You can switch to Windows Basic mode by selecting the Windows 7 Basic theme in the Personalization control panel. Windows 7 Standard Any Windows 7 edition; any computer Windows 7—capable Adds improved performance and enhanced reliability to the Windows Standard experience. Supports the new Windows Display Driver Model WDDM to enable smooth window handling, increase stability, and reduce glitches, such as relics and slow screen refreshes while moving user interface elements.
Supports Windows Flip. Figure 2. Figure 3. Keep the following in mind: When you are using Windows Classic or Windows Basic, you can set the user experience level and color scheme, but you cannot mix colors or configure transparency settings. Understanding Windows 7 Personalization. Understanding the user experience levels User experience level Can be used with Provides Windows Classic.
Any Windows 7 edition; any computer Windows 7—capable. The look and feel of Windows while retaining the functionality improvements in Windows 7. Windows Basic. Adds slightly improved performance, gradients, and shading to the Windows Classic experience. Windows 7 Standard. Adds improved performance and enhanced reliability to the Windows Standard experience. Windows Aero. Windows 7 Home Premium edition or higher; any Windows 7—capable computer.
Builds on the Windows 7 Basic experience. Most View. Top On Windows 7, it's a little more complicated, especially since there are many ways to do it.
Homegroup is like a workgroup - a sort of a domain that unifies a number of machines, with explicit trust between them. When you install Windows 7, you are asked to associate your machine with the present network. It can be your home, your workplace or even an untrusted network like an airport or an Internet cafe. This basic segregation allows you to easily configuring the sharing options.
Firewall rules are also created on the fly, separately for each category. Nothing new, we've seen this in both the Windows 7 review and the installation guide. Now, basically, we're set. The items you've checked in the first menu will be automatically shared. Furthermore, the Public folder will also be shared.
However, any other folder, including those outside your user account folder, will not. To add them, you will have several options available. The simplest is to right-click any folder.
In the menu, choose Share with, then select what kind of sharing you want to allow. Alternatively, you can choose Properties and then click on the Sharing tab. Then, click on the Share button. This will open a sort of a mini-wizard, asking you how to configure your sharing. Here, you can setup different sharing options, including adding specific users or generic groups like Everyone and Homegroup. Everyone is similar to simple file sharing on Windows XP, where you are given the contents of the shared folders without further ado.
Using specific user accounts can complicate things, as you will have to provide credentials when trying to access the shares, but it does add some security, although you should not be sharing your files in an untrusted network at all. This same wizard will open if you click the Specific people option in the Share with menu we've seen earlier.
You have more than one way of doing things, which can be confusing. And here you go, accessed from Windows XP. You can always change Homegroup configurations via the Control Panel or by accessing Homegroup using Explorer, with the Navigation pane expanded. Again, more than one way of getting there, can be slightly confusing. One of the things you may naively want to do is disable the IPv6 protocol on your network devices, as you're not really using it. An innocent mistake by an innocent user.
But then, all of a sudden you discover that your Homegroup is no longer functional. Homegroup requires IPv6 to work! Luckily, you can rather easily troubleshoot network problems.
Any network-related menu offers you the option of trying to diagnose network related problems, specific to the adapter, as well as general issues, with the firewall rules or misconfigured settings. Most Windows users have no backups whatsoever, so this feature may actually prompt them to start making some.
The first thing is to setup the backup procedure. You can use local resources or a network storage. Next, you can choose what you want to backup and set the backup schedule routine. You can backup your personal data, but also the system image, which is rather important.
We've talked about Windows updates in all previous articles, so no point reiterating the importance or the usage mode. However, I will focus a little on the customization.
Unlike Windows XP, which clearly gives you the choice, the seemingly obvious choice of hiding specific updates does not exist in Windows 7. Nothing much to show here, except the simple, obvious question, how to I change the homepage? Well, you can always do it the old fashioned way, or right-click on the address bar. We've talked about this in the Windows 7 lets you remove Internet Explorer 8 article. This feature also existed in Windows XP, but it was more sort of a menu-polish than an actual Windows component management.
In other words, you could, for instance, seemingly uninstall Internet Explorer 6, but it would remain there, except the shortcuts on the desktop and in the Start menu. In Windows 7, the Windows features utility actually deletes the binaries. Please check the above article for more details. Windows Help in Windows 7 is simplified compared to older releases.
It's still geeky by all standards, but there's some chance average users will manage. For example, I had some trouble with the folder views, but I did eventually figure the problem out by referring to the Help and Support. I suggest you do give this facet of the operating system a chance, as it may actually be of some worth to you. It's written rather well, contains lots of pictures and is not that dreadful to search.
After saving your changes, you are returned to the Personalization window. Your theme has been placed in the My Themes section. Click Save theme if you wish to name your theme. To change themes, just choose a different theme in the main section or in the My Themes section. To delete a theme, right-click on the theme and click Delete.
Then click Yes on the confirmation window. You cannot delete the active theme. If you don't like any of the themes on your PC and you are connected to the Internet, click Get more themes online and follow the directions. A KeynoteSupport. You may have noticed that when your monitor remains idle for a certain period of time, a screen saver - or moving image - activates. It used to be harmful to monitors to sit idle with the same image on the screen.
This may still be a concern if you use an older CRT cathode ray tube monitor, but the flat screen and laptop monitors are not susceptible to this problem.
Windows 7 comes with a very small selection of screen savers. First, open the Personalization window by right-clicking on a blank area of the desktop and clicking Personalization.
Now click Screen Saver at the bottom of the window. The "Screen Saver Settings" window displays. Click the down arrow under Screen Saver and make your selection. Click Preview to see the screen saver in action. You may also choose how many minutes should pass before Windows 7 displays the screen saver. If you choose 3D Text, click Settings. Type your text, font, rotation, and other options.
Click Display Settings to see the screen saver. When satisfied, click OK. You can ask Windows to cycle through photos you have stored in the Pictures folder or another folder by choosing "Windows Live Photo Gallery. If you dislike the sounds that Windows makes when you do certain things, you can change them or turn them off.
These changes are made from the Personalization window. The easiest way to get to the Personalization window is to right-click on a blank area of the desktop and click Personalization.
Now click Sounds at the bottom of the window. The Sounds tab of the little "Sounds" window will display. If you selected a theme when choosing your desktop background, Windows will use the sounds that go with that theme. You may like the Landscape photos, but not the animal sounds that are part of the theme! To turn off all sounds from the Windows 7 operating system, click the down arrow below "Sound Scheme" and click No Sounds. Before changing the sound for individual Program Events, choose a different Sound Scheme.
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