12 Features from Windows XP Not Appearing in Vista

Windows Vista features a wide range of new capabilities but many features present in XP have been removed. This was met with criticism from some quarters on grounds of the unproven capabilities of the new features and therefore the security risks they may pose. A number of these features have been removed because they were being used less and less and had been deemed obsolete altogether. However, it appears that some features which users had grown to like have been replaced purely out of commercial considerations.

Given below are some features no longer present in Vista:

1. The ClipBook viewer - In Windows XP, the ClipBook viewer can be used to view the matter copied on to the Clipboard. The same accessory was called the "Clipboard Viewer" in the older versions.

2. The Object Packager in Windows XP - A tool that is used for creating packages which can later be placed in files. You can no longer move up one folder using the toolbar button.

3. The Web Publishing Wizard has been removed.

4. You cannot hide the taskbar manually.

5. Windows Explorer does not come with Internet Explorer integrated with it. Instead, Internet Explorer has been overhauled and it no longer provides DirectAnimation support, Direct3D Retained Mode, 40-bit SSL ciphers and other such technologies that are no longer in demand. RSS feeds are being promoted at the expense of Offline Favorites, a feature that enables users of XP to store web pages.

6. For functions such as saving and e-mailing pictures, you now need to right click the image - the image toolbar on which these commands were present on the earlier system has been removed.

7. The default Windows XP style or the Luna Theme is no longer present on Vista.

8. A lot of hardware technologies have been rendered obsolete; this includes motherboards that support only Advanced Power Management, game ports, EISA buses, Mobile Pentium II, etc.

9. You can no longer read .doc files on WordPad; you need Microsoft's Word Viewer for it.

10. Many networking-related features have been removed. These include the now obsolete Gopher protocol which was developed as an improvement on Anonymous FTP. Other protocols not supported by Vista include the Bandwidth Allocation protocol and the MS-CHAP v1 protocol which was earlier used for VPN authentication networks has been shunned in favor of MS-CHAP v2.

11. There is no Windows Messenger and Windows Mail no longer supports HTTP mail.

12. NetMeeting, the VoIP and video conferencing client is not present; it has been replaced by Windows Meeting Space, which is a P2P application.

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