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Vista basic - premium question?

  • 30-03-2009 2:54pm
    #1
    mumhaabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭


    A friend has a 4 year old PC with 2.5ghz p4 and a 250gb harddrive and 512mb of RAM, and it got a bad virus and corrupted the entire drive as he just recently got connected to the net (broadband) without having even anti-Virus on it:D

    Anyway he wants me to re-install windows but wants to run Vista on it, I think the machine would behave like a slow pig with Home Premium on it so was wondering to use Basic instead.

    I have got a Home Premium licence and the DVD box set, would it be possible to use my Home Premium dvd for the install files and buy the licence key for Basic direct from Microsoft or must I get a new Windows Vista Basic box set which will take me a week probably as I shall have to order it from the net and await shipping otherwise. or are the install files totally different?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    sandleman1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭sandleman1979


    Most retail copies of Vista have all the versions on the same disk.
    You can select the version to install. Vista basic is very poor best bet is to get Home premium or ultimate if the budget can hack it!

    The machine should be able to cope with Vista as long as you can put at least 2GB of ram in it.... Don't even try 512mb of ram!! Christmas will be here before the install finishes ;-)


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,583 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    512MB is a non-runner , even if you get RAM it still won't have the performance of a new machine, explain to them about Moores law and how a new machine will be 10 times faster than a 5 year old one ( well the CPU anyway )

    XP should be fine once you put firewall and anti malware on it and latest service pack and patches and use firefox/opera in preference to IE
    If paranoid and only using for web then look at sandbox or ubuntu ;)


  • #4
    mumhaabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭mumhaabu


    Upon checking it out for my man I discovered it actually only has a CD drive which makes installation a hell of a lot harder, I could try creating a disk image but I managed to talk him into holding tough for a LIDL or ALDI special which would suit him and his budget nicely. I have reformatted with XP and got him back on track for a few more weeks.


  • #5
    NullZer0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    If you feel like living on the edge... there is a version of Vista out there that runs on 256mb RAM
    or so I hear... but I wouldn't know much because its illegal ;)


    +1 for Windows 7 (but I'd just install Ubuntu myself)


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