Peachpit Learning Series Microsoft Windows Vista

Lesson 6. Make Vista Safer and More Secure

Goals

Practice easy ways to make Vista more secure

Use Vista’s built-in security tools

Set up user accounts and parental controls

Microsoft invested an enormous amount of resources in shoring up some of the security problems of previous versions of Windows. As a result, the company claims that Vista is the safest and most secure version of Windows to date.

We’ll have to wait to see just how secure this operating system turns out to be, but one thing we know for sure: It can’t be bulletproof. No operating system is 100-percent secure.

We also know that how you interact with Vista has a lot to do with how safe it is. Keeping your information secure is a matter of knowing how to use Vista’s built-in security ...