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THE ISSUE ON WINDOWS XP AVAILABILITY

WINDOWS XP will again be AVAILABLE for pre installment in the computers after the date of 30th of June which is known by the name of “VISTA DOWNGRADE RIGHTS” that lets its users who have purchased Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate to use the Windows XP Professional till the time they need it and want to run it. As many of the computers are not ready for changing to the Windows Vista® Business yet, therefore DELL has come up with a very simple solution of the Vista Downgrade Rights.

EXPLORE THE WINDOWS VISTA “DOWNGRADE RIGHTS” HERE

Windows Vista Downgrade Rights lets the one having a Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate operating system to switch to Windows XP Professional having the required media for the Windows XP Professional where the customers have the ability to run any one as running both the OS SIMULTANEOUSLY requires another LICENSE. Dell supports only the factory-installed operating system for the people who decide to exercise the Downgrade Rights on their own. Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Home Premium do not have the ability to downgrade to Windows XP.

WHERE TO GET THIS OPTION?

One gets the facility to select the kind of Operating System on the PC while configuring the system online or with the help of the sales expert. While choosing the operating system, you may go through the option of “Genuine Windows® Vista Business with Windows® XP Pro Downgrade Rights” and “Genuine Windows® Vista Ultimate with Windows® XP Pro Downgrade Rights” with which you can purchase the license to Windows Vista and the Dell factory installed with the Windows XP Professional. With this, you will be provided with a backup MEDIA DISC for Windows XP Professional along with a media for Windows Vista to upgrade it when your computer is ready for it. Dell, moreover provides you with the TECHNICAL SUPPORT for the factory-installed Windows XP Professional image and licensed version of Windows Vista.

THE OPTION TO DOWNGRADE ON YOUR OWN

One has the option to downgrade the computer on their own provided they should be having Windows XP Professional media prior to their purchase. Dell has a standard policy of providing supporting the operating system coming pre-installed on the computer. Though, Dell does NOT ENCOURAGE the users to downgrade their computer on their own as it is quite a COMPLICATED process.

If one chooses to get their computer downgraded by Dell does not necessarily mean that you get the technical support on the Windows XP Professional since it will be the thing that is pre installed as Dell provides the technical support for both the Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate.

THE STEPS TO UPGRADE YOUR COMPUTER TO VISTA

One has to use the Windows Vista DVD to INSTALL Windows Vista on the PC where you have the option to go BACK to the XP Professional if you realize that you are not ready to use the Vista after you have already upgraded it by using the Windows XP Professional CD that comes with the downgrade package.

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THE VISTA AND ITS SOFTWARE
The core of the Windows Vista has recently undergone a lot of modifications as many of the applications will now be able to work with Vista. Though, there exists no guarantee. Before upgrading the Windows one should try any software with it.
The improvements in the Vista include the process scheduling and thread pooling along with a deadlock protection mechanism and hardware partitioning for virtualization support being added along with certain more features.
Following is a list of softwares that surely work on the Windows Vista Enterprise:

BENCHMARKS
Cinebench
SiSoft Sandra 2007
PCMark05 Pro
SPECviewperf 9.03
3DMark 06
APPLICATIONS
Autodesk 3DSMax 8.0
AutoGK 2.4
Adobe Acrobat 8
Adobe Photoshop CS2
LAME MP3 Encoder
MainConcept H.264 Encoder
Hamachi
KeePass 1.06
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9
Nokia PC Suite 6.82.22.0
Miranda Messager 0.5.1
Microsoft Office 2003
Symantec AntiVirus 10.2.0.224
UltraEdit 32 12.10
WinRAR 3.70
Microsoft Office System 2007
Putty
Skype 2.5.x and 3.0
SmartFTP 2.0
Ogg Vorbis 1.1.2
OpenOffice 2.1
Picasa 2
Sungard Adaptive Credit Risk Calculation 3.0
SonyEricsson PC Suite 1.30.82
SQLyog 5.22
XviD 1.2.0
GAMES
Unreal Tournament 2004
Call of Duty 2
F.E.A.R.
Far Cry
The points of issues are mentioned below:
Many of the video software like the DivX could not be installed anymore as they require the new versions. The WinAMP 5.32 media player also shows an error at startup, though it works properly later. Quake IV has the capability of being executed with the installation program not working properly. Some softwares like the firewalls, anti-spyware and anti-virus software needs to be Vista-Ready and should be used on the Vista only if they are specially designed for it otherwise it may create problems.

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IS WINDOWS VISTA FASTER THAN XP
Windows Vista has been offering quite disturbing performance with regards to graphics applications that utilize the Open Graphics Library.
The users would probably like the usability of Vista that has been improved while most of the office users of the Vista would never take into account, the lack of OpenGL. Vista, in short requires being more dedicated with the stress to be placed on mainly two things as follows:

THE BASIC PERFORMANCE
There are certain questions that you as users will put upto the developers of the Vista which are In comparison to XP, how does Vista perform? Due to the inclusion of the AeroGlass feature, will the Vista work faster or get even slower?

PERFORMANCE OF THE ENHANCEMENTS OF THE VISTA
Vista has released its two basic features of SuperFetch and ReadyBoost for improving the experience of using this by making use of the latest technology which thereby means, that more of the application data should have the capability to be actively cached into the available memory which is the technology on which the SuperFetch is based whereas whether it is physical RAM or a USB Flash memory device is what the ReadyBoost works on. The goal for which Microsoft has been working was to remove the imbalances in the performances in everyday work of the users.

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