Chip, A couple of mis-informed points: > -----Original Message----- > * it has voice recognition XP also has this feature though the Vista version performs better, as it should. > * It has a really nice way of handling the combination of > start menu and windows file search. This may be it's best > liked feature. If, for instance, you know you've got a menu > choice for an image editor somewhere, but you can't remember > the company who makes it, and the menu choice for it is under > a menu named for the company, then in XP you've got a > problem. You've got to check out every unfamiliar menu group > under the programs menu until you see the link for the image ditor. > Obviously you do not know how to customize your start menu. My XP start menu has been categorized so that I can find what ever I want when I want. If I want text editors, I have a folder for word processing, games they have their own folder and so on. This actually just a fancy way of getting to things based off of windows 3.1 folders. > > In Vista, you just start to type the name of the image > editor, and vista instantly brings up a menu of links, > including those from the programs menu, but also your > favorites in case what you remember is that you bookmarked it > but didn't yet download and install it. This is the part that was actually new and some find quite nice. > * it now allows you to manipulate the volume separately for > each sound source. want your screen reader to be louder than > the cd player, no problem. I don't know what settings you are using, but I have separate controls for all of these in XP. Cindy
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