Vista Part 2

In this 2nd part about Vista, we will talk about how vista is different and to "use" Vista in the manner it was designed. Fist of all, UAC was designed for 2 Phases. phase 1 is configuration phase, that is when you will and should see allot of UAC popups. Phase 2, is the user phase, you *should* see very little or no UAC popups, if you do then either your doing something wrong or the app, function your doing requires admin. and in that case: it may be different.

 

the 2nd thing is the home directory, you may notice that there is no more "my documents" there is now just a home directory and that has a documents folder in it. this is alot better, and more Unixy.  So, you work from your home directory.

 

ram and ram cache, in Vista ram works very differently then in XP or win2k. Vista will cache aka prefetch stuff for you. so it will be using far more ram upon appearance then in XP. and that's Ok really....

 

make sure you have about 1 GB of ram or more for vista, on my VM images i set it to 768 and it was fine, i also have a workstation on 1GB of ram and it likewise is fine.

 

you can customise the GUI in advanced properties, for either best performance or best look, if you choose best performance the last check box allows for aero.

 

 

thats it for now.

 

 

 

 

-Nex6

 

 

 

 

Vista Part 1

This is the First in a multi part post about "Vista".  let start of with, "what is Vista?"

and to answer that: Its Microsoft's New Desktop Operating System.

 

Some people claim that Vista is just XPsp3 that can't be farther from the case. As much as there, maybe

things that annoy people about vista. The truth is: vista has alot of major work done "under the hood"

 

that is to say: things like driver framework running in userspace, superfetch, UAC, and improved kernel. are all major factors.

 

Is Vista, a 100% secure 100% bullet proof OS? no becuase no OS is. but: Vista is an improvement over XP just as XP was an improvement

over 2000.  and that is what people need to look at. and as Vista moves along, vender driver support and application support will get better.

 

 

and if you look at the history of Computers no OS, started out prefect. mainframes nowadays are are considered secure and really really stable.

but that was not always the case. and even with windows look a recent releases like SQL 2005 and windows 2003 server RC2. how many problems have thay had? not too  many.

we cant keep comparing modern Microsoft OS's to win95 and win98.

 

 

 

-Nex6