Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit English 1pk

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Please note: This OEM software is intended for system builders only and cannot be transferred to another PC once it is installed. The purchaser of this software is required to comply with the terms of the System Builder license, including the responsibility of providing all end-user support for the software.

Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 is the preferred edition for home desktop and mobile PCs. It provides a breakthrough design that brings your world into sharper focus while delivering the productivity, entertainment, and security you need from your PC at home or on the go.

Compare Windows Vista editions.


Use Instant Search to quickly find the information you need. View larger.


Windows Vista Aero provides spectacular visual effects such as glass-like interface elements that you can see through.


The redesigned Windows Media Center in Windows Vista lets you enjoy your media throughout your home, even on your Xbox 360. View larger.

Improved Reliability and Performance
Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and improvements delivered by hardware and software partners increase the reliability, performance, and compatibility of Windows Vista-based PCs.

With Windows Vista with SP1, many of the most common causes of operating system crashes and hangs have been addressed. Windows Vista includes new, innovative technologies that help pinpoint and diagnose issues reported anonymously by Windows Vista-based PCs from millions of users who have elected to have their PC send us system information.

Windows Vista with SP1 supports a number of important new technology standards, so it will keep making your PC easier and more enjoyable to use for years to come.

Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 delivers more ease of use, security, and entertainment to your PC at home and on the go.
Here it is: the preferred edition of Windows for home desktop and mobile PCs. Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 delivers the productivity and entertainment that you need from your PC at home or on the go. It includes Windows Media Center, which helps you more easily enjoy your digital photos, TV, movies, and music. Plus, you'll have the peace of mind of knowing that your PC has a whole new level of security and reliability. All together, Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 redefines enjoyment in home computing.

It starts with a breakthrough design that makes your PC easier to use every day. With Windows Aero, you'll experience dynamic reflections, smooth gliding animations, transparent glass-like menu bars, and the ability to switch between your open windows in a new three-dimensional layout. Instant desktop search capabilities, coupled with powerful new ways to organize and visualize your information, means you can instantly find and use the e-mails, documents, photos, music, and the other information you want, when you need it.

Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 also helps keep your personal information, your PC, and your family computing experience safer than in previous versions of Windows. For example, Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista includes automated defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites so you can use your PC online with greater confidence. Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 also provides automatic backup of your files, such as your valuable digital photos, music, movies, documents, and other files, so you can relax and focus on the things you care about most. And, by using the built-in parental controls, parents can help ensure their children's computer use is appropriate and safer.

And what about fun? A major advance in Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 is the dramatically improved digital entertainment experience. Windows Media Center makes organizing and enjoying photos, music, DVDs, recorded TV, and home movies easier and more fun. Enjoy the entertainment on your PC or even on your TV in the living room with an Xbox 360 wirelessly networked to your PC. Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 makes it easier to burn your photo slide shows and home movies to a professional-looking video DVD that your friends and family can watch on a DVD player or PC whenever they like. Combined with unbeatable support for gaming and music, Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 delivers a complete home entertainment experience.

If you want a PC that can keep up with you while you're on the go, then you'll appreciate how Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 helps you get the most from your mobile PC. It provides simplified power management, easier wireless networking, and streamlined ways to sync with the devices that keep you connected. Because it's incredibly flexible, you can even draw and write by hand on a Tablet PC, and enjoy all of your entertainment through Windows Media Center when you're on the road, in a coffee shop, or relaxing on the couch. Mobile computing has never been like this before.

Finally, Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 makes it easier than ever to set up and maintain your new PC. There are new features that make it easier to transfer all of your data and settings from your old PC to your new one and technology that helps keep your system running quickly and reliably over time.

Whether you're balancing your checkbook, studying for school on your mobile PC, watching a downloaded or recorded movie at home, or sharing your favorite photos with friends on a custom DVD, the experience is much better on a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1.



Windows Sidebar gives you quick access to gadgets like picture slide shows, Windows Media Player controls, or news headlines. You pick the gadgets you want to see in Windows Sidebar. View larger.


Use Flip 3D to navigate through open windows using the scroll wheel on your mouse. View larger.

Safety
Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 helps protect your family and your personal information from threats from malicious software and phishing scams and helps you keep your PC backed-up and running smoothly.

Parental Controls help parents keep children safer while using PCs through convenient tools to manage and monitor children's computer use, access to websites, and ability to play certain games and use certain applications.

PCs running Windows Vista are 60% less likely to be infected with viruses, worms and rootkits than PCs running Windows XP SP2.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 helps protect your PC and your personal information against malicious software, fraudulent websites, and online phishing scams. New phishing attacks are more than 25 times as common as new viruses, and over 20,000 fraudulent phishing websites are created every month. Internet Explorer 7 is now blocking nearly one million inadvertent attempts to access fake phishing sites per week.

Help defend your PC against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software with Windows Defender. Windows Defender in Windows Vista automatically scans Internet Explorer 7 downloads to help bring spyware to your attention before it can infect your computer.

More easily back-up the content on your PC--including digital photos, music, movies, and documents--with Scheduled and Network Backup.

Entertainment
Windows Vista with SP1 is more entertaining. With Windows Media Center, you can enjoy your digital photos and music on your TV as well as on your PC. And it can turn your PC into a digital video recorder, so you can record TV and watch it on your schedule, not theirs.

Sit back and enjoy recorded TV, photos, music, home videos, games and DVDs from the comfort of your couch with Windows Media Center.

Access and project your TV, music, photos, and movies to any room in your house using an Xbox 360 console connected to your wired or wireless home network. It's like having your Media Center PC wherever you have an Xbox 360!

Author and burn movies, photos, and music to DVDs you can play on your PC or a DVD player with Windows DVD Maker.

Live the game! It's easier for you to find, play, and manage your games with GAMES EXPLORER. Games Explorer provides detailed information including when you last played, game genre, and rating of your games. With DirectX 10, play vivid and engaging games with unrivalled realism. Also, use the same game controller with both your PC and your Xbox 360 system.

Ease
It's easier and faster than ever to find, use, manage and share the information on your PC or on the Web with Windows Vista with SP1.

Most Windows Vista-based PCs boot in less than a minute, which can be an improvement over Windows XP boot times.

The Windows Vista sleep and resume features can bring your PC to life in a snap. The vast majority of Windows Vista-based PCs resume from sleep in less than six seconds.

See everything you're working on more clearly with Windows Aero and quickly switch between windows or tasks using Windows Flip 3D.

Find it fast! Simply type something about a file, picture, or song, such as a word contained in a document or e-mail message, the artist of a song, or the date a picture was taken, and Instant Search will bring back any matches instantly.

Organize a lifetime of photos and movies with ease using Windows Photo Gallery. Tag your photos by date, keyword, star rating or any identifying label you choose--so you can find them anytime you want them.

Display live information, like weather, stocks, and news, directly on your desktop with easy-to-use Gadgets and Windows Sidebar.

View multiple web pages simultaneously with Quick Tabs in Windows Internet Explorer 7.

Get up and running faster than ever with Windows Easy Transfer that automatically copies your files and settings from your old PC.

Mobility
With special features to help you go mobile, Windows Vista with SP1 makes computing and connecting away from home or the office easier than ever.

Work the way you want with touch and digital input and handwriting. Tablet and Touch Technology makes your notebook PC experience truly personal.

Set up a wireless network at home with Network and Sharing Center--so you can experience the freedom of working virtually anywhere in your home. Then easily find and join a wireless network at your favorite hotspot--so you can stay productive wherever you go.

Optimize your power and mobile settings centrally with Windows Mobility Center.

Easily sync and manage your music, contacts and pictures across your devices and other PCs with Sync Center.

Share your desktop or any program with Windows Meeting Space. Co-edit documents, and pass notes in class, a favorite hotspot, or where no network exists.

Product Details
  • 1PK VISTA HOME PREM 64BIT DVD

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How to spend less on windows
 
Review Date: August 7, 2008
Reviewer: Illiterate chimp, Albany, NY USA
Vista is good. Alot of people talk trash but I enjoy the features, but then the computer I built to go along with this OS is real highspeed-lowdrag (AMD 2.31 GHZ phenom quadcore, 4 GB DDR2 1066HZ RAM, 2x NVDIA 8800GT in SLI configuration, all on one of the worlds best mother boards the ASUS crosshair II formula.)

I needed the 64 bit version to read all of the system memory that I have, since 32 bit will only read 3GB total, including what you have on your video cards. Buying this version instead of the regular version is what will save you money. You are allowed to buy this product even if you arent a system developer or whatever arbitrary term microsoft uses, the draw back is is that you cannot tranfer windows once you have installed it on a computer. Essentially the PIN number becomes tied to your mother board. Your mother board dies or whatever and so does your version of windows.

So yes, this is cheaper, but it comes with a slight risk. I took it and Im happy.
Vista 64-bit: No 16-bit programs, no unfettered kernel access
 
Review Date: May 18, 2009
Reviewer: Douglas Vanderweide, Maine, USA
Some notes about Vista in light of previous reviews: Programs more than five years old likely will not run on it.

-- Vista will not run 16-bit programs.

Any Vista -- 64-bit, 32-bit, Home, Business, Ultimate, etc. -- will NOT run 16-bit programs.

How do you know if a program you use is 16-bit? That's hard to say. If you got the program when you were running Windows 95/98, Windows ME or Windows 2000 / NT4, there's a good chance the program is 16-bit. If the program is more than four years old, some or all of a program's parts may be 16-bit.

Windows XP, Microsoft's first true 32-bit operating system, was capable of running 16-bit programs in compatibility mode. Therefore, it's the last Microsoft OS capable of running such programs.

-- Any Vista will run 32-bit programs. That constitutes the vast majority of software for sale over the last few years on store shelves / over the Internet. Anyone claiming a 32-bit Windows program will not run in 64-bit Vista is simply wrong.

There are rare occasions, namely when installing 32-bit DLLs from the command line, where Vista 64-bit installs require extra effort. The average computer user will never face this issue.

-- Vista does not allow unfettered access to the kernel.

Anyone who's used Windows 95 / 98 / ME is intimately familiar with the Blue Screen of Death. That was caused by software sending bad instructions to the kernel -- the core part of Windows. Mostly, it was caused by bad drivers (the mini-software that controls things such as printers, monitors, etc.).

Beginning in Vista, Microsoft no longer allowed just anyone to write software that talks directly to the kernel. Only select companies who have been given special permission can write such software.

This change means that some older software won't work, because it tries to talk directly to the kernel but doesn't have this special permission. That is actually a step forward for computer security, because it allows Microsoft to terminate bad software developers who make software that causes crashes.

Most of the people complaining here about Vista are having problems with running older software. It's akin to complaining that an automobile won't go, no matter how hard you hit it with a crop. The same way you can't hook a horse-drawn plow to a tractor and expect it to work, you can't install ancient software on Windows Vista and expect it to run.

That said, Vista 64-bit is a vast improvement over all previous Windows distributions. It is considerably more stable; the average home user may only need to restart the machine once a week.

Security, as previously noted, is vastly improved. The biggest change is user access control. That feature prevents software from installing itself or making significant changes to the system without your express permission -- which should help to significantly reduce the problem of worms, viruses and spyware.

The 64-bit software allows users to address more memory, and as more 64-bit software comes on line, you'll notice a significant increase in program performance (those of us who use 64-bit Photoshop have seen this first-hand).

No, you cannot run your copy of dBase III on Vista. Office 97 won't work, either. But any program you can buy off the shelf at any big-box retailer will run on it just fine ... no, better than fine; better than ever before.
VERY happy with this software!
 
Review Date: May 1, 2009
Reviewer: Ric Corless, Asheville, NC USA
Having recently (Apr 09) built an Intel DX58SO (i7)-based system, I wanted to see full performance from day-1. All my historical software has been compatible with 32-bit Vista, and after reading a lot of (hate to use the term, but) whiney reviews about 64-bit Vista being incompatible with "all my important software" and "no drivers available" I still decided to dive into 64-bit Vista with the intent to upgrade to Windows-7 when it is released later in the year. An OEM version is highly restrictive, but it's not that difficult to anticipate needs and install all the necessary hardware prior to installing that version, especially in view of a highly praised upcoming new release, and an OEM version saves a significant amount of money. I like to keep in mind that it is NOT Microsoft's responsibility to write drivers for every peripheral in the world, it is the OEM's responsibility to write a driver for their product to provide compatibility with the reigning OS of the day, and to keep them upgraded as new OS hits the horizon!!!!

NO REGRETS!!

Pioneer CD/DVD DVR2920 ran without a hiccup. My four year old wireless Logitech keyboard & mouse worked from power-up. 64-bit drivers for my Canon iP6600D printer readily available. Likewise for an LiDE100 scanner and a CanoScan 9950F scanner (all tested, all working without problems)! The RAID controller on the Mobo set up flawlessly once the Intel drivers were installed.

Adobe Photoshop Express installed in 32-bit emulation mode and is running like a champ. Even dropping in a couple of fairly obscure plug-ins were no issue! Nero-9 installed in 32-bit emulation mode and is running like a rocket sled!! Plugging in a Sony DV camcorder received a nearly instant "installing drivers" pop-up and thereafter Nero was in control of the camcorder for DV downloads: smooth as silk.

Quicken-8, no problem.

I'll edit this review in the future (until Windows-7 is released) if I run into any problems, but so far this is a dream! I feel bad for all the nay-sayers, but I'm convinced a lot of folks have a real problem doing basic pre-purchase research and are unwilling to take personal responsibility for their own flawed decisions or assumptions.
Comparing 32bit to 64 bit Vista
 
Review Date: April 21, 2009
Reviewer: M. H Shamp, Columbia Falls, MT United States

I first got the 32 bit Vista with a new computer for fear that the 64 bit Vista won't be compatible with old stuff. I used it about a year because sheer curiosity got me to get the 64 bit Vista too just to see what's different.

First thing I noticed, my favorite sidebar Gadget called Screen Snaper no longer works, even though it is written just for Vista. That's slightly disappointing, but I can live without it.

The benefit I notice is that the computer runs slightly faster and quite a bit better. That is, it doesn't freeze and crash as much. Like Internet Explorer used to freeze up quite a bit, but not now. Same with Snipping Tool which I use to write handwritten emails (I have a tablet PC). It used to freeze and crash occasionally so that my whole page is lost. Also, it had trouble erasing; took a while every time I erase, and the more I erased the longer I had to wait. Now it erases smoothly.

I was dismayed however, when I found out that I can't use the printer. My 2 year old Canon printer's driver plainly says, 32 bit only, thank you! And Canon's 64bit software "module" for my old printer I downloaded from their website doesn't do a thing. Then it occurred to me that I should download the 64 bit driver of a new Canon printer that looks like mine and try that. It works! Then I remapped the port to the network printer, so I can print via the desktop instead of plugging the printer to the Tablet all the time. So, everything is good!

So far, the following old programs of mine work:

1. Firefox (that's not old), and the flash and what not works too.
2. Corel word processing from 2004 (I like Corel better than Word. I do!)
3. Microsoft Street and Maps from 2002. (It's old, but it's cool.)

The 64 bit Vista is also cool in that you can keep a ton of programs open and it still runs without going slow. I have 3GB of ram, and even at running 10 big programs, including the sims game, only 50% of the ram is being used. So that's neat, although I can't say why anyway wants to run that many programs at once.

With both the 32 bit and 64 bit Vista, sometimes the volume button doesn't work. You click it to adjust the volume and nothing happens. You try to load the windows Mobility center and it loads in 10 minutes. I don't know if it my computer's fault or Windows fault. Everything works after a restart, though. For a while, anyway. Restarting Vista is very slow, much slower than XP.

But even then, I like Vista. I like the pretty transparency effects of Aero. I also like the fact that you can adjust power settings with one click, so most of the time I run my Tablet at 5% processor speed. I'm typing most of the time and don't need it to go faster. If I run it at normal speed, my Tablet gets burning hot (and probably will burn out in a year or so.) But whenever I need it to go fast, one click and I'm back to full power. That's one feature Vista has over XP, and for laptops that care about power consumption, it's very handy to have.

So, get the 64 bit Vista! Just be ready to work around its problems. It's tough to write something this big without problems. The benefits are worth it.







Hope you know what you're doing!
 
Review Date: December 4, 2007
Reviewer: Jim Hooper, McLeansville, NC USA
I went back to the 32bit version after finding out that most software is not compatable with this 64bit OS.

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