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for Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Rating Summary based on 29 reviews

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  • 3 Stars
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  		• 4.4
  		• 4.6
  		• 4.2
  		• 4.0
  		• 4.2

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  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 tb240904

    Member since 09/05/2009

    Reviews written: 70

    5 Stars Windows 7 - The Best OS Yet! Review with images 31/08/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great new toolbar, excellent personalisation, overall brilliant design

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Really similar to Vista.

    My first ever Ciao review. In July, I downloaded the Release Candidate of Windows 7 to evaluate the new operating system and I have to say it's the best version of Windows yet! It surpasses Vista in every way. Windows 7 is not available yet but I'm encouraging all Vista uers to upgrade in October as soon as the software is released. In the rest of my review I will outline some of the key features. For starters, the toolbar has been changed dramatically. In previous versions of windows, the active windows (i.e. open programs and applications) would appear seperately as tabs with the symbols and ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 AgeUK

    Member since 23/09/2008

    Reviews written: 144

    5 Stars Windows 7 - it makes Vista look like a beta 04/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages smooth, quick, easy to install and use, pretty to look at, simplified for the masses

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Vista should have been like this - Microsoft robbed us!

    Windows 7 makes Windows Vista feel like a beta. That’s my philosophy. It was my philosophy before I bought Windows 7 and it’s still my philosophy now. That’s where the “it looks like Vista” comments come from. Windows 7 is Vista without all the rubbish. Everything people moaned about in vista is gone (or improved) and 7 is more spangly and all singing and dancing. It looks better, runs more smoothly and is simple to use. You might even say its been dumbed down for the masses. Simplified. It’s a pleasure to use. It loads more quickly than Vista and is aesthetically pleasing as it does so. The ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 awcarr

    Member since 23/02/2004

    Reviews written: 10

    4 Stars Believe the hype! 08/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Works well. robust and resilient, user friendly.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The upgrade took time and needs to be left alone to do its job. Do not interrupt!

    My father, a venerable old gentleman of 79 years at the time decided to buy a laptop from Aldi, and surprise me. He had no experience of computers, but wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It was one of the first laptops shipped with Vista, and my first viewing. Vista seemed like a different beast and Microsoft had shuffled some of the functionality, but it appeared very slick if cumbersome. The laptop was shipped with 1 gb of ram, and a 1.6mhz pentium processor and it struggled to do anything. After upgrading to 2gb, it was slighlty better, but I was resigned to it being a poor ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    joshsmit

    4 Stars Windows 7 overview 10/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy to use, Aesthetically pleasing, User friendly

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not enough variation from vista, no desktop button

    Windows 7 Review With the recent release of the new Microsoft operating system windows 7 many people believe windows vista will be forgotten about with its constant security alerts and lack of user options. The new operating system has many new features which I will run through now. Firstly the new taskbar down at the bottom is a lot easier on the eye as it no longer has any text whatsoever, instead Microsoft have opted to use just the logo of the software the user currently has running. Another improvement to the taskbar is the ability to lock items to the task bar which is a replacement of ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    TheMegaMiner

    5 Stars It's so easy to use, my un-techsavy mom can check Facebook! 14/07/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Works well, has a nice look, and is very user friendly.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Nothing! (So far...)

    Windows 7! As I quietly type across my slim keyboard on top of a beautiful interface, I can definitely say this is a very top notch operating system! After being burned by Vista, I was afraid to go back into Windows 7, but I heard some friends talk about rather positively, so I decided to try it out. My XP computer finally died on me, which was sad, but now I'm glad that happened. (Luckily, I was able to save everything on the hardrive!) I picked up a new HP computer about 6 months ago and have never looked back. First off, setting up Windows 7 was quite easy to do, I was able to get ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Dave63

    4 Stars win 7 07/06/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages nice screen saver, easy to use, look like vista

    Disadvantages Disadvantages expensive

    I downloaded the Release Candidate of Windows 7 to evaluate the new operating system and I must say it was the best version of Windows! 7 This is more than software windows Vista in all respects. Windows 7 is not yet available but I do encourage all users of Vista to upgrade in October, soon after the software was released. for now I'm gonna reiview. at the initial appearance, the toolbar has changed dramatically. In previous versions of windows, active window (ie, open programs and applications) will appear as a separate tab with the symbol and the title of the program (with an option to ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Faehndrich

    5 Stars 7 is definately Microsoft's lucky number! 18/01/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Ease of use, Better use of application, Aero features, XP Mode, much much more

    Disadvantages Disadvantages possibility of loosing data when upgrading

    After the introduction, and to be frank, complete flop of Windows Vista, Microsoft were quick to jump back with Windows 7. After doing a little bit of research, I thought it would be a good idea to give it a try, so we bought the Home Premium family pack for an extremely reasonable price of £149.99 (considering that a single licence was £79.99). After backing up my Hard Drive (I would recommend doing this in case you loose some of your data due to the installation, it can be done very easily simply by copying and pasting your documents, pictures, videos etc. either onto a series of Memory ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dndewar1

    4 Stars Windows 7: Is what Microsoft is saying really true? 28/10/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Runs really fast, Some very good features, any decent machine can run it.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The Price. It looks like vista and it really is just a brush up on the old OS

    Windows 7 has been said by Microsoft as being much improved and everyone would be happy with the end result. But is it really better, below is my review of a few sections which I believe is most important and compare it to older versions. Speed: 9/10 Much faster than Vista. To compare with the Vista OS, on Vista it took around 30 secs to 45 secs to boot up and log me in. Now on Windows 7 it takes 20 - 30 secs to boot up. Shut down is also so much faster. Vista = 15 secs... Windows 7 = 5 secs..... So there is a huge improvement. Also when running programs or browsing the internet you feel like ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Silvershot

    5 Stars Windows 7 Premium In A Nutshell 22/01/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Simple, Easy to use, No unnecessary Microsoft clutter like in Vista

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Basic Shortcuts have been changed, such as CTRL+N for new folder doesn't work anymore

    Windows 7 is the way vista should have been. Microsoft have actually done it with this one. It doesn't hang, or sulk when things are going bad. It doesn't randomly lock up and it makes using a computer enjoyable again. As most people have seen the adverts, you must be well aware of the snap functions, and the automatic sorting of media files and documents. But some of the small things have gone unnoticed. Such as: * When downloading something, or installing, W7 can detect most program's current % of completion and will graphically display it on the task bar with a green bar that progressively ... more
  • 4 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 packerfan490

    Member since 23/02/2010

    Reviews written: 11

    5 Stars Wow! Sped up my Computer Really fast! 23/03/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages speeds up your computer really fast, cool new features, good looking,

    Disadvantages Disadvantages nothing yet!

    I bought Windows 7 Home premium for 80 pounds in Heathrow airport because my laptop (Dell M1530) was just unbelievably slow. I loaded windows 7 on and now it is faster than ever! It comes loaded with Internet Explorer 8 but i have fallen in love with Google Chrome so i use that instead. 80 pounds is a lot to pay to speed your computer up but it is definitely much cheaper than a new laptop. It looks quite a bit better than Windows Vista and has a few new cool features. The SNAP features allows you to view to windows on one screen. just drag one window to one side and another to the other side ... more
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