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Please also check out the Vista page, as most of that applies to Windows 7 too!

Windows 7 Resources

• Windows 7 Beta Forums
• Windows 7 Springboard Series
• 30 Windows 7 Secrets - features you may not have heard about
• Engineering 7 - team blog with lots of useful info
• Windows 7 Features Announced

Networking

• Share files between Windows 7 and XP
• How to add a network shared folder to a Document Library
• HomeGroup makes it MUCH easier to set up peer-to-peer networks between computers running Windows 7
• DHCP Improvements in Windows 7 - basically it used to be that wireless clients would always do a full re-negotiation even if it had seen the network before (unlike LAN connections which would try to reclaim their old IP, making the connection experience shorted) - this is no longer true with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Security

• Review of Windows 7 Bitlocker

System

• Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals - a downloadable Excel spreadsheet (Vista)
• Windows Vista Compatibility - online search for hardware and software compatible with Vista
• Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 supports Windows 7
• Installing Vista Drivers in Windows 7
• Install Windows 7 from a USB thumb drive
• Remove the Feedback Link in Windows 7 (if you use another avenue to submit bugs & feedback, of course)
• Unlock protected features in Windows 7

Devices, Printers, etc

• How to install printers, scanners and fax machines on Windows 7

New Features

• Network Aware Default Printer - you can now have a different default printer for each network that you connect to

Speed Tips

Hold CTRL when clicking to select a window that has been grouped with other similar windows - you will automatically be taken to the last active window. Keep clicking and you'll cycle through them, in order of last access.

Win+Right/Left - snap to side of screen

Win + SHIFT + Right/Left - move window between multiple screens

Virtualization

• Managing Hyper-V from Windows 7

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