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iYogi, the on-demand tech services company with a unique global delivery model, presents an in-depth analysis of various features and applications of Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7.
Easy-to-understand articles mainly focus on the usability of applications in Windows 7 that will help you upgrade to the latest Windows avatar. Read this section to get comprehensive information and guide on the attributes and usability of entertainment and media applications in Windows 7.
Microsoft never disappoints its users when it comes to entertainment. Windows 7 media center offers slick interfaces and powerful audio-video features. Though these features can only be experienced if your system is Cable Card compatible, for full HD over cable.
New details Menu
This new menu pops up every time when you select a song, album, picture or video for playback. You can select a song from the album on the first menu,…
The nesting instinct is powerful in human being. We mark our priorities in different ways for example, with paint and decals. We change things to make them our own for example from a fridge magnets to tattoos. So, why a operating system should be different? Windows 7 allows you one-stop access to all the features for personalizing the looks. You can make Windows 7 yours, you can also make Windows…
The new Windows 7 comes with an exciting new instant messaging feature, called Windows Live Messenger, which allows you to chat with your friends, play games and share pictures with them. For communicating with your friends using the instant messages you should have the contacts saved in the Windows Live Messenger contact list. When you have added a person to your contact list, you will beautomatically informed by this program,…

Software development companies, including game developers, have been building new applications on top of Windows 7. Certainly the new Windows 7 come across as a sleeker and faster upgrade of Vista, but game developers are wary still hoping to prevent the same issues with Windows 7. The article explains how to start playing games in the new OS.
Follow these steps to play a game in Windows 7:
1. Firstly, to open…
Windows 7, no doubt, serves as an excellent gaming platform for the games freak. For people who have not really enjoyed the gaming experience with XP and Vista, here lies a chance.
Broadly, the games fall into three categories:
- The board games: Board games are Chess Titans, Mahjong Titans, and Minesweeper.
- The card games: Card games are FreeCell, Hearts, Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire.
- The Internet games: Internet games are Backgammon, Checkers, and Spades. The…
Windows 7 includes a significantly improved and advanced Window Media Center that gives you various options of making your PC a source of entertainment. Window 7 Media Center now lets you play more popular audio and video formats. It is brilliant in making elegant photo collages with background music by using the new slide show maker. Windows 7 can now send media to be played on other Windows 7 PCs and DLNA-certified digital…
If you have a interest in creating movies and you are have planned to develop one, then there a tool offered by the new Windows 7, which helps you to fulfill your interest. The new Windows Live Movie maker tool introduced in Windows 7, offers you an easy and fast way to convert your still images and videos into movies and slide shows which can be shared among your friends…
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a union of more than 200 organizations which are interested in specifying technologies for exchanging media in home networks. The DLNA states transport protocols which are based on HTTP and RTP and sets of media formats. Also DLNA architecture is based on the UPnP specification.
DLNA defines roles for the devices like servers, players, renderers and it also defines the protocols that these devices…
A number of features have been blogged related to home networking and media in Windows 7. Media Streaming is a tool which brings all these together in a different way. This feature lets you to use a Windows 7 PC as a media sharing hub. With this tool, you can share media with other PCs and devices on your home network and you can also stream this information securely over the…
Windows 7 has a lot of new features incorporated in it including a boost in multi-media. Windows 7 PCs can stream media to each other. This is possible even across the Internet. A simplified process makes the task easy. When Windows Media Player opens, it simultaneously opens a Stream option on its toolbar. With the Windows Live ID, one can associate other Windows 7 media players on other PCs, in a…