New Features of Windows 7

Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech, and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors,improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.

Desktop Slideshow
Windows Explorer includes a desktop slideshow that changes the desktop background in a designated amount of time with a smooth fading transition. This feature supports pre-downloaded sets of wallpapers and also supports photo RSS feed.

Branding and customization
OEMs and enterprises are able to customize the logon screen wallpaper of Windows 7 that is displayed before a user logs on.

Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer's revised user interface.


Libraries
Windows Explorer in Windows 7 supports Libraries, virtual folders described in a .library-ms file that aggregates content from various locations - including shared folders on networked systems - and present them in a unified view. Searching in a library automatically federates the query to the remote systems, in addition to searching on the local system, so that files on the remote systems are also searched. Unlike search folders, Libraries are backed by a physical location which allows files to be saved in the Libraries.

Keyboard shortcuts

A variety of new keyboard shortcuts have been introduced.

Global keyboard shortcuts:

* Win+Space operates as a keyboard shortcut for Aero Peek.
* Win+Up and Win+Down are new shortcuts for Maximize and Restore/Minimize.
* Win+Shift+Up vertically maximises the current window
* Win+Left and Win+Right snap the current window to the left or right half of the current display; successive keypresses will move the window to other monitors in a multi-monitor configuration.
* Win+Shift+Left and Win+Shift+Right move the current window to the left or right display.
* Win+ + and Win+ − (minus sign) zoom the desktop in and out.
* Win+Home operates as a keyboard shortcut for Aero Shake.
* Win+P shows an "external display options" selector that gives the user the choice of showing the desktop on only the computer's screen, only the external display, with the same output on both (clone), or on both displays with independent desktops (extend).

Action Center
This is very useful,here all messages like "your antivirus is not updated",such things will be there,so whenever we are free,we can check those messages,it wont pop like in xp or vista.

Another feature is docs,we can drag and drop icons to task bars if we want.
There is one very useful feature,that is removing devices safely,here name of drive(usb drive) will be displayed so we can remove appropriate drive without confusion.

There are many features of Windows 7,the above mentioned features i liked the most