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Action Center

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BitLocker

Calculator

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DirectX 11

Domain Join

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Games Explorer

Getting Started

HomeGroup

Internet Explorer 8

Internet TV

Jump Lists

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Location Aware Printing

Multiplayer games

Paint

Parental Controls

Peek

Performance improvements

Play To

Power management

ReadyBoost

Remote Desktop Connection

Remote Media Streaming

Shake

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Snipping Tool

Startup Repair

Sticky Notes

System Restore

Tablet PC

User Account Control

View Available Networks

Windows Anytime Upgrade

Windows Connect Now

Windows Defender

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Windows Experience Index

Windows Fax and Scan

Windows Firewall

Windows Live Essentials

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Windows Media Player 12

Windows Search

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Windows Touch

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Windows XP Mode

WordPad

XPS

Tablet PC improvements

Windows 7 offers several improvements for people who like to go mouse- and keyboard-free. They're available only in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7.

Tablet math

At last, you can take notes on your tablet in algebra class: the new Math Input Panel recognizes handwritten math expressions. Once your equation is recognized, you can insert it into a word-processing or computational program.

Picture of Math Input Panel The new Math Input Panel recognizes handwritten formulas.

A mightier pen

With Windows 7, handwriting recognition is faster, more accurate, and supports more languages—including breakthroughs for East Asian writing systems.

Personalized custom dictionaries help with the recognition of specialized vocabulary (like medical and technical terms), and text prediction speeds up the input process to make your note-taking really fly.

Picture of pen input Take notes on the fly with better pen input.

Touch and go

Multitouch capability (with the right hardware) frees you from your pen, letting you right-click, scroll, and work with pictures using your fingertips.

The gestures are intuitive: press and hold to right-click, slide two fingers apart to zoom out and back together to zoom in, flick to scroll through a page, and touch two points and rotate to turn an image.

Picture of Touch Touch technology is available on some Tablet PCs.