Windows Vista as you may already know is the latest version of the Windows operating system. Many people often as what’s the difference in Vista and XP apart from a new task bar and aero, well here is a few unique features of Vista that XP doesn’t have. Here are just a few examples of what new features are available.

SuperFetch

This is a new feature in the memory management which is a background service that is constantly running from the moment you boot your machine. This basically works by keeping track of what programs you most frequently use and preloads them into memory leading to quicker response times when accessing applications.

Start-up and Shutdown

Windows Vista has a new power state feature known as ‘Sleep’ this feature of power management combines the quick resume benefits of Standby with the data protection of Hibernation. It really is impressive how quick your PC will go into Sleep mode once it has been selected, and again as soon as a key is pressed or the mouse is moved the system will be back up and running in seconds.

Windows ReadyBoost

This is a very neat tool that Windows has introduced into Vista which allows for more random access memory (RAM) to be added from flash memory devices such as USB flash drives and Memory Sticks cards. The memory gained by using this feature serves as an additional cache which allows for data to be accessed more quickly than having to access the hard drive.