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24 unusual facts about Windows 7


Advanced SystemCare

Advanced SystemCare (formerly Advanced Windows Care) is a computer tool for Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 created by IObit.

Allan A. Martin Senior Public School

The school is constantly updating its technology with iPads, projectors, document cameras and Windows 7.

AutoIt

While version 1 and 2 were compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7, support for operating systems older than Windows 2000 was discontinued with the release of v3.3.0 in December 2008).

Bootsplash

In Windows 7, the change of the boot screen, although possible through third-party utilities, is extremely risky and may cause the system to be unable to boot.

Carbonated Games

In addition, Carbonated was responsible for the Microsoft games that shipped with Windows Me, Windows XP, and Windows 7.

Device driver

Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) – the graphic display driver architecture for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Enlight cloud

Other operating systems are supported without scaling options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Window Server 2003 and Windows 7.

Fast Duplicate File Finder

It is compatible with all Microsoft Windows versions including the latest Windows 8, Windows 7 and all Windows Server operating systems and their corresponding 32 and 64 bit versions.

Iconics

ICONICS' current solutions integrate with, and are certified for, Microsoft's latest OSs, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.

Kodak EasyShare

The most recent version of Kodak EasyShare software is version 8.3, which includes support for Windows 7.

Lockheed Martin Prepar3D

New user interface – Users now have a Windows 7 compatible drag n’ drop interface with customizable settings.

LoiLoScope

A version of Super LoiLoScope, optimized for use on the multi-touch feature on Windows 7.

Marco Iansiti

Iansiti and Sinofsky discuss the approach Sinofsky took within the Windows and Windows Live Group at Microsoft to bridge this gap during the development of the Windows 7 operating system.

Morrisville State College

Windows 7 is currently being deployed as the base operating system.

MoviePlus

The latest release, MoviePlus X6, runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Multi-booting

If you use Windows 2000/XP, probably the safest approach (for disks under 2 TiB) is to use a CHS partition table alignment that is chosen by Windows XP/2000 (not Vista or Windows 7).

Nettop

Some high-end nettops and upcoming models are capable of running Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Opsi

The first of these co-funding Projects was the opsi support for Windows Vista/Windows 7.

Product key

Activation is sometimes done offline by entering the key, or with software like Windows 7, online activation is required to prevent multiple people using the same key.

Security Accounts Manager

The Security Accounts Manager (SAM) file in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 stores users' passwords in a hashed format (in LM hash and NTLM hash).

System partition and boot partition

Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the identifier "C:".

Trusted Computing

The Microsoft products Windows Vista and Windows 7 make use of a Trusted Platform Module to facilitate BitLocker Drive Encryption.

Visual Planet

Visualplanet's MA9 software provides Mouse Pointer options for use with the visualplanet touchfoil which is suitable for standard mouse emulation within Windows 7, MacOS and Linux Operating Systems.

Windows Embedded Industry

;Windows Embedded POSReady 7: Windows Embedded POSReady 7 is the first version of Windows Embedded Industry to be based on the Windows 7 Platform.


Magic Trackpad

The trackpad is fully compatible with Macintosh computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard versions 10.6.4 and higher with a software update, as well as Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista in Apple's Boot Camp with an added device driver.

NoteWorthy Composer

NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a graphical score editor for Microsoft Windows computers (from Windows 95 to Windows 7), and is also reported to work on PCs under Linux with Wine.

Portable application

Whereas many Windows programs assume the user is an administrator—something very prevalent in the days of Windows 95/98/ME (and to some degree in Windows XP/2000, though not in Windows Vista or Windows 7)—such would quickly result in "Permission denied" errors in Unix-like environments since users will be in an unprivileged state much more often.

Razer Switchblade

Since it runs on Windows 7, multiple games have been already played for demonstration such as Quake, WoW, and Defense of the Ancients.

Tal-y-llyn Lake

In 2009 a landscape photograph of the lake was included as an official desktop wallpaper (GB-wp3) with the release of the Microsoft operating system Windows 7, thus bring an image of the lake to millions of desktop PCs.

VenueGen

The software application runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X operating systems and is compatible with browsers Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above.

WinRoll

WinRoll is an open source, free software utility for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 which allows the user to "roll up" windows into their title bars, in addition to other window management related features.