1. Vista and I are not twins.

2. UAC is not a security cure-all.

3. 40 percent of UAC prompts are from Windows, not as many as you'd think.

4. As of Feb. 10, 2009, beta me has become unavailable for download, but if you started downloading before that you can continue the download until Feb. 12.

5. The above schedule is not applicable to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

6. You can upgrade to me from XP, as long we have an understanding of "upgrade" to mean "reformat your machine and do a fresh install."

7. I don't play well with McAfee, but Kaspersky, AVG and Symantec are cool.

8. For low-end notebooks, or "netbooks," OEMs will try my Windows 7 Starter flavor, but Windows 7 Home Premium will let you reap my full experience.

9. Windows 7 Starter will only let you run three applications at a time, but it's for OEMs offering me on PCs with limited hardware.

10. The Ribbon Interface is not a waste in Paint! My applets like Wordpad and Paint benefit from the Ribbon UI because they inherit built-in keyboard accessibility support using ribbon Keytips, have tooltips on all commands, and have ready support for DPI and Windows themes.

11. I am really excited about the new features in Calc: Check and correct, calculation modes and even templates.

12. I am all about "green." If you want to run an HTML report detailing energy-efficiency issues, type in the following at an elevated command prompt: powercfg/energy -- close any open programs.

13. Windows 7 Ultimate costs $350? Unsubstantiated rumor!

14. Regarding my different SKUs, you try making a pizza for a billion people!

15. With me, multiple volumes can now be defragmented in parallel -- no more waiting for one volume to finish before initiating the same action on another volume.

16. My taskbar is 10 pixels higher than in Vista.

17. Some of my best qualities? Less CPU, less disk I/O.

18. Windows' borders remain in Aero transparency when maximized, unlike in Vista.

19. 1 GB will be enough to run Windows 7 ... No, really.

20. Beta Time Bomb. August 1. Period.

21. The default time it takes between hovering a mouse over a taskbar item and the display of its thumbnail image is 400 milliseconds.

22. You can change the about setting by changing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse MouseHoverTime registry key value.

23. I am on Facebook: My Facebook page

24. I have 8,485 fans on Facebook. Linux has 91,503.

25. Won't you become my fan? Please?

The clock is ticking for those that want to play around with the Windows 7 beta.

Microsoft issued a late reminder on Monday that people had only until midnight Pacific time to start downloading the operating system.

Those who started their download in time have until 9 a.m. PST Thursday to finish the process, Microsoft has said. Those who went to the site on Tuesday were able to get a product key, but not the code itself.

"We're sorry, but downloads are no longer available," Microsoft says when users click through from the download page.


The betta fish, the unofficial mascot of the Windows 7 beta.
(Credit: CNET News)

Although the beta version will cease being available to the general public, members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programs will continue to have access to the code.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the Windows 7 Beta at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. After a slight hiccup, Microsoft made the code available on January 10.

The software maker has said the next test version of Windows 7 will be a near-final "release candidate" version, although it has not said when to expect that to arrive. Officially Microsoft has said that the final version of Windows 7 will come by the end of January 2010, although the company has been aiming to get it done in time to be on PCs that ship for this year's holiday-shopping season.

Dreamscene wallpaper for Windows Vista with loop, made in Adobe After Effects CS3 (Plugins: Trapcode Form, Trapcode Shine & Knoll Light Factory Pro).

Format: .wmv
Resolution: 1024x768 only

Author: filipe-ps | Website: deviantart.com

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- shutdown, reboot and lock gadget
- cpu en ram gadget
- disk monitor gadget for 3 drives
- disk monitor gadget for 1 drive
- network gadget with 'history display'
- network gadget for download traffic only
- network gadget for upload traffic only
- a feed reader
- desktop calendar
- analogue clock
- colourful and white postit notes
- a radio stream player
- uptime, local ip address, battery, online en wi-fi monitor gadget
- a weather forecast gadget

16 pieces in total

Author: gersma | Website: deviantart.com

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Animated Dreamscene wallpaper for Windows Vista with loop, made in Adobe After Effects CS3 (Plugins: Trapcode Form & Trapcode Shine).

_{Wide: 1920x1200, 1680x1050 & 1440x900}

You need DeskScapes for this to work...

Author: filipe-ps | Website: deviantart.com

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