Page 1/7 of the graphic tutorial on basic operation skills of the Vista User Guide

Desktop and appearance

I believe that most users first feel strong visual stimulation when they first get started with Windows Vista-although from a technical perspective, windows Vista's improvements in security and functionality are even more important-Aero glass, a brand new user interface, is amazing, even if the most refined Windows Vista Basic Theme is equally amazing. Objectively speaking, Windows Vista is close to a real threat to Apple Mac OS X, once a "cool" representative of fashion.

In terms of operation, Windows Vista adheres to the traditional features of Microsoft products: simple, convenient, and easy to use. Even beginners can quickly master basic operations-of course, it takes time to be proficient.

In this chapter, we will briefly introduce the basic operations of Windows Vista to help users quickly learn how to use Windows Vista.

2.1 desktop and appearance

Aero glass is always an indispensable topic for discussing Windows Vista desktops. However, we have previously introduced aero glass, flip 3D, and activity thumbnails many times, we will not repeat it here, but will focus on the changes in the operation of the new Windows Vista desktop.

New desktop, new name

The biggest change in desktop elements is Microsoft's adoption of the new naming method:

After years of use, "my computer" becomes "computer) "-As for why Microsoft's cultural personnel translate" computer "into" computer "instead of using traditional" computer ", it is unknown, and it may be necessary to add new ideas?

The "My Documents" icon is replaced by "documents", while the "My Documents" icon previously appeared on the desktop is replaced by the "users" folder;

Users who prefer to drag their personal files into my documents may not get used to it at the beginning. In Windows Vista, dragging a file to a user folder does not mean that it will be saved in the "document" Directory: "document" at the next level in the user folder

In Windows desktop, the IE icon disappears for many years. Although we can create an IE shortcut on the desktop, it is a pity for users who used to change iesettings by right-clicking the IE icon.

Sidebar and gadgets

On Windows Vista desktop, a third-party software such as Google desktop or Yahoo! The Sidebar (sidebar) implemented by widgets is integrated with the gadgets (gadgets), which can enrich the desktop elements, but objectively speaking, especially for users with low screen size or low display resolution, it is of little significance, but they need to occupy valuable screen space. Maybe many users will shelve it after their initial playbacks.

From the usage perspective, it is quite easy to add a new tool. You just need to right-click it and change the settings in the Properties window, for example, you can set whether to load the sidebar at startup, adjust the sidebar location, and display the number of gadgets. For detailed settings and operation methods, refer to the introduction of sidebar and gadgets in Windows Vista.

Maybe the sidebar and gadgets are largerProgramIt can be regarded as a defense measure taken by Microsoft to prevent other companies from entering their traditional desktop territory-some people think it has copied dashboard and widgets in Mac OS X) this is not the focus-although it has its own advantages to integrate it with the system, the resulting security risks have to be considered. In this sense, maybe in the future, sidebar and gadgets will become the new main battlefield of rogue software like plug-ins in the past.