One of the nice things about Vista is the user rights assignment. One of the reasons Microsoft has gotten so many security and stability dings is because almost everyone sets themselves up and everyone else in their family as an Administrator. This gives that user, and process running under that user, way more control over the system than it probably needs. I mean, does the six year old paying Blue's Clues need user rights to uninstall a Service Pack or to install any new software? One of the features of Windows Vista is the use of a 'Virtual Registry' for Limited rights users, so they can't do any (ok, as much) real damage to a system, since they're not actually making changes to the core system registry. That's also why the dialog box above mentions "programs designed prior to Windows XP or Windows 2000 might not work properly with limited accounts". The virtual registry function in Vista should work fine with these applications, but older applications may not interface with this implementation. Running these older apps as administrator should work fine though, since the virtual registry use is replaced with direct registry permissions. Below, you can see the screenshot for granting a user Administrator rights, it is very clean and straightforward:
I was glad to see Grisoft's AVG Antivirus (the free version) running just perfectly in MS Vista:
It's just too bad that Vista didn't seem to notice how perfectly AVG was running. Maybe we'll just chalk this up to Beta 1, since the Windows XP Security Center notices AVG and gives it props:
This was one disappointment... Outlook Express 6?! Are you kidding me? Hasn't this been around since like, Istanbul was Constantinople? I expect the next version to look remarkably like Thunderbird... I'm psychic that way:
One little annoyance, the Recycle Bin sure is pretty, but it ain't all that bright. The Recycle Bin icon never refreshed itself. I had to actually perform an F5 on the desktop to get the Recycle Bin to repaint to either show it was full or empty:
One of the nice things about Vista is the user rights assignment. One of the reasons Microsoft has gotten so many security and stability dings is because almost everyone sets themselves up and everyone else in their family as an Administrator. This gives that user, and process running under that user, way more control over the system than it probably needs. I mean, does the six year old paying Blue's Clues need user rights to uninstall a Service Pack or to install any new software? One of the features of Windows Vista is the use of a 'Virtual Registry' for Limited rights users, so they can't do any (ok, as much) real damage to a system, since they're not actually making changes to the core system registry. That's also why the dialog box above mentions "programs designed prior to Windows XP or Windows 2000 might not work properly with limited accounts". The virtual registry function in Vista should work fine with these applications, but older applications may not interface with this implementation. Running these older apps as administrator should work fine though, since the virtual registry use is replaced with direct registry permissions. Below, you can see the screenshot for granting a user Administrator rights, it is very clean and straightforward:
I was glad to see Grisoft's AVG Antivirus (the free version) running just perfectly in MS Vista: 
It's just too bad that Vista didn't seem to notice how perfectly AVG was running. Maybe we'll just chalk this up to Beta 1, since the Windows XP Security Center notices AVG and gives it props: 
This was one disappointment... Outlook Express 6?! Are you kidding me? Hasn't this been around since like, Istanbul was Constantinople? I expect the next version to look remarkably like Thunderbird... I'm psychic that way: 
One little annoyance, the Recycle Bin sure is pretty, but it ain't all that bright. The Recycle Bin icon never refreshed itself. I had to actually perform an F5 on the desktop to get the Recycle Bin to repaint to either show it was full or empty:
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