Windows Vista is more advanced then Windows xp lets see what’s the difference in it!

1.    Images are bigger in vista

Windows xp:

• With Windows XP it was possible to create images that would fit easily on a single CD (less than 700MB). Even organizations that added applications, drivers, and utilities to their image typically ended up with an operating system image in the 1GB to 3GB range.

Windows Vista:

• With Windows Vista, image size begins at about 2GB—compressed. Once this image is deployed, the size is often around 5GB or more, and there's no way to reduce it. If you add additional applications, drivers, or other files, this image obviously grows even larger.

2.    Bitlocker

Windows xp:

• Windows XP has . No Bitlocker option

Windows Vista:

• Bitlocker Option available Bitlocker drive encryption, Bitlocker on volume
• Prevents hard drive from hackers

3.    Windows defender tool

Windows Xp:

• Windows XP has No Windows Defender tool available

Windows Vista:

• Windows Vista has Windows Defender tool
• prevents from spyware & unwanted S/W installing on computer

4.    Parental control

Windows Xp:

• Windows XP has No Parental control Feature

Windows Vista:

• Windows Vista has Parental control Feature
• This option enables parents to restrict Children’s which sites, games .software to use & not

5.    Security is enhanced

Windows Xp:

• Some applications failed to work on Windows XP when users did not have administrator access because they assumed they would have full access to the C: drive and all parts of the registry.

Windows Vista:

• A number of Windows Vista security enhancements will impact deployment. For example, configuring Windows Vista to support "low rights" users, where the logged-on user does not have administrator rights, is easier. S With Windows Vista, applications that attempt to write to restricted areas will have those writes transparently redirected to other locations in the user's profile.

6.    No More HAL Complications

Windows Xp:

• With Windows XP, technical restrictions prevented the creation of a single image that could be deployed to all computers. Different hardware abstraction layers (HALs) meant you had to maintain multiple images. (For more on this see the Knowledge Base article "HAL options after Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 Setup") Most organizations needed two or three images per platform (x86 and x64) and some chose to have even more—though each image brings added costs and complexity.

Windows Vista:

• In Windows Vista, those technical restrictions are gone; the operating system is able to detect which HAL is required and automatically install it.

7.    Deployment Is Language-Neutral

Windows Xp:

• Windows XP supported different languages in two ways. You could either deploy localized versions of Windows XP, requiring a different image for each language, or you could deploy an English Multilanguage User Interface (MUI) version with added language packs. There were advantages and disadvantages to each approach, but in most cases organizations that needed to support multiple languages took the MUI route, dealing with the limitations of running with an operating system that was effectively English at its core. Organizations that worked only with one language typically chose to use only the localized versions.

Windows Vista:

• Now with Windows Vista, the entire operating system is language-neutral. One or more language packs are added to this language-neutral core to create the image that is deployed (although only some versions of Windows Vista support multiple languages).

8.    Text-Mode Installation Is Gone

Windows Xp:

• The image preparation process has also changed. With Windows XP, you would "Sysprep" a machine to prepare the reference operating system for deployment.

Windows Vista:

• With Windows Vista, you'll still run Sysprep.exe (installed by default in C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep), which will "generalize" the machine for duplication.

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