Windows Vista is a large operating system, there’s no denying it. With so many services and processes running in the background, even a system with more than sufficient memory can become bogged down quickly. Vista consumes 32MBs of graphics memory alone, while the many included services take up nearly 512MBs on average, leaving little room for performance- especially on slower machines with little memory.
I have to admit, I am a fan of Bluetooth. Mainly because it’s just about the only wireless standard that can be built into laptops and support everything from input devices to wireless headsets. Wires are so 20th century and therefore are lame. But, if you have a laptop that doesn’t have built-in Bluetooth, semi-awesomeness can be had with USB Bluetooth dongles.
There’s long been a complaint from Vista users in regards to always having to enter an email password when sending or receiving messages in Outlook 2007 and Windows Mail. While the problem exists in Windows XP as well, it seems to be easier to remedy with a quick settings-change in Outlook, but the same fix in Vista doesn’t always work.
We’re yet to see an episode of the ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ ads end with PC beaten into unconsciousness. So for now we’ll have to stick with the latest edition of iTunes reportedly causing widespread terminal crashes for Vista users.
Remote desktop is a great feature in Windows. Whether you need to connect to another computer in your network, or connect to your computer from anywhere there’s an internet connection, it’s an excellent alternative to more complicated remote connection methods. Turning on and configuring remote desktop is a lot easier than many people think, mainly because Vista takes care of the more complicated security measures for you.
If you’re like me, you probably like your computer to run as fast and efficiently as possible. One of the main ways to do this is to stop any unwanted processes from working behind the scenes and eating up your system’s resources. You’ve most likely already gone through Windows Task Manager to stop unneeded processes, but what about that pesky "ctfmon.exe" that never seems to go away.
Vista isn’t the greatest operating system on the planet but it is far from the worst. The “honor” of worst operating system goes to Windows ME but that’s a really old hat. Yet another vulnerability has cropped up in the opera that has become Vista.
Fed up with hints and tips telling you all the life-changing things you can do in Vista? Well here are some ‘features’ and applications which serve little or no useful purpose – but it’s nice to know you can do them.
The adoption rate for Vista SP1 has hit record levels if you are to believe a study done by Devil Mountain software. It is believed that the problems with the release version of Vista are behind this trend. On the other hand, Windows XP users see almost no reason to adopt SP3.
Windows Vista can sometimes be the prettier but dumber brother to Windows XP. Getting standard bluetooth devices working on Vista such as keyboards, mice and headphones/headsets should be as simple as scanning for the device, right? Wrong. Someone at Microsoft needs to should jump on this.
For those that are frustrated that Vista won’t do what you want it to do, don’t write it off just yet. With some simple system tweaks and some free software downloads, you can change almost every aspect of your OS to better suit your needs.
Compliments are far and few between these days for Vista, besides the kudos it receives for its user interface. When something does come along, it’s well worth sharing. Compliments are due for the fact that Vista is by far the most robust and hardest to break than any previous Microsoft operating system.
This doesn’t necessarily affect all Vista users and it seems primarily targeted at users of Asus laptops. However, it may expand beyond that but I cannot be certain. If this problem has cropped up on your Asus laptop here’s a relatively easy fix for it.
If you have been disappointed with Vista’s performance on your brand new dual or quad-core PC then this may help. The default settings for Vista have it boot using just one processor core. Using both or all four cores may help speed things along.
Either love or hate UAC, it’s a part of Vista and we all have to live with it. Some users get so annoyed with it that they turn it off and others just leave it on. UAC is enabled by default in Vista but a minority of users (myself included) are so put out with it that we turn it off.
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