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Vista Start Menu Vs Xp Start Menu

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As the time pass the technology changes, as we see around all the things have changed since times like the ways of communication, the moving style of people and so on. Technology will keep on changing. Even we see in case of computer we used to have Pentium 1 2 or 3 and now we have Core 2 Duo and other such processors.

Likewise the operating systems have changed over since. We used to have window 98 then came the windows XP and now we have the window VISTA in market. Ever since the windows is changing same are the changes which are made in these windows. Now we have to what are the differences that appeared in the start menus of these two operating systems which are windows XP and window vista. There were many advances that were made in the vista start menu from the past window XP start menu.

First we see the difference between the buttons which are provided in xp for shutting down the computer and logging off the computer. In windows XP a button is provided to select shut down then to select from an pop window what to do and same is the case with log off button which can be directly selected and then by giving ok command in a pop up window we can log off our system.

While in Vista we have two buttons directly and a arrow list. On first button the action can changed manually about what will happen if that button is pressed that is by default set to hibernate or sleep. The second button is directly to lock the computer. All the other options like restart etc can be selected from the arrow list provided beside these two buttons.

Secondly there is difference between the pop style of the all programs list in both these windows. In windows XP the list is a pop list which pops up when we go on all programs while in window vista we have a non pop up list which opens itself in the shortcuts area instead of popping out. This list is also a scrolling list which can be scrolled down for the other programs.

In window vista the shortcut to the user folder is directly provided then and there only.

There is a major significant difference in the searching style of the search provided in the bottom of the start menu of the window vista. In this search option when we start typing the programs are displayed even for the single letter typed in the search box which makes it a very efficient option for searching in vista

These were major differences in start menu of XP and Vista.



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