Windows 7 Games Explorer – Your Games Companion

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If you’re skipping Windows Vista and directly jumping into Windows 7 from Windows XP, you’ll be surprised with lots of features offered in Windows 7 that you can’t found in Windows XP (of course). Some of these feature are the refinement of what was introduced in Windows Vista but make it way into Windows 7 with a lot more features.

Game Explorer is one such feature, first introduced in Windows Vista. Imagine Game Explorer just as the common windows/file explorer that you use daily to manage your file. It assist you to manage all games installed in your computer without miss. Whether it is the default games that comes with operating system, or advance games such as Grand Theft or Fifa, Games Explorer will taking care of that games properly.

One feature in Game Explorer that you’ll appreciate the most is, it’s ability to find and notify you if it found new updates on any of your games. To make your life even easier, you can download and install the update from inside the Game Explorer itself. Do note that this option can be turned on or off depend on your preference.

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Other feature that you will found useful if you have kids is, the Parental Control setting. By default all games has been set with parental control set by Windows 7. If you prefer other filter, there are a lot of predefined set of parental control that already available which you can choose from.

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Having all these wonderful features are meaningless if it can’t be viewed easily. If you notice, the Game Explorer windows is separated into 2 section. The left hand side is the list of games itself, and the right section is where the information will be displayed when any games is selected. Info about games that will be displayed here is the parental control, update notification and the statistic of the game.

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Microsoft To End Support Windows Vista Without Service Pack and Windows XP SP2

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With Windows 7 copies selling skyrocketing beyond Vista, it is a matter of time before Microsoft put an end to Windows’ older version. It’s not surprise to see that support to Windows XP SP2 32 bit will end by 13th July 2010, while 64 bit has longer lifeline until 18 April 2014.

Support to Windows Vista without service pack will end in about a month as well, or precisely 14-April-2010. This radical move is timely when Microsoft is still struggling to force  Vista users to upgrade to Vista SP1 which is more stable and secure.

The end of support will means no new update such as bug fix or security update will be released for these operating system. This pose security threat to the machines still running this OS version which  vulnerable to attack from virus, spyware and etc.

Microsoft is recommending every computer running older version of OS to upgrade to Windows 7, but not every computer are compatible with Windows 7 especially older computer. Upgrading from older OS version also is a pain process, when usually clean install is the best way to get your computer running efficiently.

Unlock Windows 7′s Hidden Themes

Beside hunting for wonderful Windows 7 themes on Internet, interestingly there are also hidden themes does exist in Windows 7. The hidden themes are originally meant to visible for certain countries only based on their folder name, but by using this workaround, you can have and activate the themes for your own usage as well.

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Here are the themes called Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom and United Kingdom. In less then 5 minutes, you have 5 additional themes to delight your day.

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February’s New Windows 7 Themes

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It is time to give your Windows 7 computer another fresh looks.  By default, most Windows 7 only provides 8-10 themes like what I had in my computer. That is just to fewl.

There are tonnes of gorgeous Windows 7 themes out there, but if you prefer to spend your time on something else, you can get the news themes directly from official Windows 7 theme gallery by Microsoft.

As of now, there are 58 themes available to choose from, including 6 new themes such as ‘Samsung Winter Sports’, Valentine and Year of Tiger. New themes usually released in accordance of any events such as Olympic or festive season such as Chinesse New Year.

10 Windows 7 Accessories Program For Beginners

Windows 7 has been around for couple of months now. The respond from customers so far favors this operating software compared to it’s predecessor. If you just started using Windows 7 like me, here are some Windows 7 accessories program that you may interested to use. Some of them does help making the OS more fun to use as well.

1. Snipping Tool

Simple yet useful screen capture software suitable for all level of users. One of the best screen capture software I ever used. Warning: Not for advance users looking for advance feature. I’ve written once about it before.

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2. Sticky Note

Sticky note help you to remember anything that you deem important, but you’re going to do it later. Not meant as procrastination tool, but more toward as reminder. Stick to the desktop, it is easily viewable when you’re switching between the app in the desktop. Available in different color as well.

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3. Connect To Projector

No more guessing the sequence key (usually combination of ‘fn’ + ‘projector’ key) to expand your screen to other monitor or projector. This shortcut let you choose which mode conveniently.  This menu is also viewable if your press ‘fn’ + ‘projector’ key.

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4. Sync Center

Sync Center let you sync any folder in your computer with folder in external drive plugged to the computers or network drive.

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5. Paint

Paint, basic image editor software which has been shipped with Windows since Windows 95 day. From that version until Window XP, it have not received much changes or probably not at all. The new Paint shipped with Windows 7 is totally a new Paint. Having the new UI as other product under Microsoft Office 2007, it still pretty much basic image editor but with more new features such as ‘Undo and Redo’, image rotation compared tot he earlier version.

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6. Calculator

Gone are the days when calculator can only perform basic mathematics function such as add, subtract, device and etc. The new calculator capable of doing complex mathematics function with addition of Scientific, Programmer and Statistic calculator on top of the standard calculator.

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7. Windows Easy Transfer

Windows Easy Transfer made the process of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 easier. It helps you to transfer all files to Windows 7 in exception of application installed in your older machine. Windows Easy transfer allow you to transfer the files directly from computer to computer using Belkin’s Easy Transfer cable, or use external hard rive as the temporary storage from your older machine before transferred permanently to the Windows 7 machine.

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8. Resource Monitor

Just in case you want to monitor your computer perfomance, Resource Monitor is what you need. It provide more comprehensive monitoring than Windows Task Manager, where if you select any program currently running, the breakdown of module currently running will be shown as well. If you computer is powered by multicore processor, you have option to view only at certain core.

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9. Windows Mobility Center

All in one menu to control your computer setting. It let you control the volume, Wifi, Bluetooth, sound, display and etc The setting may vary from one computer vendor to another.

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10. Wordpad

Notepad is just too basic for certain people, and Microsoft Office is way to expensive. The new Wordpad fits the bill as basic word editing software. Now comes with standard UI just like other Office suites, it offer variety of new options to help you build the document you need in a very simple way.

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