Vista

New computers with Windows installed will almost certainly come with a version of Vista. Most will come with Vista Home Premium, which has more features that Home Basic.

Vista Home Basic is for computers with minimal computing power. Vista Home Premium needs more 'oomph' in order to perform satisfactorily and computers that come with Vista Home Premium will certainly come with more RAM and a faster processor and not to be overlooked, a higher price tag.

The biggest challenge for Windows XP users migrating to Vista is learning where everything the need is located in Vista. Some things are pretty obvious and some are sort of hidden.

My Documents is now named just plain Documents. Most of the things users need to know like the location of email folders are located in Appdata. Outlook Express is gone, replaced by a version now named Windows Mail. Windows Mail is mostly just like the old Outlook Express with a few deletions and a new feature for junk mail. The Start Menu has an updated look and Search is greatly improved.

These are just a few of the new look and features in Vista. I have very few pages for Vista, mostly in answer to questions posed in Yahoo Groups. More pages will come later. For now all of the Vista pages can be accessed from the Vista sitemap.