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.

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

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

Previously we have cover Windows 7 product key finder software. Here is another software call KeyFinder Pro that allow you recover windows 7 product key and other Microsoft product key easily such as recover Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007 product keys.

The best part of KeyFinder Pro is no installation requires and it can work as portable product key finder application. Meanwhile, the software is simple to use, which the product key (a.k.a. CD key, serial number, or installation key) is immediately displayed for your Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. Plus more, it also allows save or prints the product keys with the same tool.

Download KeyFinder Pro

Windows 7 Key Finder, A small application that designed to help windows 7 user recover back their Windows 7 product key information within a click only. This small windows 7 key finder can allocate keys for any version of Windows 7 that you need or that you have lost. Plus more, it also shows all Windows version information.

To use Windows 7 key finder simple. All you need is install it and run the program. Click on ‘Find Windows 7 Product Key’ button. Then you can then copy the windows product key information and save it somewhere.

Windows 7 Key Finder Download  (432 KB)

Windows 7 Start Orb Changer, A small windows 7 utility that allows you easily change the Start orb in Windows 7. This Windows 7 start orb changer is a free tool developed by Deviantart user.

The Windows 7 Start Orb Changer is simple to use. All you need is to do is to select the bitmap image for Start Orb.

On Windows 7 Start Orb changer zip archive, it contains around 33 sample start orb bitmaps, which you can use in the start. If you want more Windows 7 orb option, you can search more orb bitmaps at google images search engine.

How to use Windows 7 Start Orb Changer to change Windows 7 Start Orb:

1. Extract the zip archives of the application in preferable folder.
2. Then execute Windows 7 Start Orb Changer v3 application.
3. When application loaded, click on the Change Orb button on the application and locate orb bitmaps, if you don’t have any orb bitmaps you can use the sample orbs bitmaps, which can be found the extracted contents of the archive.
4. Once selecting the orb bitmap, the windows explorer will be terminated so that the new orb can be applied, now click the button Start Explorer.
5. Once the explorer is restarted you will see the new orb button applied in windows 7 taskbar.

Meanwhile, Widows 7 Start Orb Changer works with Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit.

Download Windows 7 Start Orb Changer

FixWin, A fantastic Windows 7 fix utility to fix Windows 7 with a single click only. This Windows 7 fix utility able to repair and fix 50 common Windows annoyances, issues & problems have been categorized under 5 tabs, viz : Windows Explorer, Internet & Connectivity, Windows Media, System Tools & Misc Additional Fixes.

FixWin – Windows 7 Fix Utility Key Features :

• Over 50 fixes for Windows
• Requires no installation
• Very easy-to-use
• One-click fix

Besides fixing Windows 7 problem, FixWin also enables you create a restore point before you actually making any changes your system registry. The best part of FixWin is no installation requires, which it can act as portable windows 7 fix utility.

The download size of this tool is just 127 KB and can be downloaded from the link mentioned below.

Download FixWin – Windows 7 Fix Utility