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One of Vista’s new features is the Games Explorer; basically it is a special folder in which shortcuts to all your games are stored, removing the need to use the Start Menu, in particular developers creating their own folder on the Menu to hold all the game-related links.
When you install a new game, or play one already on your system, Vista will create a link to it in the Games Explorer automatically (providing it’s recognised). Vista will also use online services to download the game’s information, including developer, genre and box art. New games create these shortcuts themselves adding advanced functionality. If a game is compatible Vista will also display its performance ratings along with your system’s, this gives you an indication of how you can expect the game to run.

The Icons
When you first install Vista the only icons in the folder will be those for the bundled games, these are part of the first type of icon you can find. They include publisher and developer information, as well as performance information and a classification. They don’t have box art but do have a Vista-style saleable icon.
You can except to see more of these games pop up in the future as downloaded games, without a retail product.
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The second type of icon applies to older games, Microsoft has done a good job of collecting information on a wide range of games including Diablo II, Rayman 2 and so on; these games are able to download their developer’s information, a classification and box art but lack the performance information. If the game’s icon is scaled down far enough the box image is replaced by the game’s normal icon.
Unfortunately some modern games also fall into this category including Age of Empires III and Civilisation IV.
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The third type of icon you’ll start to see more of in the future, these include all applicable information and box art/custom image, although these custom images are still replaced by the default icon if they’re scaled down far enough. It is these icons that make use of the advanced shortcut options available to them.
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The final type of icon is not added to the folder automatically, requiring you to drag the shortcut into it. These icons appear as the standard program/shortcut icon displayed in a thumbnail style view. They do not have any developer information and don’t allow you to add any; they also lack classification and a performance rating.
These icons can be expected from old (pre-Win95) games and small developers who make games generally as freeware or shareware distributed over the internet. In the future these games may feature the Vista-style scalable icons but will still lack the developer’s information.
If you use an unofficially patched or otherwise hacked version of a game (i.e. no-CD) then those games may not be recognised and hence these icons will be used.
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Advanced Shortcuts
Double clicking an icon will play the game, however selecting it allows you to access advanced shortcuts through the “Play” and “Community and Support” menus at the top of the window.
Each icon can have six different shortcuts built into it under the Play menu, clicking Customise allows you to edit existing shortcuts and add your own. The Community and Support menu is made by the developer and contains links to websites; usually the game’s homepage, support page and/or forum, the games that come in Vista also have a link to Windows Marketplace in this section.

Parental Controls and Classification
You’re able to select the classification system used for your games; this can be done through the Parental Controls page. At time of writing ESRB contains the most comprehensive set of ratings, covering all the games on my system. If you’d rather not look at the classification information it is simply a matter of selecting a provider that hasn’t rated your games, in place of an actual rating “No Rating Provided” is displayed, at time of wring OFLC was best of this purpose, not having rated any of my games, including the ones bundled with Vista.
Parents may wish to use these ratings along with the Parental Controls tool. However to do this requires that none of the administrator accounts has a blank password, nor can Parental Controls be applied to an administrator, this is so kids can't simply disable the Parental Controls settings.

Search and Sorting
As with all Explorer windows Vista allows a large rage of sorting, filtering and searching options. While these would only generally become useful if you had a very large collection of games, but is nevertheless an available feature.
Unfortunately searching from the Start Menu doesn't search this folder, however if your games also include links on the Start Menu you can access them via this method.


Windows Experience Index
If a game provides performance ratings you can follow a link to “Performance Information and Tools”, here you have access to several performance options as well as your own system’s rating. Your system’s rating (formally, Windows Experience Index) is equal to that of your weakest component, giving you a good indication of what needs upgrading, however it also means that even though a game suggests a particular score odds are it will perform better than expected if that game doesn’t rely heavily on the component letting you down.
At the time of Vista’s release the highest possible WEI was 5.9, but as the rating system is designed to handle advancements higher scores will appear in the future. If your computer scores over 3 then you’re doing well, if you manage to top 4.5 odds are you can run just about everything out there, issues start to arise if you clock in around the 1 mark, in which case even Vista would be struggling to run.
If you’re considering buying a new PC see if you can find out its WEI, this will make it easier to compare it to other systems, as well as the software (mainly games) you intend to run.

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l. Benefits of Smoking

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2.Is Smoking a Bad Habit?

1, a casual smokery always wonder if smoking is really a bad habit. If it is, why does our country produce such a large riumber of cigarettes every year? (As you know, Chi.na is the largsst cigarette producing country in the world. ) If it is,. why do so many girls adrnire handsome boys with a cigarette on their lip?

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3. Smokers of the World, Unite

It can scarcely have escaped the notice of thinking men, I think, being a thinking man myself, that the forces of darkness opposed to those of us who like a quiet smoke are gathering momentum daily and starting to throw their weight about more somewhat. Every morning I read in the papers a long article by another of those doctors who are the spearhead of the movement. Tobacco, they say, plugs up the arteries and lowers the temperature of the body extremities, and if you reply that you like your arteries plugged up and are all for having the temperature of your body extremities lowered, especially during the summer months, they bring up that cat again.

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4. Common Sense about Smoking

It is often said, "I know all about the risk to my health, but I think that the risk is worth it." When this statement is true it should be accepted. Everyone has the right to choose what risks they take, however great they may be. However, often the statement really means, "I have a nasty feeling that smoking is bad for my health, but I would rather not think about it." With some of these people the bluff can be called and they can be asked to explain what they think the risk to their own health is. When this is done few get very far in personal terms.

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5. On Smoking -Its History and Harm

Tobacco smoking is believed to have started in Central and South America. Nearly 500 years ago explorers who went there with Columbus brought back to Europe the habit of pipe smoking, which they had Learned from the New World Indians. It was introduced into China from Luson during the Ming dynasty.


A recent survey report says that children exposed to parental cigarette smoke may be put at a higher risk of developing lung disease later in fheir lives. Passive exposure to smoke may. also interfere with normal lung growth in young children. There is a strong association between parental smoking and children' s pulmonary function. Children who recorded the weakest lung function were found to be smokers themselves and to have parents or brothers and sisters who smoked.
So let us join together to launch a mass movement to break this harmful smoking habit, and build ourselves up, healthy and strong, to work hard for the four modernizations.

6. Call to Stop Offering Cigarettes!

To the Chinese, who claim to have invented rules of etiquette, offering igarettes is a way of being hospitable to guests.
When somebody calls, first of all, the host would offer him a cigarette and a cup of tea. In the countryside, hospitable, old men often allow visiting guests to share the long-stemmed Chinese pipe which they themselves are smoking. At wedding ceremonies, brides would offer cigarettes to all guests who came to eXpress their congratulations and light the cigarettes for.each of them one after another.
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7. Smoking Is a Bad Habit

Smoking is a bad habit. Firstly, it ruins people's health. Health experts have warned us for years that smoking can lead to heart disease, lung cancer and various respiratory ailments. The World Health Organization says diseases linked to smoking kill at least 2, 500, 000 people each year. Research conducted in many countries also indicates that pregnant women who smoke run the risk of having deformed babies. Besides, it has been proven beyond doubt that when a person smokes, he subjects the people around him not only to great discomfort but also to physical harm.
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Should Smoking Be Prohibited?