If you do a lot of work on your laptop or when you are away from your home, the battery life is always the cause of the worry to the user. The user always remains anxious about how much battery is left and how much work can be done on the laptop.
Windows 7 provides the solution to it. Battcursor feature in the latest Windows 7 feature keeps the track of the battery life and keep the user aware of the battery status. Its power saving functions are quite impressive. Though it is a little program but offers many useful features.
The tool includes indicator to the cursor. The cursor itself turns into a floating battery meter and whenever the battery power is low, the percentage and the visual indicator will be displayed. Aero Glass style feature allows you to set BattCursor to show Windows title bar which itself alters the color to warn you when your battery is low.
The title bars will give the blue color if the battery is full or nearly full and if your laptop is running out of battery the spectrum will shift to the warning colors. By default it displays yellow for low and red for critical. You can also modify the colors and activate the Power profiles as the battery diminishes.
To keep the user aware, BattCursor also shows the current charge level. It also allows you to disable the Aero Glass and Windows Sidebar when certain level is attained by the battery to extract more life out of the battery. Power Profiles in Windows 7 feature can be automatically switched with the BattCursor. Once you enable the function, at the specified charge level your system will be changed from high performance to balanced to power saver.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Windows 7 features – Virtual Hard Disk
Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 7, comes with a number of new features including relatively lesser known Virtual Hard
Disk that enables a user to install various operating systems on a single machine.
The tool, which is a file formatted to be structurally identical to a physical Hard Disk Drive, enables you to test software on
different operating systems and reduces the cost or hassle of actual hardware.
This feature which is included in latest Windows 7 allows a physical computer to mount and boot from an operating system contained
within a VHD.
VHD’s ability to directly modify a virtual machine’s hard disk from a host server supports many applications, including:
* Life-cycle management and provisioning
* Backup and recovery
* Image management and patching
* Disk conversion (physical to virtual, and so on)
* Antivirus and security
* Moving files between a VHD and the host file system
In a nutshell, following are the advantages are provided by Windows 7 new feature VHDs:
Multiple operating system support: Now you can easily install multiple operating system without making changes in Master Boot
Record.
Backup-and-Restore: Changes to the contents of a VHD (such as infection by a virus, or accidental deletion of critical files) are
easily undone.
Multi-User Isolation: Many current operating systems support having multiple users, but offer varying degrees of protection between
them (e.g., one user of the OS could become infected by a virus which infects other users, or make changes to the OS which affect
other users). By giving each user their own version of the operating system — say, by creating for each of them a differencing VHD
based on a base installation of the OS — changes to any particular child image would have no effect on any of the other child
images.
Disk that enables a user to install various operating systems on a single machine.
The tool, which is a file formatted to be structurally identical to a physical Hard Disk Drive, enables you to test software on
different operating systems and reduces the cost or hassle of actual hardware.
This feature which is included in latest Windows 7 allows a physical computer to mount and boot from an operating system contained
within a VHD.
VHD’s ability to directly modify a virtual machine’s hard disk from a host server supports many applications, including:
* Life-cycle management and provisioning
* Backup and recovery
* Image management and patching
* Disk conversion (physical to virtual, and so on)
* Antivirus and security
* Moving files between a VHD and the host file system
In a nutshell, following are the advantages are provided by Windows 7 new feature VHDs:
Multiple operating system support: Now you can easily install multiple operating system without making changes in Master Boot
Record.
Backup-and-Restore: Changes to the contents of a VHD (such as infection by a virus, or accidental deletion of critical files) are
easily undone.
Multi-User Isolation: Many current operating systems support having multiple users, but offer varying degrees of protection between
them (e.g., one user of the OS could become infected by a virus which infects other users, or make changes to the OS which affect
other users). By giving each user their own version of the operating system — say, by creating for each of them a differencing VHD
based on a base installation of the OS — changes to any particular child image would have no effect on any of the other child
images.
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