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  • Vista Requirements
  • Upgrade Advisor – Are You ready For Vista? 
  • Vista Welcome Center
  • Vista Search
  • Vista Speech Recognition
  • Vista Backup
  • Vista Firewall
  • Vista Parental Controls
  • Vista User Account Controls
  • New Media Player
  • Flip 3d
  • Using Photo Gallery
  • Start Menu
  • Vista Games
  • Vista Performance Monitor
  • Vista Explorer
  • Vista Aero
  • Meeting Space
  • Ready Boost
  • Vista Side Bar
  • Vista Editions
  • Vista Movie Maker
  • Network Center
  • Vista Windows Mail
  • Windows Defender
  • Vista Calendar
  • Vista Security

 
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Vista Welcome Center
 Vista greatly simplifies the process of setting up a new computer—the new Welcome Center makes it easier than ever. This screen pulls all the tasks you'll most likely want to complete when you set up your computer into a single location.
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Vista Parental Controls
The parental controls built into Windows Vista are designed to help parents manage what their children can do on the computer. These controls help parents determine which games their children can play, which programs they can use, and which websites they can visit—and when. Parents can restrict computer use to specific times and trust that Windows Vista will enforce those restrictions, even when they're away from home.
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  Speech Recognition
Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista empowers you to interact with your computer by voice. It was designed for people who want to significantly limit their use of the mouse and keyboard, while maintaining or increasing their overall productivity. With Windows Speech Recognition, you can dictate documents and e-mails in mainstream applications, use voice commands to start and switch between applications, control the operating system, and even fill out forms on the web. with
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  Vista Search
Windows Vista introduces Search Folders, a powerful new tool that makes it easy to find and organize your files—wherever they may be on your PC. A Search Folder is simply a search that you save. Opening a Search Folder runs your saved search, displaying up-to-date results quickly.
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  Vista User Account Controls
User Account Control in Windows Vista improves the safety and security of your computer by preventing potentially dangerous software from making changes to your computer without your explicit consent.
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  Vista Aero
Windows Aero is the best-designed, highest-performing Microsoft user interface ever. Windows Aero gives your PC a whole new look and feel. Windows Aero offers a premium user experience that makes it easier to visualize and work with your information, and it provides a smoother, more stable desktop experience
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  Vista Backup and Restore
Vista file backup and restore features in Windows Vista make it easier for you to keep your data safe from user error, hardware failure, and other problems. The Windows Backup and Restore Center gives you one place to manage all backup and restore features.
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  Vista Move Maker
Vista Movie Maker introduces an easy and intuitive new interface that will help you turn your video memories into compelling videos. The improved effects and multiple transition options in Windows Movie Maker, together with the high-end graphics power of today's PCs, can help turn just about anyone into a movie director
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  Vista Gadgets and Sidebar
Gadgets are easy-to-use mini programs that give you information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. Windows Sidebar helps you to organize your gadgets
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  Vista ReadyBoost
Windows Vista introduces Windows ReadyBoost, a new concept in adding memory to a system. You can use non-volatile flash memory, such as that on a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional memory "under the hood."
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  Vista Media Center
Windows Media Center in Windows Vista features some great advancements over previous versions, including an improved user interface with easier navigation and breakthrough media visualization. Windows Media Center also offers built-in support for archiving TV shows directly to video DVDs, faster overall performance, and an improved platform for content owners to deliver new online entertainment services and experiences
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  Vista Meeting Space
Windows Meeting Space, the new collaboration feature in Windows Vista, is a simple yet powerful tool that enables you to work face-to-face with small groups of Windows Vista users
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  Vista Defender
Windows Defender works with Internet Explorer 7 to help you make conscious choices about software installed on your PC by providing always-on protection that monitors key system locations, watching for changes that signal the presence of spyware
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  Vista Calander
Windows Calendar is a flexible, easy-to-use tool for planning and managing all of your activities and coordinating your schedule with other people's. As the pace of life accelerates at work and at home, many people find it helpful to use a PC-based calendar to manage their time and coordinate their schedule with family, friends, and colleagues
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  Vista Firewall
Windows Firewall in previous versions of Windows, the firewall in Windows Vista helps protect you by restricting other operating system resources if they behave in unexpected ways-a common indicator of the presence of malware. For example, if a component of Windows that is designed to send network messages over a given port on your PC tries to send messages by way of a different port due to an attack, Windows Firewall can prevent that message from leaving your computer, thereby preventing the malware from spreading
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  Vista Mail
Windows Mail in Windows Vista addresses today's serious concerns about junk mail, e-mail, and phishing attacks, while adding new features that help you search and manage the increasing volume of e-mail messages that you receive.
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  Network Center
The Network and Sharing Center puts you in control of your network. Use it to check your connection status, view a visual representation of your network, and troubleshoot connection problems. The Network and Sharing Center informs you about the network your computer is connected to and verifies whether it can successfully access the Internet. It even summarizes this information in a handy Network Map.
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  Photo Gallery  
Windows Photo Gallery offers an easier, more intuitive way to view, manage, and refine your photos and home movies. A streamlined process simplifies acquiring and importing images and videos, and new organizational options make it easier to find and enjoy your memories. And you have the flexibility to launch any of your other photo- and video-related applications from directly within Windows Photo Gallery
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  Flip 3D
Using the new Windows Aero technology, available in Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate editions, Windows Flip and Windows Flip 3D render live thumbnail images of the exact contents of your open windows, making it easier to identify the one you want. Windows Flip improves on the ALT+TAB method for flipping between windows, while Windows Flip 3D dynamically displays all open windows in a graceful three-dimensional view.
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  Vista Games
Anyone who plays games on their PC loves the seemingly limitless choices of games compatible with Windows. But finding and starting those games hasn't been that easy. Some games install into the Start menu. Other games put icons on the desktop. With Windows Vista, finding and playing the games you want is easier than ever before.
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  Vista Diagnostics
To help keep your system running smoothly without a lot of effort on your part, Windows Vista contains built-in diagnostics—collections of instrumentation, troubleshooting, and resolution logic—to resolve external problems that affect the way Windows Vista behaves. The framework that supports these diagnostics, called Windows Diagnostic Infrastructure, is a new feature in Windows Vista.
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  Vista System Requirements
Before you upgrade you may want to see if your System can run Vista.  The new OS is very hungry for high-end Hardware to take advantage of the fantastic interface
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  Vista Aero
Windows Aero is the best-designed, highest-performing Microsoft user interface ever. Windows Aero gives your PC a whole new look and feel. Windows Aero offers a premium user experience that makes it easier to visualize and work with your information, and it provides a smoother, more stable desktop experience
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