Vista has sufficient support for USB connected devices. Vista removed
support for serial port UPS devices.
The vista support is limited to sensing battery level, alarms on low battery
conditions, and shutting down gracefully.
If you get a name brand UPS it should include a software set that overrides
the Vista default UPS drivers and provides additional information on status
and history of the UPS system. (voltages, currents, peaks, times of failures
etc).
As a personal choice I removed the UPS supplied software and use just the
Vista drivers because the UPS software was another thing constantly writing
(logging) to the disk.
Michael
Vista Home premium, CyberPower 800VAR UPS (USB interface)
"colefordkid" <colefordkid@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have been enquiring about buying a UPS (Un-interrupted Power Supply) and
> have been told that Vista comes with its own UPS software. I have Vista
> Home
> Premium, does this version of windows have UPS software built in, and how
> do
> I go about activatng it once I have my new UPS connected etc. Many thanks
> for
> any help.