|
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade |  | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $119.99
Buy New: $105.95
as of 9/10/2010 17:14 EDT details
You Save: $14.04 (12%)
New (18) from $105.95
Seller: buycheapsoftware
Rating:  446 reviews
Sales Rank: 13
Format: DVD-ROM
Platform: Windows 7
ESRB: Everyone
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: windows_7
Processors: 1
System Memory: 2.0E+6
Memory Type: SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 60
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: GFC-00020
Model: GFC-00020
UPC: 882224883429
EAN: 0882224883429
ASIN: B002DHLUWK
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
| • | Windows 7 Home Premium (includes 32-bit & 64-bit versions) makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music--you can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV | | • | Make the things you do every day easier with improved desktop navigation | | • | Start programs faster and more easily, and quickly find the documents you use most often | | • | Make your web experience faster, easier and safer than ever with Internet Explorer 8 | | • | Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
If you're already running XP or Vista, you probably know some of the many benefits of being a Windows user. Now, with the Upgrade Version of the latest Windows edition, you can get current with all the best new and classic features of the world's most popular operating system, all without paying the full price for the new version.
Amazon.com Product Description
Upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Windows 7 Home Premium makes it easy to create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. You can even watch, pause, rewind, and record TV (a broadcast TV tuner may be required). Get the best entertainment experience with Windows 7 Home Premium. Do you use your PC for work, run Windows XP programs, or require enhanced security? Consider Windows 7 Professional.  Windows 7 is designed to make your PC simpler--to be more reliable, more responsive and to make the things you do every day on your PC easier. Click to enlarge. | Upgrade to Windows 7 All editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista qualify you to buy an upgrade license. 1. Choose your edition of Windows 7
Explore key features and choose the edition that's best for you. Be sure to check the expanded list of extended features in Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate. System requirements vary for each edition of Windows 7 because some features might require special hardware. 2. See if your PC has what it takes to run Windows 7
In general, if your PC can run Windows Vista it can run Windows 7. To make sure, download and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor to do a quick check. If you want certain features, such as HomeGroup or Windows Media Center, check to see if your PC has the hardware that's needed. 3. Check which operating system your PC is currently running
How you make the move to Windows 7 depends on your current operating system. - Windows Vista
The transition to Windows 7 should be pretty smooth, although you may need to update your system to the latest service pack first.
- Windows XP (or any other operating system)
Windows 7 is best experienced on a new PC with the latest hardware, but if your computer meets the minimum specifications, you can install Windows 7 on a PC running Windows XP. Windows 7 must be "custom" installed (also known as a "clean" installation) over Windows XP. Before beginning the installation, you'll need to copy your files and settings to an external drive. After Windows 7 has been installed you will need to re-install all of your programs using the original installation media and then copy over the files and settings you backed up to your external drive. Because Windows 7 requires a custom installation, we strongly recommend that you get help with this process from your local computer service provider.  More work, more play, and more of everything in between. Click to enlarge. |  Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows. Click to enlarge. |  With Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Click to enlarge. |  Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar and Start menu. | The best entertainment experience on your PC Easiest Windows to use ever
- Simplify your PC with new navigation features like Aero Shake, Jump Lists, and Snap.
- Customize Windows to look and feel the way you like by changing themes and taskbar programs.
- Setting up a home network and connecting to printers and devices is easier than ever.
- Windows 7 Home Premium supports the latest hardware and software.
It's faster
- Designed to make your PC sleep and resume quicker.
- Takes full advantage of 64-bit PC hardware and memory.
- Connecting to wireless networks is fast and easy.
Best PC entertainment experience
- Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV with Windows Media Center.
- Blu-ray read/write support for data files.
- Includes integrated video and Dolby audio codecs.
Simplifies Everyday Tasks Simple to use Preview
Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail previews and full-screen previews of open windows. Pin
Open files and get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar. You can easily pin programs you use often to the taskbar and launch them in just one click.  Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Click to enlarge. |  Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC right from the Start menu with Windows Search. Click to enlarge. |  Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center, and enjoy your favorite videos and music with Windows Media Player. Click to enlarge. | Jump Lists
Open files you use regularly in just two clicks with Jump Lists on the improved taskbar previews and Start menu. Snap
Windows 7 has simple new ways to manage open windows. For example, with Snap you can arrange two windows side-by-side just by dragging them to opposite sides of your screen. Peek and Shake
Windows 7 lets you peek behind open windows to get a quick look at your desktop. Windows Search
Instantly locate and open virtually any file on your PC, from documents to emails to songs, right from the Start menu, with Windows Search. Easy to connect  Setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks. Click to enlarge. |  Enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Click to enlarge. |  Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Click to enlarge. |  Manage Backup and Restore and other features through Action Center. Click to enlarge. |  Search, organize, and edit files across a network in the same way you would a single folder.Click to enlarge. | Wireless setup
With Windows 7, setting up wireless connections is easier with consistent, one-click connections to available networks, whether those networks are based on Wi-Fi, mobile broadband, dial-up, or corporate VPN. HomeGroup
Connect Windows 7 PCs on a home network in just four clicks and easily get to the photos, music, and files on each one--even share printers--with HomeGroup. Easy to browse the web Internet Explorer 8
Visual search helps you quickly find the information you want by adding visual cues and previews to search results from top search providers including Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and others. Internet Explorer 8
Use Web slices to conveniently keep up with changes on frequently updated websites, like eBay auctions or traffic sites, directly from the IE8 toolbar. Easy to communicate and share Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Photo Gallery makes share your photos to your favorite photo site easy. Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Mail makes managing multiple email accounts easy. Windows Live Family Safety
Keep your child safe by managing what sites they can visit and who they can send/receive emails and im communications from. Note: Windows Live components need to be downloaded separately. Works The Way You Want Faster and More Reliable Windows 7 will help your PC sleep and resume more quickly. It is designed to respond to commands more quickly and will help your PC to be more reliable. Fewer clicks and less interruptions
Makes New Things Possible Media on your terms Windows Media Center
Turn your PC into a TV with Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center
Watch shows for free when and where you want with Internet TV. DirectX 11
DirectX 11 technology delivers breathtaking game graphics so real, it's unreal. New ways to engage Windows Touch
Windows Touch makes PCs with touch screens easier and more intuitive to use. Media on your terms Windows Media Player
More and more consumer electronics, from TVs to digital photo frames, can be connected to home networks. With Play To in Windows 7, you'll be able to easily send music, photos, videos from your PC to a networked device throughout your home. You can enjoy the photos, music, and videos on your home PC when you're away from home with remote media streaming. Work anywhere Location Aware Printing
Windows 7 will automatically pick the right printer for you when you move from home to work networks. Work anywhere with less effort. - Instantly locate virtually any file, email, or document on your PC just by typing a word or two.
- Get around your PC faster with the improved taskbar.
- Open programs you use regularly in one click and files you use regularly in just two.
- Manage lots of open programs, documents, and browser windows easily with thumbnail and full-screen previews of open windows.
- Manage multiple email accounts, including Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Mail Plus, all in one place with one simple program.
- Get to the files, photos, and music on any PC with Windows 7 in the house from any other.
- Print to any printer in the house from any PC with Windows 7 in the house.
Safeguard your hard work. - Windows Internet Explorer 8 helps keep your PC safer from malware and you safer from fraudulent websites designed to fool you into divulging private information.
Choose the Windows 7 Edition That Is Best For You
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 446
 Windows 7 - A must upgrade for PC and Mac users September 10, 2010
Opinionator
There are more users of Windows than any other operating system in the world and Windows 7 is the best version, so far (in my opinion) - especially the 64-bit version. Installation is simple; the interface is relatively intuitive; more secure than Windows XP without being as annoying as Vista. Windows/Microsoft Update is very groovy.
 XP to Windows 7 upgrade is a nightmare September 9, 2010
Donald E. Fulton (Stoneham, MA USA)
(This review is for upgrading from XP to Windows 7 preinstalled on a new machine, but the problems I found apply to upgrading on the same machine.)
If you're a serious computer user with a lot of accessories or a long time computer user with some old programs you don't want to abandon, be prepared for an 'upgrade' nightmare. Attached to my XP I had two printers, a scanner, and TV tuner. Only the TV tuner installed correctly on Windows 7. One of my printers, supposedly "100% Windows 7 compatible" says Microsoft, I finally got installed after six hours work. My scanner and other printer look like they are never going to work with Windows 7 and will need to be replaced.
Trying to get old programs (> 15 years old) to run is another nightmare. There are some fixes and workarounds possible, but it is a techie task and very time consuming. Every old program seemed to need a different fix. The root problem with old programs, those written to run under Win 3.1 and Dos, is that they are 16 bit code and 16 bit code will not run on 64 bit Windows 7. Most versions of Windows 7 including Windows 7 Home Premium (& above) are 64 bit. Even some 32 bit programs, which can run on Windows 7, won't install because they come with 16 bit installers.
With many, many hours of work researching and running tests I have gotten most of my old programs to run on Windows 7. Here are the tricks and workarounds I have used:
-- I got a couple of programs to work by copying over the directory from another computer rather than installing the program. This is one way to circumvent the 16 bit installer problem. One of the programs I rescued this way was my favorite html editor Composer, part of Netscape 4.8, which refused to install. (A newer html editor very similar to Netscape 4.8 Composer is SeaMonkey Composer. SeaMonkey is a free download and installs normally on Windows 7.)
-- One of my old technical programs (Vissim) I found had two .exe's, a 16 bit and 32 bit. Only the 32 bit exe runs on Windows 7, so the fix here is to disable (rename) the 16 bit .exe.
-- I got a Dos editor to run using a free, open source emulator called DosBox (www.dosbox.com). DosBox will run hundreds of Dos games and programs written in QBasic, but like most emulators it takes some dedication to use.
-- By far the most difficult old programs to get running on Windows 7 are early (16 bit) Windows programs written for Win 3.1 (1993 to 1996). This is a problem I am still working. Microsoft has a fix for these 16 bit programs ('Windows XP Mode'), but it's expensive (in more ways than one). Microsoft has a ('free') downloadable emulator and a downloadable XP OS that you load into it. However, there are two big caveats: It's not available to Home Premium users. Home Premium users can get it only after paying Microsoft an extortionate $90 fee to upgrade (Home Premium => Professional), which (I suspect) will also introduce a new set of password and permission hassles. The best that Microsoft will guarantee about XP Mode is that 'might' (or probably) will get your XP programs to run, and you need to try it. An alternate if you own disks for Win 3.1, is to install Win 3.1 onto a free emulator like DosBox or Oracle's VirtualBox.
While Windows 7 has some nice features, it has some major flaws too. Search for files using partial filenames (based on my tests) just does not work right. If XP Search finds (say) 30 files in a partial filename search, the best Windows 7 Search will do (partial match is on) searching the same directory is find (say) 6 files, missing about 80% of the files with the embedded partial name! This pattern of missed files on Windows 7 happens again and again. Online I have seen dozens of posters complain about Windows 7 Search with most preferring XP search. In its layout Windows 7 Search is a disorganized mess (search options are scattered all over the place) and unlike XP it does not tell you the number of files it finds. Another dubious 'upgrade' of Windows 7 (& Vista) is how Explorer sorts filenames. Filenames beginning with numbers are sorted differently in Windows 7 and XP making the comparison of directories a real joy.
I kept a running log of my XP to Windows 7 'upgrade' adventure. The full story is on my home page (http://twinkle_toes_engineering.home.comcast.net/xp_to_windows7_nightmare.htm). If Amazon removes the URL you can find it by Googling "Twinkle Toes Engineering" (with quotes), look for 'XP to Windows 7 Upgrade, What a Freaking Nightmare'.
Great! September 7, 2010
V. Vladia (Gresham, OR USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's the best Windows OS to come out in years. It's fast, efficient and easy to use. Thank you Microsoft!
Windows 7 Upgrade September 6, 2010
Barry R. Thornton (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I installed the Windows 7 Upgrade a few days ago on both my desktop and laptop and have been pulling my hair out ever since. Screen lock-ups, hours of watching the little spinning circle, failure to come out of the sleep mode, incompatablity with certain game programs, the list goes on. I would definately NOT recommend this software to anyone (maybe the IRS).
Vista to Win 7 September 6, 2010
I. Adler (Phila, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was one of the easiest upgrades I've done with windows products. It was a quick setup that was finished within an hour. I didn't have any driver issues and it kept a copy of my vista files on the C:/ drive so i could go back and keep whatever i wanted and delete the rest.
Windows 7 itself is so much better than vista both in speed and ease of use. I turn off the UAC because i get annoyed by it popping up, but it's good for the novice computer users who don't know what they are doing. It will prompt them when they are isntalling something that will affect their computer. The window snap functions are great for multitasking. You can snap two open windows to the left and right sides so you can look at one while working at the other with ease. Alt tabbing brings up a list of open windows for you to sift through and Win+tab brings up a revolving visual list that you can scroll through and click on what you'd like to access.
Gaming on this system works well, and seems to have better performance over vista. Backwards compatibility is good as well. I can't think of any issues i've had. Battery life on the laptop is still good, it seems to not abuse the hardware when doing simple tasks.
All in all very happy with the system and no complaints.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 446
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. | |
