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Windows 7 Mobility Features : Presentations A-Go-Go

5/7/2013 6:01:29 PM

Although not a particularly glamorous lifestyle, many mobile users cart their notebooks around the globe, set them up in an unfamiliar location, and attempt to give a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint or a similar presentation package. Notebooks are perfect companions for such users because of their portability; but until recent versions of Windows, they weren't particularly accommodating if the presentation was conducted on battery power—thanks to various power management settings, the presentation could disappear as the display was shut down or the machine went to sleep. Windows 7 includes three major features related to giving presentations, one of which solves the problem just mentioned.

1. Presentation Settings

An obscure but useful feature, Presentation Settings enables you to temporarily disable your normal power management settings, ensuring that your system stays awake, with no screen dimming, no hard drive disabling, no screen saver activation, and no system notifications to interrupt you. In other words, with just a few clicks of the mouse, you can set up your mobile PC to behave exactly the way you want it to while giving a presentation.

To enable Presentation Settings, run Mobility Center as described in the previous section and click the projector icon in the Presentation Settings tile. The Presentation Settings dialog is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Presentation Settings is a boon to anyone who has had to struggle with Windows getting in the way of a presentation.

Select the "I am currently giving a presentation" option to enable Presentation Settings. Optionally, you can turn off the screen saver (the default), turn off the system volume, and temporarily change the desktop background. Presentation Settings also provides a handy way to configure connected displays, including network projectors.

You can also enable Presentations with a single click by clicking the Turn On button in the Presentation Settings tile in Windows Mobility Center. Regardless of how you enable this feature, the Presentation Settings tile will change to read Presenting and the projector icon will change to an On state.


2. Using a Network Projector

If you're going to show a presentation via a modern network-based projector, Windows 7 includes a Connect to a Network Projector utility that automatically configures firewall settings and searches for nearby projectors. To run this utility, find Connect to a Network Project in Start menu => All Programs => Accessories. You can search for a projector automatically or enter the projector's IP address.

Presentation and External Display Options

New to Windows 7 is a secret feature called Presentation and External Display Options that presents yet another new type of window from which you can quickly determine which displays to use. This control panel is nice for anyone with dual displays, but it really comes into its own when you need to give a presentation.

What's so secretive about Presentation and External Display Options? For starters, there's no way to access this feature from the Windows 7 UI. Instead, you have to use the keyboard shortcut WinKey+P to enable it. When you do, you'll see the window shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Presentation and External Display Options is a secret new feature in Windows 7.

Presentation and External Display Options lets you configure the screen(s) attached to your PC like so:

  • Computer Only: In this case, only the first display attached to the PC is used and any external display or projector is disabled.

  • Duplicate: Here, the display in the PC is mirrored to the projector.

  • Extend: With this setting, the projector is used like a second display and the Windows desktop is extended between the primary display and the projector.

  • Projector Only: With this setting, the PC's internal display is disabled and the PC desktop is outputted to the projector.

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