As the launch of the Windows 7 draws near people are getting more and more enlightened about the various features it has to offer. One of them is its ability to remove or turn off specific applications. The prominent applications are Internet Explorer 8 as well as Windows Media Player. If you don’t want these applications to clutter your view, you can just turn them in just a few clicks. Windows 7 provides a list of applications and you just have to click which one you want removed.

When you choose to remove a program, what happens is, it becomes hidden rather than become uninstalled. Microsoft designed it this way because if they remove one component in the operating system, other applications could run in conflict with each other and they could malfunction. When the post about the removal option came out on the web, more rumours about the applications that can be removed came out. Also included in the list are Media Center, DVD Maker, Search, Fax and Scan as well as Virtual Print Driver.