All the enhancements in the new Windows 7 would not be loved by the persons if this Windows operating system is not capable to give the best on the basics. Every user want that his computer should remain reliable, responsive and safe. If you want that your laptop’s battery lasts for a longer period of time, then you can depend on the applications and devices to work perfectly with your computer.

This is the reason why the basics are of great interest for the new Windows 7, something you’ll find as soon as you grab a new Windows 7 based computer. Windows 7 is based on the investments that Microsoft made in Windows Vista for giving an operating system that boots fast, more reliable and secure, works fine with your existing applications and devices and also supports most of the today’s powerful hardware.

The basic fundamentals can be explained as:

Reliability : Enhancement of Reliability factor in the new Windows 7 includes a Fault Tolerant Heap which gives common memory management solution. Process Refection to cut the disruption caused by diagnostics and driver sandboxing for preventing the weakly written device drivers from negatively affecting other device drivers. The final result is that the new Windows 7 based computer is more resilient because of which you will experience a smaller number of hangs and crashes.

Application Compatibility : A primary and prior engineering goal for Microsoft is that software which runs on Windows Vista will run better or as well on the latest Windows 7. To achieve this goal, Windows 7 has been repeatedly tested against a comprehensive list of the most widely used consumer and enterprise applications. The software giant, is investing in partner outreach efforts such that software developers have the resources needed to ensure application compatibility. In the software concern, Microsoft has set an engineering target to show that the devices which work with Windows Vista will continue to work with the new Windows 7. It has also increased the list of devices and peripherals that are being tested for compatibility. It is also working to ensure that the users can get the updated drivers directly from Windows Update.

Performance : The new Windows 7 starts, shuts down, and resumes from Standby mode as soon and faster as compared to other Windows operating systems. Searching and indexing are much faster allowing you to take better advantage of external USB flash memory drives for enhancing the performance.

Security : The new Windows 7 provides with the new features for better protecting your security and privacy thereby making the existing security features like User Account Control and Windows Defender simple to use. The third party firewall products can develop the core facilities of the Windows Firewall for including the custom features and selectively moulding parts of the Windows Firewall to toggle between on or off. It enables you to choose the software firewall you need to use and have it coexist with the Windows Firewall.

Better and Improved Battery Life : The enhancements to power management in the new Windows 7 will support in increasing the battery life of your computer. The Background tasks are deceased thereby enabling your PCs processor to save energy and power by remaining in idle mode mostly. The new Windows 7 reduces the display brightness to save battery life and makes use of less power while playing a standard definition media like CD/DVD. It also switch off the power supply to your PCs ethernet adapter when not in use and helps you to take advantage of Sleep state and remotely wake up a wirelessly connected PC.