The Aero desktop effect in Windows 7 (or, more specifically, the Desktop Windows Manager, also known as the Desktop Windows Manager) will make use of the DirectX 10.1 API in order to improve ...

Long Zheng just posted a video of a feature in Windows 7 that was not demoed or talked about much at all – Aero Shake. It basically allows you to shake an application which will in turn minimize all ...

Aero Peek was introduced in Windows 7. If you have many windows open on your desktop, it’s quite easy to lose track of them. Aero Peek lets you ‘peek’ behind all the windows so that you can have a ...

I wish I could find the post, but Raymond Chen of The Old New Thing blog once explained how the previews work and why they're often lost: IIRC, they are only ever stored in video memory, and any ...

Though Windows 7 is much faster than Vista but still, who doesn’t want to increase performance and speed-up operating system. As sometime it can be very annoying when you want to start your windows ...

See how the reworked taskbar, now called Superbar in Windows 7, provides more custom access controls, plus discover the new window controls Now that Microsoft has made the Windows 7 beta available for ...

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The next version of VMware Fusion has been announced, and it comes with numerous new features that users will undoubtedly love. Snow Leopard support, the latest gaming support, and support for Windows ...