Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
173 KB (16,926 words) - 17:46, 8 July 2025
minor step between Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler") and the next planned major release of Windows, code-named "Blackcomb". Vista's original codename,...
82 KB (10,154 words) - 23:21, 15 June 2025
Microsoft also made Windows Vista available for purchase and download from Windows Marketplace; it is the first version of Windows to be distributed through...
55 KB (3,998 words) - 18:16, 20 July 2025
2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista, released nearly three years earlier. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released...
148 KB (11,979 words) - 16:02, 1 August 2025
Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to...
53 KB (5,197 words) - 16:49, 3 April 2025
Windows Server 2008, codenamed "Longhorn Server" (alternatives: "Windows Vista Server" or "Windows Server Vista"), is the seventh major version of the...
54 KB (4,961 words) - 17:45, 8 July 2025
component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...
21 KB (2,270 words) - 03:28, 6 March 2024
Windows XP and Windows Vista differ considerably in regards to their security architecture, networking technologies, management and administration, shell...
12 KB (1,276 words) - 22:46, 10 November 2024
Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system...
33 KB (3,292 words) - 08:14, 24 July 2025
variant of Windows 10 known as Windows 10 Team. Two versions of Windows XP were released that were optimized for tablets. Beginning with Windows Vista, all...
41 KB (1,728 words) - 13:32, 13 July 2025
Outlook for Windows. Windows Mail can be traced to a pre-release version of Outlook Express 7 included in early builds of Windows Vista (then known by...
15 KB (1,347 words) - 15:54, 21 June 2025
However, with the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft published guidelines for a new Windows Logo key that incorporates the Windows logo recessed in a chamfered...
24 KB (2,856 words) - 21:30, 30 July 2025
Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including...
122 KB (13,926 words) - 19:57, 16 March 2025
it ran better than Windows Vista. Windows 7 removed many applications, such as Windows Movie Maker, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Mail, instead requiring...
89 KB (10,872 words) - 09:11, 29 July 2025
introduced to Windows in 2002 on Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). It was included in Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, as well as...
36 KB (3,841 words) - 02:13, 31 May 2025
industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold...
104 KB (9,232 words) - 13:47, 24 July 2025
Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations...
23 KB (1,753 words) - 09:23, 17 March 2025
Windows Desktop Gadgets (called Windows Sidebar in Windows Vista) is a discontinued widget engine for Microsoft Gadgets. Desktop Gadgets have been replaced...
7 KB (723 words) - 00:41, 20 July 2025
Windows Vista (formerly codenamed Windows "Longhorn") has many significant new features compared with previous Microsoft Windows versions, covering most...
95 KB (11,022 words) - 12:31, 22 June 2025
was released as part of Windows Vista and – like most Windows components – reported version number 6.0.6000, same as Windows Vista itself. It included new...
27 KB (3,025 words) - 21:25, 31 July 2025
Start menu (redirect from Windows Vista Start button)
available in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, it is absent in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and other later Windows releases. The...
28 KB (3,189 words) - 08:45, 31 July 2025
Windows Vista contains a range of new technologies and features that are intended to help network administrators and power users better manage their systems...
49 KB (5,815 words) - 01:33, 8 January 2025
The booting process of Microsoft Windows varies between different releases. In Windows versions 1.01 to Windows 2.11, the system was loaded when WIN.COM...
7 KB (712 words) - 16:21, 17 July 2025
File Explorer (redirect from Windows NT Explorer)
known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating...
64 KB (6,807 words) - 23:49, 6 July 2025
2003 were succeeded by Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, released in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Mainstream support for Windows XP ended on April 14...
136 KB (11,496 words) - 01:58, 28 July 2025
NForce3 (section Windows Vista Incompatibility)
for nForce3 and Windows Vista. However, Nvidia has posted individual 32 bit pre-release networking and audio drivers for Windows Vista Beta 1 that support...
8 KB (957 words) - 23:54, 18 July 2025
Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows XP...
125 KB (13,323 words) - 15:42, 12 July 2025
Windows Vista introduced a number of new I/O functions to the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. They are intended to shorten the time taken...
18 KB (2,161 words) - 22:00, 24 June 2025
of Windows the utility can be started by entering charmap in the Start / Run dialog box. On Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, the...
6 KB (587 words) - 06:19, 29 November 2024
top-right corner of the window. In Windows Vista onwards, additional layers of navigation were introduced, and the Control Panel window itself became the main...
34 KB (889 words) - 18:45, 29 July 2025