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2. Management features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems. Notable changes include a complete replacement of both the Windows Setup and the Windows startup processes, completely rewritten deployment mechanisms, new diagnostic and health monitoring tools such as random access memory diagnostic ...

3. Comparison of Windows Vista and Windows XP - Wikipedia

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   User Account Control in Windows Vista improves this by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase in privilege level. In this way, UAC prevents users from making inadvertent changes to system settings and locks down the computer to prevent unauthorized applications from installing or ...

4. Criticism of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues with new security features, performance, driver support and product activation, it has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various groups.

5. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   As DirectMusic was based on DirectSound which is no longer hardware accelerated in Windows Vista, DirectMusic also is software-emulated in Windows Vista. [59] As a result, MIDI playback which is greatly sensitive to latency, timing and CPU usage can be choppy. Sounds cannot be played for balloon notifications anymore.

6. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista Home Basic is intended for budget users. Windows Vista Home Premium covers the majority of the consumer market and contains applications for creating and using multimedia; the home editions consequentally cannot join a Windows Server domain. For businesses, there are three editions as well.

7. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista aims to simplify the detection, configuration, and installation of external displays by introducing a standardized setup procedure and interface with the new WDDM, which enables hot plug detection and alerts the new Transient Multimon Manager (TMM) for external display configuration when one is connected. In previous versions of ...

8. Technical features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista also includes the ability to calibrate speakers to a given room's acoustics automatically using a software wizard. [7] Windows Vista also includes the ability for audio drivers to include custom DSP effects, which are presented to the user through user-mode System Effect Audio Processing Objects (sAPOs). [8]

9. Comparison of privilege authorization features - Wikipedia

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   A number of computer operating systems employ security features to help prevent malicious software from gaining sufficient privileges to compromise the computer system. . Operating systems lacking such features, such as DOS, Windows implementations prior to Windows NT (and its descendants), CP/M-80, and all Mac operating systems prior to Mac OS X, had only one category of user who was allowed ...