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Hai there guys,here is harvik780 with a short but sure windows vista ultimate review.This new breed of windows operating system is a whole new experience but is it worth the money?u gonna find it now.I think u ain't getting any better information else where.First of all it has whole new kernel which is rock solid stable.Well the reason for this is that it does not allow any thing and yes i mean any thing to touch it or crash it.Every time u run an application which windows does not recoganise then windows asks if u want to run this program or not cause it could be a virus or other malisious software.The drivers made for vista have an entirely new architecture.And the completion of the installation of a video card driver does not require a restart amazing hanh(good way to save time).More importantly if the video driver or any other driver crashes it does not crash the system.For eg if the video driver stops responding the monitor will turn off for a second or couple and then it would turn on again then a message would appear saying that the display driver stopped responding and has recovered sucessfully.My video card ran out of power while playing a game(flatout 2) with aero interface turned on.It was mentioned in a digit issue that vista has the capability to unload every thing from memory which is not required for playing a game.Well the truth is that it does not do so on its own but it has to be done manually.Games installed on vista are automatically recoganised and the short cuts to the games are automatically created in the games directory.Here u can see the rating of a game,it's version and other information about the game.When u run an applicatiojn that is not compatible with vista then vista automatically runs it in compatibility mode with the safest settings.Every single game I tested on vista ran perfectly except splinter cell double agent which crashed the video driver.I would recommend that people having low end to mid end geforce 6/7 series cards with 1 to 1.5 gb of system memory should disable aero interface while running games.And most importantly people having a 915/945 chipset should forget about running the vista aero ineterface cause the performance of gma900 and gma950 is not up to the mark.U can find out whether your computer can run aero by going to start menu-games and then clicking on performance information and tools.Run the performance wizard and if ur video card score is 3.0 or more then don't worry & be happy as your video card can run aero.The most intuitive portion of the aero interface is flip 3d in which u can scroll through applications while pressing windows key + tab.If u have an internet connection then u can view news on your windows side bar.The side bar shows date,time and if u want it also shows cpu usage.The side bar is composed of softwares called gadgets.U can make ur own gadgets or download them(don't know from where).Vista covers drivers for nearly 90% hardware.Currentyly u cannot overclock in vista at least not on a geforce card.And did i miss saying that the sound quality of vista is amazing & u don't even need a top end sound card,just install a mid range one for listening to music or playing games.Browsing the web is a lot more fun now with IE7.But i think that its rendring speed is still less than opera or mozilla fire fox.I have all the three browsers installed but can only view video content on IE7 cause the windows media player plugin though installed is not recoganised by opera or firefox.And i forgot about the additional windows media center in the ultimate version which allows u to play audio hd video and radio online and even play windows default games.U can also watch tv and perform other tasks with WMC.The windows files are absolutley safe and nothing can harm them expect when u format the drive.
