The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Changing Windows 7 back to the ‘old’ Windows

The things that are better left unspoken — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:14:40 GMT

Windows 7 has a mass appeal to Windows XP users and their system administrators. While major advances

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:08:20 GMT

Malangovino, you must have a special configuration. In general, there are limitations to the 32-bit platform in regards to using more than 4GB of memory. My 4GB Dell desktop at home won't see more than 3.5GB of memory running 32-bit.

Here are some excellent resources on the memory limitations for Windows in general from MSDN:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa366778.aspx

The article does say that the limits on physical memory for 32-bit platforms also depend on the Physical Address Extension (PAE), which allows 32-bit Windows systems to use more than 4GB of physical memory. You can learn about PAE here:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa366796(VS.85).aspx

Malangovino, you just have a motherboard that has PAE allowing for use of more than 4GB of physical memory which isn't very often seen in consumer PCs from my understanding.

In general - for folks to use more than 4GB of memory they will need to run a 64-bit version of Windows.

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Malangovino — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:42:00 GMT

I have tested 6GB of RAM Memory on my PC and it is running Windows 7 32-bit and it has recognized all and it is using it.

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Malangovino — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:36:14 GMT

Thanks for the answer.

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Malangovino — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:30:16 GMT

How much memory will Windows 7 support on the 32-bit version?

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Malangovino — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:34:12 GMT

I think: so far, so good. I´m happy with Vista, I think that the people was not ready for it. You nned a real good piece of hardware to run it.

I love the indexing service it has. I provide tech support and with Vista is much easier to say: jus click on start and type device manager instead of provide a step by step on how to got for it. There are a couple of things that I cannot understand about it, like the IPv6 or why they changed the name of certain stuffs or why uses a Linux Grub to load!!.

Windiws 7 as meet my expectation by the moment. Is fast enough and is making a good usage of my hardware. I thing that the libraries is a good thing, but can be dangerous if the people starts linking libraries and at the end, they will have a labyrinth.

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Marek Cech — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:06:49 GMT

Brandon LeBlanc: How many people stay now behind project Windows 7?

Welcome to Windows 7

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As most of you know, Windows 7 was made broadly available to Windows enthusiasts during Steve’s CES Keynote.

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Windows 7 Team Blog — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:38:16 GMT

I would like to take a moment and share some exciting Windows news being announced tonight by Steve Ballmer

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

mfisher1967 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:37:34 GMT

Brandon,

Thanks for your prompt reply and for the clarification concerning the transparency of the new Taskbar in Windows 7. I am anxiously awaiting the public beta......

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

kelvin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:44:14 GMT

windows 7 looks amazing and runs amazing i,ve talked to alot of gamers who wouldn't upgrade to vista but they are saying they will upgrade to windows 7 it is getting top reviews and people are saying it runs faster and better than xp well done you guys but don;t no y u couldn't do this in the first place rather than messing around with vista

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Brandon LeBlanc — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:54:51 GMT

mfisher1967 - the new Windows Taskbar in Windows 7 is in fact transparent. It utilizes Aero Glass. You will be able to change the color of Aero Glass in Windows 7 that also applies to the Windows Taskbar as well.

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mfisher1967 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:50:12 GMT

It would be easy to differentiate program shortcut icons from open program icons if Microsoft employs the same approach taken in the Quick Launch and System Tray portions of the Taskbar in XP & Vista. Using this approach, there would be an Expand/Collapse button next to the Start button and another next to the Clock on the Taskbar. Open program icons would reside in the System Tray by the Clock and program shortcut icons would reside in the Quick Launch by the Start button. To view these icons, the user would simply click on the appropriate Expand button next to the Start button or Clock. The icon options to "Always Hide", "Always Show" & "Hide When Inactive" could be configured by the user as per current practice by right clicking the Taskbar and selecting Properties. I would also like to see a user configurable option to make the background of the "Super Taskbar" transparent. I believe that the desktop would look very clean if the above recommendations are incorporated into Windows 7.

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Imani — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:05:38 GMT

How would that taskbar look under the classic theme? Makes me shudder! It's fine the way it is, as far as im concerned I don't see why we need to have pieces of Win98, 95, 2000, ME, in newer OSs, did 95 have 3.0's theme stuck onto it? It's time to move on, with explorer constantly evolving I see it as hard to continue placing classic as an option, it already looks, odd, in Vista. To win in this situation, the superbar should try to leave a small footprint like classic, that's all people want, classic's performance, Vista's eye candy, if Win 7 can do this, classic should be extinct!

re: The New Windows Taskbar in Windows 7

Maverick — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:40:44 GMT

wow sounds like you guys are on the right track! keep it up but don't make the os to cluttered and hevy a light os would be nice, that way a pc that performs like a $2000 pc on xp will still perform like a $2000 pc on windows 7. Keep it simple not easy.