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 enlarge | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $159.95
Buy New: $54.99
You Save: $104.96 (66%)
New (21) Used (6) from $51.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  280 reviews
Sales Rank: 793
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista Home Basic
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Upgrade
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 2 x 8
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 882224173056
Model: 66I-00003
UPC: 882224173056
EAN: 0882224173056
ASIN: B000HCZ9BG
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't buy it... yet. February 6, 2007
45 out of 55 found this review helpful
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I usually have a better head on my shoulders and don't rush out and buy the new operating system until it has some of the bugs worked out, I don't know what I was thinking this time. So now I have a beautiful operating system on which none of my programs will run. Talk about frustrating. I guess I'll put this away until they have a version that works. Oh well, live and learn.
Yikes. February 6, 2007
239 out of 263 found this review helpful
Wow, I don't even know where to begin. Here's the horrifying details (so far)...
1. Installation. I heard the rumors about long installations. I can't tell you how long mine took because it finished sometime after I went to bed, about six hours after I had started.
2. Internet. This one almost brought me to tears. Vista kept setting up two network connections, one to my wireless network, and one to a mysterious "unidentified network." The troubleshooter told me Vista had two active connections and that was causing the problem. Simple right? Disable the "unidentified network" connection. Poof, there went my wireless with it. Enable my wireless, back comes the mystery network. I actually knocked out wireless to my entire house at one point in this circle of doom. Finally, as a stab in the dark, I manually disabled all network adapters on my machine except the wireless adapter. And that's why I'm able to write this review now...
3. Incompatibility. I knew there would be problems. Norton Ghost was good as gone, but I knew that. Then my antivirus turned out to be a no go. A few other applications would surely need upgrades. But ITUNES??? Come on! I could also list the games that used to run but no more, but this review is already getting long enough.
4. Hiding my stuff. I no longer own my My Music folder. I mean, Vista security TELLS me I'm the owner, but "permission is denied." I found a workaround on Microsoft's website "...sometimes you may lose access to your My Music folder during the upgrade." Oh that's lovely. By digging into the deep hidden folders per their instructions I found my music, and copied it to the desktop. At one point the file copy dialog box said "Moving files, 44,519 days remaining." I wish I was making that up. Fortunately Vista was over-estimating that a little.
5. New Features that don't work. I paid the extra dough and bought the premium version of Vista. The aero look is very cool. For about 3 minutes. Then I get a message saying "The desktop manager has stopped working." And I'm back to Vista Basic. That extra $50 may not have been money well spent.
6. The new Media Player won't play my newly rescued songs. It tells me it thinks many of my songs are on the I: drive. (I don't have an I: drive)
7. Things can get awful slow. My machine is four months old. It's dual-core, 2 Gig of memory, dual graphics cards, top of the line mobo. Under XP it flew. It wasn't broke. So I upgraded to Vista, you know, to break it.
Okay, that's enough. You get the idea. I had a few small XP gripes so I thought I'd try Vista. Bad mistake. Big ugly bad mistake. Vista may be great someday, but for me it's been 72 hours of hell.
At least I can uninstall, can't I... I can't? D'OH!!!
(And yes, I used the Vista Upgrade Advisor)
Not worth it February 6, 2007
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
I was really looking forward to this. I went the day it came out and bought it from best buy, after they told me it would work with my Sony Vaio pc. I got it home and installed it. When it was installing I had to delete my Norton Internet Security and my external HD program. Then when it finally installed nothing worked. My keyboard, my outlook abd many other programs. I called Best Buy and they said they would install it. So there went 130 dollars from my pocket. Then I got it home after 4 days (when I had just had it there for a week getting windows xp reinstalled.) I got it homw and couldn't wait. It still did not work. I bring it in and they say "oh well your video card is not the correct kind. If you get one we will install it free." So there went 180 dollars more out of my pocket. Then I get it home and the video card makes my pc monitor go off after 10 minutes. As it had a year before. So not I havespent about $600 at best buy trying to get vista working. I am going to return vista tomorrow and tell them I want my money I paid them to install it back. Vista is not worth everything you have to go through. You get it and you will probably have to upgrade your memory, video card, hard drive ect. If you have ever seen the comerchial with the mac and pc guy and the mac is asking him why he's upset and the pc guy is saying because hey are installing vista in me IT IS 100% TRUE. I will soon be getting an apple lap top. But forget about vista. Its like taking a new cold pill that makes you worse and makes you have to get all kinds of medical work done on yourself after you tke it. Shame on you Microsoft. SHAME!!!!
 It works great on my laptop. February 6, 2007
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have had NO problems with vista. I upgraded from windows media center and it went fine. I have a toshiba laptop with no video card and the aero works great. It fixed the problem I was having with my network printer. Make sure you run the vista upgrade advisor BEFORE you buy the upgrade! It will tell you any problems you may have BEFORE you upgrade. The only thing I am dissappointed with is they retired pinball.
Wow I'm broke February 5, 2007
18 out of 28 found this review helpful
I have a sony vaio that is 9 months old, I bought the vista home premium upgrade and it has cost me $400 including the upgrade to get it to work like the ad's show. If I'd have known this I would have waited a year. This is a total rip off and lack of information from microsoft, they say your computer is ready to upgrade but the cool features wont work unless you spend $150 on a new graphics card and have 1 gig of memory. My mac mini which I bought a year ago does everything that vista does. Once you buy the software you are commited to get it to work. Stick with XP, it works, my browser keeps freezing with vista so I have to go.....
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