Features new to Windows 7: Difference between revisions

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===Desktop===

[[File:Windows 7 Desktop Slide Show.png|thumb|right|The Desktop Slideshow feature in Windows 7.]]

====Themes====

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The start button now has a fade-in highlight effect when the user hovers over it with the mouse cursor. The right column of the Start menu is now prominently the Aero Glass color; in Windows Vista, it was predominantly black regardless of the color in use.

[[File:Windows 7 Start Menu - search results.png|thumb|The search results pane in Windows 7, demonstrating a search for the word "wireless".]]

Windows 7's [[Start menu]] retains the two-column layout of its predecessors, with several functional changes:

* ''Documents'', ''Music'', and ''Pictures'' now link to their respective Libraries

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Thumbnail previews which were introduced in Windows Vista have been expanded to not only preview the windows opened by the application in a small-sized thumbnail view, but to also interact with them. The user can close any window opened by clicking the X on the corresponding thumbnail preview. The name of the window is also shown in the thumbnail preview. A "peek" at the window is obtained by hovering over the thumbnail preview. Peeking brings up only the window of the thumbnail preview over which the mouse cursor hovers, and turns any other windows on the desktop transparent. This also works for tabs in Internet Explorer: individual tabs may be peeked at in the thumbnail previews. Thumbnail previews integrate Thumbnail Toolbars<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942846.aspx#id0420081|title=Introducing The Taskbar APIs|date=July 2009|work=[[MSDN]]|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|access-date=April 29, 2019|archive-date=March 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325042123/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd942846.aspx#id0420081|url-status=live}}</ref> which can control the application from the thumbnail previews themselves. For example, if Windows Media Player is opened and the mouse cursor is hovering on the application icon, the thumbnail preview will allow the user the ability to Play, Stop, and Play Next/Previous track without having to switch to the Windows Media Player window.

[[Image:Windows Media Player JumpList.png|thumb|right|[[Windows Media Player]] Jump List.]]

====Jump lists====

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A triangle to the left of the visible notification icons displays the hidden notification icons. Unlike Windows Vista and Windows XP, the hidden icons are displayed in a window above the taskbar, instead of on the taskbar. Icons can be dragged between this window and the notification area.

[[Image:Aero Peek.png|left|thumb|Windows 7 desktop displayed through Peek.]]

====Aero Peek====

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====Device Stage====

[[File:Windows 7 - Device Stage (Sansa e250).png|thumb|A Device Stage window showing available options for a [[Microsoft]] Wireless Comfort [[Computer keyboard|Keyboard]] 4000.]]

Device Stage provides a centralized ___location for an externally connected multi-function device to present its functionality to the user. When a device such as a [[portable music player]] is connected to the system, the device appears as an icon on the task bar, as well as in Windows Explorer.