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Simplifies everyday tasksWindows 7 makes the basics easier than ever. With HomeGroup, it’s simple to share music, documents, printers, and everything else with the other PCs running Windows 7 in your house. Windows Search frees you from the chore of hunting through folders and subfolders to locate your stuff. Better taskbar previews give you a great view of what's open, and Jump Lists show you recent files with a single right-click.Works the way you wantIt doesn’t matter how much your PC can do if it’s not running as smoothly as you expect. So we designed Windows 7 to help your PC sleep and resume faster. Windows 7 supports the latest advances in PC hardware, like 64-bit computing and multi-core processors, and improved memory utilization helps your hardware reach its full performance potential.Makes new things possibleOnce you’ve got that simpler, faster PC, some cool new features would be great. Here you go: You’ll be able to connect to networks—home, work, coffee shop—with a couple of clicks, and with Windows Touch (and the right hardware), you’ll soon be using your fingers to flip through files, work with pictures, and even “paint.”
How often do you backup the data on your computer? If you're like most people, not very often, if at all. Yet the information stored on your hard drive can be incredibly valuable. Think of your financial records, business contacts, e-mail addresses, and letters and so on. Then there's your music and video collection.
What would happen if it all disappeared? How long would it take and how much would it cost to place the missing data? Can't happen? It does every day for a variety of reasons:
The disk drive you use for backups fails for mechanical reasons.
Your computer is stolen--laptops are particularly vulnerable.
Your computer is destroyed by fire, floods or other disasters.
A power surge fries your machine (Make sure you have a surge protector on your computer equipment.)
An employee accidentally or intentionally erases data.
A virus infects your system, wiping out key files
Your hard drive crashes. Sooner or later it will fail; the only question is when.
Computer files can be restored in the event of a crash, but it will cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. In the meantime, you will be without essential data.
If you diligently backup your system and store the backups off-site, you're in good shape. But most of us never do--until it's too late. Over the resent few months I have seen many people how have lost hundreds and hundreds of photos.