Windows 7 Slate Touch Optimizations
The following will assist in making the Windows 7 Slate more touch friendly and tablet oriented. Southeast Productivity is a great resource for configuring and utilization of your Slate.
Essential Touch Optimizations
Increase Screen Resolution
- Screen resolution -> Make text and other items larger or smaller -> Set text to 125%
Titles, Icons, Menus and SCROLLBARS
- Left Click Desktop -> Personalize -> Window Color ->Advanced Appearance Setting:
- Active Title Bar – Size = 50, Font 16
- Caption buttons – 50
- Icons – 32
- Inactive Title – 40
- Menus – 40
- Scrollbar – 40
Outlook
- Folder navigation – minimized
- Double click on tab – lock it opened or unopened
- Place delete button on upper left of screen for easy thumb deletion
Single Click Folders/Icons on Desktop to Open
1 – Double-Click on my computer.
2 – Left-Click on view.
3 – Left-Click on folder options.
4 – Left-Click on settings.
5 – On the click items as follow section, Left-Click on the single click to open an item category.
6 – Left-Click ok.
You should now be able to single click on icons.
Essential Apps to Download
Grab and Go Screen Lock
- screen lock which is useful for quickly enabling and disabling the touch interface.
- Download
- Anchor the icon to the bottom taskbar
Opera Web Browser MOBILE for Windows 7
- Download latest – Choose Opera Mobile (Windows 7)
- Best keyboard
- Best load times and touch interface especially on Windows 7 tablets. You can scroll while page loads!
- Be sure to install BEFORE you install Silverlight
Bing Bar for Internet Explorer
- News, Email (GMail), Weather, Built-In Translator (tranlate site on the fly)
- WeatherBug
- Gmail Reader
- Kindle/Nook
- Evernote
- USA Today
Dropbox – ESSENTIAL for sharing between PC and other devices!
- Go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Ease of Access
- Use a Bluetooth headset (noise cancelling for best results)
- Created an Android virtualization app for Windows 7. This will enable you to run Android apps on your Windows 7 Slate.
- Beta release this summer
- ViewSonic Tablet is already available.
Improving Space with an SD Card
Reference
1. Go to Control Panel -> System and Security -> Admin Tools
– Computer management -> Disk Management
2. Under More Actions to the right choose -> Create a VHD
3. Browse to your SD card – Give it a file name
– Set the size
– Choose Fixed Size
– OK
4. Click on new Disk created and choose -> Initialize
5. Choose More Actions – > Create Simple Volume – assign drive letter. After completing, you need to create a script and task to remount the VHD after a reboot. Look here for simple instructions.
