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  2. Features new to Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    The Starter Edition of Windows 7 can run an unlimited number of applications, compared to only 3 in Windows Vista Starter. Microsoft had initially intended to ship Windows 7 Starter Edition with this limitation, but announced after the release of the Release Candidate that this restriction would not be imposed in the final release. [132]

  3. Windows 7 editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 Starter Desktop Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Starter is the edition of Windows 7 that contains the fewest features. It was only available in a 32-bit version and does not include the Windows Aero theme. The desktop wallpaper and visual styles (Windows 7 Basic) are not user-changeable.

  4. Directory structure - Wikipedia

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    This folder is officially called "Windows component store" and constitutes the majority of Windows. A copy of all Windows components, as well as all Windows updates and service packs is stored in this folder. Starting with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows automatically

  5. List of features removed in Windows 11 - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, NTVDM and the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs, are no longer included with Windows 11. User-mode scheduling (UMS), available on x64 versions Windows 7 and later, was a lightweight mechanism allowing applications to schedule their own ...

  6. Special folder - Wikipedia

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    Figure 1: Windows Explorer's folder view in Windows XP uses virtual folders as the root.. Windows uses the concept of special folders to present the contents of the storage devices connected to the computer in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from having to deal with absolute file paths, which can (and often do) change between operating system versions, and even individual ...

  7. File Explorer - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support showing icons in the context menu and creating cascaded context menus with static verbs in submenus using the Registry instead of a shell extension. [44] The search box in the Explorer window and the address bar can be resized. Certain folders in the navigation pane can be hidden to reduce clutter.

  8. Directory (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of a Microsoft Windows command prompt window showing a directory listing.. In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure that contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.

  9. List of features removed in Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    The new items view control also ignores certain desktop.ini parameters like IconArea_Image and IconArea_Text preventing users from setting a background picture for folders. In Windows Vista, this feature was not built-in, however the list view control supported this if shell extensions or folder customization utilities which set the correct ...