Vista Ultimate is it worth it?

EKRIUQ

I have a chance of upgrading to Vista Ultimate and just wondering if anyone thinks it's worth it and is there any performance problems in doing so.

I have vista Home premium at the moment and the performance is fine.

Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade w/SP1
£40.95

calex71

in a word .... no

ultimate extras are a joke, video desktop backgrounds, a sound theme, and language packs. save your €40 mate. would you pay €40 for those??????

oh and if i remember ultimate has a nice snipping tool that home doesnt hooray

as some one else said somewhere here the other day at least dick turpin wore a hat ;-)

Jonathan

Not in the slightest.

Have a google... You would be surprised at the amount of features you can unlock in vista home premium with regedit.

drunkmonkey

I much prefer Ultimate over the standard edition.....it seems to run very smooth with no hick ups.....I use microsoft one care for security which works perfectly with it....I also use media center in ultimate for streaming movies through the xbox360....it works very well and i'm very happy with it....i've used premium but thought it seemed a little less responsive in comparison but that could have been the machine I was using it on....if your getting a legit copy for that price I think it's worth it.....I have it since it was release....I also find the support very good from microsoft with ultimate, I think they take that extra little bit more care of you....

tman

jmccrohan wrote: »

Have a google... You would be surprised at the amount of features you can unlock in vista home premium with regedit.

Aye, the only reason that I'd choose Ultimate over HP is to enable remote desktop connections to the PC, but even that can be added easily... (I can understand it not being in basic, but why they took it out of premium is still totally beyond me!)

Stick with HP:)

yoyo

calex71 wrote: »

oh and if i remember ultimate has a nice snipping tool that home doesnt hooray

The snipping tools are in home premium I'm sure, make sure you install the tablet pc tools in vistas programs and features settings to get it, I'm sure I had it when I used HP

Nick

Capt'n Midnight

jmccrohan wrote: »

Not in the slightest.

Have a google... You would be surprised at the amount of features you can unlock in vista home premium with regedit.

carefull now , down with that sort of thing
I wouldn't like to think that people would break the license doing stuff like that

VNC gives you basic remote desktop

ultimate gives you a way to backup your computer such that you don't have to reinstall all the apps again or to put it in other words with vista home basic / premium you are stuffed if windows is too broken to start a system restore, and doubly stuffed if all you got was an image restore dvd
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/backup.aspx
it's not an add-on , just something that was removed from home users :rolleyes:

EKRIUQ

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EKRIUQ

Thanks for the replies, judging by other site reviews it doesn't offer much but I like the idea of the restore options

getting a legit copy for that price I think it's worth it

Student rate so its legit

Capt'n Midnight

Namesco wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, judging by other site reviews it doesn't offer much but I like the idea of the restore options

they are charging you an option that used to be standard on previous versions of windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software
there are others too