Who says it can't be done?

As I was bored today, I decided to install Windows 7 on my old AMD just to see how well Microsoft have streamlined their latest OS.

It took a fair while to install (perhaps 2-3 hours) but in the end, it was all worth it. It runs pretty slowly and would really only be good for Word and internet but meh. I attempted to play a DVD but it ended up being all jerky.

My System:

• AMD Duron @ 800MHz
• 512MB RAM
• 80GB Western Digital IDE (Install on 40GB partition)
• 4MB AGP nVidia Vanta LT
• Windows 7 RC Build 7100 32-bit

Obviously alot of this is old hardware and 7 didn’t have any of the drivers for the sound card and was only using a standard VGA driver unlike XP which did contain drivers for my old hardware.

Here are some pretty screenshots:

Most unfortunately, I couldn’t run the WEI assessment as it failed on memory… wonder why?

Windows XP is still faster on these really old computers but on something maybe 4 years old that can’t run Vista, 7 probably will run faster than Vista. One good thing is the memory usage! Compared to Vista, it barely uses anything.

I’ll be switching back to XP though, it’s just a a little bit more laggier than XP on the same machine but not my much.