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Windows Vista Home Basic on 512MB

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Surprisingly, Ed Bott managed to get Windows Vista running quite well on 512MB. Take a look at his findings and you might actually be surprised. What does everyone think of this?

By chris on 10 May 2007

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NightBlade
My machine runs Vista just a bit more sluggish than XP. As in - really really well. And that's on 512MB of RAM, a 1Ghz Athlon processor and a Radeon 9200SE. TAKE THAT!
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10/05/07 | 05:23
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NightBlade
(I'm serious)
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10/05/07 | 05:26
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TCM
Well mines running on 512 ram, 1.24ghz Athlon xp2000, 20GB HDD, an old gigabyte motherboard and a Geforce fx 5200, and Aero & glass run too. It uses up about 400mb of ram just idle though but runs good.
It renders movies in movie maker good, burns cdr fine, and does all it should do.
Im happy with it.
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10/05/07 | 10:17
TCM
Oh and forgot to add, I'm running Ultimate.....
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10/05/07 | 10:18
technotyler17
I hated Vista the first time I used it... Now I'm thinking of upgrading. I have 512mb RAM, 1.3ghz CPU, ATI 7000 AGP Graphics Card(64mb), and An Acer LCD widescreen Monitor(supports up to 1440x900). Everything but my graphics card(supposidly) support Vista:). I'm getting Basic. If my card doesn't work, I'm downgrading.
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07/09/08 | 05:22
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Leigh_rendle
I am running Ultimate on 512MB of RAM, Pentium III 1.4 with a Geforce FX5600 card.
Everything runs fine somtimes a little sluggish especialy with the new program menu.

But very happy and would not go back to XP.
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12/05/07 | 12:21
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33-123@sbcglobal.net
just got an emachine with vista installed. having hard time getting info. microsoft "site advisor" not working. what is it and does it ever?
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12/05/07 | 12:52
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tlionhart
dont you mean content advisor? Content Advisor is a tool for controlling the types of content that your computer can access on the Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor, only rated content that meets or exceeds your criteria can be viewed. You can adjust the settings to suit your preferences. Just go to the menu, help and support and type what your stuck on. Tells you more about it.
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13/05/07 | 11:04
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joro959
Well when I first installed Windows Vista I installed Home Premium on a 512mb with an onboard graphics card, and if I'm honest it ran better than Windows XP did. Since then I've added a new graphics card Nvidia Gerforce 7600 gs and an extra 512mb of memory (makes a total of 1GB)so I can play next gen games.
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