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Vista Home Premium...

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Zen Ninja

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better than XP Pro?

I'm only asking because I'm building a new comp and I'm not sure which OS to include. Keep in mind I will be gaming. Thanks in advance.
 
you'll never know unless you check vista yourself, because we don't know what you like and hate.

some vista pros:
> various security improvements, some large, some small (see wikipedia for more info)

> my upgrade process from an old winxp install to vista seemed to be a complete success after removal of IIS.
this impressed me, and is nice indeed.

> you can create symbolic links to files/dirs and explorer recognizes them too 🙂

> "There are semaphores available in Vista that allow two (or more) sections of code to access the same critical section without threads going into a wait state. Applications written for XP were written before this was available so they won't know such a feature is available."

some vista cons:
> multiple files selected disables the security tab, this does not happen in winxp pro (tested using vista ultimate)
so you wont be able to set NTFS permissions for specificly selected files via the GUI.

> for example, vista home premium doesn't have gpedit.msc but winxp pro does. Perhaps you don't care.
- Business Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition, ultimate edition
do have gpedit.msc

> super annoying problems with vista's explorer.exe not remembering individual folder view settings (eg: if you need to have one dir sorted by name and another by 'date modified')
 
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