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In Windows XP, essentially, audio would be "broadcast" to all the audio endpoints at once. However, the new audio engine in Windows Vista changes this behaviour. Basically, audio can be sent only to the specific endpoint that the system has set by default, or which the user has configured via the Control Panel setting.
A total of three sound schemes for Windows Vista were released: Ultimate Extras Glass, Ultimate Extras Pearl, and Microsoft Tinker. The first two were made available on April 22, 2008, [23] while the latter was made available on September 23, 2008 to coincide with the release of Microsoft Tinker. [20]
The Microsoft Sound, as well as Windows 2000's startup and shutdown sounds under the names Windows Logon Sound and Windows Logoff Sound respectively were removed in favor of the new startup and shutdown sounds introduced with Windows XP. It is no longer possible to save or delete schemes under the Appearance tab of Display Properties.
Windows Sidebar is positioned rightward on the desktop, though users can place it leftward or detach gadgets to the desktop. Windows Vista includes Calendar, Clock, Contacts, CPU Meter, Currency Conversion, Feed Headlines, Notes, Picture Puzzle, Slide Show, Stocks, and Weather gadgets. Microsoft hosted a Web gallery for users to download and ...
With the release of the Platform Update on October 27, 2009, the Windows Management Framework (Background Intelligent Transfer Service 4.0, Windows PowerShell 2.0, and Windows Remote Management 2.0) of Windows 7 was also made available to users of Windows XP and Windows Vista. [134] Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 was made available as well. [135]
Windows Aero incorporated the following features in Windows Vista. Windows Aero theme: The main component of Aero, it is the successor of Windows XP's "Luna" and changes the look and feel of graphical control elements, including but not limited to buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, progress bars and default Windows icons. Even message ...
A slightly darker variant of the Standard scheme, called "Windows Classic" (not to be confused with the renamed "Windows Classic" variant of "Windows Standard" in Windows 7), was the default color scheme of Windows 98 (albeit with a dark blue desktop background instead of green, which was a change that was done with Windows 2000 during its ...
Windows Vista includes a specialized QoS API called qWave (Quality Windows Audio/Video Experience), [67] which is a pre-configured quality of service module for time dependent multimedia data, such as audio or video streams. qWave uses different packet priority schemes for real-time flows (such as multimedia packets) and best-effort flows (such ...