OS - What Are The Difference Upgrade, OEM And Just English DVD?
Dec 11, 2009
I'm looking to get a new OS w/new build. What is/are the difference's between upgrade, OEM and just English DVD? The prices are as follows; upgrade = $219, OEM = $199, English DVD = $319 and are from Tiger direct. This is for the Ultimate OS and some prices are reflecting sales and rebates. I understand the upgrade is overlaying new OS over the old OS but the other two confuse me. So with a new build what would be best?
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Apr 23, 2009
I have posted the question about no English language to Microsoft. Should have answer in 24 hours and will post what they say.
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Mar 25, 2008
Why does this not say American and why is English not available. 70% of words Highlighted have the correct spelling and mail simply wants to use the American corruptions. In virtually every other Microsoft product we have both English (American) and English (True or UK as normally quoted). Why not in this product after all Americans only make up some 4 or 5% of the world population?
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Apr 17, 2008
I'm currently living in France and recently purchased an Acer computer here, with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I'd assumed that I'd be able to select English as the display language but, apart from being able to select an English keyboard, everything is in French. If necessary, I'll live with this (it's a way of improving my French) but, if I could do it at reasonable cost, I'd like to convert it to English.
Purchsing the full English version is out of the question, as is upgrading to French Vista Ultimate and downloading an English language pack. Purchasing the English Home Premium Upgrade would have been OK, but I believe that this won't work with my current French version. An upgrade DVD was included with the computer, which appears to require payment on-line; I assume that this would be French also, so it's of no use to me......
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Dec 26, 2008
I have Vista Home Premium and the American English spell checker is driving me wild! What I really need is the UK English spell checker that I had with XP
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Mar 13, 2010
When I attempt use use spell check I get a message that tells me spell check is no longer available in English. What gives?
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Mar 26, 2008
I live in Spain and bought my wife a laptop. She is having trouble with the language and wants to change it to English, I am a bit annoyed at having to buy an English copy of Vista. Especially after watching an MS promotion video of how they are working to cover the need of using multiple languages, why the step back in Vista then ? It is an Acer laptop and also has programs pre-loaded and a backup restore installed etc. If I buy the English vista, do I have to do a clean install to get English Vista on, or just load it as a repair, and will it need re-activating etc ? If it does need a clean install then I will lose everything that has been pre-installed and and will be an expensive experience.
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Mar 23, 2008
There are also various spelling mistakes (e.g. "center" for centre, "color" for colour) in the user interfaces. This appears to be a fault also in MS Office, which claims to take its UI language from the Windows locale but in the case of English this doesn't work. The interface language appears to be American.
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Mar 24, 2010
I can't find any English newsgroups for Windows 7. Can anyone help?
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Mar 26, 2008
There are also various spelling mistakes (e.g. "center" for centre, "color" for colour) in the user interfaces. This appears to be a fault also in MS Office, which claims to take its UI language from the Windows locale but in the case of English this doesn't work. The interface language appears to be American Using Windows Vista Home Premium.
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May 11, 2008
I Bought A New Vaio With Operating System Interface Language In French. Vista Home Premium. Because In France They Sell Only French O.s. Vista (not Office, Vista Itself) How Can I Change The Vista Interface (start Button-programs-menus) Language From French To English?
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Jun 16, 2008
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Feb 4, 2008
My vista Ultimate cant install english language pack,my original language is chinese.but i wanna change it into english;i've downloaded over 20times,but it just cant install,the problem indicate "windows 00000002".and just now,it installed successfully,but a new problem came out.it just cant finish configuring updates..........
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Apr 17, 2008
I have a German Windows Vista on my computer. It is factory-installed, as I bought the computer in Germany. Is it possible to convert the Windows to English?
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May 21, 2009
How I can translate the english text to chinese? when I point to the english word from the website the chinese word come out.
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Jun 15, 2009
I've got my newsreader to re-read all newsgroups, but haven't found an (English) one for Windows 7. (I found microsoft.public.it.windows7(italian) point me to the English one?
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Jun 18, 2008
Microsoft seems to have hidden the UK English dictionary in Windows Live Mail. After Googling around for info I decided to automate the installation and have written a small program to so. If you want to try it out get it here:
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Jun 5, 2008
I cannot find out how to enable UK English (as opposed to US English) spell checker for Windows Live Mail
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Mar 30, 2008
I have tried both and really can't tell the difference when up and running. I am using the 64 bit drivers for my devices and have NO 64 bit programs. My machine has an AMD64x2 4800 running 4 gig ram and a 500 gig drive. When I switched from Vista 32 bit to the 64 I thought I was going to see dramatic results but no... Have followed the tutorials to adjust as needed/wanted still not difference. So, unless doing some graphic intensive or mathematically intensive work utilizing a 64 bit program when will I and others ever see any advantage to keeping the 64 bit os?
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Aug 21, 2007
I just signed up today. I was just wondering what the difference between 32 and 64 was? Better performance in some way?
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Mar 26, 2008
I have 2 computers. One has Vista Home Premium and the other has Ultimate. Today, after being advised by Update that SP1 is available to me, I have downloaded and saved both versions from the Microsoft site; 32 and 64. BUT I really do not understand the difference between 32 and 64. To me it seems like Vista should be Vista, like XP was XP. which version of SP1 I need to put into my individual Vista installations of Home Premium and then Ultimate.
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Oct 1, 2008
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Mar 16, 2008
I don't mean to sound like a total newb (which I am not, I am quite familliar with hacking my PSP and it's games and also my iPod so I know a little bit about computers) but I always wondered what the difference is between Windows Vista 32bit and Windows Vista 64bit. It would be nice to know but I don't entirely need t know.
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Nov 12, 2009
I'm expecting that one is for 32bit Windows and the other is for 64, obviously. However I feel that I have Realplayer 32 bit running on my vista and it's the main download on the realplayer site anyways. I think it's 32 bit because when I was in msconfig in the run menu, under startups it had realplayer (32-bit) but how can that be, because I thought 32 bit won't work on 64 bit OP systems and vice versa. Plus is there really any difference between the two? Besides just compatibility.
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Mar 26, 2008
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Jul 7, 2008
Is there a big difference it the two? Would I really benefit with a switch to 64? What I have found out so far is that 64bit is better for graphics and video and not so much for applications. I just got my system in Feb of 2008, Vista 32bit, HP media center m8300f w/tv tuner, 3gigs ram, 640gigs hdd, 3.0ghtz AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ processor. I couldn't pass it up as it was a bundled deal w/monitor(HP) and a all-in-one printer(HP).
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Apr 12, 2008
I just find it strange that it would be such a difference. I hit the 'update my score' twice and still the same, even after a reboot. I'm thinking that this hole score thing is a bit of a crock!
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May 12, 2008
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Feb 7, 2009
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Apr 13, 2009
coming from the word ULTIMATE i think it has a edge against vista home premium. but i'd like to know the major difference between each other. advantage and disadvantage with one another?
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Aug 4, 2009
From the Help Menu of Windows Mail in Vista Premium SP2 I see that the version is 6.0.6000.16386. When I send a message I see in the headers that the version is 6.0.6002.18005. Why this difference?
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