Greatly improve user productivity - Windows 7 five humanized features

after several changes, with the release of the official version of Windows 7, its functions, components finally settled. In fact, most users are pragmatists. For a new system, they are more concerned about whether the system can improve their work efficiency. Windows 7 has a lot of new features, which are helpful for improving work efficiency? This article will talk to you about several new Windows 7 features and how to use them to improve our productivity.

1. Credential Manager - Improve Access Speed ​​and Quick Migration

When logging in to a remote computer or visiting a site, we usually enter username and password information. These repetitive operations will affect our work efficiency and experience. In fact, for local users, we can save these access credentials (users, passwords, certificates, etc.) locally, and the system automatically completes the authentication of credentials when accessing. Process, which will undoubtedly improve our work efficiency. The Credential Manager is such a system component that helps us with the authentication work for local access. In fact, this component is available from Vista, but undoubtedly the credential manager in Windows 7 is more functional and more practical.

Open the Control Panel and display all Control Panel items to find the Credential Manager. Go to this page to see that the Credential Manager does not save any credentials by default. However, here we can add three types of credentials: Windows Credentials, Certificate-Based Credentials, and Common Credentials. Relatively speaking, "Windows Credentials" and "Ordinary Credentials" are used more. In particular, "Windows Credentials", we can add the credentials of the HomeGroup, the credentials of the remote desktop, shared credentials, and so on. As for "normal credentials," we can add the credentials of sites that we regularly visit, such as Windows Live. The method of adding credentials is very simple. To add "Windows Credentials" as an example, click the "Add Windows Credentials" link to enter the Add Credentials window. Here, we enter the name of the destination address (Internet address or network address) or the URL address, as well as the user name and password, and finally "OK". In addition, the credential information stored in the Credential Manager can be modified and deleted at any time.

Adding access credentials to the Credential Manager not only facilitates our access to the target site, but also allows us to migrate quickly. Once the credentials have been added, we can save the credential information by clicking the Backup Vault link in the Credential Manager window. When you have installed a new system, or if we want to migrate it to another PC, click the Restore Vault link in the Credential Manager window to restore it to the new system without having to add it again. In this way, with the “Credential Manager” function, we do not need to re-maintain the remote desktop list, and we no longer need to separately record the password generated by the HomeGroup, which will greatly liberate the administrator.

2. Resource Manager - Quick Copy, Move Folder

Copying and moving files is a very common daily operation. Normally, in order to complete the copying or operation of the file, we need to open both the source folder and the target folder, and frequently switch. This process is not only cumbersome and time consuming, but this situation has been improved in Windows 7. I don't know if you didn't notice that there are two functions "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" under the "Edit" menu of Windows 7 Resource Manager. With these two functions, we can easily copy or move one or more files and one or more folders to the target location quickly. However, by default Windows Explorer does not display the menu bar. We can press the ALT key on the keyboard or adjust the folder options so that the menu bar is always displayed. This way, when we want to copy or move a file or folder to the target folder, just select the source file or folder (one or more), and then perform "Edit" → "Copy to Folder" ("Move Go to the folder "), a dialog box will pop up, we just need to locate the target address.

Of course, we can also take a more convenient method, like "copy", "paste" to integrate these two functions into the right-click menu, call at any time.

3, library - improve file management efficiency

Under normal circumstances, the user map will often save the file at any position on the disk, without reasonable coordination class. This will accumulate a large number of files in our computer over time, and these files are stored in an irregular manner, if you want to find a file in which you can find a needle in a haystack. Although, from Vista, Microsoft has strengthened the search function of the system. However, if you forget the file name and can't search, even if you know the file name, it will take too much time to perform a full search. Perhaps based on this consideration, Microsoft has provided a new feature called "library" in Windows 7. With this function, we can not only add multiple files saved in different locations on the local disk to the corresponding "library", but also map non-local files to the library, which makes it very convenient to find our own library. Required documents.

We assume a scenario where someone has a good habit of storing non-type files in different disk partitions, and he wants to browse through these files in a unified location without having to access specific Disk partition. Or there is a folder hidden very deep, access to the folder is very troublesome, how to achieve fast access? Undoubtedly, this is not possible in Windows 7 systems, and can be achieved by using the "library" function of Windows 7. In the "Computer" window, in the pane, we can see the "Library" node, under which there are several libraries in the system default.

Here, we can create a new library and add the target files and folders to the library. The way to do this is to right-click on the "Library" icon and select the "New" → "Library" command to automatically create a library, and then name the library just like to name the folder, such as ctocio. Next, right click on the library named ctocio in the Explorer navigation area and select the "Properties" command to pop up its properties dialog box, click the "Include Folders" button in the dialog box, and then navigate to the folder you want to include. Select the folder for the path and click the "Include Folder" button below. Of course, you can right-click on the folder and select "Include to Library" to find the library you want to protect. Again, we're adding other folders that need to be managed together. In this way, when you need to access these folders, you don't need to switch back and forth to these folders for access. Just open the corresponding "library" and click to enter the corresponding folder in the "Library" to quickly access the target file.

It should be noted that the location added to the document library will not actually be moved, but just add a "shortcut" to the target in the document library, and the file will be saved in the original location. . In addition, when we move the target folder corresponding to the folder contained in the "Library" to another place, the library link does not expire, it will very intelligently detect the movement of the folder and automatically update the file path. That is, only a folder can be added to the library, no matter where we move the folder, it can be centrally managed or accessed through the corresponding library.