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We’ve designed Windows 7 to be the easiest, fastest, and most engaging version of Windows yet. We
focused on helping your PC perform the way you want it to—quickly, easily, and with less effort. Although
many of the new improvements are under the covers, Windows 7 also includes many more visible
enhancements that will help you play with, work with, and manage your PC.
The following table highlights some of the features that we think you’ll really like.
Key Feature What You Can Do
Aero Shake Click a window pane and shake your mouse to minimize all
other open windows. Shake the pane again to restore the
windows to their original sizes.
Aero Themes and Aero Background Use new themes or choose a slideshow of your favorite photos
to make your PC re ect your personal taste.
BitLocker and BitLocker To Go Help protect sensitive data with new, easier ways to protect
and recover drives and extend that protection to USB remov-
able storage devices, such as ash memory drives and
portable hard disk drives.
Home Media Streaming Use your PC as a hub and make music, videos, photos, and
recorded TV available on other PCs or stream it to supported
devices using Play To.
HomeGroup Easily share les and printers between PCs running Windows 7
that are connected to your home network.
Improved Windows Taskbar Open les and get around your PC faster. Pin programs you
use often to the taskbar and launch them with a single click.