Windows 7

How to copy files in Windows 7 and the move them (02/11/2010)
(...) Select multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the folder or filenames in the right pane of Windows Explorer. 3. Make sure that you see the File and Folder Tasks in the left Windows Explorer pane. (...)

Windows 7 file recovery tips and Recycle Bin Options (02/11/2010)
(...) Select Explore from the pop-up menu. This displays the contents of the Recycle Bin in a Windows Explorer window. 3. (...)

Create a zip file in Windows 7 and extract all items (02/11/2010)
(...) Once installed, they will be able to access the items in a zip file. The following steps show you how to create a zip file: 1. Select My Computer from the Start menu. (...)

Windows 7 screen saver settings and changes (02/11/2010)
(...) The Displays Properties dialog appears. Select Start, then Control Panel. On the Control Panel, select Appearance and Themes. (...)

Customize the Windows 7 start menu and add shortcuts to the desktop (02/11/2010)
(...) Click on the Customize button to access additional settings for the Start menu. The remaining steps walk you through these options. 4. (...)

Creating a Performance Counter Log in Windows 7 (01/28/2010)
(...) Click Next again it’s not time yet to select the performance counters, but you can customize the sampling time interval for the performance counter log. 6. Specify a directory where you want the logs to be saved, and then click Next. (...)

Performance of Windows 7 and Notebooks (01/28/2010)
(...) Finally, users want the system to let them focus on their tasks, and for any background processing to remain minimal, regardless of how many new features are added between releases of the operating system. Reaching these goals is not a task for operating system developers alone. A typical consumer runs dozens of third-party applications that have nothing to do with Microsoft, and he has several hardware devices plugged into the system that have third-party drivers and background services. (...)

Use the Pan Gesture to Move an Object (01/28/2010)
(...) Because this is part of a larger example that is written in C++, we do not describe in detail any of the other elements, such as painting the rectangle. The gesture info structure includes the dwFlags member, which is used to determine the state of the gesture and can include any of the following values: GF_BEGIN Indicates that the gesture is starting GF_INERTIA Indicates that the gesture has triggered inertia GF_END Indicates that the gesture is ending We’ll use the GF_BEGIN flag to save the initial start coordinates of the touch point as a variable as a reference for the following steps. The gesture information includes the ptsLocation member that contains the X and Y coordinates of the touch point. (...)

Handling the WM GESTURE Message (01/28/2010)
(...) The information about the gesture is found in the lParam parameter, and you need to use a special function GetGestureInfo to decode the gesture message. This function receives a pointer to a GESTUREINFO structure and lParam; if it’s successful, the function fills the gesture information structure with all the information about the gesture: GESTUREINFO gi; ZeroMemory(&gi, sizeof(GESTUREINFO)); gi.cbSize = sizeof(gi); BOOL bResult = GetGestureInfo((HGESTUREINFO)lParam, &gi); Here you can see that you prepare the GESTUREINFO, gi, structure by clearing its content with zeros except for its size and then passing its pointer to the function to fill it with the gesture message information. (...)

How Multitouch Works in Windows 7 (01/28/2010)
(...) Regardless of the technology employed, the touch-sensitive hardware needs to support the Windows 7 multitouch platform, which usually means it needs to have a Windows 7–compatible multitouch driver. The Tablet WISPTIS process is the heart of the Windows 7 multitouch platform, receiving as input the data from the driver and then generating Windows messages in response. It can generate either raw touch input messages in the form of WM_TOUCH messages or gesture messages in the form of WM_GESTURE. (...)

Organize My Data Libraries in Windows 7 (01/28/2010)
(...) The last major update to Windows Explorer was introduced in the Windows Vista timeframe to reflect changes in the user profile storage system that were required to handle large volumes of users’ files. However, that update was simply not enough because in the last couple of years we have witnessed a massive explosion of digital information, and with the ever-growing availability of cheap storage space, users tend to accumulate a lot of “stuff” on their computers. What we refer to as “stuff” is generally files such as digital images, video files, and all sorts of documents. (...)

Changes Made to Windows Explorer in Windows 7 (01/28/2010)
(...) Another improvement in Windows 7 is the integrated search function, which makes it easier to perform a customized search on a given library directly from Windows Explorer by adding to the existing search box specific search filters such as Authors, Modified Date, File Type, Date Taken, and others. These filters are based on metadata associated with each file and are quickly accessible to Windows Explorer because the files in a given library are indexed in advance. For example, the following screen shot displays the view of the Pictures library, including an image preview and the search filters as shown in the gray box in the top right corner. (...)

Make Your Windows 7 Application Library Aware (01/28/2010)
(...) Libraries are also an integral part of the Windows Shell and are promoted across Windows 7 in Windows Explorer, the Start menu, and the Common File Dialog. Windows 7 users will use libraries in their day-to-day activities; they’ll expect applications running on Windows 7 to work properly with libraries and to have the same user experience. Therefore, as developers, you need to know how to work with libraries to make your applications library aware. (...)

Working with the Shell Namespace in Windows 7 (01/28/2010)
(...) The root of the shell namespace hierarchy is the user’s Desktop, followed by virtual folders such as My Computer and Recycle Bin, and of course “regular” folders and files’ shell objects. To navigate the shell namespace, programmers use item ID lists, which contain a path to a shell object. These lists can be absolute (begin at the root of the namespace) or relative, just like file system paths. (...)

Windows 7 Multitouch Programming Models (01/28/2010)
(...) You would expect your application to simply behave as it did in previous versions of the Windows operating system as far as handling keyboard and mouse input is concerned. But at the same time, you would also want your application to have some response to multitouch input to satisfy the end user, who is expecting some reaction when using its touch-sensitive capabilities, even if the response is limited to the application’s existing functionality. The good news is that the Windows 7 multitouch platform provides free, out-of-the-box support for legacy applications that are touch unaware and were not designed to support touch or multitouch that is, out-of-the-box support for a few basic gestures. (...)

Windows 7 installs drivers from trusted publisher (01/12/2010)
(...) Windows 7 Update offers drivers when it detects that you’re running a device that is compatible with that driver and is currently using an older version. (You can also search for the most recent driver viaWindows Update when installing a new device.) In addition, installing a Windows 7 service pack typically refreshes the driver store with new and updated drivers. (...)

Signed drivers under Windows 7 (01/12/2010)
(...) Installation will fail silently for users who are not members of the Administrators group. An administrator can also choose to add this type of signed driver to the driver store, after which it can be installed by any user with no prompts. Drivers that are unsigned, have a signature that is invalid or cannot be verified by a trusted Certificate Authority, or have a digital signature that has been altered can be installed by an administrator on 32-bit (x86) versions of Windows, but they cannot be installed on any 64-bit (x64) version of Windows. (...)

Windows 7 file system FAT32 and NTFS comparison (01/12/2010)
(...) If you’re formatting a USB flash drive, on the other hand, FAT32 is a reasonable choice. In the first place, a flash drive is likely to serve at times as a transfer medium, possibly with operating systems running earlier versions of Windows. Secondly, because NTFS is a journaling file operating system, reading and writing files on NTFS disks involves more disk input/output than similar operations on FAT32 disks. (...)