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Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Be careful , VERY Careful, on this `upgrade'
Comment: This `upgrade' will not install on a `clean' hard drive, nor will it `upgrade' XP Pro. There is a work around, but it involves duplicate installs and other technical `workarounds' so if you are not technically savvy, don't get this `upgrade'.

If you do want to consider this `upgrade' be aware that Windows Vista Home Premium does not include FAX capability and needs the Office 2007 suite along with Outlook 2007 (which does not support animated gif's, among other things) for most eMail.

I would not consider Windows Vista Home Premium an `upgrade' as it requires more system memory, is a step backward in features, and more cumbersome to use.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Tough minimum requirements
Comment: I have had no success installing this on my home PC which is a little better than the stated minimum requirements. I have a 1.8GHz Pentium processor with 512MB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive with 100GB available. Still I couldn't install on my PC. It would just hang during the installation process.
I'm now waiting to get a better PC before I can really try this out, but I'm already disappointed!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Make sure you specify 32 or 64 bit
Comment: I was dissappointed that the version I purchased is for a 32 bit machine and I have a 64 bit computer. I will have to get a 64 bit version but I have not had the time so far. I will send more if I ever get it up and running.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Never again!
Comment: I have never been so frustrated over an operating system. If Vista was my first experience with a computer then I would never have developed an interest in the technology. I can't even down grade to XP. Getting Vista wasn't my idea. It came pre-installed with my new computer so now I have to re-install my old harddrive in order to have XP. Vista causes PhotoShop's tools not to work. No matter which tool I click it remains with the "grabby hand" which does nothing. I can't even copy or paste in the application. Can this just be a coincidence? I've never had that problem with XP. Vista is so slow! Where's this major updated OS promised to us? How do these people stay in business?

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Takes an Operating Systems Wizard
Comment: I have no desire to be an operating system guru. I want to boot my computer, read email, surf the web, use a few applications. Instead, I spend all my time waiting on the whim of Vista. It updates when it wants; it reboots when it wants; it slows down *my* needs on the computer to jam up CPU usage. Every time it does an automatic "update" to drivers, I have to completely reinstall my printers. This is a piece of junk, created by computer junkies with nothing better to do than complicate the lives of the average user. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Use XP...or better yet, buy an Apple; its operating system doesn't want to be dictator of your (virtual) universe...

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