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Here's a few features that I think would be more worthy extras that people would start talking about and make ultimate REALLY worth the extra money:

1) multi clipboard - enhance the current clipboard to allow users to view a history of clippings to the clipboard. Allow user to store a number of clipping they always use: i.e. email addresses, mailing address, common programming code (for programmers)

2) windows explorer with tabs (enough said)

3) Enhance shadow copy to allow ultimate user to manually save versions of files as they work. A better and more intuitive way for versioning control rather than hoping the correct version of a file gets saved during periodic backups.

4) change the backup system so users can specifically say what filestypes they wish to be backed up and which files not to back up. And what folders to back up and which folders to exclude.

For example, it would be nice if you can tell the backup utility which type of files (i.e. "ogg", "mts", "fla", "as", "xml", etc) should be included in the backup. As it is right now, there is a vague sense of what type of files you can include and exclude by general categories like "Videos" or "Music". What specific file extensions does the category "Music" include? Obviously it includes MP3 files, but does it include OGG or FLAC files? Does the "Videos" category include newer video types like MTS? There's no easy way to find out thru the Vista interface. These general categories should have a listing of what files extensions it includes so users are not left hoping that the filetypes they wish to be backed up are included in these general categories.

As a Flash developer, I'd want my FLA, AS, and XML files backed up, but I have no idea what general backup category these filetypes fall under. And even if they fall under the "Additional files" category, then if I select that category in my backup preferences, that may mean that other additional file types may be included in the backup that I do not wish to be backed up, thus making the backup larger than it actually needs to be.

Allowing power users to specify exactly which file extensions (and folders) to include in the backup would be a much appreciated feature.

Anyway, those are suggestions for extras, (if not feature requests for Windows 7) Let's hope the Vista team comes up with better extras in the future.

Another Extra I think would be neat/useful would be some sort of alarm clock functionality. Let me set it to go off at a certain time, or after a certain amount of time has passed, and let me decide what sound/music to play when it goes off. Would be very handy.