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Ärende: Teh Pros of Win 7
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Sorry I forgot the Text!!  :-)  :-)
Since I posted why to stay with you havew rather then Win 7 and got some
responses I thought I would post the Pros of upgrading.
All this from the "Windows Secrets Newsletter".

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The pros and cons of switching to Windows 7

If you're still sitting on the fence about upgrading to Windows 7 -
after all, it's been widely available for all of a few hours now - I'd
like to regale you with my top eight reasons to jump in with both feet.

I'll also tell you three possible reasons for keeping the new OS on the
shelf - for a while, at least.

After you wade through the Win7 marketing hype, you'll find a solid core
of real improvements in the new release. There are many aspects of
Windows 7 that cry out for adopting it and just a few that suggest
sticking with Vista or XP.

 8. Windows 7 is easier on the eyes

No doubt you're way beyond the stage where fancy wallpaper and cute
icons curl your toes, but any way you look at it, Windows 7's a stunner.
From wallpaper that changes itself to the tightly controlled group of
icons in the area near the clock, Win7 puts the things you need most
where you need them. The OS also moves the flotsam out of the way.

Since there's no Sidebar in Windows 7 - good riddance, I say - Win7's
gadgets move to the high-rent district of the desktop, where you can
move, resize, and snap them together neatly.

 7. The Action Center puts all the nags in one place

Windows XP and Vista are notorious for scattering important information
all over creation. At the same time - and quite perversely - every
two-bit application you install on an XP or Vista PC can pop up annoying
messages, distracting your attention while you're trying to get some
work done.

Win7 reduces the shrill impositions to a minimum by funneling almost all
interactions through the Action Center. Yes, the Action Center has its
roots in the old Security Center, but it's all grown up now.

The Action Center serves as traffic cop for announcements that inform,
warn, and often annoy. But rather than a pop-up window, the only alert
you'll see is a flag in the notification area (near the clock) that
turns yellow or red as needs dictate.

 6. Win7's security is stronger and less intrusive

Security stuff gets complicated very quickly. Suffice it to say that
Windows 7 is significantly more difficult to crack than Vista, which in
turn was an order or magnitude tougher to break into than XP. (Internet
Explorer and the .NET Framework are noteworthy exceptions.)

Compared to Vista's in-your-face User Account Control (UAC), the
equivalent in Windows 7 is clipped and reined in. You can get to the
settings easily. For most people, security won't be nearly so difficult
in Win7 as it was in Vista - and it won't be as, uh, permeable as it was
in XP.

 5. You can make a movie of what ails your PC

If you haven't seen Windows 7's new Problem Steps Recorder (PSR), you
owe it to yourself to try it. Click Start, type psr, and hit Enter. This
little utility lets you record everything on the screen - except the
stuff you type - as it happens. When you're done, PSR spits out an MHTML
file that can be opened and played back in Internet Explorer.

Like the Snipping Tool in Vista (also available in Win7), once you try
PSR, you won't know how you ever lived without it.

 4. Search works - finally!

Windows XP's built-in search feature is a slow, painful, buggy joke. In
Vista, search is a little less labored, occasionally usable, but still
unreliable.

In Windows 7, Microsoft has, at long last, woven search into the
operating system itself. There's no noticeable system overhead, searches
proceed fairly quickly, and - most important of all - the results are
accurate.

You can initiate a search from just about any location in Windows 7: on
the Start menu, inside Control Panel, and in Windows Explorer. Although
there are a few idiosyncrasies - such as no true wildcard searches and
text searches that match only the beginnings of words - searches in Win7
usually find what you're looking for.

 3. You get better control of your devices

Windows 7 centralizes control of all devices: printers, MP3 players,
phones, keyboards, mice, fax machines, and anything else you plug into
your computer. The controls all appear in a place called Device Stage.

The revolutionary part of Device Stage isn't its omniscience. Windows
has had various Devices and Printers-type capabilities for years. Device
Stage differs in that manufacturers have started writing their drivers
to hook into Device Stage directly.

If you're tired of having 10 different programs in 10 different places
to control your attached hardware, those days are rapidly drawing to a
close. The junky little programs that go with the devices will
disappear, too. At least I hope they will. So long, commercial
driver-update utilities!

 2. Win7 Libraries beat out My Documents any day

I first described Windows 7's Libraries feature in my May 14 Top Story.
While Libraries don't do away with the need to organize your files, they
make it much, much simpler to track files and put them in the right
locations.

"A place for everything, and everything in its place," as Mom used to
say. With Windows 7 Libraries, file management is easier than ever.

 1. HomeGroup makes sharing safe, fast, and fun

A stroke of pure design genius, Windows 7 HomeGroup bundles all the
sharing options you'd likely want in order to make files, printers, and
media accessible to any other Windows 7 PC on your network.

As described in my May 14 Top Story and my Oct. 1 Woody's Windows column
(paid content), homegroups work only among Windows 7 PCs - there's
nothing analogous in XP or Vista. Still, sharing among Win7 PCs couldn't
be simpler.

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