Thread: HELP! my sister bought a DELL with VISTA

Quote: Originally Posted by kris23 yes dude... that will work, just select home premium and not ultimate when you are in the windows setup it gives you an option??? I don't remember seeing an option like that when i installed it on mine? i'm planning on formatting the windows partition of the hard disk, then reinstall. will it still give me that option?

start in safe mode then uninstall all the junk then start in normal mode

Re: HELP! my sister bought a DELL with VISTA I've YET to come across a single Vista OEM product key plastered on a prebuilt machine that doesn't work straight away with a microsoft supplied OEM disc....

Quote: Originally Posted by Judas just for clarification... if you want to use the Dell supplied cd key. IT MUST BE a OEM version of vista... you CANNOT use a RETAIL disk. Correct.... I should have edited my post because it could be read that way, but that was not my meaning.

yup.... you probably never saw the option because you installed the OS with the CD key straightaway, (CD key has a code that automatically selects the assigned OS version) had you decided to go without the CD key it wouldve given you the install option. if you use the Dell CD key it should spit out home premium automatically

Well as much as its going to look weird me defending Dell I have owned a few latitude laptop systems and they were fine and the recent XPS we reviewed was great. I had the same issue with a friend recently who bought a dell and said it was 'crap' - 'rubbish' and was slower than his friends laptop. So i get over to his house and find out that he was visiting all sorts of dubious sites without antivirus or any common sense...

I use Mike Lin's Home Page to nuke a lot of startup items, handy as you can restore them the same way if you have issues, and you can run a standalone no install version. I too would look at a format, but makesure you have the proper drivers for stuff espcially your network hardware, and of course the correct oem OS disc. If you haven't already switch off Aero and transparency effects, because you don't have the hardware to...

Wipe the hard drive. No ands, ifs or buts, wipe it. Manufacturer-bought PCs (ACER especially) usually pile on a load of crapware that you may or may not use. Reformat the system and customise the OS the way you (or in this case your sister) want it. To tweak it that bit further, pop into msconfig, go to boot then advanced options and select the number of processors to the number of cores you have (in this case two). It's a minor tweak but...

Quote: Originally Posted by MGaz my sisters DELL has windows vista home premium installed. I have an OEM vista ultimate disc. will this be ok to use? No problem , you can also try XP if there is drivers for it. My dad have the same problem with Dell. He has Dell inspiron 1525 (C2D 2.0 , 2GB ram ), what a garbage ! weak chassis , emits heat like you are near volcano , Bluetooth hardware faulted after 1 year . I installed different vista...