A Review of Top 10 Windows Vista Features, Microsoft’s new operating system that has just released and created a boom in the Technology Industry. With the Release of this new operating system Microsoft promises to take things to a whole new level but still according to an estimate only 15% of World’s current PCs are going to be able to run Windows Vista without any upgrade required.

1. Windows Meeting Space:
Yes, Vista’s got some Collaborated-Work power. Windows Vista makes it easy for you to experience Collaborated-Work with other Vista users using its new Windows Meeting Space Application. Vista speaks the langauge of Business :D, now you can easily share, send and receive files and applications with a colleague or customer even if you both are not on the same network. Follow the steps to start a collaborated workspace:

• Launch Windows Meeting Space and start a New Session.
• Windows Vista will start detecting other Vista users that are on the same sub-net infrastructure or are closs enough for you to create a direct PC-To-PC Wireless connection.
• As soon as they accept you invitation, Files can be easily transmitted/share by dragging and dropping a document to the Handouts area on the bottom right which instantly creates a duplicate copy of that file accross the other meeting participants’ computer.
• To start a Live and Global presentation or to start an application sharing drag the file to the Presentation Area on the left hand side. In this way your meeting participants can edit that file for you in real time and if you want you can pass control to other participants to let them do the edit for you.

2. Windows ReadyBoost:
Windows Vista has introduced a new innovative idea for boosting the performance of a running system. Now Vista users can use any Portable Memory Device to speed up their PCs performance all thanx to Windows ReadyBoost. These steps should help you do the little task:

• Insert any portable memory device e.g USB 2.0 Drive, SD Card, Compact Flash.
• When prompted for action, click use this device to speed up my computer.

3. Previous Versions:
Remember all those sad moments when you used to miss all your work just because of some accidental save or computer power loss. Well Vista definitely has cure for this because of its built-in Time Machine :D. With the new feature called Previous Versions you can easily revert to an earlier version of that file that you may have accidently saved or edited. All you have to do is:

• Open Documents Explorer, then open a document, edit it, save it, and close it.
• While selecting the document, choose the Previous Versions option, on the command bar, which will bring up a list of previously saved versions of that file.
• To restore to an earlier version, simply choose it and Vista will restore it for you but be careful because all you edits since that version will be lost.

4. New Search Explorer:
Windows Vista has got an improved Seacrh Explorer:

• To Filter by type, use the Search Pane and select Documents. You can choose to see the files in another way, through the new Stack View.
• To view all Documents under the same Author’s Stack, select the author column header control drop down menu and choose option Stack By Author.
• Save your search as a new Search Folder, choose the option Save Search found on the top command bar and name and save your search folder.
• To Re-Run the search in future, simply select the Searches Folder link on the left hand side navigation side pane, an double click on your search folder.

5. Tabbed Browsing:
This is one feature that would be familiar to even the Not-Know-It-All minds Thanx to the pre-release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7. The new Tabbed Browsing feature in Internet Explorer 7 enables the users to open and browse multipage page/sites on a single Internet Explorer Window. To experience Tabbed Browsing follow the easy steps:

• Open a new site/page in the same IE Window by clicking the blank tab on the toolbar or by right-clicking any hyperlink and choosing Open in New Tab.
• Manage multiple open tabs instances with the Quick Tabs Feature, which can be found at right hand side of the Favorites icon. You can either manage a single tab or a group of tabs.

6. Windows Flip 3D:
One of the most innovative graphical features of Windows Vista is Windows 3D Flip. If your PC is capable of running Windows Aero, you can easily manage multiple opened files and locate any file easily. The shortcut keys are:

• For Windows Flip (ALT+TAB)
• For Flip 3D (Windows Key+TAB)

7. XPS Document:
Microsoft Windows Vista enables us to take use of XPS Documents, the new Archiving Format that is very much secure and best storing content. It is easy to create an XPS Document in Vista, just follow the trail:

• Open any document in any application as you prefer and select the print option.
• In the printer selection menu, choose Microsoft XPS Document Writer, and save the file.
• Double click on the file which should open it in the XPS Viewer.

8. Windows File Sharing:
Windows Vista gives us an improved concept of file sharing which was originally introduced in Windows XP. To start file sharing follow the steps:

• From any explorer, select any file/folder you want to share and on the command bar select Share.
• Enter the name of another user on the same network, and give them the appropriate right-access.
• To notify the recipients about about the shared file/folder you can ask Vista to dispatch a mail to the indivisuals with which you have shared the content.

9. Shrink To Fit Printing:
Vista makes Printing web conntent easy, clear and fit for reading. Everyone knows that all web sites are not designed in a printer-friendly manner so it becomes really difficult for people to print web content on a paper but with this new feature in Internet Explorer 7 printing was never so clear.

10. Windows Vista Start Menu:
Vista adds new advanced search features to the new Start Menu which was introduced in Windows XP. Now you can easily search Mails, documents, applications all through your handy Start Menu:

• To find a specific file/application open Start Menu and enter the file name in the Instant Search field.
• As you type, Vista will start searching files live and dynamically thus making file search lot more easier and fast.