Getting Windows 7 on your HP Touchsmart PC

Windows 7 certainly has a lot of potential to allow users to fully take advantage of touch-surface interfaces, and the HP Touchsmart PC is no exception. If you are planning to get one or already have one, it would be a fun project to install Windows 7 on it and expand your Touchsmart’s touch-screen capabilities.

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Measuring Up Windows 7’s New “Super” Taskbar

One of the most obvious changes you’ll see when you first boot into Windows 7 is the new taskbar dubbed the “superbar”. Most people like it, some don’t, but I think overall its a large improvement over that little strip of screen real estate which has not had a major renovation since Windows XP.

For some users, one hurdle of the new “superbar” is its enormous size, or so it appears. To set the record straight, I conducted a little side-by-side experiment with two quick-launch items and two active applications on both Vista and Windows 7. Together with a measuring tape in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other, I counted. Soon enough, I grew impatient and resorted to Photoshop instead. Here’s how they measured up.

In conclusion, some interesting findings. The Windows Start “pearl” button actually shrunk by about 8 pixels. Quick launch items are given more than twice the width and three times the width with Windows 7’s small and large icons respectively. Application buttons have relatively remain unchanged from Vista (and do not change in width with small icons), at the same time appearing much more elegant.

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Windows 7 Beta Damages Some MP3

It is probably fair to say that the Windows 7 builds that have been floating around on the Internet are very stable and that only a handful of minor errors have been reported yet. According to Neowin the latest two builds of Windows 7 that leaked to the Internet may damage mp3 files under certain circumstances.

The problem was first recognized by users who noticed that the first few seconds of their mp3 files had been cut off. Some thought it was related to bad crossfading first but it soon turned out that the data was not there anymore. Many users thought it was caused by Windows Media Player 12 but it turned out to be a global problem.

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Windows 7 Beta 1 Leaked

It was only a matter of time before the latest version of Windows 7 would make its way to the dark side of the Internet. Windows 7 build 7000 is available since yesterday on various torrent websites and also available through various other Internet services. The nfo file claims that it is the original MSDN Testers version.

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Blue Screen Error at Window Launch by Bill Gates