Windows 7 already has a wide range of these – and it will be updated automatically with new troubleshooters as they're released. More usefully, you can right-click on any icon with a warning to run a troubleshooter. The Devices and Printers window gives you the option of automatically downloading photo-realistic icons for devices and drives there are only a few so far, but it does make it far clearer what a random product number actually represents. As well as new options in the Font control panel and an improved ClearType tuning tool, Windows 7 includes a new text system called DirectWrite that's much faster as well as offering better typography.In fact, as soon as you look at the details of your system, Windows 7 suggests that you want to upgrade for more features it's a little pushy but it does make it easy to find the upgrade option. If you want features from another edition, you'll be able to unlock them without re-installing, using the Anytime Upgrade option (this won't be available until Windows 7 goes on sale, so we haven't been able to test it yet). Neither Home Premium nor Professional users get the option to boot from VHD files being able to run Windows without running the setup process is again mostly useful for developers and professional users.īut the one feature you can only get in Ultimate that we'd like to see as an option for home and business users alike is BitLocker whole disk encryption and especially BitLocker To Go, which encrypts removable drives automatically, so you can lock the USB stick you're using to back up your bank statements. You might want the Remote Desktop option of being able to leave your PC on and connect into it from another PC, but many home broadband connections make that difficult enough that we don't fault Microsoft for not seeing that as a home feature. If you need the presentation mode option of not getting notifications when you're running a presentation full screen, you probably need the other business tools like being able to join a domain, making network files available offline and encrypting files so Professional will be worth it for those few home users would miss those.
You don't really need location-aware printing unless you take your PC to work (although it might come in handy of you regularly visit friends and family and want to print out photos for them). The other network-related features that are missing from Windows Home Premium tend to make sense they're business tools that belong in the Professional version.
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