Windows 7 Minimum Requirements

markpeterson · Apr 6, 2010

Dear Friends,

I believe you should be able to run Windows 7 on less powerful hardware. I believe Windows 7 can be run comfortably with 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of Memory and 15GB of Hard drive space.

what do you think?

Laquer Head · Apr 6, 2010

I installed win7 pro on a 700mhz athlon with 256mb ram and 20gb hdd.

works fine enough..

lubo4444 · Apr 6, 2010

Will it really work on a pc with below the minimum requirements?

linkin · Apr 6, 2010

I think the official requiremts are:

A 1ghz CPU
1GB of RAM
and a DX9.0c compatible graphics card

I think that's it... of course, once you disable unecessary processes and services i would say that windows 7 could run on almost any half decent machine.

Laquer Head · Apr 6, 2010

lubo4444 said:
Will it really work on a pc with below the minimum requirements?

It does run..on the machine I mentioned above...

obviously it's slow..and don't even think about playing solitaire on it..but the fact is that Win7 seems to be able to run on virtual crap!

We did it more as a test and I was shocked that its usable!

lubo4444 · Apr 6, 2010

Laquer Head said:
It does run..on the machine I mentioned above...

obviously it's slow..and don't even think about playing solitaire on it..but the fact is that Win7 seems to be able to run on virtual crap!

We did it more as a test and I was shocked that its usable!

At least it runs. That's cool though. I thought you cant install it below the minimum requirements but i guess you can.

Laquer Head · Apr 6, 2010

lubo4444 said:
At least it runs. That's cool though. I thought you cant install it below the minimum requirements but i guess you can.

I should mention that it doesn't run AERO, and the Windows 7 rating is 1.0!

lubo4444 · Apr 6, 2010

Laquer Head said:
I should mention that it doesn't run AERO, and the Windows 7 rating is 1.0!

hahaha it would be cool to run Aero though

. About the rating lol...

markpeterson · Apr 7, 2010

Hi linkin,

As you said about official requirements are:
A 1ghz CPU
1GB of RAM

But it working smoothly in 512 RAM.

Tanks

Shane · Apr 7, 2010

It will run as you know,But not as fast/effecient as it should....Aero probably wont work,But i heard you can force it on somehow.

Windows 7 is a nice OS though,I run it on my current rig....My laptop...and my old desktop which consisted of a Sempron 2800 2ghz,1Gb of ram...9600 pro gfx,Ran quite nice considering.

HazzaHnoob · Apr 7, 2010

ok, little off topic, and a nooby question, but how do you get a windows 7 rating??

"I should mention that it doesn't run AERO, and the Windows 7 rating is 1.0!"

IGNORE, FOUND IT...

Windows 7 Minimum Requirements

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