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CHAPTER 1

Get Started with Windows 7

Windows 7 is like a pumpkin: handsome and plump on the outside, but a big

mess on the inside. So get out your knife and start carving.

Now, there was a lot in 7’s predecessor, Windows Vista, that Microsoft got

right, or almost right. But face it: Windows 7 exists because of everything that

was wrong with Vista.

First and foremost, Windows 7 is faster than Vista, and by some accounts,

faster than XP on the same hardware. The staggeringly annoying User Account

Control (UAC) system is still around, but is slightly smarter, in that it doesn’t

interrupt you quite as often, and more customizable than when it debuted in

Vista. And beginner-level networking is theoretically easier with Homegroups,

provided everyone in your house, condo, office, commune, or wikiup drinks

the Kool-Aid and upgrades to Windows 7 (and doesn’t care much about se-

curity).

The new taskbar holds icons for open applications and those not yet running

side by side, much like the dock in Mac OS X (which is itself an adaptation of

the NeXTstep dock from the 1980s). Better yet are the “jump lists,” handy

shortcut menus that appear when you right-click taskbar icons, replacing the

useless 25-year-old system menus found in every preceding version. Windows

7 also throws in a bunch of crowd-pleasing window management shortcuts,

like Aero Peek, Aero Snap, and Aero Shake, as well as some nifty features for

those using multiple displays.

But it’s not all lollipops and rainbows. For starters, upgrading from XP or an

earlier version of Windows can be a chore if you don’t know a few tricks.

Microsoft made some stupid decisions when it came to security which you’ll

need to rectify to keep your data safe and your OS malware-free. Windows

Explorer needs tweaking before it’ll work reliably, and the Search feature is

too slow and its results incomplete.

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