![]() However, Windows 7 is subjectively slightly faster, if anything, and you could not say that for Vista on the same machine. It is not fair to make a direct comparison with XP since it had been installed for a while and would have built up a bit of cruft. This shows 274MB still available at this level of use, the machine is not under any pressure. I stuck on Office 2007, ran up Word and Excel with a couple of documents open, and looked in Resource Monitor: A cheap USB wireless card was recognized first time, and the add-on USB 2.0 card also works fine. Device Manager shows no errors other than a “PCI Input Device” which I suspect is the joystick port on the Creative soundcard. There is a Creative Audigy soundcard installed and after logging on for the first time, Windows automatically downloaded an update which got this working. ![]() It turned out that Windows 7 installed without complaint – I believe you have to go down to 512MB before setup actually protests – and I was impressed with how smooth the process was. ![]() Only 768MB RAM is installed – generous for XP in those days, but below the 1GB minimum spec for Windows 7. Yesterday I installed Windows 7 Professional on an older PC – it dates from 2001 or possibly 2002, and has a Pentium 4 1.8Ghz on Intel’s 845 chipset.
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