In general, if your PC can run Windows Vista, it can run Windows 7. But if you're not running Windows Vista, or are just not sure if your system is ready to run Windows 7, there's a quick way to do a simple check.

Just download, install, and run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta.

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

Where's that quote from?

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor


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Agreed.

Sorry ok?

One thing I noticed is that 7 beta didn't seem to be anymore hardware intensive than vista.

Originally Posted by Digerati

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor

the upgrade advisor works on xp and above only, so although m$ says you can upgrade from windows 2000, you can't check if it will work.

Put your money on that!

They are saying you can use a 2000 CD for verification of upgrade.

The upgrade idea is a previous version of windows.

They are saying in no way that a 10 year old computer can run this software.

That is pretty much a period.


If you have a 2000 CD and want to install Windows 7 on a newly built computer then you can buy the upgrade version and install it.

The only idea of an upgrade is that you had a previous version of Windows.

At this point MS stops the line at 2000. An XP upgrade could still be run from Windows 95 as verification.


The upgrade process is merely software verification.

If you are running 2000 your hardware is most likely not adequate.

1 GHz processor (32- or 64-bit)
1 GB of RAM (32-bit); 2 GB of RAM (64-bit)
16 GB of available disk space (32-bit); 20 GB of avaiable disk space (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

The only direct upgrade install can be made from Vista.

With XP or 2000 you need to Clean Install.

Again the Upgrade DVD will only ask for your previous CD to verify that you have it and are entitled to an upgrade.

That is the definition of upgrade in this case.



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They are saying in no way that a 10 year old computer can run this software.

That is pretty much a period.

I agree. While you may be able to get it to run, it is not likely it will perform as well as an OS designed for that hardware (XP). Taking that thought further, hardware designed to run XP and to a lessor extent, Win2K was also designed to support legacy operating systems, including Win95 and even DOS. That means it was also designed to support other hardware and 2D software from that era. I am saying XP era hardware was designed to support what is now 20 year old software and hardware - software designed to run on a "stand-alone client" (not networked), or on isolated "local" networks only - NO Internet and virtually NO security concerns from badguys as the only way to get infected was by rebooting to an infected floppy.

Whereas starting with Vista, and continuing with Win7, today's operating systems are designed with security over support for less, or insecure legacy technologies, and to support today's CPUs, RAM, GPUs/monitors and 3D graphics intensive programs .

Installing Win7 on legacy hardware is fine for a personal challenge, just to see if you can. And if successful, you will have a more secure system, so no harm there. But if looking for improved performance, you will be disappointed.

Originally Posted by Digerati

I agree. While you may be able to get it to run, it is not likely it will perform as well as an OS designed for that hardware (XP). Taking that thought further, hardware designed to run XP and to a lessor extent, Win2K was also designed to support legacy operating systems, including Win95 and even DOS. That means it was also designed to support other hardware and 2D software from that era. I am saying XP era hardware was designed to support what is now 20 year old software and hardware - software designed to run on a "stand-alone client" (not networked), or on isolated "local" networks only - NO Internet and virtually NO security concerns from badguys as the only way to get infected was by rebooting to an infected floppy.

Whereas starting with Vista, and continuing with Win7, today's operating systems are designed with security over support for less, or insecure legacy technologies, and to support today's CPUs, RAM, GPUs/monitors and 3D graphics intensive programs .

Installing Win7 on legacy hardware is fine for a personal challenge, just to see if you can. And if successful, you will have a more secure system, so no harm there. But if looking for improved performance, you will be disappointed.

Agreed especially of you have graphics cards older than 2-3 years and less than 1 gb of ram. As the computer resources have become cheaper you are buying computers that have more resources/power and also you have operating systems that require more resources. So much that in fact that running Vista/7 will probably run slower on an older computer with than the older operating systems and they will run much slower than on a modern system. In addition the specs jephree quoted are the absolute bare minimum requirements and you will most certainly want a more powerful system than that. I have always considered the minimum requirements to be insufficient because you also have to factor what you will need on top of that for 3rd party applications. Whenever I find someone with a computer running the bare minimum specs for their OS they are always complaining about it being slow particularly if it doesn't have enough ram for the OS and their applications. In short it is a very bad idea to run 7 on a computer designed to run 2k and it might not even work. You have gone past legacy hardware into ancient hardware that vista/7 might not even have drivers for.

If that tool uses these benchmarks: Windows 7 system requirements

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

...surely Micro$oft is misleading people (as always).