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VISTA
PREVIEW
Because You’re Mobile
SideShow window (detail)
SIDESHOW Splice
some flip-phone genes
onto your laptop and
you have SideShow.
PortalPlayer is working
with notebook vendors
on prototypes that support
this very cool, integrated
display, which
works even when the
laptop is off.
Vista Secrets
In IE7, hold Control and
spin the mouse wheel to
zoom in or out on an entire
Web page, including
graphics.
To show all the shared
files and folders on your
computer, open File and
Printer Sharing from the
Control Panel and follow
the links.
You can detach gadgets
from the Sidebar so they
float on your desktop.
BEYOND THE NEW AD HOC NETWORK- SideShow may not be here today, but Vista’s new
ING and collaboration capabilities, power management features are something you can
frequent travelers—or really, any of us benefit from right now. Notebooks running the new
who carry notebook computers—have OS at last approach the near-instant on-off switching
some particularly compelling reasons that we’ve come to expect from consumer electronics
devices. Vista’s new Sleep mode replaces distinct
to want Windows Vista now.
To begin with, I really like the way Vista collects Standby and Hibernate modes. Press the powerbutton
icon on the Start menu and your machine
key mobility-related features into a convenient Mobility
Center. The new OS also improves power management,
includes better wireless-networking features, writes the contents of memory to disk so they won’t
will fall into a slumber almost instantaneously. Vista
and promises to enhance performance and security. be lost if the battery runs out of juice; but it also keeps
Vista’s slick Aero Glass interface will even run on sufficiently
high-powered notebooks—but temper your very quick, since Vista doesn’t need to read from the
that information in memory, so a typical restart is
enthusiasm; using it on notebooks has presented numerous
compatibility and stability problems. Lately I’ve crash-prone in the releases we’ve tested so far, I like
disk. Although the sleep/resume sequence has been
been traveling with a Vista notebook in my bag—but it’s the direction Microsoft is taking here. The Control
nestled in there alongside another notebook that runs Panel also includes a new Power Options applet with
Windows XP and serves as an essential backup. easy-to-understand “power plans”—profiles that let
Vista’s sexiest mobility feature is what Microsoft
calls SideShow. Think of the external display performance or longer battery life.
you select device timeouts and choose to favor faster
on a clamshell cell phone. A SideShow display can Be sure to check out the convenient mobility center,
which unifies all your laptop-centric features in
perform a similar purpose, displaying for example,
a calendar, contact information, stock quotes, or e- one place. Try plugging in an external display; Vista
mail subject lines. The coolest part: The SideShow automatically detects it and helps you configure it.
display will work even when the computer itself is Vista also includes improved options for configuring
powered down. That means no more waiting for your wireless networking.
machine to boot up just so you can get directions to Another feature is an interesting performance-enhancement
technique called SuperFetch. If you carry
your next appointment. Now all that remains is for
hardware manufacturers to start designing devices around a USB key for storing data, you can instruct Vista
with SideShow-capable secondary displays.
to use the storage on that key as a quicker alternative to
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