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Ok,
This will sound very very very very very weird to you butttt I am wanting to buy a legit copy of vista: Windows Vista Home Ultimate.
I want opinions on the people who have it and what do i lose compared to Windows Vista Ultimate.
I asked my mum to buy it (£150) and she likes the idea and before i let her buy it I want opinions from my fellow forum pixels
Do I get windows aero with this one?
and will my laptop work ok on it (512MB gc, 2.0ghz x2, 2GB of ram)

Second thing:
I have vista rc2 installed on my laptop, but then i reinstalled xp and it overwrites the boot.ini for vista. How can i fix it so it gives me options to boot up for vista (And let me do it)

Thanks
Nathan

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thanks again

if you want to edit the boot.ini to dual boot both versions, I assume you have both versions still installed.
you probably have something like

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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin

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where partition(1) might be something different
to add a boot option, you should only have to add a copy of whatever line you have in YOUR boot.ini and change the partition number and OS name

There is no Windows Vista home ultimate only windows vista ulitmate and windows vista home premium/ home basic. If you're getting ultimate you will get aero. For aero you need:

    * a 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
    * 1 gigabyte of system memory
    * a DirectX 9 compatible graphics processor, with a Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) driver, and a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM
    * 40 GB hard drive with 15 GB free space
    * DVD-ROM Drive
    * audio output and Internet access


And use Google.

It's called Home Premium not Home Ultimate

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Originally posted by Nathan
I want opinions on the people who have it and what do i lose compared to Windows Vista Ultimate.

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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windows...itions/choose.mspx

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Originally posted by Nathan
Do I get windows aero with this one?
and will my laptop work ok on it (512MB gc, 2.0ghz x2, 2GB of ram)

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Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

Your GC also needs to support Pixel Shaders 2 to support aero. (WVUA will tell you if it does)



About the boot problem, try booting with your vista DVD and enter the recovery console (i think it is Shift + F10 or something like that) and type "fixboot c:" and "fixmbr c:"

I don't have the dvd thats the annoying thing

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Originally posted by Zahid™
If you're getting ultimate you will get aero

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You also get Aero on Home premium, and buisness. Not just Ultimate.

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Originally posted by Nathan
Windows vista home ultimate

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Home ultimate? wtf is that?
You have home basic (no aero), home pro (has aero) and ultimate (has everything!)

Buisness is good too as it has everything ultimate does except wmc (windows media center)

Oh, read my reply at http://nathans-hosting.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24&action=lastpost

i cbf to copy and paste

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Originally posted by Nathan
http://nathans-hosting.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24&action=lastpost

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*http://nathans-hosting.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=24&pid=171#pid171

Btw whats the problem in copying and pasting? Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is so easy .

I can't really give you the exact answer, what I can tell you is that, if you think it's worth th money then buy it, otherwise, don't.
btw, it's windows vista ultimate, not windows vista home ultimate.