Safer for Small Businesses
Your business data is invaluable—and Windows Vista Business comes with advanced, intuitive data protection and safety features in place, so you can worry less about your data and more about your customers.
On guard at all times, Windows Defender helps protect your company's PCs by regularly scanning them and offering to remove any spyware or other unwanted software that it finds.
Always-on protection.
Help protect your information with scheduled backups and recovery tools that can back up entire hard disk drives and easily retrieve previous versions of individual documents.
Automate your backups.
Shadow Copy automatically creates point-in-time copies of files as you work, so you can quickly and easily retrieve versions of a document that you may have accidentally deleted or overwritten. Shadow Copy is automatically turned on in Windows Vista. On a scheduled basis, it creates copies of files that have changed. Because only incremental changes are saved, minimal disk space is used for shadow copies.
Retrieving a previous version of a file.
Lower your reliance on IT support. Group Policy can save administrators time and money—and reduce security risks—by automatically configuring wireless network settings, removable storage devices, printers, Internet Explorer 7, and power management settings.
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security boasts both a simplified interface and greater sophistication than previous versions—the better to protect your company's PCs from attacks.
When you use Internet Explorer 7 with dynamic security protection, you'll browse the web with enhanced protection, including a host of new features to help safeguard personal data and help protect you from malware.
Fix My Settings provides instantaneous protection.
Windows Vista increases security protection while reducing the time you'll need to spend fixing problems. With less need to perform administrative tasks on their PCs, your staff can be even more productive.
In addition, Windows Vista Business includes new technologies that can identify problems and enable a computer to self-heal, a huge help in preventing disruptions.
Built-in diagnostics watch for hardware failures, network problems, and signs of slow performance, helping you resolve problems before they affect your business.
Hard-disk maintenance is now automated.
Windows Vista Business includes a new system-image backup feature that can completely back up an entire PC, including its personal and system files, programs, and settings. Unlike previous backup methods, Complete PC Backup and Restore takes a perfect "picture" of your PC's hard disks, which can be called upon if your entire system ever needs to be restored.
Help safeguard your entire system.
Encrypting File System helps keep your data secure even on shared computers by enabling you to encrypt specific files or folders so they're accessible only to you.
Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.
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