Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium FULL VERSION [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Get Windows 7
Summary: 1 Stars
My computer developed problems. Instead of moving up to Windows 7, I decided to re-install Vista Home Premium. Bad choice. It is not the same as the orginal factory installed Vista Home Premium. A lot of things that were orginally included are missing on this 'Full' version. So, if you're looking restore your computer to just like it was when you bought it...forget it. Customer Review: Very very slow!
Summary: 1 Stars
Have used Win 3.1, Win 98, Win ME, Win Xp, and Win Vista. For me, stability, speed, and ease of navigation are paramount. Until Vista, each new system seemed to offer an improvement, perhaps slight, of one aspect or another. Vista has so far seemed quite stable, but stability has not made up for the losses in its other 2 aspects. In previous versions of Windows, the Control panel was easy to find. In Vista it is infinitely more difficult to find what I am looking for. Also, loading an application in Vista is slower than ME or XP. Microsoft applications generally load much faster than non microsoft applications (unfair). Excel pops up quickly. Wordperfect (non MS), takes a very long time to load. I was able to achieve a tiny improvement in speed by enabling write-back caching (the help file suggested using this disk enhancement only if a back-up battery is attached). Some of the applications in Control Panel take nearly 15 sec just to load. If I needed to find a system file, finding it in ME took 10 seconds or less (searching the entire hard drive). It takes over a minute to find it in Vista - and the Vista machine is a faster machine! The file finder in Vista is the worst invocation of a simple user need that MS has ever come up with. While I haven't seen it, I'll wait longer than usual to upgrade to Win 7. It's hard to believe that anyone gained anything by moving from XP to Vista except for distrust. Why send a check to MS when they've done little or nothing to improve my overall experience.Customer Review: Bad for XP game lovers...
Summary: 2 Stars
I upgraded my computer so it'd specifically run Vista:
AMD Phenom II X4 940
4 GB of RAM
Almost 2 TB of hard drives
Nvidia 9600 GT
To my knowledge, there isn't a game out there that really makes this compute lag. Crysis with every setting maxed out runs perfectly.
Now to my point:
I installed a great many games that were released for XP and ran on XP perfectly. I HAVE HAD NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS!!! I spent a week trying to find all the patches that would allow the games and quite a few non-game programs to run. I simply gave up and went back to XP.
BUT, what I did experience of Vista wasn't too bad. I simply just did not feel that it was worth the upgrade. It used an unnatural amount of system resources and responded to my commands sluggishly. They made such a big stink about it and it was mediocre. DX10 was pretty nice, but few games took advantage of it. Internet Explorer continually crashed on it and several other computers with it. All in all it was a mediocre upgrade for a typical computer user. If you do anything more than check your Internet on it you'll start to notice a lot of problems. My advice, stay with XP, wait until Windows 7 gets plenty of reviews and then make that jump depending on how much money you have to spend on the relevancy of the reviews.
Customer Review: VISTA
Summary: 1 Stars
A bitter, eye-opening experience. Vista reqires more than 15 gig of harddrive space for the basic load. Many areas in the system were restricted as I discovered when I tried to see what was using so much drive space. A better choice would have been to stay with XP.Customer Review: Amazingly slow
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. The "performance indicator" says my Windows Vista experience is a 5.6 out of a possible 5.9 -- this is supposed to be some indication of how fast my hardware is. So, my hardware is top notch -- brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processors with 8GB of RAM. As soon as I boot, I notice the OS is using 1.5GB of RAM, before I touch anything. If I leave Internet Explorer open, it has a memory leak that gets progressively worse and completely overtakes the system within a few hours. My patience has run out. I'm reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow. I have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow. I'm amazed at how inferior of a product this is.