Adventures In Vista

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    I may never navigate three levels deep into the start menu again. I will also be seeing a lot less of Windows Explorer. Why? I hit the Windows key, type what I want, and 99% of the time I can just hit enter to run the program I want or to view the file I&#8217;m interested in. Even Device Manager! I think once people get used to that, it&#8217;s really going to be a huge boon for productivity. <li>
      <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_flip.asp">Flip 3D</a>, which is a 3-D replacement for ALT-TAB using Windows-Tab. <li>
        The glass effects really do make things feel futuristic. <li>
          The new <a href="http://thelazyadmin.net/index.php?/archives/458-Whats-New-in-Vista-Resource-Monitor.html">Resource Monitor</a>Â rocks, especially the ability to see disk I/O and network traffic on a per app basis. It&#8217;s like Task Manager++. <li>
            The <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_live_tb_thumbnails.asp">little thumbnails</a> you get when you hove over the Taskbar buttons is a small, but very useful feature. <li>
              The fact that <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_uac.asp">User Access Control</a> keeps asking for permission whenever you try to change something on the system can be frustrating at first&#8230;but it makes me feel like I have much more insight into, and control over, what my PC is doing. I can also see it saving my butt one day when I click the wrong button or try changing the wrong setting.
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  I&#8217;ve you&#8217;ve clicked on a few of those links, you&#8217;ve probably noticed that a lot of them point to <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_feature_focus.asp">Supersite for Windows</a>, which is the site I turned to first after getting my Vista install up and running on the home PC. Definitely a great site to check out.
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  Expect more posts as I&#8217;ve had more time to play with it!
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  [Full Disclosure: I work for Microsoft, and I was a Microsoft fanboy even before that. Feel free to take everything I say on Vista or any other Microsoft products with salt to taste!]
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