Vista - WTF: 7 Gig is not enough Space!

Not to mention space for temp files, caches, and shadow copies.

"MICHAEL" <u158627_emr@dslr.net> wrote in message
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> "Robert Firth" <webmaster@winvistainfo.org> wrote in message
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>> Yeah, Vista installs fine on 9-10 gig hard drives. You just don't have
>> any room afterwards.
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> Some disk defraggers won't work properly/efficiently without
> some extra room.
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>> If you ever get bored, try running Vista on a 300mhz processor with 256
>> mb of memory. It is exciting, I'm telling you. Vista takes up 230mb of
>> those 256mb.
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>> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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>>> Whooooeeee!
>>>
>>> "Mike" <no@where.man> wrote in message
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>>>> "Simon Dean" <sjdean@simtext.plus.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> Just ran the upgrade advisor on a computer at work for a joke... It
>>>>> complained I only had 7 Gig of disk space left and Vista needs 15!
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>>>> Actually it only needs 15 gig for the install. I have a test machine
>>>> at work that had 2 blank 10 gig drives. Vista installed fine, and the
>>>> installed disk (drive C) has about 2 gig free.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>
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"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
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> "Mike" <no@where.man> wrote in message
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>> Actually it only needs 15 gig for the install. I have a test machine at
>> work that had 2 blank 10 gig drives. Vista installed fine, and the
>> installed disk (drive C) has about 2 gig free.

> Whooooeeee!
>

It's enough for testing purposes. Our app that I'm testing is only about
200 meg. The rest is IE 7 on Vista testing.

Mike

Henry Jones wrote:
> Whats a floppy? :-)
>

Oh you know. a little smaller than an LP. five and a quarter inches :-)

I measured mine and they are 8".

"Simon Dean" <sjdean@simtext.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Henry Jones wrote:
>> Whats a floppy? :-)
>>
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> Oh you know. a little smaller than an LP. five and a quarter inches :-)

Is that floppy hats you're measuring?

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Alexander Suhovey

"Gary" <Gary@somewhere.usa> wrote in message
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>I measured mine and they are 8".
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> "Simon Dean" <sjdean@simtext.plus.com> wrote in message
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>> Henry Jones wrote:
>>> Whats a floppy? :-)
>>>
>>
>> Oh you know. a little smaller than an LP. five and a quarter inches :-)
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