Windows Vista Ultimate Features

Everything you need to work more easily and effectively

Windows Aero offers an elegant, more visually compelling desktop experience, giving you a greater ability to visualize and work with your information and a smoother, more stable desktop experience.

Instant Search helps you find whatever you need quickly and easily, whether it's on your PC, on your network, or on the Internet—or even within your e-mail.

With Complete PC Backup and Complete PC Restore, you can not only back up your personal documents and files, you can also back up all of your operating system files and programs—everything on your hard disk drive. In the event of a catastrophic hardware failure, you can use Complete PC Backup and Complete PC Restore to get your entire PC back to normal in one easy step.

You know you need backups. Now This essential maintenance step is much easier with the Backup and Restore Center.

Windows Vista Ultimate also enables you to easily recover previous versions of files and documents that have been accidentally changed. Shadow copy automatically archives previous versions of your files—should you accidentally save a change to a document, or should a document become corrupted, you can easily recover by restoring any previous version of that file.

With new self-healing technologies, Windows Vista Ultimate can automatically identify and fix problems as they occur—helping keep disruptions to a minimum.

Windows Vista Ultimate is available in 35 languages—simultaneously. If you have a multilingual household or are learning a new language, you can install as many languages as you want and even switch between them as easily as logging off and back on again. In addition, if your family shares a single PC, each family member can use his or her preferred language to interact with the PC.

Enhanced Windows Fax and Scan provides flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities in one convenient location on your PC that make it easier to send and receive faxes, scan documents and images, and share those resources with other people. Windows Fax and Scan also helps you get more from your multifunction printing devices.

Create, send, and receive faxes, documents, and images from one spot.

Windows SuperFetch helps improve PC responsiveness and helps make system performance more consistent. Windows SuperFetch tracks which applications you use most often and when you use them—and then it preloads those applications into memory to ensure quick access.

For smaller home and business networks, use Network Center to visually check the connection status of PCs and devices, and to troubleshoot connection problems from a single interface and without additional IT support.