Locating and Use Files and Folders in Windows 7 (02/11/2010)
... To work with these drives and folders, you must select them; to see and work with their contents, you must open them. 1. Click Start and click Computer to open Windows Explorer and display the local disk drives. 2. In the subject pane (right pane), click disk (C:)....

Encrypt files and folders and cleaning disks in Windows 7 (02/11/2010)
... Right-click the file or folder, and choose Properties. In the General tab, click Advanced. The Advanced Attributes dialog box appears. 3. Click Encrypt Contents To Secure Data....

Windows 7 How to connect to the Internet Step by Step (02/11/2010)
... Choose an Internet Connection With most forms of Internet connections, you have a choice of speed and ancillary services, such as the number of free email accounts and possibly a personal Web site. Also, depending on the type of connection, you may need dedicated equipment, such as a modem, DSL router, or satellite receiving equipment, which may or may not be included in the price. For any Internet connection service, ask the provider the following questions: What is both the best and average experienced download (from the Internet to you) and upload (from you to the Internet) speeds in Kbps (kilo or thousands of bits per second) or Mbps (millions of bits per second)? (Bits are a series of ones and zeros that represent data.) You will generally do a lot more downloading than you will uploading. What is the total cost per month for a given speed, including all applicable taxes and fees? What equipment is needed for this service and how much does it cost, either one time or per month? Does the equipment provide hardwired, wireless, or both types of connections? You might want both so you can have both a desktop computer hardwired and a laptop that you can carry around without plugging it in....

Windows 7 does not include a mail program use Windows Live (02/11/2010)
... To do that: 1. Click Start, click Getting Started, and click Get Windows Live Essentials. Internet Explorer will open and display Microsoft’s download.live.com Web site....

Internet connection types available for connecting to Internet (02/11/2010)
... Speed-Download: 512Kbps to 18Mbps, Upload: 256Kbps to 2Mbps Availability: In urban and many suburban areas. There is a maximum distance limit from equipment facilities. Reliability: Very good Monthly Cost: From under $30 to over $60 One-Time Cost: May have setup fees and equipment charges TELEPHONE FIBER OPTIC With the advent of phone companies running fiber optic cable to businesses and homes, they have started offering significantly increased Internet connection speeds. Verizon is one example of this with their FiOS service. Speed-Download: 10Mbps to 50Mbps, Upload: 2Mbps to 20Mbps Availability: Urban and a few suburban areas....

The Windows 7 Shell populates and manages the Recent and Frequent destination (01/27/2010)
... Within the subkey, create a string value with your ProgID in the standard ProgID format (for example, VisualStudio.9.0). Note The following MSDN page offers a detailed walkthrough of this process: http://msdn.microsoft....

Recent and Frequent destination categories provided by the Windows 7 Shell (01/27/2010)
... In managed code, the Windows 7 API Code Pack provides the JumpListItem and JumpListLink classes for working with shell items and shell links. Before populating your Jump List with custom destinations, there are two things to bear in mind: There is a limited amount of screen state for your custom categories and items. You can retrieve the maximum amount of items that can be placed in the Jump List by using the pcMaxSlots parameter of the ICustomDestinationList::BeginList method or its managed equivalent, JumpList.MaxSlotsInList, from the Windows 7 API Code Pack. Placing more items on the screen than is allowed will not result in an error extraneous items will be truncated, top to bottom....

User tasks in Windows 7 and applications (01/27/2010)
... To add a separator, create an IShellLink object and use the IPropertyStore interface to set its System.AppUserModel.IsDestListSeparator property to TRUE. This object can then be added to the Jump List along with the rest of the tasks. The managed equivalent for adding user tasks is the JumpList....

Windows 7 Thumbnail toolbars are an exceptional productivity feature (01/27/2010)
... The thumbnail toolbar is limited to seven toolbar buttons at most. Additionally, although it’s possible to hide or disable toolbar buttons after the toolbar is constructed, you cannot remove or add toolbar buttons. This means that you must decide when constructing the toolbar which thumbnail buttons your application will require throughout its entire lifetime. Later on, you can enable, disable, hide, and show some of the buttons but you can’t change the initial set of toolbar buttons without re-creating the window itself. Note In low-resolution scenarios or when you have a large number of thumbnails to display, the system might trim the thumbnail toolbar from right to left as needed....

Customizing Windows 7 Thumbnail ToolTips (01/27/2010)
... New DWM interfaces introduced in Windows 7 7 are the key to extending taskbar thumbnails and live previews, which explains why the APIs and window messages in this chapter all have the Dwm or WM_DWM prefix. Thumbnail Clipping Jack, a college student, is writing a term paper in Microsoft Office Word. In the background, he’s using a Web encyclopedia in Internet Explorer to aid with his research. After reading the Web article for a while, Jack switches back to Word but struggles to remember the precise wording of the Web article. Jack switches back to Internet Explorer....

Thumbnail Dimensions in Windows 7 (01/27/2010)
...AddThumbnailPreview method and pass the previously created TabbedThumbnail instance as the parameter. To customize the thumbnail preview bitmap, the application needs to use the TabbedThumbnail.SetImage method whenever the thumbnail preview should change. Alternatively, the application can register for the TabbedThumbnail.TabbedThumbnailBitmapRequested event, which is invoked whenever a thumbnail preview bitmap is requested, and call the SetImage method on demand....

The ability of Window Switchers in Windows 7 (01/27/2010)
... This means that for each child window, a proxy top-level window must be created this proxy receives DWM window messages on the child window’s behalf so that an appropriate thumbnail and live preview can be rendered. Here is the process for doing so using the native DWM interfaces: In the WM_CREATE message handler, the window procedure of the child window creates a proxy window (usually an invisible top-level window with a 1-by-1 size) and passes the handle to the proxy window to the ITaskbarList3::RegisterTab function. The main window handle also needs to be passed as the second parameter so that the taskbar knows where to group the new tab. Next, the ITaskbarList3::SetTabOrder function is called to let the taskbar know where the tab belongs in the thumbnail group. (Passing NULL for the last hwndInsertBefore parameter places it at the end of the list....