36 new features for Windows 7

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited February 2009 in Science & Tech
36 new features for Windows 7

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  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Customers informed us that sometimes their audio streams did not properly move from the default speakers to their headphones. The fix required an update to the algorithm we use to detect new devices. In RC the transition works more reliably.

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

    Using the laptop, if I wanted to switch from using laptop speakers with WMP to headphones, it required me to close WMP and reopen it, sometimes even requiring me to disable the default speakers and/or unplug/replug the headphones.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    WMP supports .mov? Next thing you know Quicktime "Pro" will be free or WMP will let me watch DVDs. Cats and birds living together. Mass hysteria!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    WMP lets you watch DVDs in both Vista and 7.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Keebs is blown away.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    It has the ability but doesn't it require an additional codec?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    No.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Snarkasm wrote:
    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

    Using the laptop, if I wanted to switch from using laptop speakers with WMP to headphones, it required me to close WMP and reopen it, sometimes even requiring me to disable the default speakers and/or unplug/replug the headphones.

    Weird. I've had the exact opposite experience and have actually been impressed with how well 7 handles me plugging in or removing my USB headset while using WMP, MPC, while gaming, or streaming from Netflix or Hulu. It has switched to the new device without issue. I often had to close and restart applications under Vista if I plugged in or removed the USB headset.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    USB devices could be handled differently. It could also just be a driver issue with my particular laptop. Time will tell.
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited February 2009
    Awesome, this drove me nuts.
    33. Reviving familiar entry points
    Mando writes, “In Win7 the Win+E shortcut opens an explorer window but the path is “Libraries” instead (which isn’t where I want to go most of the time). Is there a way to configure the target folder of “Win+E” or is there an alternate shortcut that will get me to the “Computer” path like it did in Vista?” RC reverts the behavior and now the shortcut will launch the “Computer” Explorer. Also, we changed the link in Start Menu -> Username to match the Vista behavior.
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