Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: A Piece of Eye Candy Versus a Working Operating System . . .
Summary: 2 Stars
At first glance, Vista is a step in the right direction for Microsoft. Better security, better performance, better looks, and better compatibility; or so they promised. After one month of using Vista, I considered it a five star product. Even though my computer was not top of the line, it was designed for Vista, and could handle all of the extras Vista had to offer. After six months, three complete reinstalls, and numerous "restore to previous dates" (the only way to fix it), my opinion of Vista has significantly dropped. I did eventually upgrade to XP Pro. Among the problems Vista has to offer, compatibility to hardware and software, a huge decrease in computer performance, and a lack of decent coding remain as its top problems. In fact, Microsoft has recognized its problems in all three areas and Windows 7, instead of being a new operating system, will be what Vista should have been.
However, Vista did have a few good things to offer. Of all the problems I had with Vista, security was not one of them. It did have an annoying box that popped up pretty much everywhere, making sure that I was the one running the computer, but I never once had a virus or trojan infiltrate my system. The other thing that Vista did offer was a pleasing, smooth, work environment. The graphical changes that Microsoft made, in my opinion, have been a step in the right direction. However, these two positives to all of its negatives are just not worth it. Honestly, try to stay with XP, or 2000, and if you must upgrade, try to wait for Windows 7.
Customer Review: Not nearly as bad as they say!
Summary: 5 Stars
Windows vista has been discredited by many people and companies! I bought a toshiba satelite laptop preinstalled with vista and these specs:
3GB of ram
250GB hard drive
1.9Ghz
This is more than Vista needs, but still, it runs fast and true for me on my computer. For those people out there who have tried to install vista on computers with less than 2GB of ram and an old single core processor, Why? The requirements are clearly stated as 2Gb of ram all over the internet in various websites.
The home version of vista is easy and even fun to use! I highly recommend not buying and installing this on a non vista pre-installed computer! It works well with almost only computerrs that have it pre-installed. Sure I've crashed vista,but it wasn't vista's fault! I was running my computer with only the windows security and I was vulnerable to all kinds of threats.
With the new aero theme windows are transparent, and just way better looking. By far improved theme over Xp.
I think vista is a fine operating system and people should calm down, though I am sure windows 7 will be even better than vista. Being a beta tester I prefer windows 7 to xp & vista.
Customer Review: The better OS
Summary: 5 Stars
best os on the planet. Ignore apple and the other reviews. Vista has no bugs or crashes.Customer Review: One Of Three Choices For Home Users
Summary: 4 Stars
Microsoft made things a bit confusing for customers when they released Vista by having five readily available versions (there are actually 8, but three of them are only available in certain markets). For the home user, there are three choices unless you want to go with a business version, and of those three it would best be recommended that you ignore the Home Basic release, unless you are installing it on old hardware, and even then you are probably better off sticking with XP.
Since it is likely that home users at least want the option of the multimedia features which are lacking in the Business and Enterprise editions, this leaves the Home Premium or Ultimate versions of Vista as suggested versions of Vista, and for the vast majority of home users Home Premium makes the most sense economically. Ultimate throws in all the features of Business and Enterprise editions with all the Home Premium features to give the user everything, but not many people need remote desktop connection, and domain networking features. What Ultimate does have that some home users may be interested is BitLocker Drive Encryption. This is useful if you keep a lot of personal information on your computer and you are worried about it being stolen. If that is a requirement for you, then Home Premium is not the version of Vista that you want.
A lot of people wonder if they should move to Vista at all or stick with XP. That is a question of personal preference and cannot easily be answered. Vista does have more security, but the constant asking for confirmation of actions does bother a lot of people. The good news is that you can turn it off, but if you want to do so you should make sure that you leave it on for IE so that malicious sites cannot start processes which automatically do things on your system without any warning. Something Vista does have that you are likely to come to enjoy should you move to it is much better search capabilities both in Explorer and right off of the Start menu. For those users who have children who use the system, there are parental control features which can easily be turned on.
With the Windows 7 beta already available many people will be considering skipping Vista, and that is probably a good idea if you don't need a new system in the near future. However, if you are getting a new system, it may well be a good idea to go with Vista rather than going back to XP for the simple reason that Windows 7 is very similar to Vista and at some point it makes sense to start getting used to the newer interface. The exception to that is if you are still using a lot of old 16-bit applications; if that is the case you will definitely want to stick with XP until you no longer need them.
The difficulty comes in rating an Operating System. For most people, there is little choice but to go with one of Microsoft's Operating Systems, and for many that is going to be Vista. I personally preferred XP to Vista, but as time goes by and Microsoft has improved Vista's performance, my opinion of it has improved. If you have newer hardware which can run it well, I would go with Vista over XP, but if it is low-end or legacy hardware, you will be much better off sticking with XP. I'll give this version of Vista 4-stars, for whatever that is worth.
Customer Review: Vista - it's like not having a computer at all
Summary: 1 Stars
DO NOT BUY VISTA - and if you are about to purchase a new PC, PAY EXTRA if you have to to get XP on it, but DO NOT get Vista unless you do not need your software, scanners, printers or cameras to ever work again.
NOTHING works properly, Internet Explorer crashes and freezes, and a barrage of messages will flash at you every few minutes, giving you false warnings about the processes the actually ARE working. Vista is so unbelievably terrible that it will make you long for the days of Windows ME, which could actually be considered an improvement.
I am so angry about having this piece of garbage on my new PC that I cannot even describe it, since Dell will not help me "downgrade" (uh, upgrade) to XP, unless I buy Windows XP from THEM, for another $300!
I would buy my own full version for less, but then Dell will not support it.
Talk about getting screwed.