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10 Part 1: The Windows 7 User Experience
Getting Started
The Windows 7 comes with a Getting Started window (shown in Figure 1-6), that
you can open by clicking the Start button followed by the Getting Started option.
The Getting Started window has links to an overview of the new Windows 7
operating system as well as help in dealing with common tasks associated with
setting up your Windows 7 PC:
✓ Discover Windows 7: Opens the Windows 7 Home page on the Microsoft
Web site in the Internet Explorer, where you can get the latest information
about this latest and greatest version of the PC’s favorite operating system.
✓ Personalize Windows: Enables you to select a new desktop background
image, window colors, sounds, and screen saver as part of your personal
Windows 7 settings. (See “Personalize” later in this part for details.)
✓ Transfer Your Files: Enables you to transfer your files, folders, e-mail, and
other personal settings from another older computer running an earlier
version of Windows to the current computer running Windows 7.
✓ Share with a Homegroup: Enables you to set up a new homegroup or join
your computer to an existing one so that you can easily share files and
resources such as printers and scanners. (See “Connect to a Network” in
Part 3 for more on homegroups.)
✓ Change UAC Settings: Enables you to change the User Account Control
settings that determine when you’re notified about changes that programs
are about to make to your computer. (See “Modifying User Account set-
tings” in Part 5 for more.)
✓ Get Windows Live Essentials: Opens the Windows Live Essentials page in
the Internet Explorer. On this page, you can get more information about
the various Windows Live application programs, including Messenger,
Mail, Writer, and Photo Gallery. The page also provides a convenient link
for downloading the entire Live Essentials package.
✓ Back Up Your Files: Enables you to back up the files on your PC as well as
restore files saved in a previous backup. (See “Backup and Restore” in Part
5 for details.)
✓ Add New Users: Enables you to make changes to your own user account
as well as add new users to your computer. (See “Modifying User Account
settings” in Part 5 for details.)
✓ Change Text Size: Enables you to increase the size of the text and icons
displayed on the Windows 7 desktop.
To display information about the function of a particular option in the top sec-
tion of the Getting Started window, click its icon and text description. To open
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