Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis

Starting and Using Windows Vista

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Unlike earlier releases of Windows, your choices for which edition of Windows Vista

your computer runs don’t end with the installation process. You can upgrade from

the basic editions to the enhanced editions. To do this, you use a Windows Anytime

Upgrade, as discussed in the “Upgrading Your Windows Vista Edition” section of

Chapter 22. Once you’ve completed the edition upgrade, your computer will have all

the features and capabilities of the new edition.

Starting and Using Windows Vista

Whether you are running a Home, Business, or Ultimate edition of Windows Vista,

the core features of the operating system are the same. This means that on a home

computer, an office workstation, or a mobile computer, you’ll have the same stan-

dard set of features and you’ll work with Windows Vista in the same way.

When you first start using Windows Vista, you should do the following:

1. Log on and finalize the installation.

2. Perform essential configuration tasks.

3. Review your computer’s configuration and activate the operating system.

I discuss these tasks in the sections that follow.

Logging On and Finalizing the Installation

When you start Windows Vista, you know it’s a different kind of operating system

from earlier versions of Windows. During installation, you are prompted to create a

local machine account. This account is created as a computer administrator account.

When the operating system starts, you can log on using this account and you’ll see

the Welcome Center, shown previously in Figure 1-1.

Windows XP

Professional

Clean install Clean install In-place upgrade In-place upgrade In-place upgrade

Windows XP

Professional x64

Clean install Clean install Clean install Clean install Clean install

Windows XP

Media Center

Clean install In-place upgrade Clean install Clean install In-place upgrade

Windows XP

Tablet PC

Clean install In-place upgrade In-place upgrade In-place upgrade In-place upgrade

Table 1-1. Using upgrade copies of Windows Vista (continued)

Operating

systems

Windows Vista editions

Home Basic Home Premium Business Enterprise Ultimate