MS Windows Vista Home Basic

Making the transition from Windows XP to Windows Vista, it was not a verdict I wanted to make lightly when it came to giving my final opinion on this new product, and that is why after now having experienced Windows Vista Home Basic it is about time to finally tell you about it. Thinking of my first real experience with a personal computers operating system, we must be talking Windows 95 now when my brother bought my households first PC. From there we have seen the improvements such as 98 and ME, but it wasn't until XP that things really started to get interesting. When I first used XP it seemed very familiar to 98, but just leaps and bounds better in ...  Read the complete review

I simply prefer to use Windows XP because I have been using it for many years, it seems to be alot more stable now with all the recent updates/patches over the years and it seems to also be most compatible with software I currently use. I also only have a single processor system with 1GB RAM and worry that if I install Vista, it'll run the operating slower and the applications slower. However if I were to upgrade my hardware or get a new PC then certainly I'd go for Vista although I may keep a copy of XP to install on another partition in case I have compatibility issues with some of the software I use already. One piece of software I use regularly is open ...  Read the complete review

As a quick introduction, I have been using computers since MSDOS, I spend hours on my computer most days, my living room contains more computers and parts than I can find time to play with, and I pick up new programmes very quickly and easily. Having said that, I do believe the switch from XP to Vista is trickier than with previous upgrades as the interface and set-up is noticeably different. I bought a new computer recently which had Vista Home Basic installed, as always I was looking forward to trying out a new operating system and with a dual core processor and twice as much RAM as my creaky old Win2k box I usually end up using I thought that I would ...  Read the complete review

This review is a follow up from my review of Vista business and therefore will contain some of the original text which explains some of the features present in both flavours of this operating system. The dreaded Vista. Many people fall on different sides of the argument. Is it good? Is it crappy? A lot of the people who outright slate Vista are often those who you see reminiscing about the days when it took 10 minutes to download a picture on the web. If they do not fall into this category they are either those who own a Mac or the dreaded 'I hate Microsoft for the sake of it' bunch that I find seem to grace my Computer Science lectures on a ...  Read the complete review

Vista Home Basic will probably have been the most popular Vista package, the operating system for the every man (and woman). The one aspect you will notice about Vista instantly is how good it looks. Whereas XP may have been clunky Vista is sleek and smooth with the covetous 'aero' look. It's sort of a concession for windows trying to attract those who may have been drawn in by Apple's ever tasty graphics. Another great feature if on the task bar when you have multiple programs open you can open all windows at once and see them all at once to toggle through them. When they are all minimised you can hover over them and see a miniature ghostly ...  Read the complete review