Windows Vista operating system features, advantages & disadvantages

Windows Vista surf the net and it offers a high level of security measures, It has parental controls, It has encryption features, It has Flip and Flip 3d window switching, It has Games explorer, It has Windows search, Welcome center, Sync center, and Self-healing system.

Windows Vista Advantages

Windows Vista has enhanced Video Quality and  Photo gallery, It has fast sleep and resume, It has Live taskbar thumbnails, Windows Vista looks similar to Mac OSX, Minimize, maximize and the close buttons wore an entire new strange look, The windows can be made to appear in translucent, 3D modes if the new Aero is applied. The appearance of the window, desktop, start button, start menu, the taskbar has got a new look.

Windows Vista has an advanced firewall, Windows Vista has Windows defender, and it has an auto backup, You can add additional clocks to show the time of some other country in Windows Vista. You can control kids by using parental controls in Windows Vista, You can now keep track of what all activities are done by the child, So, the parent must set up separate accounts for the child with a different password.

Windows Vista operating system

Windows Vista helps the parents to control the activities by blocking certain activities such as running a game program, blocking some sites that the child might have visited. You can play multimedia contents using the latest media player which bundled with Windows Vista, The Windows Media Player 11 enhances video, audio quality when playing sound, music, videos, Start menu also got a new look, The desktop wallpapers got a new look too.

Windows Vista has got a new look and has got a series of rich features, 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 and song collections.

We can modify the photos, We can transfer or share the photos from the computer to the devices such as the mobile phones as Windows Vista has got Photo Gallery to manage digital photos, The photo gallery has the ability to work high precision, high-quality images which are produced by latest high-quality cameras.

Windows Vista is supported for a lot of drivers that are automatically installed, Internet got faster, Aero looks pretty cool, It has its own security, It has simplified library, It improves customization options, and it has fast response time.

Windows Vista Disadvantages

Windows Vista consumes a lot more resources than its predecessor Windows XP, For vista Aero to work, you need to invest something more than what you would have expected to invest before, and it requires a superb computer to install, It needs high memory.

Windows vista eats up a lot of resources than its predecessor, the system will work smoothly when we have got RAM of about 2 GB installed, It is not as many applications supported as XP and will get better, It can not use Visual Styles such as Msstyles.

Windows Vista is not compatible with too many systems which means you may want to double-check your system’s compatibility before you invest in Vista, when you decide to install Windows Vista in the old system, the graphics card requirement is quite high, The graphics card must be of Direct X 10 supported.

Windows Vista appears similar to that of MAC OSX, the minimize, maximize, and close buttons have reduced in sizes causing some difficulty for those with sight problems, The icon has disappeared which makes the window slightly dull in appearance.

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