Vista - Vista runs on (too) slow PCs?

Vista requires 800MHz processors at minimum according to the specs. Has
someone tried to run it on a slower PC? Does this work (although very slow)?
Or does the setup prevent an installation? If there's a setup limit: can
this check be overridden somehow?

Eric

There comes a point where, in order to run the latest and greatest, you
really do have to invest in a newer computer.. if XP runs slowly on it,
Vista will will be worse..


"Eric" <bauersachs@kull.ch.cuthere.nospam.me.com> wrote in message
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> Vista requires 800MHz processors at minimum according to the specs. Has
> someone tried to run it on a slower PC? Does this work (although very
> slow)? Or does the setup prevent an installation? If there's a setup
> limit: can this check be overridden somehow?
>

Hello Mike
Thanks for your answer. The computer is almost only used for Internet access
and a few more things. Therefore hardware performance is not of great
interest. XP doesn't run slow (except booting). Question was: DOES Vista
run? If I understood you correctly, you said yes (even more slow than XP),
but yes, it does run. That's what I wanted to know. Thanks for your
response.
Eric

No, Eric, I did not say that.. the minimum spec for running XP is only just
able to handle the task.. expecting a computer that only just runs XP to be
able to handle Vista is not realistic.. you would be better advised to stay
with XP than to waste money on an OS that most likely will not load or run..


"Eric" <bauersachs@kull.ch.cuthere.nospam.me.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Mike
> Thanks for your answer. The computer is almost only used for Internet
> access and a few more things. Therefore hardware performance is not of
> great interest. XP doesn't run slow (except booting). Question was: DOES
> Vista run? If I understood you correctly, you said yes (even more slow
> than XP), but yes, it does run. That's what I wanted to know. Thanks for
> your response.
> Eric
>

I've received a free license and would just like to try it out (especially
the new parental controls).

Then go down to your local Walmart and buy a new computer
for less than $500.00 that will be capable of running Vista.
Or build you own.


Eric wrote:
> I've received a free license and would just like to try it out (especially
> the new parental controls).
>
>

I ran a beta version (not RTM) on an old 600MHz system with 768MB's of ram
and it ran fine :-)

"Eric" <bauersachs@kull.ch.cuthere.nospam.me.com> wrote in message
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> Vista requires 800MHz processors at minimum according to the specs. Has
> someone tried to run it on a slower PC? Does this work (although very
> slow)? Or does the setup prevent an installation? If there's a setup
> limit: can this check be overridden somehow?
>

I think it is an interesting question raised by Eric.

I took an old HD out of an old computer and installed Vista, the HD is only
30 gigs, I am getting a 250 GB HD to replace it.

I was wondering if I put the Vista HD back into the old HP with a 766
Celeron processor and 384 mb of ram what would happen?

I plan of giving away the old pc, I could just leave the Vista installed or
I could put Millennium back in. Either way, it is being given away to my
brother-in-law who only needs it for a few Excel files.

Hello Steve
In the meantime I found out that the setup of Vista (GUI-version, started in
XP) doesn't run if memory is less than 512MB. But I don't know if Vista
itself really requires this. But I assume that processor speed isn't
checked - as John E. Carty told us too.
If you install Vista on another system and then put the HD into an old
computer it probably won't work. If this would work, Vista could copy simply
all system files onto the HD instead of installing. There are many files
that are hardware-dependant. Well, at least XP was this way and I assume
Vista hasn't changed this. But you may have luck also and it works -
depending on the hardware differences of the two machines.
Eric

"Eric" wrote:

> Hello Steve
> In the meantime I found out that the setup of Vista (GUI-version, started in
> XP) doesn't run if memory is less than 512MB. But I don't know if Vista
> itself really requires this. But I assume that processor speed isn't
> checked - as John E. Carty told us too.
> If you install Vista on another system and then put the HD into an old
> computer it probably won't work. If this would work, Vista could copy simply
> all system files onto the HD instead of installing. There are many files
> that are hardware-dependant. Well, at least XP was this way and I assume
> Vista hasn't changed this. But you may have luck also and it works -
> depending on the hardware differences of the two machines.
> Eric
>
>
>