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Thread ID: 97676 2009-02-23 19:50:00 How much memory does Windowz 7 need?? paulw (1826) Press F1
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750716 2009-02-23 19:50:00 I got my PC World yesterday with the Windows 7 beta disk. I tried to install under Virtual PC on my main PC that has 1.5gig of ram running under WinXP. The install kept coming back saying "Insufficient memory to install" paulw (1826)
750717 2009-02-23 20:01:00 I'm running Windows 7 on 768MB of RAM on my old Dell P4 machine. Check the hard drive space on the VPC. pcuser42 (130)
750718 2009-02-23 20:20:00 I've installed Win 7 on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of RAM and it "runs".

How much RAM have you given the virtual PC? How much HD space?
jwil1 (65)
750719 2009-02-23 20:53:00 i've looked at the specs needed for Win7 and it says 512mb ram and 20480mb hard disk.
that would your problem
GameJunkie (72)
750720 2009-02-24 01:04:00 i've looked at the specs needed for Win7 and it says 512mb ram


Therefore I'd double it. maybe quadruple.

Look what it says for XP. Runs like a dog on less than 512mb.
pctek (84)
750721 2009-02-24 01:06:00 Therefore I'd double it. maybe quadruple.

Look what it says for XP. Runs like a dog on less than 512mb.

You'd be suprised-ran W7 on an old p4 with 512mb of RAM.

Was quite fast-hasn't freezed yet...
Blam (54)
750722 2009-02-24 01:07:00 With 4 gigs of ram it runs like a dream.
I was told that it needs about half as much as Vista
JJJJJ (528)
750723 2009-02-24 04:44:00 You'd be suprised-ran W7 on an old p4 with 512mb of RAM.

Was quite fast-hasn't freezed yet...

Same for me on same specs running in VBox
gary67 (56)
750724 2009-02-24 20:07:00 You'd be suprised-ran W7 on an old p4 with 512mb of RAM.



No I wouldn't. I see stuff like that all the time. Give it couple of months, then see how well its doing.
pctek (84)
750725 2009-02-24 21:31:00 Obviously it would not be good for multitasking, but it runs. Quickly.

Add another 1gb of RAM, and it would handle most things easily
Blam (54)
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