Robert Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 My friend spent $470 on a compaq that came with Vista Home Basic installed. Is it possible to run Nero, burn CDs, play downloaded music etc on it? What control panel (or other) adjustments do you recommend? Or is it too much of a shitpile, and try putting XP in instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 vista home basic should run fine since it doesn't include aero just tell him to do the usual tweaking that would be done with xp (turning off the security center and other services) in addition to turning off defender and UAC what do you mean burn cd's and listen to music? why shouldn't it be able to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin19 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 There's a lot of good info on how to strip down Vista anyway if he's not happy. I found the BlackViper to be very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loay Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 upgrade the RAM to 2 giga at least (if its not already) to work fine in vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 vista worked great for me with only 1GB of ram :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 in addition to turning off defender and UACIs that done from the control panel? Neither of us has ever used Vista before. what do you mean burn cd's and listen to music? why shouldn't it be able to?I thought it could only do DRM stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin19 Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 in addition to turning off defender and UACIs that done from the control panel? Neither of us has ever used Vista before. Yes both can be killed from Control Panel, Defender can also be disabled via Services, amongst another dozen or so probably unneeded ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 in addition to turning off defender and UACIs that done from the control panel? Neither of us has ever used Vista before. what do you mean burn cd's and listen to music? why shouldn't it be able to?I thought it could only do DRM stuff.Yeah, it's done through the control panel and, no, media playback is not exclusive to DRM. You can use winamp, media player classic, etc just as you can in XP. Don't know where you got that idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 I'll be going over there on Monday, hopefully we can get it working properly.Don't really want to trying putting XP on it and having to find drivers. Any more suggestions, please put them here. Thanks Weirdy and Gavin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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