Advantages: new, shiny and a little better Disadvantages: does not communicate well with peripheral devices
I own this the lowest version of microsoft vista the supposedly new and improved windows operating system. I like many of the features the new internet explorer is miles better than the previous versions, finally ms have realised that tabbed browsing is a good idea.
One of the best features is system restore, whereby the pc automatically saves at different intervals your program and driver settings (though it leaves documents and pictures alone), a few times i have installled drivers and they have not functioned properly and caused problems. With the system restore you can start in safe mode and it will take your system back to the previous settings. I have even sometimes used this feature rather than uninstalling recently added programs, thereby not having to delete registry entries and all the myriad of crap some progrmas leave ...
Advantages: Tight security new entertaining games, Fast search Disadvantages: annoying when it always asks you if it should proceed into opening programmes
a certain websites that basically means for example, if you set that only three certain web pages can be viewed it means that the user won't have access to the rest of the internet websites.
With parental controls you can also chose which games your children can play or any other user who is going to be using your computer.
Another thing is you can also limit their access to any of the programmes that are already installed on the computer e.g. you can block them from using windows media player, Microsoft word, excel, power point documents etc.
---Windows firewall and Windows defender
Like any other computer windows vista premium does come with a firewall. This helps to protect you computer from hackers who might try to control you computer etc. it is crucial that you keep it turned on whilst using the internet because you never know whose ...
Advantages: it looks nice Disadvantages: it is unreliable and unpredictable
downgrade back to XP in an instant, as it is I am stuck with Vista as I do not want to format my machine and lose loads of things which I cannot backup.
My Opinion
In my opinion Microsoft should have focused on the technical side of things more than they did, in their haste to bring out a new good looking operating system they have given us something which admittedly looks and handles nicely but is seriously lacking everywhere else. I just hope that they will learn from their mistakes when they bring out the next version of Windows, although to be honest they couldn't make it any worse than Vista, unless they make us go back to pen and paper that is.
Vista has it's good points but to be honest it's performance has seriously put me off of it and I wish I could either go back to XP or upgrade to a better one. I'm stuck with Vista ...
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