Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade From:Microsoft , Microsoft Software ,
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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224661324
Format: CD-ROM
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Height: 1968 hundredths-inches
Length: 1968 hundredths-inches
Weight: 300 hundredths-pounds
Width: 1968 hundredths-inches
Label: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
Model: 66I-02388
Packaged Height: 150 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 748 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 66 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 520 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Microsoft Software
Release Date: 2008-03-19
Studio: Microsoft Software
Feature:
- User-friendly software combines the features of Windows Vista Home Basic with even more impressive and user-friendly capabilities
- Features Windows Aero, an efficient and visually stunning interface that makes it easier to accomplish multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all of your open applications, and documents
- By integrating search throughout the operating system, helps you quickly find and organize large collections of documents, pictures, movies, videos, and music
- Includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology that enables you to interact with your Tablet PC-compatible computer with a digital pen or your fingertip instead of having to use a keyboard
- Includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center; enjoy music, photos, and DVD movies
Product Description:
Upgrade to the preferred edition of Windows for home desktop and mobile PCs. Windows Vista Home Premium includes Windows Media Center, which helps you more easily enjoy your digital photos, TV, movies, and music. Plus, you'll have the peace of mind of knowing that your PC has a whole new level of security and reliability.
Windows DVD Maker - Burn your photo slide shows & home movies to a video DVD and watch them on a DVD player or PC Windows Movie Maker - Capture, edit, and publish your digital home movies in standard or high-definition format Instant Search & Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Quickly find what you need Elegant Windows Aero desktop experience with glass-like menu bars, Windows Flip 3D, & Live Thumbnails Automatic backup of your files, such as your digital photos, music, movies, documents Built-in parental controls. Supports the Parental Controls Games Restrictions for ratings from the Korean Game Rating Board (GRB) Enhanced MPEG-2 decoder to support content protection on Media Center systems configured with Digital Cable Tuner hardware You are now required to enter a password hint during the initial setup of Windows Vista SP1 so you don't forget it later Upgrade from Windows XP or Windows 2000
System Requirements 800 MHz processor & 512 MB of system memory 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space Super VGA graphics support
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 No, don't do it!, 2008-07-23
I successfully installed Vista Home Basic on my laptop, and whilst being far from overwhelmed with the product nevertheless believed it to be a step up from XP**. I then decided to 'upgrade' my desktop PC to Vista Home Premium, and boy I am wishing I had never even started that process. I used Upgrade Advisor, and confirmed that my PC was fine, and then satisfactorily installed Vista, but then the problems started. First off: Vista is significantly slower than XP, and that slowness becomes creeping until your PC virtually stops to allow Vista to do basic chores one takes for granted in XP. Suddenly, your PC can spring back into life, and all seems okay, then ..... back into the slow lane again. Also, Vista has fallen into the Adobe trap - it is much more invasive than XP and wants to take control of your life, not just your PC.
Pehaps I could have adjusted to its way of doing things, after all at 40 something years old, I'm no young Turk, and the onset of grey hairs and a fear of social networking makes me a techno-geriatric, however Vista gave me no opportunity to adjust. You see the software kept crashing! When I say crashing, I mean that the PC would switch itself off and re-boot (I don't mean anything so gentlemanly as log-off or shut down, I mean power off in an instant). It kept doing this, and I could find no pattern to its decision making in this respect. Plug in a thumb drive - CRASH! Adjust a couple of photos in Photoshop - CRASH! Browse the web - hmm, seems to like this .... - CRASH!. I didn't try everything I could to solve the problem, but I gave it a good attempt for a couple of weeks, and I have no patience left in my soul for the condescending remarks of an ultimately hopeless support system.
My PC worked fine for a long time with XP. My PC now seems to be working fine again - with XP. Yes, the solution for me was to scrub Vista and re-install XP. Hey Vista looks nicer/more contemporary or whatever, but XP works.
In summary, if you are thinking about upgrading to Vista, please think long and hard. It is prettier than XP, but it offers very little added functionality. The killer though, is that it is very unreliable - you may be lucky, but in my view luck should have nothing to do with it. An operating system should work, all the time. Vista doesn't.
** The reason for me moving to Vista was for the much better sound capability it offers. I use my laptop as a music player through my main hifi and Vista's handling of high quality sound is much better than XP. On my laptop Vista has been a success.
So there we go - one reasonably competent computer user, and a 50% success rate at switching to Vista.
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