Vista Business has no games??? Not even solitare???

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Wu - 26 Jan 2007 15:51 GMT

OK, I happily installed Vista Business RTM. But when i opened the Game
Explorer, I saw zero games - no chess titan, no mahjon, no mines, not even
solitare. I found this to be really sad. Was Microsoft trying to help all
those corporate to stop their employees from playing games while at work???
What about employees who travel a lot and want to play some simple games on
the plane or the train???

Also, Vista Business lacks some really cool slideshow features of the
Ultimate edition. RC1&2 had almost converted me from using ACDSee to Windows
Photo Gallery because of those nice slideshow options. Now I'm back with
ACDSee. Any way to get those two features without upgrading to Ultimate? I
can't live with Home Premium b/c it doesn't have full Remote Desktop.

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Colin Barnhorst - 26 Jan 2007 18:00 GMT

They are there but unavailable by default. In the Control
Panel/Programs/Programs and Features/Turn Windows Features on or off. They
should be there.

> OK, I happily installed Vista Business RTM. But when i opened the Game
> Explorer, I saw zero games - no chess titan, no mahjon, no mines, not even
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> I
> can't live with Home Premium b/c it doesn't have full Remote Desktop.

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Wu - 27 Jan 2007 04:27 GMT

Thank you very much for the information. It was really helpful as I've got
my favorite Chess Titan back. Do you know if the extra slideshow features
can be enabled the same way? I have a Windows Experience Score of 4.0, so
hardware should not be the problem.

I appreciate your and anyone's help!

> They are there but unavailable by default. In the Control
> Panel/Programs/Programs and Features/Turn Windows Features on or off. They
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> > I
> > can't live with Home Premium b/c it doesn't have full Remote Desktop.

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Conor - 27 Jan 2007 14:58 GMT

> Thank you very much for the information. It was really helpful as I've got
> my favorite Chess Titan back. Do you know if the extra slideshow features
> can be enabled the same way? I have a Windows Experience Score of 4.0, so
> hardware should not be the problem.

You mean Photo Gallery? No, that's not included.

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Jane C - 27 Jan 2007 23:55 GMT

Photo Gallery is in Business Edition. Slideshow is also available.

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>> Thank you very much for the information. It was really helpful as I've
>> got
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> You mean Photo Gallery? No, that's not included.

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Wu - 28 Jan 2007 02:31 GMT

Thank you for all your replies. Both Photo Gallery and Slideshow feature are
available with Vista Business, but within the Slideshow, there should be more
than two themes (classic and fade) if you have good graphics card. With
Ultimate RC1 and RC2, I have around 12 different themes within the slideshow,
ranging from pan&zoom to travel/mirror, etc. I have GeForce Go 6800 w/256mb
and WDDM 97.46 driver, so that's more than enough for these features. I
wonder if Microsoft intentionally stripped these extra features from Business
Edition to create product differentiation.

> Photo Gallery is in Business Edition. Slideshow is also available.
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> > You mean Photo Gallery? No, that's not included.

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Colin Barnhorst - 27 Jan 2007 15:00 GMT

I've never tried. Sorry.

> Thank you very much for the information. It was really helpful as I've
> got
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>> > can't live with Home Premium b/c it doesn't have full Remote Desktop.

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