Win 7 home vs professional

I am making to change from VISTA(thankfully.. as VISTA is Crashing my system mulitple time) to Win 7. I was looking at the home vs prof version. I looked at the Microsoft site to see the difference and for what I do(basic stuff.. not a ton of peer to peer) I think Win 7 home would be fine..Anyone have any thoughts about the two?

Mike

home is fine.. professional isnt really needed.. its nice to have if you can find it cheap but by no means useful. finally ultimate edition is helpful but only to those with no budget on their pc.. home premium (64-bit) is the sweetspot for an os

If Vista is always crashing its because of one or more of 4 things:

1: You have virus's (if you dont delete virus's then Windows 7 wont last long before it starts crashing)

2: You have faulty hardware (again, Windows 7 wont help with this)

3: You have not updated Vista (Vista SP2 is VERY stable!)

4: You have a software conflict a quick MSCONFIG will sort that out.

So long story short, try to fix Vista because YOU are doing something wrong not Vista and it would be a waste to pay all that cash to only be in the same situation later on. Also in case you didnt know, Windows 7 IS Vista, it just looks a little better and uses a bit less RAM.

If Vista is always crashing its because of one or more of 4 things:

1: You have virus's (if you dont delete virus's then Windows 7 wont last long before it starts crashing)

2: You have faulty hardware (again, Windows 7 wont help with this)

3: You have not updated Vista (Vista SP2 is VERY stable!)

4: You have a software conflict a quick MSCONFIG will sort that out.

So long story short, try to fix Vista because YOU are doing something wrong not Vista and it would be a waste to pay all that cash to only be in the same situation later on. Also in case you didnt know, Windows 7 IS Vista, it just looks a little better and uses a bit less RAM.

Daytona_178

Winner. But really, it's true.

I failed to mention.. I have a 8800 GT and a dual core CPU...I know.. SUPER fail..lol... sO i was looking at getting better hw so that may be the problem. I need to buy a power supply first as mine burned out.. I have just found that VISTA is very slow to load/shut down. I have tried to stop all the "other" services except for the needed. I will probably go Win 7 64 bit home. Thanks for all the feedback

Those hardware are still powerful. First yes, make sure your HW is stable since you just killed your PSU. For Vista, I would recommand the Business/Ultimate for PC Backup. But since Win7 has it as standard, Home is good enough. Pro only gives you XP Mode if for some reason, an app only runs on XP and lower. This is not needed unless you really have a super old program. Any pro has a number of other business related features, like join a domain, but, those are only applicable in business uses. So, yeah, Home is good enough.magicalclick

Thats what made me wonder whether or not the pro was worth the extra 40 bucks. I imagine XP mode would be uneccessary. Although, I would have to agree with Daytona's earlier post that Vista has been very stable for me. Does vista support DX11?

[QUOTE="Snotweasel530"]Derp, a quick dxdiag answered my ?. Vista DOES have DX11. I suppose I don't yet have a strong enough reason to go to Win7. or any really unless somebody would care to convince me otherwise.magicalclick