The limited accounts in Windows XP are called standard accounts in Vista.
2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Welcome to your computer
Vistas jump-off screen is fairly helpful, and thats a good thing.
3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Detailed welcome to your computer
A link on the welcome page leads to this slightly more detailed welcome page.
4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Performance rating and issues
Vistas hardware requirements have been the subject of quite a bit of discussion. Vistas built-in performance rating tool should fuel further discussion.
5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Admin Rights
While following up on leads for speeding up our test machine, our standard-rights user encountered a User Account Control dialog; there, we entered the credentials of a user with admin rights.
6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Which startup programs were slowing me down
The performance rating page on our test system cited startup programs that were possibly slowing down the system.
7eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Mystery startup program
Using Windows Defender, we checked out which programs on our test machine were set to run at startup. Interestingly, the programs listed as possible slowdown offenders werent listed.
8eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Windows Defender: Connected programs
Windows Defender also showed us the network-connected programs on our test machine.
9eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Windows Defender: Running programs
Windows Defender listing of programs currently running.
10eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Those pesky drivers
The Vista rating tool cited particular drivers as possible performance problems, as well.
11eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Right click on the desktop to personalize
Links to common operations, such as changing display resolution, are organized a bit differently in Vista.
12eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – No diagnostic eye candy for standard users
Vistas diagnostic tools are both useful and a bit flashy, but our standard-rights user wasnt allowed to view them.
13eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – MMC and UAC are not pals
As we noted in previous builds of Vista, MMC programs dont tend to get along very well with User Account Control.
14eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – Why does IE always default to custom security level?
Why does IE always default to custom security level?
15eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – I mocked the sidebar in the past…
So far, we havent seen a must-have gadget for Vistas Sidebar feature, but this processor meter could win our hearts.
16eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – smart RSS handling
One of our favorite IE 7 features is its knack for rendering RSS feed pages and offering us the option of subscribing; Firefox just shows the XML source.
17eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Vista Build 5381 – No snazzy web browser addons
Without admin credentials, our standard user couldnt install arbitrary applications and browser plug-ins–which is the idea.
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