Windows 7 / Getting Started

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Touch Gestures

Windows 7 is designed with touchscreen support, and hence some of the UI elements in Windows have implicit support for hand gestures, even if you don't have hardware support for touch. For example, in IE, you can use your mouse and click and drag down the Address bar. IE will slide the history and favorites list into view as you drag.

Note: Of course, if you have a touch-enabled screen, the easiest way would be to use your finger and swipe the Address bar downward.

The taskbar also supports touch; use your mouse and click an application icon in the taskbar and move upward; it will fade and slide the Jump List into view.

Auto-Login

In Windows 7, you can use the Advanced User Account feature to automatically log in with your user account whenever you boot up your computer.

To use the Advanced User Account feature, click the Start menu, type "netplwiz" in the search box, and press Return. The User Accounts window will appear.

Note The Advanced User Account feature is also accessible with the command control userpasswords2, but it must be typed at the command prompt or Run (Windows-R) dialog.

Select the user to use to auto-login and then uncheck the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" checkbox. You will be asked to enter the password twice.

Now when you start up your computer, you will be automatically logged in.