Is vista ultimate more resource hog than other vista editions?

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taylormah

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I am going to upgrade my vista home premium notebook to vista business, but since my company is providing both business and ultimate upgrades at no cost to me, I am wondering why not upgrade to vista ultimate, since I love what I have with home premium anyway. But if ultimate contains everything that other versions of vista has, it probably means more services running in background, making my system slower. Am I right about my notion, or its just a whim??? Is vista ultimate as snappy as home premium??
 

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nah, thats just a rumour spread about by people who dont have ultimate. It will take up more hard drive space because of all the features, maybe have 2 or 3 services more that im not sure of.
 

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taylormah said:
I am going to upgrade my vista home premium notebook to vista business, but since my company is providing both business and ultimate upgrades at no cost to me, I am wondering why not upgrade to vista ultimate, since I love what I have with home premium anyway. But if ultimate contains everything that other versions of vista has, it probably means more services running in background, making my system slower. Am I right about my notion, or its just a whim??? Is vista ultimate as snappy as home premium??
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There may be a few additional services running, but since you're planning on installing it onto a laptop, then I'd recommend going with Ultimate.

The one most important feature of Ultimate for you would be the "BitLocker Drive Encryption", which will protect your sensitive information in the event that your laptop is stolen. That alone should be reason enough to choose ultimate edition.
 

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Dzomlija said:
There may be a few additional services running, but since you're planning on installing it onto a laptop, then I'd recommend going with Ultimate.

The one most important feature of Ultimate for you would be the "BitLocker Drive Encryption", which will protect your sensitive information in the event that your laptop is stolen. That alone should be reason enough to choose ultimate edition.
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I read elsewhere that BitLocker drive encryption is useless for practical purposes. I probably dont know much about it, but can you please tell me more abt it or lead me to source, any thread/webpage that could explain its important esp while using on a notebook.

Thanks for help.
 

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Actually...this is completely Off-Topic here...but

@Fumz - AAAARRgghhhh!!!

I HATE that little BUG avatar code you have (;))
I have allot of those lil fruit flies flitting around all the time and they constantly are landing on my screens....I don't know HOW MANY TIMES I've gone to squarsh that little bugger of yours thinking it's a Real one, only to realize it's only Fumz's avatar code....
Someday....SOMEDAY, I'll hack your CP and delete that frikkin thing...I swear!
LOL!!
 

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lol... if it's any consolation I didn't pick it; the boards did it on their own.

btw, if you move the machine out of the orchard, things may get better? ;)
 

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btw, if you move the machine out of the orchard, things may get better? ;)
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Ohh....so THAT'S what I've been doing wrong eh...never wooda guessed! (LOL)

No, I am indoors, it's just those darn lil buggers can fit thru the holes in the screens. They seem to be quite attracted to the brightness on my 22" LCD's, I sit here and they fly in front of my face all the time, in fact one just went past my nose just now...I Hate those lil things! Now where's my Indoors Raid again...
 

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taylormah said:
Dzomlija said:
There may be a few additional services running, but since you're planning on installing it onto a laptop, then I'd recommend going with Ultimate.

The one most important feature of Ultimate for you would be the "BitLocker Drive Encryption", which will protect your sensitive information in the event that your laptop is stolen. That alone should be reason enough to choose ultimate edition.
Click to expand...

I read elsewhere that BitLocker drive encryption is useless for practical purposes. I probably dont know much about it, but can you please tell me more abt it or lead me to source, any thread/webpage that could explain its important esp while using on a notebook.

Thanks for help.
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I'd like to know where you read that "Bitlocker drive encryption is useless for practical purposes".

Anyway, in addition to Bare Foot Kids response, you can read more about it here "http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/bitlocker.aspx?tabid=2&catid=1".
 

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