Improve productivity with Windows 7 new features

After several changes, with the release of the Windows 7 official edition, its functions and components finally settled. In fact, most users are pragmatists who are more concerned about using the system to improve their productivity on a new system. Windows 7 has a lot of new features, which help improve productivity? This article will talk to you about several new Windows 7 features and how to use them to improve our productivity.

1, Credential Manager--improve access speed and rapid migration

When you log on to a remote computer or visit a site, we typically enter a username and password information. These repetitive operations will affect our productivity and use experience, in fact, for local users, we can completely save these access credentials (users, passwords, certificates, etc.) in the local, access to the system automatically completes the credential certification process, which will undoubtedly improve our efficiency. Credential Manager is such a system component that can help us to complete the authentication work when we visit locally. In fact, this component is from Vista, but there is no doubt that the Credential Manager in Windows 7 is more functional and more practical.

Open Control Panel and display all Control Panel items to find the Credential manager. Enter this page to see that the Credential Manager does not save any credentials by default. However, here we can add three types of credentials, such as Windows credentials, certificate-based credentials, and normal credentials. In contrast, Windows credentials and normal credentials are used more often. In particular, "Windows credentials," We can add homegroup credentials, Remote Desktop credentials, shared credentials, and so on. As for "normal credentials," we can add to the site that we normally visit frequently, such as Windows Live's application credentials. The way to add credentials is simple, to add Windows credentials as an example, click the Add Windows credentials link to enter the Add Credentials window. Here, we enter the name or URL address of the destination address (Internet address or network address) separately, and the username and password, and then "OK". In addition, the credential information saved in the Credential Manager can be modified and deleted at any time. (Figure 1)

Adding access credentials to the Credential Manager not only facilitates our access to the target site, but also facilitates our rapid migration. Once the credentials have been added, we can save the credential information by clicking on the "Backup Vault" link in the Credential Manager window. When you have a new system installed, or if we want to migrate it to another PC, click the "Restore Vault" link in the Credential Manager window to restore it to the new system without having to add it over and over again. In this way, with the Credential Manager feature, we do not need to maintain the Remote Desktop list, but also no longer require a separate record homegroup automatic vivid password, will largely liberate the administrator. (Figure 2)

2. Resource Manager--fast copy, move folder

The copying and moving of files is a very common daily operation. In general, we need to open both the source and destination folders in order to complete the copying or operation of the files, and to switch frequently. This process is not only cumbersome but time-consuming, and this situation has improved in Windows 7. I don't know if you didn't notice, there are more than two features "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" under the "Edit" menu in Windows 7 Explorer. With these two feature items, we can easily copy or move one or more files and one or more folders to a target location. However, by default, the Resource manager for Windows 7 does not display the menu bar. We can press the ALT key of the keyboard or adjust the folder options so that the menu bar is always displayed. This way, when we want to copy or move a file or folder to the destination folder, just select the source file or folder (one or more) and then perform edit → copy to folder ("Move to Folder"), and a dialog box pops up, so we just need to navigate to the destination address. (Figure 3)

Of course, we can also take a more convenient way, like "copy", "Paste" the two features into the right menu, ready to call. In fact, "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" have their corresponding 32 identifiers in the system. Where the identifier for "Copy to Folder" is "{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}" with the default value "Microsoft Copy to Service" and the identifier for "move to Folder" is "{ C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13} "with the default value" Microsoft move to Service. " We open Registry Editor (Regedit.exe), navigate to the registry [Hkey_classes_root\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers] key, and then create the ' {c2fbb630-2971-11d1-a18c-00c04fd75d13} ' and ' {c2fbb631-2971-11d1-a18c-00c04fd75d13} ' items. In this way, we can invoke these two functions through the right button menu. If you find it troublesome to add a registry entry, save the following code as Add.reg, and then double-click the Import registry directly.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[Hkey_classes_root\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers]

[Hkey_classes_root\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\{c2fbb630-2971-11d1-a18c-00c04fd75d13}]

[Hkey_classes_root\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\{c2fbb631-2971-11d1-a18c-00c04fd75d13}] (Figure 4)