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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium OEM/OEI DSP - 32-bit Edition (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft OEM Licence
Category: Software
Buy New: £72.99
New (7) from £72.99
Rating:  35 reviews
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 3.9 x 3.9
MPN: 1315139
Model: 66I-00715
UPC: 882224347716
EAN: 0882224347716
ASIN: B000MFDJ1A
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: PLEASE READ. Came with my samsung laptop
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Product Description
Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system for homes with advanced computer needs. It will help you use your laptop or desktop PC more effectively as well as enable you to enjoy new, exciting digital entertainment experiences-all with the benefit of added security and reliability. Whatever you choose to do with your home PC, Windows Vista Home Premium will deliver a more complete and satisfying computing experience. OEM Software Product Information: This product is an OEM (Original Equipment Manufa...
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 Drivers, drivers February 25, 2007
M. G. Chisholm (UK)
35 out of 43 found this review helpful
I put a new hard drive into my laptop and installed the OEM Vista Premium. Installed fine - much easier than XP but I did have an initial battle with drivers. I had the original driver disc which I tried to use for the computer but Vista was having non of it and going on line was a non starter via the wireless as this was one of the drivers that was unloadable. Fortunately when I used a cable, Vista did an auto update and all of the missing drivers were installed via Microsoft's own website. They went in seamlessly and my laptop works better than before. So a slight scare followed by a good auto support system. Using Vista hasn't changed my life - does the same things as XP but with a new shiny look. The one big difference is the speed of starting and shutting down - fast, fast, fast. As regards security, well I didn't have an issue with XP as I kept the usual safeguards in place so I have no doubt that the same thing will have to be done with Vista. So overall for 70 quid a reasonable upgrade, but I wouldn't spend the 150 quid that the non OEM would cost.
 just don't do it - seriously! June 17, 2007
jrhartley
32 out of 41 found this review helpful
I bought a machine which was pre-installed with Vista Home Premium and I've now realised I am going to have to go through the laborious process of reformatting my hard drive and installing XP Pro on it instead. Why? Because I'm one of those funny old souls who likes an operating system to work, not just look cartoony and have clear effects.
I've been running Vista for a month now, and even having turned all the aero graphics off, transparency, essentially maximising performance (so that it actually pretty much looks like XP anyway) the OS runs about 1/2 the speed of the two year old laptop I replaced running XP. So much for the benefits of a Intel Centrino Duo processor - my old Centrino was running the same (and this is with faster FSB RAM too).
Some of the features I've found on vista:
a) lack of support for 1920x1200 graphics on my widescreen monitor by ATI (no probs in xp, no way in Vista - 1400 x 900 is the best you can have, and that's checked with Dell)
b) Defragmentation - no idea of how long it will take - no update bar, couple be a few minutes or a few hours to quote the operating system text itself. That's helpful, isn't it?
c) The need to turn so many things off to get it run above a swimming in treacle pace - turn off UAC, turn off indexing, turn off.... the list is huge
d) Try to partition your drive - my machine has a 120gb hard drive, but vista won't let me create any more partitions - tells me the minimum partition size for vista is 80gb... and that's with system restore turned off, pagefile stopped, then it won't let me actually format the 15gb unallocated space that it will allow me to have - oh, an no other third party partition software works in vista either. So you're stuffed if you want to manage your hard drive.
e) Copying files takes for ever and frequently returned "Out of Memory" messages. I would have thought 2GB of RAM should be sufficient just to copy files from one hard drive to another - it always was on XP, but in vista, it just isn't enough.
f) Downloading files from the web - you're often left with .part files - vista can't quite seem to actually bring itself to recompile all the downloaded data in the file you want, so you have to sometimes go and re-download files to remind it to actually finish the job.
I could go on, but I think I'd use up all of amazon's server space with my list of issues for this software. It's inexcusable that Microsoft can hit the market with something with SO MANY bugs in it and so unfit for purpose. As I said, I'm reformatting my HDD this week, downgraging to XP Pro again and maybe install a dual-boot with Ubuntu to give that a whirl - we need to start thinking seriously about open source if Microsoft spent as much money and time as it did developing the rubbish that is Vista. Once again, avoid like the plague if you value your sanity!
Windows Vista Home Premium March 19, 2007
Nick
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
I installed this on a Sony Vaio. It was no trouble at all. It was even easy to connect to the internet.
There's a couple of programs that dont work on it (though they did on XP) and it is best to steer clear of Explorer seems to be allergic to the most commeon websites. Firefox is miles better and works without any trouble.
The start up from sleep is particularly good- a matter of seconds as is the windows update service.
It works (mostly), its easy to use, its much better than XP and it has yet to crash!!
 vista ease April 14, 2007
C. Jeffreys (wales U.K)
20 out of 25 found this review helpful
well i have been beta testing since october,and i have had no problems what so ever with vista,so decided to take the plunge with home premium,and have not been disappointed,up and running within 20 minutes and no problem with any drivers,apart from audio card which dell has on their website,i wont pay the top whack for premium so went for the oem pack at a fraction over 70 money well spent,
Don't -really - unless you absolutely must September 21, 2007
Comical Engineer (UK)
19 out of 25 found this review helpful
If you must have a new ringtone for your phone every week than this is a product for you! For small home / office users, its a disaster. Driver issues mean that a large amount of equipment over 3 years old won't work with Vista because there is no driver available.
It needs at least 1GB of RAM, preferably 2GB. Don't try to use it on a 512MB PC with shared graphics either. The graphics requirement is at least 128MB and this will slow down the rest of the machine incredibly.
Other issues - the new Explorer is pretty dreadful and un-instinctive to use. The scrolling windws are a resource hungry gimmick and not particularly easy to use. You'll want at least a 19" monitor to make it look any good. The sidebar and "widgets" are just another gimmick. All of these toys hog space and resource meaning slower response from the rest of the machine making it no faster in use than Win 98!
Did I mention the security and Digital Rights Management? You want to install a new program? Click on at least 6 check boxes saying "you are not signed in as administrator" [6 more clicks and two passwords later] "are you sure", "this software isn't signed by Microslop", "are you sure?", "are you really sure?", "then I might just let you install it". Usually followed by the machine crashing...
More bugs than the natural history museum, a complete waste of time for anyone wanting to actually do any WORK on the PC. This operating system is totally geared towards Microsoft products and multimedia playing to the detriment of doing any useful and productive work. Stay with XP for as long as possible.
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