i have a copy of the beta ..vista and i have a problem although i have "vista ready"p.cs i would rather not use them
the only formatted p.c i have is a amd 500mhz cpu\256mb ram,is it possible to install the vista beta on that,and sacrifice the speed,ect
i only ask this as i managed to install xp on a pentium 1 (166mhz),64mbram,and it installed ok,but it was slow
could i get away with this
2006-06-13 08:59:59 · 3 answers · asked by brianthesnail123 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Windows Vista is a platform made for mostly IT techs and Professionals. It will run really really slow once you start adding programs to it. If youre only going to use it for basic things like surfing the web and holding a few static files, then you can get away with it.
Minimum requirements usually means it will run decently under a certain requirement. If you dont meet the requirements, your setup disk will do a check first to see if your computer meets the system requirement and it might fail and you will not be able to install it.
Most windows setup care about the hard drive space, but some check for how much RAM memory you have. It will just kick you out of setup if the check fails. If you ever did a reformat of Windows, you can see a part of the setup where they "configure windows", thats when they usually do a check. If you dont meet it, a popup message comes up saying "your system could not configured properly, you must restart your computer....etc" and it will not let you proceed with installment.
2006-06-13 09:07:05 · answer #1 · answered by Sean I.T ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rumor that I have been hearing and reading about is that as part of the setup, Vista looks and makes sure the machine meets a set of specs. If it doesn't meet those it does not allow the software to be installed.
I am sure that it will not be long before someone figures out how to disable that, but currently I think that it is enabled. This is something new that Microsoft is trying with Vista.
2006-06-13 09:55:37 · answer #2 · answered by Greg D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give it a go....what have you to lose?...
from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/capable.mspx
"A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:
A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
512 MB of system memory.
A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable"
also see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx
2006-06-13 09:53:54 · answer #3 · answered by gp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋