Hi can anybody please help, my hard drive has gone west so got a new one , trouble is i can't find any of the discs that came with the computer, so i need a copy of windows vista home premium, all i need is the disc as i have the original code.
Regards
Dave
You can download it free from "kickass torrents" if you have access to another computer. Or better still, upgrade to windows 7, you'd be amazed how slow vista is in comparison! :o
Windows Vista Wanted.
There's a phrase I never thought I'd see.
Must admit - I wouldn't bother IMHO.
Worst thing Windows have ever done and best avoided like Veet for Men in sensitive areas :evil:
QuoteWindows Vista Wanted.
There's a phrase I never thought I'd see.
You took the words straight out of my mouth! ;D
okay, so looking beyond the disbelief by some members to your request (and rightly so to be honest) I would actually suggest that if you have an older PC to get yourself a copy of XP, if you have at least a dual core processor and 4Gb + of RAM then get yourself Win 7 Home Premium.
As you have already guessed Vista is not held in high regard and this is true of IT people as well as us lot on here.
So XP for an older machine or Win 7 for something a bit newer
To use windows 7, your processor must be at least 1ghz or faster, and at least 1 gb of ram, it doesn't have to be dual core, dual core just lets you do more things at once ;D
Quote from: newportnobby on April 20, 2012, 09:19:45 PM
Must admit - I wouldn't bother IMHO.
Worst thing Windows have ever done and best avoided like Veet for Men in sensitive areas :evil:
how soon people forget... Windows ME, that's infinately worse than vista.
Quote from: AndyGif on April 21, 2012, 08:30:48 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on April 20, 2012, 09:19:45 PM
Must admit - I wouldn't bother IMHO.
Worst thing Windows have ever done and best avoided like Veet for Men in sensitive areas :evil:
how soon people forget... Windows ME, that's infinately worse than vista.
I'll second that!!
Hi all problem now sorted i have a operating system and yes its vista.
dave
Vista has gotten a bad press (and not deservedly), due in the main to the security aspects that "everyone" screamed were missing form previous versions ... Can't please some folks.
And bear in mind - there isn't a lot of difference between Vista & 7 ... Apart from the Aero interface, the security aspects have been relaxed / hidden more.
Mike
I have a laptop running Vista and main pc running Windows 7 and to be absolutely honest Windows 7 is miles better and faster than Vista.
Marty
Do yourself a real favor and get someone to download a copy of Linux Mint 12 for you. its free and allows trouble free computing the way it should be.
Always best to get out of the Windows scene and all the problems that come with it, no need for crap like Anti Spyware, Anti Virus, defragment and all the other anti's.
Linux Mint comes with all the required software including photo editing and office plus there are 36,000 other free software programs available, you can even run Windows software withing Linux.
Quote from: MikeDunn on April 21, 2012, 10:22:44 PM
Vista has gotten a bad press (and not deservedly), due in the main to the security aspects that "everyone" screamed were missing form previous versions ... Can't please some folks.
And bear in mind - there isn't a lot of difference between Vista & 7 ... Apart from the Aero interface, the security aspects have been relaxed / hidden more.
Mike
Yup, I bought a laptop a few years ago with Vista (prior to that I was running a self-build PC with Windows 98. Which BTW is still going strong and supporting an ancient high grade photo/film scanner which won't run on more modern versions of Windows!)
But, I haven't had any major problems with Vista and have found the 'free' Moviemaker' programme a distinct plus. OK, I do have a more sophisticated programme, but for banging out a quick movie or a demo 'moviemaker' is a boon. I understand that in Windows 7 you have to purchase a cut down version of Moviemaker as an extra?
Horses for courses as everyone has their own requirements from a computer, but for me Vista does the job.*
*SWMBO has Windows 7 on her Netbook and curses it when it keeps going wrong . 'Why doesn't my PC (sic) work the same as yours does?' is her constant cry... and I agree that I can't bond with '7' either.
Windows 7 on a netbook is not a pleasant experience, especially on the usual 1GB configurations. Thankfully its something I very rarely have to argue with and my netbooks all run Linux. The downside is that making some of them work nicely in Linux is part of my job so instead of me moaning about it people moan at me !
Alan
A few years ago we got a couple of notebooks with Vista on the basis that we could load XP because we had the licenses. Trouble was a few of the peripheral manufacturers were threatened by microsoft that if they wrote drivers for XP they would be excommunicated. After a few months we replaced the Vista junk with netbooks running XP !
In the last few months we have started upgrading the computers, new ones all running Windows 7. I can not compare the speeds but at least the four running W7 are stable - an essential for business use. (We still haven't worked out how to integrate Outlook 2003 with Office Outlook 2010 though - intellectual puzzles are not all from China it seems.)
I think the previous advice to avoid Vista is correct. If you have software based upon Vista it should run on W7 because they share the same kernel, it's just that the bugs have been removed (well not quite, you still need SP 1 and the more than 100 updates since then).
W7 will run on a netbook or a notebook with 1 G byte of memory if you install the 32 bit versions but note that some W7 installs don't allow you to choose.
Another W7 problem is that the upper versions like to partition your hard disc into two portions, one for the system and the other for data. Not a worthwhile option unless you have at least 350 G bytes. If the version of W7 you choose doesn't include a re-partitioning utility you can download a free version (several available) to either change partition sizes or to all but eliminate the virtual D: drive.
Good old microsoft some say - We only use it because our clients do. I would happily junk it in all of its very expensive versions if only our clients would as well !