New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users

**Vishal Gupta** · March 5th, 2008

Sorry but I was asked to remove this information.

**LordOfLA** · March 5th, 2008

all worth £200 I'm sure....

**Electronic Punk** · March 5th, 2008

I didn't buy Windows Ultimate for the extras anyway - I wanted the version of Vista that had everything from the other versions in it. Although the Bitlocker tool has been useful - I am glad that one was made available to the Enterprise version as well (although as those are the only two versions that use it (?) they may as well have just put it there in SP1.

Apparently its been a bit of a bad year for the Ultimate team and it has been alot harder for them to release Powertoys than they anticipated with everything released having to go thru the same change review processes as any Windows Updates.

What else can they do and what kind of stuff would you want to be an Ultimate Extra?

**Khayman** · March 5th, 2008

I got my Ultimate Edition for free so the extras are but nice things that mean little, I would never have paid for ultimate (and i hope no one did just for "extras" ) and i run Home Premium on my laptop as well and have never needed anything from extras.

I guess there's nothing i can think of that i would "want" from extras, perhaps more Hi Res desktops, but things like that and screen savers etc are just nice little curios.

Dark Atheist · March 5th, 2008

i paid for it but like EP i did so for the bitlocker stuff - which now has been cracked

**Electronic Punk** · March 5th, 2008

Bitlocker has been hacked to some extent, but if you use TPM+Pin, have bios passwords, usb and firewire disabled at boot (ie sensible precautions to match your security) then you should be fine.

I just dig remote desktop

Dark Atheist · March 5th, 2008

see front page

and my funky new badge

**madmatt** · March 5th, 2008

About time. I'll stick to Enterprise though.

Dark Atheist · March 5th, 2008

about time for what ?

**Electronic Punk** · March 5th, 2008

Originally Posted by Carpo

see front page and my funky new badge

Yeah, there was an MS response somewhere, I'll try and dig it up.

Dark Atheist · March 5th, 2008

i mean my new badge - i can afford the deep sea diver

**LordOfLA** · March 5th, 2008

I got ultimate for media centre and remote desktop. The extras team just seem to be masochists with what they are putting out as extras.

Dark Atheist · March 5th, 2008

same apart from the fact that it looks like geforce 8600 cards and vista mce don't mix anything other than DVD and the picture jumps and skips, only in full screen though

**LordOfLA** · March 6th, 2008

vista media centre 32 bit with Combined community codec pack plays back all my media just fine.

Dark Atheist · March 6th, 2008

it does it here on rtm 32/64bit and sp1 32/64bit - it didn't do it on my amd box with a geforce 7, dvds play fine, its just avi/mkv at full screen it goes up the wall, im not alone though i have seen other people post about it on other forums

**LordOfLA** · March 6th, 2008

never had issues with avi/mkv and vista media centre myself...

Dark Atheist · March 6th, 2008

neither did i on amd/geforce 7600gt (or p4 3.4 intel) using 32bit mce and codecs - just seems its on the new pc i got which, if you use 32 or 64 bit the picture jumps a bit, from what i have been reading on a few nvidia forums it looks like its a driver issue

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Vishal Gupta Microsoft MVP Joined: February 2008 Location: AskVG.com Posts: 105 Reputation: 395 Power: 53	New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users Sorry but I was asked to remove this information.

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users all worth £200 I'm sure.... If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users I didn't buy Windows Ultimate for the extras anyway - I wanted the version of Vista that had everything from the other versions in it. Although the Bitlocker tool has been useful - I am glad that one was made available to the Enterprise version as well (although as those are the only two versions that use it (?) they may as well have just put it there in SP1. Apparently its been a bit of a bad year for the Ultimate team and it has been alot harder for them to release Powertoys than they anticipated with everything released having to go thru the same change review processes as any Windows Updates. What else can they do and what kind of stuff would you want to be an Ultimate Extra?

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Khayman I'm sorry Hal... Joined: January 2002 Location: England Posts: 5,514 Reputation: 1210 Power: 191	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users I got my Ultimate Edition for free so the extras are but nice things that mean little, I would never have paid for ultimate (and i hope no one did just for "extras" ) and i run Home Premium on my laptop as well and have never needed anything from extras. I guess there's nothing i can think of that i would "want" from extras, perhaps more Hi Res desktops, but things like that and screen savers etc are just nice little curios. "I'm on the server side. I don't know what side you're on"

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users i paid for it but like EP i did so for the bitlocker stuff - which now has been cracked

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users Bitlocker has been hacked to some extent, but if you use TPM+Pin, have bios passwords, usb and firewire disabled at boot (ie sensible precautions to match your security) then you should be fine. I just dig remote desktop

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users see front page and my funky new badge

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users about time for what ?

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Electronic Punk The Last High Joined: December 2001 Location: London Posts: 18,506 Blog Entries: 51 Reputation: 3652 Power: 346	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users Originally Posted by Carpo see front page and my funky new badge Yeah, there was an MS response somewhere, I'll try and dig it up.

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users i mean my new badge - i can afford the deep sea diver

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users I got ultimate for media centre and remote desktop. The extras team just seem to be masochists with what they are putting out as extras. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users same apart from the fact that it looks like geforce 8600 cards and vista mce don't mix anything other than DVD and the picture jumps and skips, only in full screen though

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users vista media centre 32 bit with Combined community codec pack plays back all my media just fine. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users it does it here on rtm 32/64bit and sp1 32/64bit - it didn't do it on my amd box with a geforce 7, dvds play fine, its just avi/mkv at full screen it goes up the wall, im not alone though i have seen other people post about it on other forums

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users never had issues with avi/mkv and vista media centre myself... If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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Dark Atheist I never said I was nice Joined: April 2003 Location: In The Void Posts: 6,346 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 1877 Power: 0	Re: New Ultimate Extras Coming Soon For Vista Ultimate Users neither did i on amd/geforce 7600gt (or p4 3.4 intel) using 32bit mce and codecs - just seems its on the new pc i got which, if you use 32 or 64 bit the picture jumps a bit, from what i have been reading on a few nvidia forums it looks like its a driver issue