Vista Part 2

In this 2nd part about Vista, we will talk about how vista is different and to "use" Vista in the manner it was designed. Fist of all, UAC was designed for 2 Phases. phase 1 is configuration phase, that is when you will and should see allot of UAC popups. Phase 2, is the user phase, you *should* see very little or no UAC popups, if you do then either your doing something wrong or the app, function your doing requires admin. and in that case: it may be different.

 

the 2nd thing is the home directory, you may notice that there is no more "my documents" there is now just a home directory and that has a documents folder in it. this is alot better, and more Unixy.  So, you work from your home directory.

 

ram and ram cache, in Vista ram works very differently then in XP or win2k. Vista will cache aka prefetch stuff for you. so it will be using far more ram upon appearance then in XP. and that's Ok really....

 

make sure you have about 1 GB of ram or more for vista, on my VM images i set it to 768 and it was fine, i also have a workstation on 1GB of ram and it likewise is fine.

 

you can customise the GUI in advanced properties, for either best performance or best look, if you choose best performance the last check box allows for aero.

 

 

thats it for now.

 

 

 

 

-Nex6