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Part I: Windows 7 Stuff Everybody Thinks You Already Know
✓ New Internet Explorer: Windows 7’s new Internet Explorer 8 lets you surf
the Web more easily and securely. It has the old standbys — tabbed
browsing, RSS feeds, and a filter alerting you to potential fraudulent
Web sites — and other new features I cover in Chapter 8.
✓ Media Center: This entertainment center not only plays DVDs and music
but also lets you watch TV on your PC and even record shows onto your
hard drive for later viewing. Recording TV shows requires a PC with a TV
Tuner in your PC, an upgrade I cover in one of my other books, Upgrading
and Fixing PCs For Dummies, published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.
✓ Taskbar: Microsoft spent some time building on Vista’s three-dimen-
sional look. The new taskbar in Windows 7 adds pop-up thumbnails,
shown in Figure 1-2, that help you find a lost window. Or, right-click a
taskbar icon to see more information about it — your recent history of
browsed Web sites, for example, is shown in Figure 1-3.
Figure 1-2:
The new
taskbar in
Windows 7
offers
pop-up
thumbnail
previews of
every open
window on
your
desktop.
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