can it run windows vista?

[rnottelovesowls]

okay, so, one of the biggest criticism of vista is that it ran slowly on older computers not optimized for its capabilities. i was thinking of upgrading my windows XP setup to vista, because i feel i’d get more out of it. but i want to make sure it can run it first

my computer is a dell dimension 3000 with windows XP home edition. it has an intel pentium 4 processor with 2.80 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and directX 9. can it run vista? and if so, can it run aero as well?

[tmg86]

can you give me a screenshot of device manager with these sections open?

[rnottelovesowls]

can you give me a screenshot of device manager with these sections open?

yeah, here you go:

[tmg86]

I wouldn't run vista on a 32bit P4. The 64bit P4 HT is different. If you still want vista I would highly reccomend 2gb of ram.

As for aero, that looks like an intel chipset video card, guessing that vista won't run aero.

[rnottelovesowls]

I wouldn't run vista on a 32bit P4. The 64bit P4 HT is different. If you still want vista I would highly reccomend 2gb of ram.

aww, that’s a shame. but no matter. i found a windows vista tower for less than $100 on ebay. i’ll probably just get that

[MetalJack98]

okay, so, one of the biggest criticism of vista is that it ran slowly on older computers not optimized for its capabilities. i was thinking of upgrading my windows XP setup to vista, because i feel i’d get more out of it. but i want to make sure it can run it first

my computer is a dell dimension 3000 with windows XP home edition. it has an intel pentium 4 processor with 2.80 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, and directX 9. can it run vista? and if so, can it run aero as well?

Omg its Sakura! I watched the entire anime and the 2 movies. Gonna do Clear Card soon.

[nullification]

Vista's notorious for being a memory hog, so I doubt that you'll hit your luck installing such an operating system in there.
Plus, you'd need a graphic card that has WDDM drivers for it to get the Aero working, and it's most likely that it'll auto shut-off and send you back to the Vista Basic theme because of the aforementioned issues.

*Plus, I had the HT version of your CPU. Vista won't cut it.