How Windows Vista Affects Mobile Users

written by: John Tremente; article published: year 2008, month 11;


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The legion of mobile users who take their notebooks on the road will find a lot to like in Vista. The new Mobility Center makes it easy to quickly monitor and change important settings such as the screen brightness, speaker volume, and battery. Vista also comes with a new Mobile PC icon in the Control Panel that gives notebook users easy access to other settings related to notebooks, such as the display and audio devices.

Users who lug their notebooks with them to give presentations will make good use of the Vista Presentation Settings. This new feature enables you to specify several different notebook settings relating to giving a presentation, including turning off the screen saver, deactivating system alerts (such as incoming email messages), setting the speaker volume, and choosing a desktop background. When you're about to give a presentation, you can apply all of these settings with just a few clicks of the mouse.

In the long run, perhaps the most useful of Vista's new mobility features will be Windows SideShow, which enables a notebook manufacturer to add a small, secondary display to the outside of a notebook case, and enables Vista to display information on that secondary displaysuch as calendar data, email messages, and Media Player "now playing" data and playback controlseven if the computer is in sleep mode or turned off.

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