Windows Vista Home Basic with SP1
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend If you only want to use your computer for basic needs, Windows Vista Home Basic is for you. With automatic defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites, Windows Vista Home Basic enables you and your family to use your computer with greater confidence. Plus, you can use built-in parental controls to make sure your children's computer use is protected and appropriate. So if you only want to use your… Product details and pricing info |
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7 Customer Reviews Posted
- Paimful very painful
- The sole porpuse I want a windows machine is to have Flight Simulator on it. I am a mac user, for 99% else. Well I bought a pc with Windows Vista Home Basic SP1. Here are the list of problems i have found.
1.) For some extrange reason Vista wanted to be activated twice. The second time It will tell me that I could not activate because the key was already in use. It never told me that the solution was to activate by phone, but I guessed so by posts in the internet. I called the phone number it give in my country, It was busy all the time. I tried for a couple of hours and it was busy. So I called a phone in the US, and I succedded, and went to that lengthly proccess of 9 blocks of six number. It worked. Well It took me more than 3 hours to figure all this,
2.) I tried to install Flight Sim x, and installation will hang without any reason. It will just stop ! and that is it. Not a single error message. It will just die there. I tried twice and the installation died in different places.
3.) I tied to do a windows update. It found an update for my video card and a realtek usb controller. It falied installation with a cryptic error.
4.) I am doing a share of a drive in a windows xp virtual machine, to try to install flightsim. I hope I succeed.
Its terrible how Microsoft assumes that we all are software pirates by inforcing that horrid activation proccess. It will be beareable if windows vista will do its work after that. - 2008-11-17, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Awesome OS
- Windows Vista Home Basic w. SP 1 is the best Windows offering yet, more security, awesome new features and beautiful graphics. MAC OS X and Vista sp 1 are the only way to go for solid operating systems, both offer amazing unique features and you can now run Vista on a MAC. 5/5 Great job Microsoft.
AVOID Linux it sucks... - 2008-10-02, 1 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I despise this operating system.
- And with good reason, too.
Imagine yourself working on a lengthy post for a forum your office uses as a means of communicating with one another, then imagine that in the middle of writing this lengthy post (at which time you're only running your web browser, and have been sitting on the same page for the past 25 minutes) your screen abruptly goes blue and your computer informs you that it has to shut down, deleting everything you'd just been working on with no advance warning whatsoever. Once again: One program running, sitting on the same web page for almost half an hour, and the operating system STILL manages to trip over itself. Remarkable.
Now imagine that this same phenomenon repeats itself no fewer than 2 times a week.
That's why I despise this operating system. I hope my boss gives me a raise one of these days, 'cause Macs are awfully expensive, but after this experience I will never, ever, EVER, under any circumstances, buy a PC ever again. Thanks a *&%#$@%W#!@ bundle, Microsoft. You're a real sweetheart. - 2008-09-06, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- U need Vista like you need a hole in the head
- I was warned by every IT person I know - stay away from Vista. Anyway, I bought a new Dell vostro 1400 (very nice by the way - do buy) and it came with Vista Basic. I admit Vista is relee pretty and very cool looking. However, Vista treats me like a second class citizen on my own system.
I should say that the problems stem mainly from my old LEGALLY purchased software that I subsequently installed and that work really well on XP!!!
The last straw is just now when my Corel Paint Shop Pro X (which seems to work ok on Vista) told me that there was an update available but I decided that I would just DOWNLOAD and Save the patch and install later only to be told that I can't save the file to any folder on the system and to:-
"Contact your administrator to obtain permission"
$%#@% I AM the bloody administrator!! There is nobody on this computer but ME! My profile IS administrator. How much more of an administrator do I have to be! Do they mean the administrator of the Microsoft Head Office Network???
It is this message that is driving me crazy. I already gave up and uninstalled my Adobe Acrobat 7.0 because of it (I've since been able to re-install & update), almost pulled my hair out when trying to update Starry Night Orion Special Edition that I got LAST YEAR (need to right click the link and select 'run as administrator').
I am giving serious consideration to ripping out Vista and installing XP on my BRAND NEW LAPTOP. I hear you can get those gadget thingies for XP too. I guess the moral of my story is that unless you are buying completely brand new software that is Vista compliant and new Vista compliant hardware, you are an antique decrepit old fogey and should stay away from such modern sophisticated software as Vista!!
By the way Small Business Accounting 2006 does not work on Vista either - but that is a straight incompatibility issue. - 2008-05-30, 6 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Re-Vista
- On the whole I have been happy with my new Vista Home Basic operating system. I chose Home Basic over the other versions because I felt the extra features were nothing more than eye candy and software bloat that taxes your system resources and ram. One thing I did to optimize my experience with Vista was to install it as a new operating system, instead of upgrading Windows XP to Vista Home Basic. This freed me of any bugs or bad registry data that has collected in XP over the last 5 years. I copied only 4GB of data (important photos and documents) to a usb flash drive, then I rebooted, formatted, and installed Vista. After installation, Vista found all my drivers and downloaded them for me. After the first couple of restarts due to driver and antivirus installation, Vista runs very smoothly, in fact it starts up faster than my XP operating system did. I am docking 1 star due to the fact that the Windows disk defragmentation application no longer displays a status screen and thus you will have no idea how long it will take or how bad it is fragmented. I also feel that Microsoft should have bundled Windows Live OneCare with Vista, since they love to bundle in all their other programs.
- 2008-05-24, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
