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Windows Vista Ultimate - Part 2
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Feb 05, 2007
  • 3.5
Integrated Search
Revamped Security Model
Aero Interface
Internet Explorer 7
Steep Hardware Requirements
UAC
Missing drivers
Application Incompatibility
Too many variants.

Windows Media Player 11
Though WMP11 has been out for some time now, under Vista it really looks at home. It adds a few interesting visual styles, a far more intuitive user interface and is a lot less cluttered as compared to the previous versions. The cover art which is retrieved when you make a play-list looks pretty nifty and adds to the visual appeal of Windows Media Player.

Windows Photo Gallery
Taking a leaf out of Apple’s book Microsoft has introduced a new application for photo management. Appropriately called Windows Photo Gallery, it is a comprehensive tool for not only viewing your photographs but also offers file management and editing options.

As Windows Vista now supports meta-tags, locating files has gotten a whole lot easier. When the Photo gallery application is launched, it automatically shows you your collection of digital pictures in a thumbnail. These thumbnails can be manipulated in many ways, by filtering them by date, by tags and even by ratings. Unlike its previous Windows Photo Gallery offers quite a few editing options. You can adjust the color rations, reduce or increase gamma balance, manipulate the size and exposure of a picture and crop it too. There is of course a red-eye tool present too.

The Photo gallery has an interesting slides-show functionality which makes photo viewing a pleasure. It is triggered by pressing F11 and offers various on-screen options. These h allow you to control the speed of the show, set a theme for your photo (i.e. a frame or a collage or a glass like aspect to the photo) and manipulate the size.

Windows DVD Maker.
This is an updated tool, the successor to Windows CD maker which was a part of Windows XP.It is a very basic DVD-authoring tool that supports burning files and making basic DVD movies. For any other kind of DVD authoring you are better of getting a more established tool like Nero.

This ends the second part of our review. In our final part we will explore Vista’s system performance enhancements and Vista's performance in real-life conditions.


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great but mine changes to my network profile when i dont want it to how do i delete a profile
Tim @ Jan 06, 2008
cool information
but m having a problem . The wi-fi in my collegge isnt vista compatible. it wrks with XP. plz can any one help me?
nimai @ Jun 24, 2007
Vista is not my flavour type.Compatibility Issue, Imature TCP/IP stack,Kernel Patching(known as Patch Gaurd),IPv6,P2P collaboration are potential problem areas.

Apart from that DRM made me sick :P .The Pricing is mind Blowing :O too high.Then comes the UI. UI is a good one.Though many things can be emulated in Windows XP itself like filp 3d and sidebar.

The Hardware requirements are also very high. Regarding the eye candy can be provided via uxtheme.dll in windows :D.Plus there are some better UI availble with Linux.
Chandreshwar Mani Tripathi @ Feb 23, 2007
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