Thereafter, it??™ll take only a few seconds to get
your desktop back.
Truth be told, features like Sleep have been around for years, but they??™ve
always sat on the sidelines, waiting for inquisitive people to discover them.
But thanks to Vista, Sleep is now the main dish, which means Windows
should start much faster now??”whether you??™re the inquisitive type or not??”
and this should make a lot of people happy. The downside, of course, is that
it takes a constant supply of electricity to keep Windows loaded in memory,
causing your PC to suck power 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...even when
you??™re not using it. This means shorter-lasting laptop batteries, higher electricity
bills, and more pollution from the power plants that now have to
power millions of sleeping Vista PCs.
What most people don??™t know is that Sleep is actually a hybrid of the old
Standby and Hibernate power-saving modes, which means you can now
completely power off your PC and still get it to load quickly. Once again,
only the inquisitive??”you, presumably??”will be in the know, leaving the
masses to leave their PCs on all night.
Probably the most substantive change in Vista??™s interface is the prominence
of the Search tool. Rather than being a separate window, it??™s now permanently
lodged in the Start menu and at the top of every Explorer window.
What??™s more, Windows now invisibly indexes most of your data, making
search results more or less instantaneous (a feat possible in earlier versions
of Windows only with free add-on desktop search software).
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