Programmer unlocks hidden Windows 7 features
Published 11/11/2008 at Latest from Computerworld
A programmer has released a tool that unlocks several still-unfinished features of Windows 7 that Microsoft hid from users who got an alpha build of the OS at two recent developer conferences.
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