Windows Vista Ultimate K
This edition of Windows Vista offers an advanced, business-focused infrastructure, mobile productivity, and a premium home digital entertainment experience.
Get things done
Windows Aero allows you to visualize and work with your information through a smooth, stable desktop experience.
Instant Search helps you find what you need on your PC, your network, the Internet, or e-mail.
With Complete PC Backup and Restore, you can back up your personal documents and files and your operating system files and programs.
With 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 switch between them.
Enhanced Windows Fax and Scan provides flexible, integrated faxing and scanning capabilities in one location on your PC.
Windows SuperFetch helps improve PC responsiveness and helps make system performance more consistent.
For smaller home and business networks, use Network Center to visually check the connection status of PCs and devices, and to troubleshoot connection problems.
Take advantage of the safety features in Windows Vista
A complete entertaining experience
Enjoy your entire digital entertainment library on your PC or on your television.
Burn your photo slide shows and home movies to a professional-looking video DVD with Windows DVD Maker.
Windows Photo Gallery includes key photo-editing features, making it quick and easy to crop, fix red eye, and even adjust the exposure and color of your digital photos. Windows Photo Gallery also enables you to play slide shows of your photos and videos together on your PC
Play Games for Windows and run graphically advanced games with DirectX 10.
You can capture, edit, and publish your digital home movies in standard or high-definition format with Windows Movie Maker.
Windows Media Player 11 helps you manage your library of digital music, photos, and video that you have stored on your PC.
Take it all with you on your mobile PC
The Windows Mobility Center saves you time and worry by enabling you to access and set key mobile system settings, all from one location.
Mobile users can connect to wireless networks in the workplace, at home, or in public hotspots with wireless networking.
Windows Tablet and Touch Technology brings solid pen-and-ink functionality, navigation, and handwriting recognition.
Using Remote Desktop, you can access and control your PC remotely.
With Sync Center, you can keep other PCs, server shares, shared documents, digital media devices, Smartphones, Pocket PCs, and other devices synchronized with your PC.
With Windows Meeting Space, you can wirelessly connect your mobile PC to a friend's PC and share photos, videos, and documents.
System requirements
Recommended system requirements
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
DVD-ROM drive
Audio output
Internet access (fees may apply)
Additional requirements to use certain features
TV tuner card required for TV functionality (compatible remote control optional)
Windows Tablet and Touch Technology requires a Tablet PC or a touch screen
Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption requires a USB Flash Drive and a system with a TPM 1.2 chip
Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration. Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor can help you determine which features and edition of Windows Vista will run on your computer.
Minimum supported system requirements
Certain product features are not available with minimum supported requirements.
800 MHz processor and 512 MB of system memory
20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
Support for Super VGA graphics
CD-ROM drive
Compare system requirements across the editions.
Note:
If your system features a 64-bit processor, you can take advantage of its advanced design in this edition of Windows Vista. Read more.
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Windows Vista Ultimate K includes the same functionality as Windows Vista Ultimate, except that it includes links to a Media Player Center Web site and a Messenger Center Web site.
The Korean Fair Trade Commission requires that the software contain links to a Media Player Center Web site and a Messenger Center Web site which has links to third party sites to enable consumers to download and install third party media players and instant messaging software. The third party sites are not under the control of Microsoft, and Microsoft is not responsible for the software or content of any third party sites, any links contained in third party sites, or any changes or updates to the third party software or sites. The inclusion of any link on the Media Player Center Web site or Messenger Center Web site does not imply an endorsement by Microsoft of the third party software, the site or its contents.
Computer manufacturers may pre-install third party media players or instant messengers on computers running Windows Vista Ultimate K. Consumers may also separately install media players or instant messengers, either from Microsoft or a third party.