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We’re all used to Microsoft’s customary Patch Tuesdays, where Microsoft releases most of its security updates for its Windows and Office product families. It’s also not unheard of to see emergency out-of-band security updates, like the one released earlier this week to patch holes in Internet Explorer . Less common, at least outside of service packs, are patches that fix performance and reliability bugs, as do some patches released today. The first patch , one that will apply to most if not all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 users, fixes the following: Keyboard function keys or keyboard shortcuts, such as mute or calculator, may not work correctly. The notification icon for an application may be moved or lost when the executable application is updated

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This is the second part of a series of advanced Windows 7 tips. The first part has been published at our sister site ghacks.net . The ten tips that have been posted at ghacks will be listed at the end of this article for your convenience. Windows 7 offers a lot of hidden features and settings that most users do not know about

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It has been only a year since the first beta release of Windows 7 and only 2 months since its public release to retail channels in selected countries throughout the world but it is already clear, says Microsoft, that Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in Windows history. The first week stats of the Windows 7 launch week already showed that Windows 7 was outselling Windows Vista at its time of release by 234%. But it is not only the first few days that Windows 7 performed well in sales. A year over year PC unit sale increase of over 50% in each of the last four weeks of December is another example of the sales figures of Windows 7. Brandon LeBlanc does not deliver hard values which makes the claim that Windows 7 is the fastest ever selling operating system unreliable but still plausible.

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News is coming in from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – Steve Ballmer’s keynote touched upon not only Windows 7, but also the recently announced HP multi-touch Slate tablet. The first official pictures of the prototype have been released: Courtesy electricpig.co.uk One bit of the speculation surrounding the Slate tablet was that it might run Microsoft’s Courier, a concept OS that is supposed to look and act like a book. Instead, the Slate will be running Windows 7, which as we know has quite a few new multi-touch features. Another piece of data that came to light was that the Slate would include the PC version of Amazon’s Kindle software, meaning that you can download and view books from Amazon.com just as you would on a regular Kindle

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Many art images can be found to be the future of Windows 7 themes. The 18 images collected here from different artists who are experts at photo manipulation express different emotions. Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception (in contrast to mere enhancement or correction), through analog or digital means. I Don't Know But I will be looking … Altered State Of Consciousness I may not know but I don’t have an altered state of consciousness. Desejo This image is a woman/man in a low impact setting.

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The other day I wrote about a ” God Mode ” that had been uncovered in Windows 7. See here , Basically you could create a folder and give it a string of characters and it changes to a shortcut to access all the settings of your Windows 7 machine. Well it turns out that there is more that one ” God Mode “.

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Long exposure photography is special; it has dazzling overtones because the photographs are not normal.  Long exposure photography is a technique that requires a slow shutter speed to capture light and movement. The photos allow one to see things from a different perspective.  As an observer it could be the ability to experience time in a different fashion.  Long exposure photography is popular but it is a difficult form of photography.

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Users who have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7 might have encountered several situations where they could not edit the files and folders the way they were used to. This usually was the case for files that had been created in the old operating system. It is not a big problem most of the times as most files are rarely edited but it was one in cases where files needed editing. Windows 7 has the options to change file permissions, providing the logged in user has the proper rights for that. A right-click on a file or folder, the selection of properties and the security tab in the opening Properties window displays the file and folder access rights for the selected items.

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As Windows7 rolled out last October 2009, we saw that one of Microsoft’s selling points was the advances in touch computing. If you have a touch screen then you are able to manipulate the Windows7 interface with a touch of your fingers. A wide array of functions have been programmed to make this transition to touch-screen computing possible. | Windows7 Multitouch Screen To see a demo of the touch screen technology, click the link below: Windows 7 Touch Screen Demo | The prevailing technologies are currently mediated and controlled by physical transducers such as mice, keyboards, pens, dials, and touch-sensitive surfaces. While these transducers have enabled powerful interaction models and leverage human expertise in the area of interacting with physical objects, the main drawback is that they tie computational operations  to a physical object that has to be within the physical reach of the user. With this information as background, now let’s talk about Microsoft’s future plans for touch technology. | EMG  technology (electromyography) aims to provide control of technical devices, keyboards, mice, touch screens by using only muscles and attached technology to them

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Several artists have worked to create futuristic images of  Robots and their performances with each other. These artists ethan, patrickdeza, and others show a flair for depicting Robots in a variety of different formats. For them, the Robots represent different aspects of the future and what they will do for humans, if anything. Angels of War by MeganeRid See the  MaganeRid gallery.

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