Windows 7 Build 6801 screenshots
4th November 2008
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Here’s a whole bunch of screenshots for Build 6801 of Windows 7 that was dished out on portable hard drives at PDC in October. I’ve been exploring it for a few days now and have taken some screenshots to showcase some of the changes that have been made since Vista was first introduced.
Some of the design features in 7 remind me of OS X, however it’s early days so it’s anybodys guess what final design will make it to the gold master disk (or how many different gold master disks they’ll be making this time round).
I hope they keep the whole system as streamlined as it is right now because this build although feels like Vista, uses significantly less RAM (less than 500MB on clean stable boot) and is much more responsive.
First setup screen
Post-installation hardware diagnostics
Logon screen
Windows 7 desktop
Windows 7 gadgets on the desktop
New window management in Windows 7
Windows 7 Flip 3D
Windows Task Manager – only 483MB of RAM used!
Windows Update
Control Panel
Control Panel List View
Network and Sharing Center
Windows Explorer
Homegroup
Windows Explorer preview window
Windows Explorer “Share with” option menu
IE8 new tab
Paint for Windows 7
Desktop customisation
Windows 7 Start Menu
Windows 7 Start Menu programme list
Start Menu Search
Windows 7 Start button glow on mouseover
Show all system tray icon panel
Network connection system tray panel
