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Some guidelines for securing your Windows Vista PC

Overview

Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience. Windows Vista has been engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC. This document will briefly discuss some of the security options these great new features provide for you '' focusing on:

• User Account Control: enabling users to run with Standard User rights

• Parental Controls: Monitoring and managing your children's computer privileges

• Internet Explorer 7: a major step forward in ease of use and security

• BitLocker™ Drive Encryption: a new data protection feature

In addition to the feature overviews, we’ll offer some ways you can increase your system security to get even greater protection. Using the information in this document you should be able to configure and manage all of these great security features on your new Windows Vista machine.

Security features vs. Convenience

Security is about making choices. Tighten things too much to protect the system, and users have problems doing what they want. Focus on ease of use by opening up settings broadly and you expose the system to attack. Finding the right balance is just not easy. Add the need to satisfy multiple classes of users '' home, professional, business, etc. '' and the problem takes on a level of impossibility.

In the goal to make Windows Vista the most secure version of Windows ever, we worked hard to define default security settings that protect users while keeping the system usable with those protections enabled. This document will discuss ‘out of the box’ security capabilities as well as offer ways you can increase system security and the issues those...