We have posted an article about the problems that were encountered during the initial Windows 7 Beta release on January 9. Users who wanted to download the beta on the release date were greeted with all kinds of error messages which had the result that only a few were actually able to grab a Windows [...]
Microsoft Did Not Expect Such A High Windows 7 Beta Demand
You might have read that the first public beta release of Windows 7 was supposed to happen yesterday. If you followed the news on that day you might know that the beta was first seen on the Chinese Technet site which immediately came to an halt after the news spread. Download links went up on [...]
Windows 7
We have not written many articles about Windows 7 here at Ghacks in the past. This was mainly because of the fact that virtually any other website on the planet did post every tidbit of news that they could get their hands on. Today however is an important date as Microsoft will publish a public [...]
Aero Peek For XP And Vista
Aero Peek is one of the new features that gets introduced in the new Microsoft operating system Windows 7 that is poised to come out later this year. Aero Peek actually refers to a set of features that are introduced, one of them with the ability to show the computer desktop hiding all active windows [...]
Windows 7 Like Taskbar In Windows XP
You might have heard about the Windows 7 Taskbar which will change the interface and functionality of the Windows Taskbar quite a bit. One of the changes is the iconized taskbar which no longer displays the names of the folders and programs by default. It looks similar to the Quick Launch bar. The advantage of [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Nov 12th, 2008
- Comments: 23
Is Windows 7 any different?
I realize that I may not know enough, but does Windows 7 offer any radically different stuff? I mean I am one of the few people who likes Vista, but how exactly is Windows 7 more than a sort of addon? I always feel that instead of a new OS, Windows 7 is what Vista [...]
Unlock Windows 7 M3 Build Locked Features
The Windows 7 M3 build that Microsoft distributed at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles made its way to various P2P networks less than 24 hours after the distribution. It became known shortly thereafter that Microsoft did lock some of the features of the upcoming operating system in that build including the new [...]
