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 ...
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