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10 Differences between Windows(R) XP and Vista(tm)

1. Windows Vista Images Are Bigger With Windows XP and Windows 2000, 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. 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. So how will you deploy the image? Does your network have the necessary capacity? (10MB networks or non-switched networks are not sufficient.) If you want to use CDs, how many can you deal with? You'll need three or four. DVDs (with a capacity of 4.7GB each) are now easy to create, so you can deploy using DVD drives if you have them. (If not, consider adding DVD drives when buying the next round of PCs.) With ...

Difference b/w remote desktop and terminal server

Terminal Services is a component of Microsoft Windows operating systems (both client and server versions) that allows a user to access applications or data stored on a remote computer over a network connection. Terminal Services is Microsoft's take on server centric computing, which allows individual users to acces network resources easily. Remote desktop is working with the help of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a computer running Microsoft Terminal Services. The server listens by default on TCP port 3389. Terminal service is client server environment where one computer acting as a terminal server which will serve the requests from the TS clients. This can be two modes one is Application Server mode, the other is Remote Administration mode. The former is used to access the applications on the server which requires licence and the later is used to remote administration which does not require licence. Remote Desktop sharing...