Vista System Performance and Optimization

Windows Vista introduced a number of features that an administrator should be aware of to understand how to better optimize a system. Some of these were mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, but only in passing. These include the Aero interface, the User Account Control feature, indexing, and Sidebar.

Aero

An acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open, Aero differs from previous GUIs in that its windows are translucent and it allows the ability to create a 3D stack of open windows and cycle through them (known as Flip 3D); while Flip 3D is nice, it relies on a more important feature of Aero that provides live thumbnails of each window, as demonstrated in Windows Flip (the standard task ...

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