For your basic home computing needs
Product Information
Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for basic home computingneeds. If you only want to use your PC for tasks like browsing the Internetusing e-mail or viewing photos then Windows Vista Home Basic may be the rightedition for you. While it won't provide as many benefits as Windows Vista HomePremium it will help you use your PC more easily and more safely than you couldwith Windows XP.
The first thing you'll notice about Windows Vista Home Basic is how easy itis to find the programs and files you're looking for. The instant desktop searchfeature looks across all of your documents e-mails photos and other filesorganizing the results in the way that you want to view them. When coupled withthe built-in web search of Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista you'llspend less time looking for the things that you need and more time on theactivities that you care about.
With automatic defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websitesWindows Vista Home Basic enables you and your family to use your computer withgreater confidence. Plus parents can use built-in controls to help ensure theirchildren's computer use is protected and appropriate.
Windows Vista Home Basic makes it easier than ever to set up your new PCwith features that easily transfer all of your data and settings from your oldPC to your new one. What's more you can have peace of mind for years to comewith technology that keeps your system running quickly and reliably over time.
Simply put Windows Vista Home Basic provides you with just the essentialsyou need for home computing.
Product Highlights
Windows Defender: Helps automatically safeguard your PC againstpop-ups slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and otherunwanted software.
Dynamic Security Protection: Internet Explorer 7 helps you achieve ahigher level of security protection than ever before when browsing the web.
Anti-Phishing Technology: Internet Explorer 7 helps protect youfrom fraudulent websites that attempt to steal your personal information.
Internet Explorer Protection Mode: Unique to Windows Vista isInternet Explorer protected mode which makes browsing the web even safer byhelping prevent unwanted malicious software downloads.
Parental Controls: Manage the rules for your children's computeruse. You can set time limits for use and also manage their access to the weband to PC games.
Standard User Accounts: You can confidently allow your childrento use your PC and lessen the risk that they will install malicious software ormake harmful changes to the PC.
Backup Features: Use basic backup features to safeguard yourfiles—priceless digital photos music movies documents and more.
Product Features
- Instantly find information on your computer - including documents e-mails photos and even music files - with Instant Search which is integrated throughout Windows Vista.
- Searching for information on the Internet is easier than ever with Internet Explorer 7 which includes web searching right from the browser with no additional toolbars necessary. Tabbed browsing also enables you to simultaneously browse multiple Web pages in one window.
- See the information you care about instantly with Windows Sidebar and gadgets which bring real-time information like weather and news directly to your desktop.
- Flexible organization features make it simple to instantly find and view your files any way you want.
- Relive a lifetime of memories using Windows Photo Gallery. It's now easier to download photos from your digital camera and then organize edit view and share them with family and friends.
- Get up and running quickly using Windows Easy Transfer to automatically copy your files photos music e-mail and settings from your old PC to your new Windows Vista-based PC.
- Windows Vista works in the background to take care of itself giving you a better and faster computing experience. Using new performance self-tuning and diagnostics technologies Windows Vista can improve the responsiveness of the applications you use most often and help to decrease file download times. Windows SuperFetch helps make your PC run faster and enables your applications to load faster.
- Windows Vista includes new self-healing technology that can identify problems and fix them so you can keep system disruptions to a minimum.
- Windows Vista contains built-in diagnostics that look for hardware failures network problems and slow performance issues so they can be resolved before they affect your productivity.
Windows Requirements
- 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
- 512 MB of system memory
- 20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
- Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory
- DVD-ROM Drive
- Audio Output
- Internet access (fees may apply)
- Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration.
Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is designed to help Windows XP users identifywhether their PCs are ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista which edition ofWindows Vista meets their needs and which features of Windows Vista will beable to run on their PCs. For assistance please use the linkprovided: http://tinyurl.com/ysvhs7
For users running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP or Windows Vista only. Backup and clean install may be required.
Please Note: Due to the "Special Packaging" on this item it can not be returned once it has been opened.
