The BlackBerry Hub is the universal inbox
found on BlackBerry 10, and it pulls in all forms of communications from
calls and texts to emails, BBMs and social updates.
A
new addition to the Hub in the BlackBerry 10.1 update is pin to pin
messaging, allowing you to communicate directly with other BlackBerry
smartphones in a secure fashion.
Of course with so many accounts
feeding into the handset, the more popular among us will be quickly
inundated with notifications from various different channels, and this
is where the Peek idea makes it easy to see when you've got anything new
to look at.
To make the reams of messages easier to manage, tap
the title in the bottom-left corner of the message centre to reveal a
list of all the accounts you have linked up, and then select the one
you're interested in – this will then populate the Hub with
notifications from just that source.
There are also various
options which can be selected for a particular message, hold down on the
communication in question and a slim column of tools will pop up to the
right for you to choose from, including reply, forward and delete.
If you're using the QWERTY keyboard toting BlackBerry Q5 or Q10 there are predefined shortcut keys to speed up the messaging process.
For example you can hit "R" to reply, "L" to reply all or "F" to forward the email you're currently viewing on screen.
You
can start tapping out a text, email, tweet or Facebook post from the
homescreen on the Q10 and Q5, as the BB10 integration has the smarts to
detect what action you want.
While the BlackBerry Z10
cannot benefit from these shortcuts it has the advantage of packing a
larger screen, allowing more content to be displayed at once resulting
in much less scrolling for you.
The amount of scrolling on the Q5
and Q10 really bugged us at time as it's frustrating that you can only
see four messages at a time.
Drag down from the top of the message
centre and the BB10 Hub will automatically pull in your calendar events
for that day in the top half of the screen, enabling you to quickly see
what you've got on without having to launch the full calendar app.
It's an impressive setup and we reckon other platforms may be looking at the BlackBerry Hub with a little bit of envy.
It's not without its faults though and one of our biggest bug bears is its integration with the peek gesture.
If
you read a message and then immediately exit the Hub without returning
to the main overview next time you want to peek at your inbox you'll see
the message you last read, instead of your new entries.
The way
round this is to remember to hit back once you've read/replied to
someone, but it feels like a bit of a waste of time and a little
unintuitive.
BBM
BBM,
or BlackBerry Messenger, has been a cornerstone of the BlackBerry
experience for years, and it gets a revamp with BlackBerry 10.
The dedicated application has been given a lick of paint, with easier navigation and a new feature called BBM Video.
BBM
Video joins up with BBM Voice, which launched recently on BB OS7, to
bring both voice and video calls to the BBM application on BlackBerry
10.
The days of the BlackBerry bolt-ons on phone tariffs have been
and gone, with all your BBM activity coming out of your data allowance
if you're not connected to Wi-Fi. So you'll need to keep an eye on your
data usage.
Adding contacts is easy and within the BBM app you have the choice of tapping in your friend's pin, or scanning their QR code.
You
can send, receive and reply to BBMs from the BlackBerry Hub but if you
want the full range of options you'll need to fire up the dedicated
application.
BBM is set to roll out on iOS and Android this summer
which makes it an even more attractive proposition as all your friends
will be able to use no matter what phone they're rocking - apart from
those suckers with a Windows Phone who aren't getting treated to the
social messaging app.
Keyboard
Now all this messaging
capability is nothing without an input method, and keyboards are
arguably the thing BlackBerry handsets are most known for.
BlackBerry
has spoken in length about how it has engineered its on-screen keyboard
to bring users the experience they get on the physical version with the
all-new touch offering.
Straight up, we can say the BB 10
keyboard on the Z10 is miles better than the pitiful attempt that
adorned the Torch range of BlackBerry handsets, but it's not perfect. The keyboard sports the silver frets that can be found on the Bold 9900, providing additional spacing between lines and allowing for better travel between keys.
These
frets also act as the space for the next word prediction, and the more
you type the more BB 10 learns and offers smarter suggestions.
We
were able to type at a reasonable pace, but we found the next word
prediction if anything slowed us down, since the font is too small to
easily see, and we found our fingers were covering most of the
suggestions anyway.
It's a different story over on the Q10 and Q5
where BlackBerry's prowess in physical keyboards are once again brought
to the fore.
While there's no dynamic suggestions popping up above
each key you do still get spell check and predictions on screen to aid
your typing experience.
In the BlackBerry 10.1 update text
manipulation has been greatly improved, making it a lot easier to
highlight text on screen, leading to an easier way of editing your
missives as well as copying and pasting.
BlackBerry is calling it
Fine Cursor Control, and a blue circle will pop up on screen when you
hold down on text, allowing you to place the cursor where you want, and
also highlight various words and characters.
BlackBerry is making a big song and dance about its BB
10 camera application as well, especially the 'Time Shift' feature,
which enables you to select the perfect smile of your subject after
taking the photo.
Fire up the camera app (from the lock screen if
you so wish), select 'Time Shift' mode and snap your subject, and the
app will then search for faces in the image.
Once a face is
located in a photo, you can tap it and literally roll back time to find
the point at which your friend had their eyes open and the perfect grin. If
there are multiple people in your snap, you can individually adjust
each person, however during our demo we found 'Time Shift' struggled in
lower lighting conditions – subjects' faces need to be illuminated well
for the camera to detect their mugs. 'Time
Shift' did take a couple of seconds after the photo was taken to detect
faces and offer us the chance to tweak the image, but this could be
down to the fact it's running on a development build of the BB10
software, and speed could be improved in the final product.
Of
course the camera can take standard photos and record video alongside
the 'Time Shift' function, which itself is an impressive function, but
we wonder how much we'd actually use it day to day.
In terms of
other features the BB10 camera app is pretty sparsely populated,
offering you flash and aspect ratio toggles, the ability to switch
between front and rear cameras and a handful of scenes and shooting
modes. A new shooting mode which arrived with BlackBerry 10.1 is HDR, although the lower-end BlackBerry Q5 hasn't been gifted this fancy camera tech with the feature appearing to be reserved for the higher end Z10 and Q10.
We
found the auto-focus could be a little tardy at times which resulted us
in missing a shot or blurring the image, but the ability to use the
volume keys on each of the handsets as a shutter button is a welcome
bonus.
Browser
The BlackBerry browser has also had a
refresh for BB10, bringing it in line with the minimalist style of
current offerings on other devices. The location of the URL bar at the
bottom of the page is reminiscent of Internet Explorer on Windows Phone.
Even
though Adobe has already ditched future support and upgrades of its
Flash platform, BlackBerry has made sure it's built in support for the
dying format in BB 10, enabling you to access all your favourite
Flash-built sites and videos of Korean men dancing on invisible horses.
Sweep
from left to right while in the browser and the Peek functionality
comes into play again, this time showing various internet-centric
options such as History, Bookmarks, New Tab and your currently opened
tabs.
There's also a Reader mode built into the new browser, which
lifts article text and images from a web page and displays it in a more
manageable and easy to read format, stripping out fancy ads, menu bars
and any other clutter that gets in the way of actually reading
something.
Reader mode is especially useful on the Q10 and Q5, as
their peculiar screen sizes don't work particularly well with regular
sites, so having the ability to pull the text out by itself makes it a
far more pleasing experience.
The key browser boon however is
speed. We found that on all three BlackBerry 10 devices websites loaded
in a blink of an eye and it's one of the quickest browsers - if not the
quickest - currently on the market.
All three handsets come with
4G connectivity (although the Q5 will be available as 3G only in select
markets) which boasts load times when you're out and about and of course
Wi-Fi is fully supported as well.
Cascades
Then there's
Cascades, a new navigation system cooked up by BlackBerry especially for
BB10, enabling quick multitasking from within applications.
The
example we've seen is in the messaging app - open an email and it will
display full screen, but drag your finger from left to right and the
message will slide with you, revealing the inbox below.
This means
if you get a new message in the middle of reading an email, you can
check who it's from without having to close the application – similar to
the notification bar on Android and also now on iOS.
If
you were to open an attachment from the email – a PDF document in the
case of our demo – pulling to the side to view the Cascade will show the
app's layers stacked up. It's a more visual paper trail, if you will.
It's
certainly an intuitive feature that we found worked smoothly on the
development handset – but it will be interesting to see how this feature
is embedded into other applications and if it will have the same
pleasing results.
BlackBerry World
Apps were a big talking
point in the run up to the launch of BlackBerry 10, with BlackBerry
assuring everyone that it had loads of developers creating applications
especially for the platform.
BlackBerry
World launched with over 70,000 applications in the store and within
just a few months that has grown to 120,000 which is pretty impressive
and big names like WhatsApp and Skype have finally made it on after
being promised at launch.
While 120,000 doesn't sound like a lot
when you compare it to the likes of Android and iOS which boast over
700,000 apps each, BlackBerry reckons it's the quality not quantity in
BlackBerry World that makes all the difference.
Facebook has
popped in and updated its app for BB 10, which brings with it the
ability to activate the Chat feature. It also enhances scrolling and
gives a 'better photo experience' to make you want to use your new
BlackBerry to socially network more than ever before.
It's good to
see strong growth in the BB 10 app store, although it still has a long
way to go and there are numerous high-profile absentees which will put a
lot of consumers off.
BlackBerry Word itself isn't our favourite
app store in terms of design and navigation, with a confusing list of
various apps, music and videos on the main page making it difficult to
digest all the information.
You can refine your search by
categories, which goes some way to working out what's on offer, but
there's no option to view just free apps, for example.
The way you
go about updating applications has been improved in the BlackBerry 10.1
update, with a notification popping up in the BlackBerry Hub to alert
you when a new upgrade is available.
BlackBerry 10 is a solid smartphone operating system offering up all
the functionality you'd expect, wrapped up in a package that does set it
apart from the likes of Android and iOS.
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It's
not yet at the stage to challenge these two big players, but BB 10's
firm foundations means it's more than capable of taking on Windows Phone 8 for the coveted third spot.
We liked
The
BlackBerry Hub is an excellent messaging manager tool, giving you total
control over all your accounts and it makes it quick and easy to
respond to urgent things, while allowing you to ignore others without
disrupting what you're currently doing.
We're also seriously
impressed by the BlackBerry 10 which offers super some super fast
surfing speeds which puts in on par with the best.
The gesture
based interface provides an attractive and novel way of controlling the
smartphone, but BB10 risks confuses customers as it requires users to
operate their handset in a very different way.
We disliked
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Applications
will be a big sticking point for many, since most people will take the
vast offering on Google Play or the Apple App Store over the
undernourished BlackBerry World.
Of course it's still early doors
for BlackBerry 10 and the app store has seen significant growth since
its launch, but its late arrival to the market has seen rivals amass
libraries which could be almost impossible to match.
It's great to
see Skype and Whatsapp finally land on the BB 10 platform, but there's
still many big name apps missing from the line up, and that could be its
undoing.
While BB10 provides the Canadian firm with a good start
it's still a work in progress and minor niggles which crop up around the
operating system can jar at times, reminding you that this is still a
fledgling offering.
Some areas of BlackBerry 10 appear to be
lacking in terms of features, with budding photographers likely to be
disappointed about the lack of options in the camera app, while the
ability to set just one alarm is baffling and rather frustrating.
Final verdict
The
way you navigate round BB10 is very different to its rivals, and it
requires the user to spend a decent amount of time with it to fully
understand its complexities.
Once you get to grips with BlackBerry
10 you'll find it's a quick and fluid user experience that enables you
to get to the main features quickly without getting lost in various
menus and settings.
The thing is, it just doesn't feel as complete an offering as iOS, Android or even Windows Phone, and we reckon BlackBerry 10 has a bit of an uphill struggle if it's to steal users away from those three.
Alleges that it fed investors 'false and misleading' statements
It's landing Microsoft in more trouble
Microsoft's Surface RT scenario has gone from bad to worse. First it wrote off $900 million of unloved stock as CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly admitted
that it had made 'a few' more tablets than it could sell, and now the
company is being hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly failing
to notify shareholders of the device's paltry sales.
The dispute came to light after US law firm Robbins Geller sent out a press release claiming that Microsoft issued 'false and misleading' financial statements for its third fiscal quarter 2013 ending March 21.
Specifically,
the complaint alleges that although Microsoft knew that customer demand
for its Surface RT tablet was low and sales were poor during the
period, it continued talk up the device.
It wasn't until Microsoft
released its financial results for its fourth quarter and annual
results on July 18 that it revealed it had taken a $900 million (£580
million) charge related to Surface RT "inventory adjustments".
To
make matters worse, it also revealed that combined revenue from Surface
RT and Pro sales was just $853 million (£550 million), less than the
charge it had taken on the former as the Pro performed better in the
market. This caused the company's stock value to suffer its biggest
decline in more than four years, plunging 11.4% to $4.04 per share.
Taking action
As
such, Robins Geller is aiming to recover damages on behalf of anybody
that purchased Microsoft shares during the third fiscal quarter from
April 18 to July 18, as anybody that did so would have been none the
wiser regarding its dismal performance.
A Microsoft representative declined to comment on the class action suit.
Despite the onslaught of trouble it's bringing, Microsoft is pushing ahead with its ARM-based Surface RT devices and is expected to release new products in both the RT and Pro families some time next year.
Windows 7 is easy to customise with your favourite kitty pictures
Whether you've just bought a second-hand PC running Windows 7 or you've been using it for a while, there are bound to be things you didn't know you could do.
Whether
it's tweaks to get the desktop the way you want it, tips for
troubleshooting or ways to squeeze more performance from Windows 7,
we've got it covered.
Windows 7: the complete guide
We've
updated our popular Windows 7 tips article with a load of new ones,
including how to recover and reset your system, how to tweak your screen
resolution and the legibility of text, play music on a network of PCs,
and more.
Read on for over 90 tips to help you get the best from Windows 7.
1. Problem Steps Recorder
As
the local PC guru you're probably very used to friends and family
asking for help with their computer problems, yet having no idea how to
clearly describe what's going on. It's frustrating, but Microsoft feels
your pain, and Windows 7 will include an excellent new solution in the
Problem Steps Recorder.
When any app starts misbehaving under
Windows 7 then all your friends need do is click Start, type PSR and
press Enter, then click Start Record. If they then work through whatever
they're doing then the Problem Steps Recorder will record every click
and keypress, take screen grabs, and package everything up into a single
zipped MHTML file when they're finished, ready for emailing to you.
It's quick, easy and effective, and will save you hours of
troubleshooting time.
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2. Burn images
Windows
7 finally introduces a feature that other operating systems have had
for years - the ability to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs. And it
couldn't be much easier to use. Just double-click the ISO image, choose
the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is
created.
3. Create and mount VHD files
Microsoft's Virtual
PC creates its virtual machine hard drives in VHD files, and Windows 7
can now mount these directly so you can access them in the host system.
Click Start, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter, then click Action >
Attach VHD and choose the file you'd like to mount. It will then appear
as a virtual drive in Explorer and can be accessed, copied or written
just like any other drive.
Click Action > Create VHD and you
can now create a new virtual drive of your own (right-click it, select
Initialise Disk, and after it's set up right-click the unallocated space
and select New Simple Volume to set this up). Again, you'll be left
with a virtual drive that behaves just like any other, where you can
drag and drop files, install programs, test partitioning software or do
whatever you like. But it's actually just this VHD file on your real
hard drive which you can easily back up or share with others.
Right-click the disk (that's the left-hand label that says "Disk 2" or
whatever) and select Detach VHD to remove it.
The command line
DISKPART utility has also been upgraded with tools to detach a VHD file,
and an EXPAND command to increase a virtual disk's maximum size. Don't
play around with this unless you know what you're doing, though - it's
all too easy to trash your system.
4. Troubleshoot problems
If
some part of Windows 7 is behaving strangely, and you don't know why,
then click Control Panel > Find and fix problems (or
'Troubleshooting') to access the new troubleshooting packs. These are
simple wizards that will resolve common problems, check your settings,
clean up your system and more.
5. Startup repair
If
you've downloaded Windows 7 (and even if you haven't) it's a good idea
to create a system repair disc straight away in case you run into
problems booting the OS later on. Click Start > Maintenance >
Create a System Repair Disc, and let Windows 7 build a bootable
emergency disc. If the worst does happen then it could be the only way
to get your PC running again.
6. Take control
Tired of the
kids installing dubious software or running applications you'd rather
they left alone? AppLocker is a new Windows 7 feature that ensures users
can only run the programs you specify. Don't worry, that's easier to
set up than it sounds: you can create a rule to allow everything signed
by a particular publisher, so choose Microsoft, say, and that one rule
will let you run all signed Microsoft applications. Launch GPEDIT.MSC
and go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security
Settings > Application Control Policies > AppLocker to get a feel
for how this works.
7. Calculate more
At first glance the
Windows 7 calculator looks just like Vista's version, but explore the
Mode menu and you'll see powerful new Statistics and Programmer views.
And if you're clueless about bitwise manipulation, then try the Options
menu instead. This offers many different unit conversions (length,
weight, volume and more), date calculations (how many days between two
dates?), and spreadsheet-type templates to help you calculate vehicle
mileage, mortgage rates and more.
Don't take any Windows 7 applet
at face value, then - there are some very powerful new features hidden
in the background. Be sure to explore every option in all Windows
applets to ensure you don't miss anything important.
Windows
7 now provides a standard way to switch your display from one monitor
to another, or a projector - just press Win+P or run DisplaySwitch.exe
and choose your preferred display. (This will have no effect if you've
only one display connected.)
9. Get a power efficiency report
If
you have a laptop, you can use the efficiency calculator to get Windows
7 to generate loads of useful information about its power consumption.
Used in the right way, this can help you make huge gains in terms of
battery life and performance. To do this you must open a command prompt
as an administrator by typing 'cmd' in Start Search, and when the cmd
icon appears, right-click it and choose Run as administrator.
Then
at the command line, just type in 'powercfg -energy' (without quotes)
and hit Return, and Windows 7 will scan your system looking for ways to
improve power efficiency. It will then publish the results in an HTML
file, usually in the System32 folder. Just follow the path it gives you
to find your report.
10. Understanding System Restore
Using
System Restore in previous versions of Windows has been something of a
gamble. There's no way of telling which applications or drivers it might
affect - you just have to try it and see.
Windows 7 is different.
Right-click Computer, select Properties > System Protection >
System Restore > Next, and choose the restore point you'd like to
use. Click the new button to 'Scan for affected programs' and Windows
will tell you which (if any) programs and drivers will be deleted or
recovered by selecting this restore point. (Read our full Windows 7 System Restore tutorial.)
11. Set the time zone
System
administrators will appreciate the new command line tzutil.exe utility,
which lets you set a PC's time zone from scripts. If you wanted to set a
PC to Greenwich Mean Time, for instance, you'd use the command
tzutil /s "gmt standard time"
The
command "tzutil /g" displays the current time zone, "tzutil /l" lists
all possible time zones, and "tzutil /?" displays details on how the
command works.
12. Easily set screen resolution
Choosing a
new screen resolution used to involve locating and browsing through the
Display Properties applet. Windows 7 made this far simpler, though -
just right-click an empty part of the desktop, select Screen Resolution
and you'll immediately see the appropriate options.
13. Calibrate your screen
The
colours you see on your screen will vary depending on your monitor,
graphics cards settings, lighting and more, yet most people use the same
default Windows colour profile. And that means a digital photo you
think looks perfect might appear very poor to everybody else.
Fortunately Windows 7 now provides a Display Colour Calibration Wizard
that helps you properly set up your brightness, contrast and colour
settings, and a ClearType tuner to ensure text is crisp and sharp. Click
Start, type DCCW and press Enter to give it a try.
14. Clean up Live Essentials
Installing
Windows Live Essentials will get you the new versions of Mail, Movie
Maker, Photo Gallery and others - great. Unfortunately it also includes
other components that may be unnecessary, but if you like to keep a
clean system then these can be quickly removed.
If you left the
default Set Your Search Provider option selected during installation,
for instance, Windows Live will install Choice Guard, a tool to set your
browser home page and search engine, and prevent other programs from
changing them. If this causes problems later, or you just decide you
don't need it, then Choice Guard may be removed by clicking Start,
typing msiexec /x {F0E12BBA-AD66-4022-A453-A1C8A0C4D570} and pressing
[Enter].
Windows Live Essentials also adds an ActiveX Control to
help upload your files to Windows Live SkyDrive, as well as the Windows
Live Sign-in Assistant, which makes it easier to manage and switch
between multiple Windows Live accounts. If you're sure you'll never need
either then remove them with the Control Panel Uninstall a Program
applet.
15. Add network support
By default Windows Live
MovieMaker won't let you import files over a network, but a quick
Registry tweak will change this. Run REGEDIT, browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker, add a
DWORD value called AllowNetworkFiles and set it to 1 to add network
support.
16. Activate XP mode
If you've got old but
important software that no longer runs under Windows 7, then you could
try using XP Mode, a virtual copy of XP that runs in a window on your
Windows 7 desktop. This only works with Windows 7 Professional,
Enterprise, or Ultimate. And your system will need to have hardware
virtualisation (AMD-V or Intel VT) built in and turned on, too (check
your Bios to make sure).
An alternative is to use VirtualBox, a
free virtualisation tool that doesn't insist on hardware support, but
you will need to find a licensed copy of XP (or whatever other Windows
version your software requires) for its virtual machine.
17. Enable virtual Wi-Fi
Windows
7 includes a little-known new feature called Virtual Wi-Fi, which
effectively turns your PC or laptop into a software-based router. Any
other Wi-Fi-enabled devices within range - a desktop, laptop, an iPod
perhaps - will see you as a new network and, once logged on, immediately
be able to share your internet connection.
This will only work if
your wireless adapter driver supports it, though, and not all do. Check
with your adapter manufacturer and make sure you've installed the very
latest drivers to give you the best chance.
Once you have driver support then the easiest approach is to get a network tool that can set up virtual Wi-Fi for you. Virtual Router (below) is free, easy to use and should have you sharing your internet connection very quickly. If
you don't mind working with the command line, though, maybe setting up
some batch files or scripts, then it's not that difficult to set this up
manually. See Turn your Windows 7 laptop into a wireless hotspot for more.
18. Recover locked-up apps
If
an application locks up under a previous version of Windows then there
was nothing you could do about it. A new Windows 7 option, however, can
not only explain the problem, but may get your program working again
without any loss of data.
When the lockup occurs, click Start, type RESMON and click the RESMON.EXE link to launch the Resource Monitor.
Find your frozen process in the CPU pane (it should be highlighted in red), right-click it and select Analyze Wait Chain.
If
you see at least two processes in the list, then the lowest, at the end
of the tree, is the one holding up your program. If it's not a vital
Windows component, or anything else critical, then save any work in
other open applications, check the box next to this process, click End
Process, and your locked-up program will often spring back to life.
19. Fault-Tolerant Help
Windows
7 includes a new feature called the Fault Tolerant Help (FTH), a clever
technology that looks out for unstable processes, detects those that
may be crashing due to memory issues, and applies several real-time
fixes to try and help. If these work, that's fine - if not, the fixes
will be undone and they won't be applied to that process again.
While
this is very good in theory, it can leave you confused as some
applications crash, then start working (sometimes) for no apparent
reason. So if you'd like to check if the FTH is running on your PC,
launch REGEDIT, and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FTH -
any program currently being protected by the FTH will be listed in the
State key.
Experienced users may also try tweaking the FTH
settings to catch more problems, and perhaps improve system stability. A
post on Microsoft's Ask The Performance Team blog (bit.ly/d1JStu)
explains what the various FTH Registry keys mean.
20. Control devices and printers
Device
Manager is a powerful tool for managing hardware, but it's also rather
technical and intimidating, which is probably why Windows 7 has
introduced a more basic alternative in the Devices and Printers applet.
The
first improvement is purely visual, with lengthy and cryptic device
names replaced by large icons for major hardware items only (monitor,
mouse, hard drive, printer and so on).
The new applet can also
save you time, though, by providing a quick and easy way to access
relevant functions for each device. If you've got some printer-related
issue, say, right-clicking your printer icon displays a list of useful
options - See What's Printing, Printer Preferences, Printer Properties,
Delete Printer Queue and more - and all you have to do is select
whatever you need.
21. Automatically switch your default printer
Windows
7's location-aware printing allows the operating system to
automatically switch your default printer as you move from one network
to another.
To set this up, first click Start, type Devices, and click the Devices and Printers link.
Select
a printer and click Manage Default Printers (this is only visible on a
mobile device, like a laptop - you won't see it on a PC).
Choose
the Change My Default Printer When I Change Networks option, select a
network, the default printer you'd like to use, and click Add.
Repeat the process for other networks available, and pick a default printer for each one.
And
now, as you connect to a new network, Windows 7 will check this list
and set the default printer to the one that you've defined.
