Windows Vista advantages over xp

by Shailesh
(Bangalore, India)

Advantages of windows vista

The advantages of Windows Vista OS are as follows:

· Improved search, Windows Explorer: In Windows Vista, you will get the search result as and when you type some letters of a particular word. The explorer shows a list of all files in the folder by default. When one types in, the few letters of words in the search box, the files will get filtered out according to the letters.

· Date and time, know the difference in time across the world: In earlier Windows operating systems, it was indeed difficult to know the time difference across the two countries. In Windows Vista, one can add additional clocks, to show the time of some other country.

· Manage your photos using photo gallery: Windows Vista has got an inbuilt tool called as Photo Gallery to manage digital photos. Using it, one can modify the photos. It has got ability to show previews of movie files. Using this tool, one can transfer or share the photos from computer to devices such as mobile phones, PDA?s, etc. The photo gallery also has the ability to work high precision, high quality images, which are produced by latest high quality cameras.

· Improved Graphical User Interface, the Aero: There is an entire new GUI for Windows Vista. The appearance of window, desktop, start button, start menu, taskbar, everything got a new look. Only the new Windows logo gets appear in start button. Start menu also got a new look. The desktop wallpapers got a new look too. The desktop contains a side bar, which shows a clock, and some of the widgets. Widgets are small programs, which is equivalent to standard short cuts.

· Manage your knotty kids, using parental controls: It enables parents to control the activities by blocking certain activities such as running a game program, blocking some sites that, the child might have visited etc. For this to work, parent must setup separate account for the child with different password.

· Surf the net, without much worry about security: Browsing the net, without any security measures invites a major danger. Windows Vista enable one provide high level of security measures. Windows Vista has come with a latest version of Internet Explorer which is version 7.0. It includes phishing filter to provide higher security. Protection against spamming. Windows defender, advanced firewall, Encryption & Decryption of data, support for NTFS partitions, auto backup are the few other security utilities available.

· Play multimedia contents using latest media player: The latest version of Windows Media Player bundled with Windows Vista. These features include URGE services from MTV digital music services, Simplified Library, Library layouts. The newest URGE services provide access to the huge collection of online music, song collections. The simplified library improves customization options.

· Total different world, new experience: Windows Vista brings you the new world of new experience. It starts from amazingly changed desktop, which goes beyond imagination. All icons look better this time around.