is how you can replicate this cool feature to your Windows or Linux system. And, what is this Launchpad? This is a new feature for Mac OSX Lion, which brings full-screen home for all the apps with a click.
Microsoft launched a new site called ‘The Collection’ have it in mind to help people who are looking for a new PC and are not sure which one to buy. The site, ‘designed for individuals’, brings together a range of Windows 7 PCs carefully selected to suit all your requirements.