Anatomy of features one by one - Wonderful taskbar in Windows 7

Chaitanya Sareen of Microsoft Windows Team wrote an article on the development blog on the 20th. The article details some of the information on the taskbar of Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 7. From the article we saw a revolution. The new Windows taskbar of meaning.

1.Refreshed Look

The new design, with large icons enabled, looks almost as big as the Mac's Dock. According to Chaitanya, this design is mainly It is to improve the "touch" operation experience. Well, after all, if you are a little bigger, the finger operation will be easier. Personally, I don’t really like the taskbar taking up too much space. Now the notebook screen is full of widescreen, the vertical viewing area is Small, now a taskbar is fully occupied.

2.Pinning

Pushpin function. You can drag a running program to the taskbar, you can directly In the taskbar, you can see the current status of the program. It is like you are copying. The taskbar will directly see the current progress. This function is quite practical.

3.Unification

After reunification. This time, Microsoft will be combined with quick start with a program which has been running the taskbar and you change the width of the Quick Launch bar, it is not that where you can also put something else? Microsoft believes that starting a program is somewhat the same as switching an already running program, and unifying them here.

4.Interactive,Grouped Thumbnails

Interactive grouping Thumbnail. This friend who is concerned about Windows 7 should know what is going on. When you run multiple identical programs, such as IE, the window will automatically become a group after too many windows open, in the taskbar in Windows 7. The grouped program can also see the thumbnails. Unlike Vista, only a single program can see the thumbnails. But what about this feature when there are too many startup programs? It is estimated that when more than 20 IE windows are opened, thumbnails are also unavailable.

5.Aero Peek

How to say this allows you to display only the current Window, and all other windows only show translucent borders, which look like water ripples. Of course, it depends on how many windows you open, but in general this function is not powerful with aero shake.

6.Jump Lists

Popup menu. This thing I want to use a similar software should have an impression, you can generate a folder in the quick launch bar, in the file Inside the folder you can group some related programs, click on the group, the pre-set program will pop up a list, you can perform the corresponding operation. Of course, in Windows 7, Microsoft has enhanced this function, such as this picture As shown above, right-clicking on Word 2007 in the taskbar will bring up a menu. The above content is actually the operation you want to open Word 2007, such as opening the latest document.

7.Custom Window Switchers

Custom Port switching method. Now mainstream browsers can implement multi-tab management windows, such as IE 7, you can open multiple tags in an IE program, these tags may be related to a certain website, you can Open an IE program, the label in this program is a web page related to other websites. This means that the management page looks more convenient. Windows 7 brings this idea in. You can follow your personal preferences, right Customizing the window switching method of the program,

8.Thumbnail Toolbars

Toolbar thumbnails. This function looks similar to the above, but when you run Windows Media Player Found its function, right click on WMP in the taskbar, will pop up a window like Jump Lists, but unlike Jump Lists, this is a simple operation on the video or the audio being played, such as pause or change The next song.

9.Notification Area

The information reminder area has been greatly improved with Windows Xp and Vista. The wake-up method also takes advantage of the Jump Lists feature, which is very convenient when you switch networks.

10.Overlay Icons and Progress Bars

Putting shortcuts and running The programs are integrated together. Through this integrated icon, you can see that the currently running program will be integrated with the icon " integration, so that you will not run a program again. As shown, the third The icon has a similar effect to the progress bar, indicating that the current program is already running. The benefit of integrating it is that the taskbar is less crowded.

11.Color Hot-track< Br>

This colorized "track" surprise may be the biggest. The background color of the icon will be different each time you put the mouse on the program shortcut. This function can also be displayed. Whether the current program is running, but I did not see what is going on, the function in the test, people can not touch the mind.

Introduction to the Windows7 taskbar Here, in general, Windows 7 is more worthy of everyone than Vista. Upgrade, XP users who have not used Vista may wish to consider upgrading to Windows 7. Windows7 resource usage and hardware requirements are much better than Vista.