Chapter 2. WELCOME CENTER, DESKTOP, AND THE START MENU

It's hard to predict exactly what you see the very first time you turn on your Vista computer. It may be a big welcome screen bearing the logo of Dell or whomever; it may be the Vista Setup Wizard (Appendix A); or it may be the login screen, where you're asked to sign in by clicking your name in a list. (Skip to Section 15.4 for details on logging in.)

Eventually, though, you arrive at something that looks like Figure 2-1: the shining majesty of the new Vista Welcome Center.

Figure 2-1. The Welcome Center, new in Windows Vista, offers links to various useful corners of the operating system. Most are designed to help you set up a new PC. (Click once to read a description, and then double-click to open the link.)