| Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, Upgrade Edition for XP or Vista users (PC DVD), 1 User |  | From: Microsoft
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Seller: Bayswater Solutions
Rating:  25 reviews
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Windows 7
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista, Windows 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: GLC-00183
Model: GLC-00183
UPC: 882224885645
EAN: 5052217027214
ASIN: B002DGS83K
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| • | Simplify your PC with new navigation features li | | • | Customize Windows to look and feel the way you l | | • | Easy to network (with or without a server) | | • | Back up your complete system over a network | | • | Help protect data on your PC or portable storage |
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Microsoft Windows Ultimate 7 Upgrade English ROW DVD GLC00183 Software Operating Systems
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 Best Windows to date March 16, 2010
A. A. Jones (England, UK)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I recently bought a new Dell PC with Windows 7 installed and I decided to upgrade one of my existing PC's. This was partly because I liked it so much and partly because I thought it might be easier to manage our home network. I could have probably managed with Professional or even Home Premium and saved a considerable sum of money.
The target PC was a HP Pavilion Slimline s3621uk Desktop PC, Intel Pentium Dual Core E2200, NVIDIA nForce 630i chipset 256MB dedicated memory, 3GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Vista Home Premium) with 3GB Ram and Vista Home premium. Microsoft have said that any PC running Vista should be good for Windows 7 but I ran the compatibility test anyway with no reported issues. The next decision was whether to do a custom install or a straight upgrade. I decided to go for the custom option which basically wipes the slate clean and loads a fresh copy of Windows 7.
The execution was very straightforward. I backed up my documents, most of which were on the 250GB media drive which served as my documents. It was just a case of mopping up a few stray files from the desktop.
After inserting the 32-bit Setup disc, which is fine for a PC with 4GB of memory or less, both 32-bit and 64-bit editions are included, you are presented with the install options. You are also given the option to download updated setup files if your internet is available. In my case this was via a wireless connection and presented no problems. From what I had been hearing I was preparing myself for a lengthy process.
The whole process was completed in less two hours. This included several restarts. My input was only required towards the end to select regional options and create a user account and password. What amazed me was that every single device in the PC had been completely recognized and configured. I was impressed how simple it had been.
I went on to run Windows update which found about 60 updates which took another 30 minutes or so and to reinstall my Office suite, Photo and DVD burning software.
Window 7 is a pleasure to use and I have made the transition from Windows XP on my previous PC to Windows 7 64-bit, as well from Vista on the PC I just updated to Windows 7-32 bit. Windows 7 has a feature known as home group, this makes it very easy to share files and devices.
I am therefore happy to recommend 32 and 64-bit editions of Windows 7 both for ease of use as well as ease in updating . For somebody who has been using PC's prior to the advent of Windows I think this is the best version yet.
I later went on to carry ou an upgrade on my Sons Dell XPS m1330 notebook. This was said on the Dell website not to have all Windows 7 drivers available. Known to work with Windows 7 but Vista drivers may have to be used. I thefore decided to use the upgrade approach. I need not have been worried, the complete proceess finished in a couple of hours and all is perfect. Windows 7 found updated drivers for everything.
Vista is dead (thankfully) November 14, 2009
G. W. Langford (Northamptonshire UK)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have been using Windows7 for a couple of weeks now and I have to say it is a vast improvement over Vista in that it works (unlike Vista)stable (unlike Vista) and unobtrusive (unlike Vista), in short although it looks like vista it doesn't work or feel like Vista.
I knocked one mark off because this should have been much less expensive than it is as Microsoft were forced to rewrite its operating system since vista was so terrible and unpopular.
Congratulations to anybody who stuck with XP, however, familiar old XP now looks dated and the only reason to stick with it are that it probably looks the same as the computer at work and feels familiar(both valid points) but Windows7 is quite intuitive to use with an easy light looking interface.
But don't be fooled this is not a light product, it has all the tweak-ability that XP ever had and a few more beside.
Now I'm just waiting for Microsoft to put out an upgrade to make it crash an I'll feel completely at home.
 Horrible installation. What is Microsoft thinking ??? November 21, 2009
Prospero
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
I've got my Windows 7 Ultimate version from my work as an upgrade. According to the given information, this software could be installed from Windows XP 64 bit. So I entered the cd in the drive. First impression during installation was wow! But then after clicking install, I got the message that I couldn't perform an upgrade from XP64. So I selected the custom install. All went well. The software installed itself on my machine after I created a new partition and formatted it. You have to create a new partition cause Windows wants to add a small partition of 100mb for own purposes. Everything installed well and the machine restarted. Completing install... ... ... ... .. and then everything becomes quite silent. No messages, no activity. That's strange I thought. I performed the Microsoft compatability test and my machine should be 100% compatible with the software so what went wrong. Tried to install several times. Looked on the internet for a solution to find that many people experienced the same problem. I tried and tried again for more than 15 times to install during which everything not essentially necessary for the computer to run was taken out (cards) or turned of in the BIOS. Then I decided that I would get a new graphics card just to try if that was the problem the installation faulted. Well... it was not. I heared that some people restarted the computer and at the installation message that all went wrong and I had to reinstall from the beginning, they pressed shift and F-10 and typed explorer.exe from the commandline. With me the computer then started to do something but halted anyway somewhere during installation. Again, no error message what so ever to work with. Then I got an idea. I reinstalled (we're talking about the 32nd installation try-out now!) and waited patiently for the 'completing installation' to appear. Immediately at the beginning of this phase, I hit the shift and F10 buttons and typed 'explorer.exe' at the commandline. Two processes were now running. This helped. Don't ask me why, but the installation now went on up until I could create a user and the installation could finish as expected. Pfffffff. What a work. Two full days of trying to install a system on a relative young computer.
Then, next phase. Activating the software was not possible because... I had an upgrade but performed a clean install (as the software told me to do in earlier stages). I found a workaround on the www I could edit in the registry to get passed the registration issues. I did buy a legal version of the software and followed the correct steps during installation so I'm not doing anything wrong. Then I noticed my external harddrive on the IEEE 1394 port was not recognized. On the www I found this to be an old problem from the Vista times. Obviously Microsoft has not taken any steps to get rid of this issue while programming the Win 7 version.
Now at last playing a bit with a working installation I've found one of the first issues why the software installation jammed. My computer is able to work around a memory hole (you can turn this on or off in the BIOS) to make the best use of the memory available. Never before a problem on any of the 32bit or 64bit windows versions, or with linux installations. I've found that Windows 7 can't handle this and jams when this option is turned on in the BIOS of the computer. The new graphics card was not necessary.
All in all, compared to for instance the up to date Linux Ubunty 64 bit software installation which performes on excellent level and can be installed by a completely non computer guy, Microsoft Windows looks great, but is delivered with an installation a big guy like Microsoft should be very very ashamed off.
Mainly looks upgrade for me October 22, 2009
Mr. Steven Williamson
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
A few months back i signed up and got the release candidate of this operating system, and i must say that overall i was a little put out by it, microsoft had been touting it as some sort of heavenly creation that would come down and right all their past wrongs, but i was left unimpressed and didn't notice any performance difference compared with Vista the main differences are in the way it was layed out, it had better search functions than vista and looked better in my opinion but that was it really for me, in the end i reinstalled vista ultimate because i was having some compatibility issues with some programs and games. But being a lover of all new technologies i purchased this version of windows 7 mainly because its cheaper and i don't want to have to format my hdd, and i must say that the compatibility issues i had have been fixed from what i have experienced so far. Many people have been talking about the speed, i noticed that it is slightly faster than vista now, but the real difference is in the bootup times, my pc used to take 30 seconds or so, now it takes about 20 seconds, this may not sound like much but it is about 33% faster which would be very noticable on a slower computer maybe saving a minute or two.
Another thing which looks good are the new style of themes which each assign different sounds for operations on the pc and the wallpapers change quite frequently and some very nice themes come built in which i must commend for being great.
DirectX 11 is the last big difference that this OS has over all previous, for those who didn't know directX 11 is going to be the next big revolution in pc gaming making games far superior in terms of visuals, but no games out at the nimute are DX11 compatible and the first one that will be in Dirt 2 which is still a bit away and nt many more have been announced.
The upgrade process was great which this aswell, i simply loaded up to the desktop and put the dvd in and then followed the on-screen instructions about 45minutes later i had windows 7 and all my files were untouched saving a considerable amount of time and effort not having to replace them all, in what would of taken a few days to move all the music,videos and programs.
Overall i would recommend it because it is MARGINALLY BETTER performance wise (reason this is a 4* review not 5), is very simple to install, looks great and is ready for the DX11 games.
Vista sucked by comparison July 17, 2010
Richard Harding
Bought this as I was advised that Vista would cause problems eventually. Although I personally had no real issues with vista this version is an awful lot better. I would recommend you by a version higher than home premium as you can encrypt your external harddrive and prevent your pc being used if it was stolen with bitlocker.
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