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HomeGroup takes the headache out of sharing files and printers on a home network. Connect two or more PCs running Windows 7, and HomeGroup makes it easy to automatically start sharing your music, picture, video, and document libraries with other people in your home. Concerned about privacy? So are we. That’s why HomeGroup is password-protected and puts you in total control. You decide what gets shared—and what stays private. You can also make your files "read only," so other people can look at—but not touch—your stuff. You can join a homegroup in any edition of Windows 7, but you can only create one in Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise.
Jump Lists—new in Windows 7—take you right to the documents, pictures, songs, or websites you turn to each day. To open a Jump List, just right-click a program icon on the Windows 7 taskbar. (You'll also find them on the Start menu.)Jump Lists don't just show shortcuts to files. Sometimes they also provide quick access to commands for things like composing new e‑mail messages or playing music.
Snap is a quick (and fun) new way to resize open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window. Snap makes reading, organizing, and comparing windows a...well, you get the picture.
What is Windows Live Essentals? Simply put, it's free software that makes a PC running Windows 7 do more great things. Things like e‑mail, instant messaging, photo editing, and blogging.
In Windows 7, you can find more things in more places—and do it faster. Start typing into the Start menu search box—and you'll instantly see a list of relevant documents, pictures, music, and e-mail on your PC. Results are now grouped by category and contain highlighted keywords and text snippets to make them easier to scan.
The Quick Launch toolbar has been removed from default configuration, but may be easily added. The Windows 7 taskbar is more application-oriented than window-oriented, and therefore doesn't show window titles (these are shown when an application icon is clicked or hovered over, provided there are multiple windows for the application). Applications can now be pinned to the taskbar allowing the user instant access to the applications they commonly use.
The notification area has been redesigned; the standard Volume, Network, Power and Action Center status icons are present, but no other application icons are shown unless the user has chosen for them to be shown. A new "Notification Area Icons" control panel has been added which replaces the "Customize Notification Icons" dialog box in the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" window first introduced in Windows XP
In past versions of Windows, the taskbar ended with the notification area on the right side. However, there is now the Aero Peek button, which, when clicked or hovered over with the mouse, displays the desktop and gadgets by turning all windows transparent. This replaces the Show Desktop shortcut in the Quick Launch bar in previous versions of Windows. Aero Peek exhibits the same features used by the thumbnail previews, except it applies them to the desktop. If the mouse hovers over it, all windows are transparent, as shown in the picture. If the button is clicked, all applications are minimized, and when clicked again, they are restored.
Aero Shake allows users to clear up any clutter on their screen by shaking (dragging back and forth) a window of their choice with the mouse. All other windows will minimize, while the window the user shook stays active on the screen. When the window is shaken again, they are all restored, similar to desktop preview.
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File Server Disk Quotas
On the File Server Disk Quotas page, you can set up disk quotas, which track and control individual user's disk space usage on NTFS volumes on a per-volume basis. The Configure Your Server Wizard automatically applies disk quotas to new users of any NTFS file system, using whatever disk space quota is already applied. You need to change the information on the File Server Disk Quotas page only if you want to prevent a server from consuming a certain amount of disk space or if you have a limited amount of disk space. In most cases, you can accept the default system settings.
File Server Indexing Service:
On the File Server Indexing Service page, do one of the following:If users will be searching the contents of the files on the server regularly, click Yes, leave Indexing Service turned on. If you want to conserve CPU and memory resources, click No, turn Indexing Service off. Indexing Service can slow server performance.
Indexing Service provides a fast, easy, and secure way for users to search for information locally or on the network. Users can search in files in different formats and languages, either through Search on the Start menu or through HTML pages that they view in a browser.
After you finish, click Next.
Summary of Selections:
On the Summary of Selections page, view and confirm the options that you have selected. If you selected File server on the Server Role page, the following appears:
Using the Share a Folder Wizard:
After you click Next, the Configure Your Server Wizard starts the Share a Folder Wizard automatically, which you use to configure shared folders. By sharing resources, you make them available for use by other users on your network.
ImportantUse caution when sharing folders that contain system files and resources. Verify that the folder or resource that you specify does not contain information that you do not want users to access.
Completing the Configure Your Server Wizard
After you complete the Share a Folder Wizard, the Configure Your Server Wizard displays the This Server Is Now a File Server page. To review all of the changes made to your server by the Configure Your Server Wizard or to ensure that a new role was installed successfully, click Configure Your Server log. The Configure Your Server Wizard log is located at systemroot\Debug\Configure Your Server.log. To close the Configure Your Server Wizard, click Finish.
After completing the Configure Your Server Wizard, be sure to visit Windows Update to download any additional updates available .
Removing the file server role
If you need to reconfigure your server for a different role, you can remove existing server roles. If you remove the file server role, files and folders on this server are no longer shared and network users, programs, or hosts that depend on those shared resources will be unable to connect to them.
To remove the file server role, restart the Configure Your Server Wizard by doing either of the following:
On the Server Role page, click File server, and then click Next. On the Role Removal Confirmation page, review the items listed under Summary, select the Remove the file server role check box, and then click Next. On the File Server Role Removed page, click Finish.
