For your basic home computing needs

Software Information

Microsoft windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Microsoft 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 Microsoft windows Vista Home Basic may be the right edition for you. While it won't provide as many benefits as Microsoft windows Vista Home Premium, it will help you use your PC more easily and more safely than you could with Microsoft windows XP.

The first thing you'll notice about Microsoft 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 Microsoft windows Internet Explorer 7 in Microsoft windows Vista, you'll spend less time looking for the things that you need and more time on the activities and computer gamesthat you care about.

With automatic defenses against malicious software and fraudulent websites, Microsoft 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.

Microsoft 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, Microsoft windows Vista Home Basic provides you with just the essentials you need for home computing.

Software Best Highlights

Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 computer 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.

Software Features

• Instantly find information on your computer - including documents, e-mails, photos, and even music files - with Instant Search, which is integrated throughout Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft 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 Microsoft windows Easy Transfer to automatically copy your files, photos, music, e-mail, and settings from your old PC to your new Microsoft windows Vista-based PC.
  
• Microsoft 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, Microsoft windows Vista can improve the responsiveness of the applications you use most often and help to decrease file download times.  Microsoft windows SuperFetch helps make your PC run faster and enables your applications to load faster.
  
• Microsoft windows Vista includes new self-healing technology that can identify problems and fix them so you can keep system disruptions to a minimum.
  
• Microsoft 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 software productivity.

Microsoft windows Computer 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 software product game functionality may vary based on your system configuration.

For users running Microsoft Microsoft windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft windows XP, or Microsoft windows Vista only.  Backup and clean install may be required.

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