Windows 7 On a 1GB System [modified]
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I am finding 2GB not quite enough at times on one machine, 4G is fine on another though.
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Trollslayer wrote:
I am finding 2GB not quite enough
I have a box with 2GB and it is not enough. Will be getting a new machine here shortly.
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My dad's machine (an old dual-core AMD with 1GB DDR RAM) had been running XP, and it was cluttered with all kinds of crapware (including Symantec A/V installed by his wife against my advice). He told me to wipe it all if I wanted to, and so I am in the process of installing Weven (32-bit) on the box. It took 20 minutes to go from "Loading Windows Files..." to "Installing Windows". This is going to be pretty damn painful, and I think I'm going to have to get him some more memory - 1GB just ain't enough. EDIT ======= Well, that wasn't too bad. It only took 50 minutes total to get to the final boot up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997modified on Monday, January 3, 2011 10:26 AM
Nah it's not really usable with 1GB, even the 32-bit version. There's enough memory for the actual OS but not enough left to run most applications very well. I think 1.5 GB or more should be enough for most apps other than the really demanding ones and games. I've got an old Hush media center PC I use in the living room just running windows media center. It had a Celeron M processor and 1 GB of RAM and I recently upgraded it from Windows XP MCE to Windows 7 32-bit. It would be fine for a while but then MC would really start to slow down with lots of hard disk activity. I upgraded it to 2 GB and now it runs fine no performance problems whatsoever even after running for weeks and with 2 guest virtual machines running in the background in VmWare Server and with aero etc all enabled. So yes, the extra RAM really does make a big difference.
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My dad's machine (an old dual-core AMD with 1GB DDR RAM) had been running XP, and it was cluttered with all kinds of crapware (including Symantec A/V installed by his wife against my advice). He told me to wipe it all if I wanted to, and so I am in the process of installing Weven (32-bit) on the box. It took 20 minutes to go from "Loading Windows Files..." to "Installing Windows". This is going to be pretty damn painful, and I think I'm going to have to get him some more memory - 1GB just ain't enough. EDIT ======= Well, that wasn't too bad. It only took 50 minutes total to get to the final boot up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997modified on Monday, January 3, 2011 10:26 AM
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My dad's machine (an old dual-core AMD with 1GB DDR RAM) had been running XP, and it was cluttered with all kinds of crapware (including Symantec A/V installed by his wife against my advice). He told me to wipe it all if I wanted to, and so I am in the process of installing Weven (32-bit) on the box. It took 20 minutes to go from "Loading Windows Files..." to "Installing Windows". This is going to be pretty damn painful, and I think I'm going to have to get him some more memory - 1GB just ain't enough. EDIT ======= Well, that wasn't too bad. It only took 50 minutes total to get to the final boot up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997modified on Monday, January 3, 2011 10:26 AM
If you can't upgrade his memory (or buy a new computer for him) you can always get a fast USB stick and enable ReadyBoost[^].
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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If you can't upgrade his memory (or buy a new computer for him) you can always get a fast USB stick and enable ReadyBoost[^].
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
Memory is readily available. The pain of it is that in September, I threw away about 20GB of DDR RAM because I couldn't find anyone to take it. :suss:
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Memory is readily available. The pain of it is that in September, I threw away about 20GB of DDR RAM because I couldn't find anyone to take it. :suss:
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997That's why I'm a hoarder. It sucks to just have thrown away the parts that you need. I'm "Just in case" still having a load of 5 1/4" diskettes on the attic together with a working drive. At least it worked last I checked, some fifteen years ago or so.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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I'm running 7 Home Edition on a MSI Wind netbook that previously had XP installed and it's running fine - I have upgraded to 2GB of RAM, but it was running OK on 1GB
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I'm doing the same on an EEE. 1gb is enough for light browsing as long as you don't install any crapware in the background. Once you have more than a few tabs open though your commit charge gets too high and you start flogging the swap file. I'll probably be upgrading the ram sometime between now and the next time I plan to use it for more than a few hours (probably not for a few months).
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My dad's machine (an old dual-core AMD with 1GB DDR RAM) had been running XP, and it was cluttered with all kinds of crapware (including Symantec A/V installed by his wife against my advice). He told me to wipe it all if I wanted to, and so I am in the process of installing Weven (32-bit) on the box. It took 20 minutes to go from "Loading Windows Files..." to "Installing Windows". This is going to be pretty damn painful, and I think I'm going to have to get him some more memory - 1GB just ain't enough. EDIT ======= Well, that wasn't too bad. It only took 50 minutes total to get to the final boot up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997modified on Monday, January 3, 2011 10:26 AM
i'm running W7 on an ancient 1.25GB laptop. works fine for running iTunes. a 4GB USB drive for ReadyBoost seems to help performance.
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i'm running W7 on an ancient 1.25GB laptop. works fine for running iTunes. a 4GB USB drive for ReadyBoost seems to help performance.
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i'm running W7 on an ancient 1.25GB laptop. works fine for running iTunes. a 4GB USB drive for ReadyBoost seems to help performance.
Well, it's only a 32-bit system, so I'm gonna go ahead and add 2GB to it (just $56) since it can't really used 4gb.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
That's why I'm a hoarder. It sucks to just have thrown away the parts that you need. I'm "Just in case" still having a load of 5 1/4" diskettes on the attic together with a working drive. At least it worked last I checked, some fifteen years ago or so.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
We got a new cursomer server in a few months ago and it didn't even have a connector on the mother board for a floppy drive :sigh:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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We got a new cursomer server in a few months ago and it didn't even have a connector on the mother board for a floppy drive :sigh:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
It's the new trend, can't blame them really.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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It's the new trend, can't blame them really.
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert