Trying to decide if I want professional or ultimate. If I don't use bitlocker or different languages anything else thats NOT in professional that I would be missing? like maybe some stuff they will release in the future like they did for ultimate vista the games and dream scene stuff.
Thanks sam3971 as usual top notch information. I already know the different features ect.. the main thing I was curious about is microsoft releasing stuff in the future for "only" ultimate like they did with vista.
I run both ultimate and pro on separate machines. It really doesn't matter, if you can get a good deal on Pro then get it, otherwise get Ultimate.
I'm just talking for performance wise. I can't find anyway to remove bitlocker on win7 ultimate. It's something I will NEVER use.
when i first installed win 7 it was pro and now its been upgraded to ultimate. the only reason i upgraded it was i needed it to be activated and at the time there were no pro slp keys i saw and still see no differences in performance at all
The Main and Important thing in Ultimate are Bitlocker I wonder why you want to remove Bitlocker. If you do not want Bitlocker.... go ahead and install Professional.
I tried it but it is really annoying if you do not have a TPM chip in your motherboard. You can use a USB Thumb drive to replace a TPM chip but if you either format or loose your thumb drive you are locked out. It is cool though if you have a reliable thumb drive and wish to do so. Here is a site post that talks about BitLocker and how to configue Group Policy to enable USB support with BitLocker dude.
Odds are it probably does not have one dude. My ASUS board is a December 2008 series and it does not have one either. I believe you have to ask for it because it is a special thing or something.
It should really only slow down the boot a little and maybe a little more RAM utilization. Remeber if you do this and you cant boot to your USM Thumb Drive you are screwed and have to re-format dude. Just a little precaution.
If you do decide to use Bitlocker you would have to reinstall or move boot files since the boot files cannot be encrypted a 1.5GB partition needs to be on your drive. Re Bitlocker: "In order for BitLocker to operate, the hard disk requires at least two NTFS-formatted volumes: one for the operating system (usually C and another with a minimum size of 1.5GB where the operating system boots from. BitLocker requires the boot volume to remain unencrypted, so it should not be used to store confidential information." There is no backdoor to get in if your encryption key gets toasted on a thumb drive and no hacking the AES128 cipher either. To each his own but if you just want to store very private items that can only be accessed to you, try going for something similar to a PGP Virtual Disk. Then you don't have to worry about encrypting your whole C: drive.