For your basic home computing needs
Product Information
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.
Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for basic home computing
needs. If you only want to use your PC for tasks like browsing the Internet,
using e-mail, or viewing photos, then Windows Vista Home Basic may be the right
edition for you. While it won't provide as many benefits as Windows Vista Home
Premium, it will help you use your PC more easily and more safely than you could
with Windows XP.
The first thing you'll notice about Windows Vista Home Basic is how easy it
is to find the programs and files you're looking for. The instant desktop search
feature looks across all of your documents, e-mails, photos, and other files,
organizing the results in the way that you want to view them. When coupled with
the built-in web search of Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista, you'll
spend less time looking for the things that you need and more time on the
activities that you care about.
With automatic defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites,
Windows Vista Home Basic enables you and your family to use your computer with
greater confidence. Plus, parents can use built-in controls to help ensure their
children's computer use is protected and appropriate.
Windows Vista Home Basic makes it easier than ever to set up your new PC,
with features that easily transfer all of your data and settings from your old
PC to your new one. What's more, you can have peace of mind for years to come
with technology that keeps your system running quickly and reliably over time.
Simply put, Windows Vista Home Basic provides you with just the essentials
you need for home computing.
Product Highlights
Windows Defender: Helps automatically safeguard your PC against
pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other
unwanted software.
Dynamic Security Protection: Internet Explorer 7 helps you achieve a
higher level of security protection than ever before when browsing the web.
Anti-Phishing Technology: Internet Explorer 7 helps protect you
from fraudulent websites that attempt to steal your personal information.
Internet Explorer Protection Mode: Unique to Windows Vista is
Internet Explorer protected mode, which makes browsing the web even safer by
helping prevent unwanted malicious software downloads.
Parental Controls: Manage the rules for your children's computer
use. You can set time limits for use, and also manage their access to the web
and to PC games.
Standard User Accounts: You can confidently allow your children
to use your PC, and lessen the risk that they will install malicious software or
make harmful changes to the PC.
Backup Features: Use basic backup features to safeguard your
files—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.
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.
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