What exactly IS a Vista background?!

[Adam W.]

When I was looking through my new choices of desktops and themes for my
laptop, I noticed that there's a seperate category with 9 selections.
"Vistas." Are these any different than a regular background, and if so, why
are they filed seperately?

Thanks in advance!

 

[dean-dean]

I think its just a descriptive tag for the pictures, meaning "panoramic view
or scene". The backgrounds are sorted by their tags. The vista pics are
just pics.

"Adam W." <AdamW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I was looking through my new choices of desktops and themes for my
> laptop, I noticed that there's a seperate category with 9 selections.
> "Vistas." Are these any different than a regular background, and if so,
> why
> are they filed seperately?
>
> Thanks in advance!

 

[Richard G. Harper]

"Vista" refers to a scenic view in this case, not the software Vista. It's
just a category, like the black and white backgrounds are in one category,
textures in another ...

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"Adam W." <AdamW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:86AF3024-E35C-4393-A921-4FF4B881E2CD@microsoft.com...
> When I was looking through my new choices of desktops and themes for my
> laptop, I noticed that there's a seperate category with 9 selections.
> "Vistas." Are these any different than a regular background, and if so,
> why
> are they filed seperately?
>
> Thanks in advance!

 

[L. Chao]

The different category selections that appear in desktop background, asides
from solid colors, just seem to indicate the file type and location of the
folder, for example the public folder that can be shared in a network.
If you have the "Vista Ultimate" package you can download the dreamscene
extra, which in turn, allows you to use video files (wmv or mpg) to be set
as your desktop background, making full motion videos that loop forever as
your desktop wallpaper instead of a static image. Running dreamscene in my
system (Athlon x2 4200+, 2gb ddr400 ram, and AMD/ATI hd2900xt) seems to take
about 5-7% of the overall cpu resources when idle, but at least for me the
trade off seems worth it for the aesthetic quality it gives (you can pause
it whenever you want anyways.)

"Adam W." <AdamW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:86AF3024-E35C-4393-A921-4FF4B881E2CD@microsoft.com...
> When I was looking through my new choices of desktops and themes for my
> laptop, I noticed that there's a seperate category with 9 selections.
> "Vistas." Are these any different than a regular background, and if so,
> why
> are they filed seperately?
>
> Thanks in advance!

 

[Richard Urban]

A vista is a scenic photograph!

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"Adam W." <AdamW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:86AF3024-E35C-4393-A921-4FF4B881E2CD@microsoft.com...
> When I was looking through my new choices of desktops and themes for my
> laptop, I noticed that there's a seperate category with 9 selections.
> "Vistas." Are these any different than a regular background, and if so,
> why
> are they filed seperately?
>
> Thanks in advance!

 

[Adam W.]

Thanks everyone! Didn't know about that Ultimate tidbit... but after looking
at the pricetag, I'll stick with my Home Premium for now. )