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can it run windows vista?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:52 am
by 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 iâd 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?
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 3:07 am
by tmg86
can you give me a screenshot of device manager with these sections open?
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:00 am
by rnottelovesowls
tmg86 wrote:can you give me a screenshot of device manager with these sections open?
yeah, here you go:
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:37 am
by 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.
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 7:27 pm
by rnottelovesowls
tmg86 wrote: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, thatâs a shame. but no matter. i found a windows vista tower for less than $100 on ebay. iâll probably just get that
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:49 pm
by MetalJack98
rnottelovesowls wrote: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 iâd 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.
Re: can it run windows vista?
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2025 11:16 am
by 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.