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Win 7 Home Premium - A Rant
It was time to upgrade the old XP machine that had been our server for years. In order to preserve useful licenses, I decided to use Win 7 Home Premium. What a huge mistake - this OS should properly be named Win 7 Crippled.
Want to manage local users and groups - sorry, no can do.
Want to change security settings on certain directories - sorry, no can do.
Remote desktop - can do with a hack
Here's the bottom lime - if you are a power user who wants/needs to optimize your system, stay away from this piece of junk. Luckily, I had a Win 7 Ultimate license and did find a description of how to upgrade without using anytime upgrade (on this forum, of course). Assuming the upgrade process proceeds smoothly, all should be good.