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The power management technologies in Windows 7 provide platform and processor efficiencies that reduce power consumption and can help lower energy costs. It also provides a better user experience with longer battery life for specific scenarios.

After installing Windows 7, we may find there are several shortcuts pinned to taskbar. The first one is named as Libraries, a new feature in Windows 7, which contains four virtual folders.

In Windows 7, Microsoft introduces an useful feature named Jumplists, which shows the frequent used items of the application. But convenience and security have been a kind of contradiction ever. Jumplists improves usability but brings a risk of privacy leak as well. So someone may have tried to have it disabled.

If every time your Windows computer starts, your explorer does not start and you are left seeing the wallpaper only, and you are left with no choice, but to start explorer.exe manually, then here are a few troubleshooting steps you may want to try.

As we know, Windows 7 has been quite popular there. But if you want to try Windows 7 on your netbook which has no Drive or a Notebook with Combo Drive, it will be a kind of pain.

I think some of you who were still running Windows XP might want to test Windows 7 to make it certain whether it's worth upgrading or not. But something unlucky happened and the Windows XP cannot boot after the Windows 7 installation. If you have a bad luck like me, here is a possible solution.

We know a great many of computer users is used to using key combinations, instead of mouse clicking in certain scenarios. With the help of  keyboard shortcuts, these geeks can make works more efficiently. Here are a list of keyboard shortcuts related to Windows Logo key in Windows 7, provided by Microsoft. Try to use them.

During our every day use of Windows, it is common to meet a scenario read as the picture below. This message box appears when we are deleting something used by another process. But it is quite a pain to find out which process it is. In this case, usually we have to unlock the file with the help of tools, Unlocker, for example, so that we can remove the file easily.

When i was still running Windows Vista, several people around me came across a strange problem that the CD/DVD Drive was quite hard to use. To be more detailed, the drive could not  read discs properly, especially self-made ones.

Windows 7 has included a neat utility called robocopy. If I remember correctly this was a utility back in Windows Server 2003. This is an advanced copy paste tool :) (lack of term hehe) where you can define options such as copy everything but not empty subdirectories, cool huh?