Chapter 17. Seven to Go: Windows 7 Mobility Features
In This Chapter
Managing the Windows 7 user interface settings for optimal performance and battery life
Discovering new power management features
Creating and using your own power plans
Utilizing the Windows Mobility Center
Exploring new features aimed at presentations
Accessing files and folders while disconnected from the network
Using Windows SideShow
Improving performance with ReadyBoost
Windows 7 and netbooks
Windows 7 is the best version of Windows yet for users on the go. Whether you use a notebook computer, netbook, Tablet PC, or Ultra-Mobile PC, you won't get a better mobile experience than what's available in Microsoft's latest desktop operating system. This time around, Microsoft has fortified Windows 7 with an evolved version of the user interface, power management, and presentation capabilities that debuted in Windows Vista along with dramatically improved performance and a suite of mobile-oriented applications and utilities that tie it all together. You'll learn about each of these features in this chapter.
Windows 7 on the Road
Over the years, Microsoft has steadily improved Windows to better take advantage of the unique hardware features and capabilities offered by portable computers such as notebooks, laptops, Tablet PCs (including a smaller new generation of tablet devices called Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers, or UMPCs), and, in Windows 7, a new class of low-cost portable PCs called netbooks. For the most part, using Windows ...
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