So I was having trouble getting my old music sharing software to work on my computer. I assumed it was me. To my delight my rather more technologically advanced teenage daughter told me that it wasn’t me but Windows Vista; turns out the increased security has done for that side of things. Ho hum.

She went on to mention Ares Vista which was designed with just this kind of situation in mind. Off I went on a merry Google search and soon I was there.

Ares Vista seems to have been made with the people who have suffered the horror of their operating system, firewall or anti-virus software not allowing them to use other filesharing apps. It works with Vista without you having to compromise your security.

There isn’t a lot to dislike about Ares Vista – it’s simple enough and it works very well – but one thing we did notice was that the ‘intelligent’ optimization of bandwidth occasionally causes strange results. Files lower down on my list of priorities were downloaded before the higher ones. This is counter intuitive but not a huge problem.

Ares Vista adopts the Vista look and feel and, I have to say, there is a lot to be said for that. Say what you like about Microsoft, but their Vista operating system looks the business.

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