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Win 7: Desktop Background – Slide Show

One of the changes in Themes in Win 7 is that it has this option to have multiple backgrounds that gets looped around.

As you can see in the personalization screen, there are some themes that have multiple screen backgrounds. When you choose one of these themes, the desktop background loops thru these pictures.

There is also this option in the desktop right click menu that will allow you to change the desktop picture.

 

If you don't want to change your theme, you can go to and change your desktop background setting to do the same.

You can also change the time setting and also the order in which the pictures are chosen in this screen.

Progress Display on the Dock

One of the cool features that I found most useful in Win 7 is the display of progress in the dock icon. I am not yet sure of how it works and if there are special APIs to enable it, but if there is a dialog or windows that is showing a progress bar, e.g. IE download progress dialog, then if you minimize the windows, then the progress is displayed over the icon in the doc.

In the above picture, an download is in progress and you can actually see the status of the download just from the icon without the need to open or even see a preview of the window.

Nice Feature..

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Win 7 – My First Look

Over the weekend I installed Win7 on Virtual PC (VPC). I actually wanted to install it as a secondary OS, but my home machine had a failed PSU. So I installed into into a safe VPC.

The initial install was not too different. A flashy opening screen and a pretty fast install happened. I did not time it, but I don’t think the install itself was a lot faster than Vistas. Maybe a little but not drastically.

A reboot or so later, the system was ready.

The startup has this new flashy animated logo. But the speed of the boot was really amazing, especially on a VPC.  If they can maintain the boot speed or make it better at RTM it would be a great thing.

And they have some very good wallpapers :).