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Got Ultimate Edition Envy?

Got the Home Premium or Professional editions of Windows 7, and are con-

sidering forking over more cash to Microsoft for a “better” version? Not so

fast! Here are most of the goodies included with Ultimate but missing in lesser

editions, and how you can get them for free:

Back up to a network location

See “Preventative Maintenance and Data Recovery” on page 404 for in-

formation on using network storage with Windows Backup on the Home

Premium edition.

BitLocker Drive Encryption, and the Encrypting File System (EFS)

The NTFS file system used by all editions of Windows 7 supports com-

pression and encryption for individual files and folders, but the encryption

feature is made unavailable in the Home Premium edition. If you want to

encrypt files in Home Premium, try SafeHouse Explorer Encryption or

Cryptainer LE, both free.

BitLocker, included only with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions, is a

method by which you can encrypt an entire drive (as opposed to the

aforementioned folder and file-level encryption). Freeware alternatives for

Professional and Home Premium include FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt.

See Chapter 8 for the skinny on encryption.

Corporate tools

These tools are only available on the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of

Windows 7, and are mostly of use to PCs in a corporate environment that

uses Windows Server 2008 R2. Anyone who doesn’t need to be constantly

connected to a central server at a large company to do his or her work will

likely be bored to tears by these tools.

AppLocker allows you to control which users can run certain applications;

for instance, you can restrict a group of less-privileged users to only run-

ning apps by certain publishers (like Microsoft). You can download

AppLocker for free from http://www.smart-x.com/. You can also accom-

plish this in a much more limited fashion with file permissions, discussed

in Chapter 8.

BranchCache caches files and web content from central servers to improve

performance when working on large-scale team projects on low-

bandwidth connections. (There’s no direct replacement at the time of this

writing, aside from upgrading your Internet connection.)

DirectAccess allows you to connect a Windows 7 PC to a corporate net-

work running a DirectAccess server. If you have a lesser edition of Win-

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