Microsoft QLF-00195 manual What’s New in Windows

What’s New in Windows 7

Top Features for You

We’ve designed Windows 7 to be the easiest, fastest, and most engaging version of Windows yet. We focused on helping your PC perform the way you want it to—quickly, easily, and with less effort. Although many of the new improvements are under the covers, Windows 7 also includes many more visible enhancements that will help you play with, work with, and manage your PC.

The following table highlights some of the features that we think you’ll really like.

Key Feature	What You Can Do
Aero Shake	Click a window pane and shake your mouse to minimize all
	other open windows. Shake the pane again to restore the
	windows to their original sizes.
Aero Themes and Aero Background	Use new themes or choose a slideshow of your favorite photos
	to make your PC reflect your personal taste.
BitLocker and BitLocker To Go	Help protect sensitive data with new, easier ways to protect
	and recover drives and extend that protection to USB remov-
	able storage devices, such as flash memory drives and
	portable hard disk drives.
Home Media Streaming	Use your PC as a hub and make music, videos, photos, and
	recorded TV available on other PCs or stream it to supported
	devices using Play To.
HomeGroup	Easily share files and printers between PCs running Windows 7
	that are connected to your home network.
Improved Windows Taskbar	Open files and get around your PC faster. Pin programs you
	use often to the taskbar and launch them with a single click.