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UAC as viewed over Terminal Services. As you might be able to see here, UAC is effectively an independant desktop that gets swapped in when required, which has the effect of isolating the UAC dialogues from running programs, hopefully ensuring that only the logged-in user can interact with these prompts...
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Vista's desktop over Terminal Server. This is the same session as I used for the Aero screenshots directly. Notice that Aero is turned off, as is the sidebar. Before anyone asks, Homer is my normal Windows desktop machine. Yes, "Homer" does have a lot of disks defined for a desktop.
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Logging onto the Vista desktop via Terminal Services
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There's an obvious parallel with Spotlight, of course. Personally, I'm just glad we've got an improvement over the badly broken Windows XP search.
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One of the nice touches - the mobility centre brings together many of the tools you might need on a laptop. This might be a boon for 'road warriors'. You'll be able to prepare for a presentation in one place, all from setting up your displays to making sure you've got enough battery power...
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The new Windows Update applet. I've configured it to receive updates for all Microsoft products, not just Windows, but other than that this is a default install. This is a nice clear clean view of your update needs. I quite like it!
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Sync Centre. This is controls any and all devices that connect to the computer and syncronise content of any kind, whether media player, phone or PDA. Most commonly, it's a replacement for ActiveSync. I'd love to show you it in action, but it doesn't recognise either a XDA IIi or a Vario...
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Some things never change. Warning: You're about to not defeat something. On the positive side, the information given is rather more useful in helping you pinpoint what it is you're trying to delete.
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An example of searching within a window, using the control panel as an example. If you compare this with the basic control panel shot then you'll see it's actually searching smartly within each of the basic categories. If you've used a Mac recently, you'll also notice it looks a lot like...
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The new control panel layout looks nice. It tries to present a friendly face and list common tasks that most novice to intermediate users would perform under each heading.