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| Windows Vista Home Basic with SP1 | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $219.99
Buy New: $176.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 471
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Home Basic
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 1.7
MPN: 66G-02689
Model: 66G-02689
UPC: 882224661072
EAN: 0882224660990
ASIN: B0013O98PK
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Basic or Bloated?... January 3, 2009
Yes, this is Vista Home Basic, you get what you pay for, a very good operating system without a bunch of eye-candy using up system resources, which makes it a good choice for an older computer upgrade or building your own system. You just have to ask yourself if you really need Media Center, DVD Maker, more Windows games or the RAM devouring Aero Glass desktop look. If you look around there are free DVD makers, free games and probably free substitutes for Media Center. But if you are going from XP to Vista I do recommend a clean install of Vista instead of upgrading XP. So it's your choice if you want Vista Basic or Vista Ultimate Bloatware.
 Downgrade to XP December 26, 2008
This is going to be a short review:
Do not buy Vista in any of its manifestations. If it came with your system, strip your system immediately, and downgrade to XP.
Very Basic December 12, 2008
I use Windows Vista Home Basic on my Mac Book Pro along with Mac OS X using Parallels. It is, much like the larger versions, a hog on system resources. This version doesn't have the lovely Aero style and seems like a happy medium between XP and the Home Premium version of Vista. It does provide a simple way to complete tasks for everyday computer users who don't need incredible visual styles or the other perks of the other Vista releases.
Paimful very painful November 17, 2008
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.
 Awesome OS October 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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...
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