Windows Vista (yuck)

Hi my mom just bought laptop it uses vista and she won't listen that I dont think its safe. Should I know anything about it? if its bad for secuirty may i know thanks

 

Vista actually has some great security elements introduced to the OS that make it far superior to it's predecessor, XP. Vista also comes with Windows Defender.

So, it is safe, but you need to add your own anti-virus software, such as Avast, and malware cleaning software. You will find such advice in this link

http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=20

 

What about like crashing and more?

 

Computers crash occasionally. Mostly that depends on what you are doing to it, and if it is within the capabilites of it's spec. That is a diferent issue to security.

What exactly are you wanting to know? Be more precise in your questions.

 

If your just basing your opinons of what you hear from random people, ignore them. Vista works fine. Even through many people "hate" on vista.

 

she wants to burn cds watch dvds play yahoo games, and browse the web and more (idk more it;s not mine)

 

i do all that and play hig end games without issues.vista is stable for me. once you get used to uac and where things are Vista is actually pretty easy to work with IMHO

 

Vista is very good for security straight out of the box. How do you reckon it's not safe?

 

Likewise (except the Yahoo games, I have enough of a backlog of real games right now). Looking at the people around me, the vast majority of Vista problems turned out to be caused by misunderstandings between Vista and the user... Vista is not XP. Things are not where they were in XP and may not work as they did in XP. It's a new system and it may take a while to learn. If your mother is computer savvy, it won't take her long.