What you get (and what you don??™t) with the various editions of Windows
Vista (continued)
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Backup and Restore Center
See ???Preventive Maintenance and Data Recovery,??? in Chapter 6, for
details on Windows??™ various versions of its backup software, as well as
free alternatives.
BitLocker Drive Encryption
BitLocker, included only with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions, is a
method by which you can encrypt an entire drive, as opposed to the more
basic folder and file-level encryption features included in the Business,
Enterprise, and Ultimate editions. Freeware alternatives include FreeOTFE
(http://www.freeotfe.org/) and TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/). See
Chapter 8 for the skinny on encryption.
Group Policy Object Editor
Several solutions in this book use the Group Policy Object Editor
(gpedit.msc) to change a few esoteric settings, but this tool isn??™t included
in the Home Basic or Home Premium editions. If the gpedit.msc file isn??™t
on your system, you can access most of these settings with Vista??™s net
command-line tool (provided you open the Command Prompt in
administrator mode), as explained in Chapter 8.
Local Security Policy
The Local Security Policy tool (secpol.msc) provides access to advanced
settings, the useful ones relating mostly to Vista??™s UAC feature; see
???Control User Account Control,??? in Chapter 8, for details.
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