Win7 features revealed: customizable UAC and integrated Accelerators

[Skulltrail-old]

Looks good so far. Can't wait to see the changes in M4.

[afusion]

I don't get why people have to constantly talk about UAC as if that's Vista's and 7's only feature..

hella lame guys..

[ViperAFK]

UAC is one of the best features of vista.

[afusion]

UAC is one of the best features of vista.

it's one of the features in Vista

[Denis W. Veteran]

Not really. The notifications are off, but UAC is still working.

But, I still think UAC doesn't help in making computers safer for the general population of end-users. They're impatient and blindly click Yes/Continue/etc. to get rid of popups, that's why there's so much spywares adwares bs on their computers. They browse the net and they get a popup that asks you to download and install something, they accept. The program that they want to install asks them at some point to install some adware and you have the choice to accept or refuse, they decide to accept because they didn't read a damn thing, just clicking [Next].

You think it's any different with a UAC popup? UAC only helps those who are aware of what's going on, and at the same time that makes it sort of useless since those who are aware of what's going on do not need UAC. At least this update will make things easier for users who are more computer savvy.

Your observations are spot on, but only to the limits of the user experience portion of UAC.

The UI definitely needs work. If these pre-beta screenshots are anything to go by, at least they are trying to improve the user experience stuff. First we saw the possibility of a "sticky" UAC option where you can elect to silence UAC popups for a definite amount of time. Then we saw one dialog reading "Are you sure you want to install this program...", which may possibly lead to more concise UAC dialogs in Windows 7. And now this, tweaking UAC built into the UI.

Beneath all this, UAC powers IE's Protected Mode, a OS-wide virtual folder redirection system for restricted folders, and a low-integrity sandbox for potentially unsafe apps - same as IE's Protected Mode. All these are very useful, yet less obvious to users who think UAC's all about privilege escalation.

[azz0r_wugg]

I hope they make sure google and yahoo can hook there accelerators in without a costly time wasting court battle.

[lalalawawawa]

UAC is one of the best features of vista.

+1.

It only requires better coding by the programs' developers and you will almost never notice it. They should know that people don't wish to give full access to their systems to programs they run (something that a program should not even try to do, something that was everyday thing on XP and people would whine about how they got malware without noticing anything).

I hope they make sure google and yahoo can hook there accelerators in without a costly time wasting court battle.

Well, it is their choice. The courts are having too much power these days, something that is very wrong. It is their OS, they'll do whatever they want with it. And personally, I prefer Microsoft applications/engines/software for their OS. Adding Google from the start would be like advertising, something that I am not willing to pay for.

[Napalm Frog]

To those asking about accelerators: The most fundamental form is adding context menus related to specific tasks. For example, highlight some text, and a small icon will appear near it (or if not, right click the text). Along with the standard context menu, you will be given extra options pertaining to the action you are doing. For example, highlight some text, and you'll have options such as googling it, find the definition, look it up on mapquest, or whatever else you decide to add/remove.

It's essentially made to simplify your tasks: Instead of alt+tabbing between tabs and windows, you now just need to right click, and select.

[iwod]

I dont know why but i think the UI of all these new Windows 7 has gone a step back.

They Looks... like Windows 3.1 with Vista theme for some reason.

[kyller]

WinFuture.de has put a lot of more pics (29/9) in their site... !

[Mathachew Veteran]

i know, it was supposed to be a 'addon' kinda thing. to improve ntfs.

edit: just noticed the full thread about win 7 and WinFS :p

You almost made me cry :cry:

[jamesVault]

The menu bar is now on the border of a window

[(Spork)]

The new UAC should be made as an update for Vista...

QFT

[ViperAFK]

The menu bar is now on the border of a window

interesting, looks like that could save space, I like.

[gabalicious]

interesting, looks like that could save space, I like.

could save space and gives the menus a nice design...i look forward to hopefully testing this version and seeing the progress and all the features that come along...

[Ayepecks]

The menu bar is now on the border of a window

Oh please no. That looks atrocious.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Oh please no. That looks atrocious.

It could work for just the keyboard and the small utilities, such as Magnifier, Sticky Notes, etc. But nothing beyond that (hopefully).

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

interesting, looks like that could save space, I like.

Thats the same in vista. If you have the Tablet PC tools installed. Its only like that in the on-screen keyboard though.

Edited September 30, 2008 by Jester124

[Xab]

So far I really like what I'm seeing from Windows 7, I really hope its a similar leap over Windows Vista as XP was over Me/2000, although I'm probably setting my hopes too high :p

[Denis W. Veteran]

Thats the same in vista. If you have the Tablet PC tools installed. Its only like that in the on-screen keyboard though.

THERE'S A LEAKED BUILD!

*runs and searches*

But hey, that keyboard finally got a nice facelift. :laugh:

[+Jester124 Subscriber²]

THERE'S A LEAKED BUILD!

*runs and searches*

But hey, that keyboard finally got a nice facelift. :laugh:

lmao... damn you found me out.... It's actually pretty nice to use when your to lazy to change the batteries in a wireless keyboard... lol

[jamesVault]

A virtual desktop?

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

so....NTFS for another 10 years?

or is there a chance they've been working on a new File system that hasnt been announced yet?

Would be pretty cool if Microsoft would swallow their pride and license an existing filesystem such as ZFS..

[HawkMan]

Would be pretty cool if Microsoft would swallow their pride and license an existing filesystem such as ZFS..

but why.

[REM2000]

NTFS is one of the better FS out there. Im a big apple fan, however NTFS is far more reliable than HFS+. The NTFS Version with Vista and Win2008 is incredibly advanced, with on the spot disk fixing (i.e. no longer require reboot to run a full chkdsk /f) I would say if anyone needed to adopt ZFS it would have to be apple.

In my experience i would say that NTFS more reliable the ext3 and UFS, beaten only by ZFS. It's pretty lightweight, it's quick and handles very large volumes without a problem.

As for fragmentation i will admit in NT4 and Win2k this was more of an issue, however they really have done a good job of upgrading NTFS for WinXP, Win2k3 and Vista/08.