Aug 24, 2009
Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Professional?
The days are coming near when you will see Windows 7 in the shops and many people are now worried about which version they should select. Some people want to switch from Windows 7 Home premium edition to Windows 7 professional edition without digging out the difference in features between these two versions of Windows 7.
Here we are giving a table and you can see easily what is difference between windows 7 home premium, windows 7 professional and windows 7 ultimate.
Choose the Windows 7 edition that is best for you
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Windows 7Home Premium |
Windows 7Professional |
Windows 7Ultimate |
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| Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation. | ![]() |
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| Start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often. | ![]() |
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| Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer 8. | ![]() |
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| Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC. | ![]() |
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| Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup. | ![]() |
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| Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode. | ![]() |
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| Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join. | ![]() |
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| In addition to full-system Backup and Restore found in all editions, you can back up to a home or business network. | ![]() |
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| Help protect data on your PC and portable storage devices against loss or theft with BitLocker. | ![]() |
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| Work in the language of your choice and switch between any of 35 languages. | ![]() |
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How to Turn your Windows 7 Home Premium Edition into a Professional Edition FREE:
After seeing this table you can easily decide which version you should select. As windows 7 professional edition is expensive, you can select Windows 7 Home edition and there are many freewares available to turn the home edition into a professional edition. Here are those freewares:
1. Encryption:
Encryption of files and folders is very easy in Windows 7 professional edition. All you have to do is press the right mouse button and go to advanced properties of a file or folder and encrypt it.
But you can easily get the same feature in Windows 7 Home Premium edition by using TrueCrypt freeware. It is one of the best and popular freeware program alternative to this feature.
2. Backup and Restore:
Another feature of Seven Professional on which one can hardly rely on is that of the backup / restore. The latter makes it possible to clone hard disks, make backups of files on the network and plan the creation of incremental backups.
The best free alternative to this feature are programs Clonezilla and SyncBack. The first, as widely guessed, allows you to create backups of entire hard drives or partitions (with ext2 file system, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, FAT, NTFS or HFS +). The other is one of the best free programs for carrying out incremental backups (even in a planned) and for synchronizing folders on Windows.
3. Domain Joining:
The best free alternative to this feature is represented by UltraVNC, one of the most comprehensive free software for controlling your PC remotely and it also includes a chat feature.
4. Windows XP Mode:
In windows 7 Professional edition the new and fancy feature is Windows XP mode. You can run the all programs compatible with Windows XP but not with Windows 7. You can mimic this functionality by grabbing the open-source program VirtualBox.
Now its all upto you. Do you want to spend more money to upgrade your Home premium edition or you want to upgrade it by using freewares.

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