Windows 7 M1 Release 2 Improvements

[Jamesy]

From another forum, but I found it interesting :)


A new build of 7 has popped up at thinknext. Some great improvements on this go-round. UAC, Health Center, and Search has greatly improved.

UAC - If it recognizes that your are constantly getting those permission required windows within a certain amount of time it will ask you if you would like to temporarily suppress the messages and go ahead and give you the go ahead with administrator privileges. A great feature that needed to be done.

Health Center - Greatly improved. Gives you more information to what is going on. It also has settings to disable an array of checks for different areas, such as UAC or Virus Protection.

Search - Hot damn. Reminds me of WinFS. Search on the fly faster than it does in Vista. This is one thing that I like the most.

Shell - Some things have been added to the FolderBand such as open Preview Pane. It's docked on the right along with the Views drop down. A new view has been added to views selection called Smart Details. This was in the first build of 7 but has improved. It tells you the details based on the content in the folder. Such as music, it will show rating, duration, etc.


http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/mycomputer1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/explorermusic1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/explorerpic1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/systraywarning1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/systraywarningclick1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/healthcenter1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/helcentsettings1.png
http://www.thinknext.net/content/2008/04/newuaca.jpg

Video:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2408152/7478980

Build info:

NT: 6.1
Ver: 6574
Date: March 2008?

[Jordy]

I'm hoping Vienna (Windows 7) will change dramatically in it's later changes like Vista did. Vista originally looked like XP but turned out to be rather different in terms of appearance and features by the time it was released.

Vienna just looks like a few fixes of Vista so far and a few 'useful' additions, I doubt many people would buy it if it came out tomorrow, few years yet anyway, but it's been disappointing as usual so far :P

You can already block 'Windows requires your permission' alerts and similar things anyway.

Just go to 'Windows security center' and turn off 'User account control' under 'Other security settings'.

[Stephen!]

Vienna only looks like vista because they have done the coding for it they just have not made it's own GUI

[Jamesy]

I'm hoping Vienna (Windows 7) will change dramatically in it's later changes like Vista did. Vista originally looked like XP but turned out to be rather different in terms of appearance and features by the time it was released.

Vienna just looks like a few fixes of Vista so far and a few 'useful' additions, I doubt many people would buy it if it came out tomorrow, few years yet anyway, but it's been disappointing as usual so far :P

You can already block 'Windows requires your permission' alerts and similar things anyway.

Just go to 'Windows security center' and turn off 'User account control' under 'Other security settings'.


Something like this I think:

http://www.tehupload.com/9267697721.jpg

[Decode]

You tube video
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ykX1GUU5JqI