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Turn Vista Home Premium into Ultimate with Free Software

By Kevin Purdy on July 11, 2008 at 10:16 PM

The Mysticgeek blog at the How-To Geek’s site has a clever series of posts up that use free software tools to give Windows Vista Home Premium—the version that most often ships with standard laptops—the same kind of super-user powers you get with a copy of Ultimate. Mysticgeek uses FileHamster to replicate Ultimate’s “Shadow Copy” function, installing a DreamScene power toy to get moving backgrounds, and DriveIMage XML to create sturdy backups (as Gina once detailed). Hit the link below for the FileHamster tutelage; and check out part 1 and part 2 for the other tweaks. What other tweaks do you use to add Ultimate-like features to your copy of Vista? Share them in the comments.

Turn Vista Home Premium into Ultimate - (Part 3) Shadow-Copy [Mysticgeek | The How-To Geek]


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  • MrGutts
    July 11, 2008 at 11:07 PM

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  • LifesSweetDrug
    July 11, 2008 at 10:56 PM

    Or you could just buy/download Vista Ultimate.

    LifesSweetDrug

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    July 11, 2008 at 11:30 PM

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    July 12, 2008 at 2:29 AM

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  • Nyx
    July 12, 2008 at 3:38 AM

    p2p OS. Software, fine, OS? I like my system working.

    Nyx

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    July 12, 2008 at 3:33 AM

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  • Nyx
    July 12, 2008 at 3:27 AM

    A lot of people CANNOT AFFORD vista ultimate. I am a computer geek, student, and love to experiment with these things, but im still paying back the loan on my computer. So will people please stop telling me to just buy software instead of using free stuff! Sorry for the rant but it is annoying. There is a lot of paid software I would love to play with but oh well, lifehacker ROCKS!

    Nyx

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