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Does Windows Vista have a “classic view” as XP does? What is the new “Aero” interface?

April 26, 2017interface Windows Vista XP

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Does Windows Vista have a “classic view” as XP does? What is the new “Aero” interface?

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Windows Vista comes with 2 user experiences: Windows Vista Basic and Windows Vista Aero. The new Aero experience is designed to show translucent windows, 3-dimensional perspective, rich textures, advanced color mixes and animations. When a system which meets only the minimum hardware requirements for Windows Vista Home Basic is loaded with Windows Vista, the view will be similar to XP. The Windows Vista experience is designed to scale to the system’s hardware capabilities — more fully featured systems can generally provide a richer Windows Vista user experience. Dell recommends at least 2GB of Dual Channel* system memory and a 256 MB graphics card* to help optimize the Windows Vista experience.