Windows 7 Mac Theme, a Windows 7 theme can transform your transform windows 7 desktop to complete Mac OSX desktop GUI and give it exact look and feel of Apple Mac OS X. This Windows 7 Mac Theme is developed by Oliver from Windows7Theme.net.

Screenshot of Windows 7 Mac OSX Theme

Besides getting Windows 7 Mac OSX desktop interface, the developer also attached Windows 7 MAC Dock and Windows 7 MAC tutorial with some additional third party tools to make your Windows 7 look like Mac OSX GUI.

Find out details and how to install Mac Theme for Windows 7 from here

Windows 7 Services Pack 1 beta download is available now on Microsoft download center.  This Windows 7 Services pack 1 available news was announced by Microsoft at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2010. The official press release goes like this

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

However, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 beta doesn’t come with tons of new features and mostly contains all the previous updates on Windows 7.

Windows 7 SP1 Beta Features :

Changes specific to Windows 7

• Additional support for communication with third-party federation services
• Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.

Improved HDMI audio device performance

• A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between computers running Windows 7 and HDMI audio devices can be lost after system reboots. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.

Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents

• Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.

Changes common to both client and server platforms

• Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality
• SP1 changes the behavior of the “Restore previous folders at logon” function available in the Folder Options Explorer dialog. Prior to SP1, previous folders would be restored in a cascaded position based on the location of the most recently active folder. That behavior changes in SP1 so that all folders are restored to their previous positions.

Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec

• Support for additional identification types has been added to the Identification field in the IKEv2 authentication protocol. This allows for a variety of additional forms of identification (such as E-mail ID or Certificate Subject) to be used when performing authentication using the IKEv2 protocol.

Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

• There has always been a growing need for ever more computing power and as usage models change, processors instruction set architectures evolve to support these growing demands. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) is a 256 bit instruction set extension for processors. AVX is designed to allow for improved performance for applications that are floating point intensive. Support for AVX is a part of SP1 to allow applications to fully utilize the new instruction set and register extensions.

This Windows 7 services pack 1 weighing 1.22 GB in size the build number is 7601.16562.100603-1800 and was complied on June 3rd, 2010.  You can download Windows 7 SP1 is available via Windows Update service and also you can download it as a standalone installer.

Download Windows 7 Services Pack 1 DVD.iso [1.2 GB]

PS: you can burn Windows 7 SP 1 ISO to a DVD or extract it using tools like WinRAR. Once you have extracted, double click the file setup.exe found in the package.

Winrar achiever, a popular zip achieves manager for Windows platform. However, the default Winrar is quite bore. But now, thank to “K-lkki” @ DA has created an awesome looking WinRAR Windows 7 theme, which changes all Winrar default icons with new Windows 7 icons.

To install Winrar Windows 7 theme is simple, all you need is download the file first, then just open the .rar file you just downloaded and double click “Windows 7.theme.rar” inside.

Download WinRar Windows 7 Theme

Windows Mobility Center, A Windows 7 built in utility designed for Mobile notebook user to give quick access for windows functions adjustment like battery, wireless, display brightness etc.

This Windows Mobility Center is very useful when you’re quickly adjusting Windows component settings to use your mobile PC in different places—such as traveling from your desk to a meeting, or going from your home to the airport.

Windows Mobility Center component Adjustment function:

• Brightness adjustment
• Sound adjustment / mute
• Battery level / power scheme selection
• Wireless network status
• Screen orientation (portrait or landscape)
• External displays
• Synchronization to other machines
• Presentation settings

How to Open Windows Mobility Center:

1. Open Windows Mobility Center by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel-> All Control Panel Items and then clicking Windows Mobility Center.

2. Alternatively you can also use the shortcut key Windows key + X (Win +X).

So, Windows Mobility center is really useful application for those people using laptops on different places and need to change the computer settings very frequently.

Previously we have posted create windows 7 bootable USB using official Windows 7 USB download tool tutorial before, At now, here is another windows application called “bootable USB” that able to burn windows 7 installation ISO files become as bootable Windows 7 USB drive.

However, Bootable USB is slightly more advanced compare to official Windows 7 USB download tool, which it also allows you create bootable USB drive to install Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Meanwhile, this bootable USB utility is very simple to use. All you need is a 4GB USB drive, the ISO image of the OS (Windows 7 or Vista or Server 2008) and the application should be run on Vista or Windows 7 or Server 2008.

To create Windows 7 bootable USB, the bootable USB application will perform below 4 steps:

1. Check USB drive to see if its connected
2. Format USB drive
3. Choose DVD or ISO image (To copy the required files to USB drive)
4. Start the process to create bootable USB drive

Download Bootable USB – Create Windows Bootable USB Drive

MSN Japan has released Visual Studio theme packs for Windows 7. There are total three different themes pack (Garden, bridge and highway) available to download. All these three Windows 7 visual studio theme pack are designed based on famous Japan City view.

Meanwhile, each Windows 7 Visual Studio theme has three wallpapers and comes from MSN Japan and with Visual Studio Logo.

Garden theme (Download Size : 2.3MB)

Bridge theme (Download Size: 1.9MB)

Highway theme (Download Size: 2.3MB)

Download Windows 7 Visual Studio Themes

Windows 7 Touch Pack, A Windows 7 games and application collection that are designed for multi-touch enabled displays running Windows 7 that interacting with using your fingers. To use these touch games and programs, you need either a laptop with a screen that supports multitouch or a desktop PC connected to a touchscreen that supports multitouch (including all-in-one PCs with touch screens).

This Microsoft touch pack contains six applications optimized for Windows 7 Touch is now available from Microsoft as a free download.

Windows 7 Touch Pack includes:

Windows 7 Finger Touch Game

• Microsoft Blackboard, an intricate game of physics in which you solve a puzzle by creating a fanciful machine on a blackboard.
• Microsoft Garden Pond, a tranquil game that takes place in serene Japanese water gardens.
• Microsoft Rebound, a game in which you use your fingertips to control Tesla spheres with an electrical field between them to catapult a metal game ball into your opponent’s goal.

Windows 7 Finger Touch Application

• Microsoft Surface Globe, a program that you can use to explore the earth as a flat 2-D map or as an immersive 3-D experience.
  
• Microsoft Surface Collage, a program that you can use to explore and interact with your photos and arrange them as a desktop background.
• Microsoft Surface Lagoon, a screen saver and interactive water simulation, complete with a meditative rock arrangement and playful, shy fish.

However, This Microsoft touch pack software is only available to Windows 7 users running Genuine Windows so it does mean you have to validate your installation before you will be given access to the download file.  This is a very straightforward and quick process.

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Download

Windows 7 Battery Bar is an application that indicates battery status on Windows 7 Taskbar. This battery status indicator is very for those windows 7 laptop user as it can reminding you the remaining battery level percentage, and time the battery will last.

Meanwhile, Windows 7 battery bar also lets you customize battery status color and taskbar text. In order configure and change the settings of this application just double click the system tray icon to open and close the configuration settings window, don’t click the close button on the application windows as it will close the application itself.

If you set the color changing to “Auto” setting then Windows 7 battery bar will change the color according to the remaining battery percentage:

100% – 50% = Green

49% – 11% = Yellow

10% – 0% = Red

Plus more, you can also set it to display None, Remaining %, Remaining Time + % & Power Status

Beside that, Windows 7 Battery Bar can use as portable battery indicator, which means it doesn’t require installation. Whenever you run this program, a small battery icon will be placed in the system tray and it can be used to open Windows 7 Battery Bar settings.

Download Windows 7 Battery Bar

How to change the Windows 7 login welcome screen of Windows 7? Try LogonStudio, a free Windows 7 login welcome screen utility that allow you personalize their Windows logon screens instantly.

The process of changing Windows 7 login welcome screen is simple. All you need is choose wallpaper from the software. Select and activate it only. However, this Login Welcome screen changer comes with several logon screens to choose from, but there are thousands screen that are available download online from Web sites such as WinCustomize.com.

Beside that, LogonStudio by Stardocks is compatible with Windows 7, Vista or XP. The minimum screen resolution is 1024 width and 768 heights.

Download LogonStudio – Free Windows 7 Login Welcome Screen Changer

Windows 7 Application Compatibility List, a Microsoft Office excel spreadsheet list that listed down all third party software application compatible with Windows 7 operating system. This Windows 7 application compatible list so that you can query the list against your pre-existing application inventory.

All the third party software application on the list already pass the Windows 7 Logo Program testing requirements for compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7, and have thereby earned the right to display the Windows 7 Logo Program logo with the application. These products are identified with the compatibility status “Compatible – Windows 7 Logo.”

The latest version of the list of Windows 7 Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals contains not less than 9619 applications received logo compatibility with Windows 7. However, the list is available not only IT professionals, but also to consumers. In addition, there is a special service of Windows 7 Compatibility Center for those consumers who want to check compatibility with Windows 7 specific software product.

Download: Windows 7 Application Compatibility List