During learning to develop myself a gadget for Windows 7, I would like to use some features of Windows 7 for my application. One of these features is enabling thumbnail of our application on toolbar as following
You can see in image above that I have a custom beautiful thumbnail with 4 buttons to navigate through the image gallery. To apply this feature in our application, I need a library called Microsoft API Code Pack http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack …

There are a lot of changes in Vista and Windows 7 in comparison with Windows XP, especially in programming field. Many code snippet which works perfectly, does not run under Vista/Windows 7 anymore, for example adjusting master volume. If you have already worked with master volume in Windows XP, maybe you use MixerControl for accessing system volume with following API.
- mixerClose
- mixerGetControlDetailsA
- mixerGetDevCapsA
- mixerGetID
- mixerGetLineControlsA
- mixerGetLineInfoA
- mixerGetNumDevs
- mixerMessage
- mixerOpen
- mixerSetControlDetails
Under Vista/Windows 7, we can not …

The most interesting feature in Windows 7 is changing the desktop wallpaper after given time. With this feature we don’t have a boring wallpaper all time and I like it very much. I can create myself a theme and add many wallpapers that I like and let themselves changed after 15 minutes. And every time when I minimize all of working windows and I’ll see an other wallpaper, that’s just a … small change but …

In last months we got fever with Windows 7. Its preorders beats even Harry Potter’s on Amazon. All users are pleased with this new Windows OS System. It is more beautiful, runs faster, requires less hardware than Vista,…  I managed myself to get a version of Win 7 before it goes to stores and then show it to my cousin. My cousin always tell joke that Bill Gates changes the GUI of Windows, makes it …