The other thing we'll be doing throughout this Ultimate Guide is discovering hidden features within features you may already be familiar with. Take Windows DVD Maker, which comes with Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate. It's not much of a 'secret' in itself - Microsoft is more than happy to sing the praises of Vista's bullt-in DVD burning tool. However, what you might no !glow is that it can be used to create ma'ssive MP3 DVDs that caOrbe played on your set-top DVD player or in your car. You can also burn DVDs of recorded TV programmes from 'within Windows Media Center. These are just a couple of examples of how many of Vista's tools are more versatile than you might at first think.

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A number of other Vista tools sometimes get ignored because they can initially seem like they don't have a use that's relevant to home users. Meeting Space would probably fit this category fairly neatly. At first glance, it appears to be (and, indeed, was designed to be) a tool for businesses users. The little utility makes it possible to share what is displayed on your monitor with others on the same network. But, although Meeting Space was no doubt intended for making presentations to large groups of people during business meetings. it can also be put to other uses, including displaying photographs on the screens of more than one computer. By making use of Meeting Space, another computer on the same network, or a notebook connected wirelessly. can be used to display photos while you control the slideshow from another machine. The same program could be used to allow two or more people to research a topic on separate PCs and collaborate on a newsletter. or similar.