[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Sep 8 22:50:11 CDT 2007


On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:54:20PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Vista Aero interface is not *required* to run Vista, just ask anyone running 
> Vista Basic. BTW, Vista Aero requires a card with 128 Meg RAM - what were you 
> running WinXP with? WinXP required 64 Meg, and 128 was recommended[0], you 
> can run Vista with 64 Meg RAM on the video card[1]...

I usually ran it with 128M RAM and a 4M Matrox Millennium video card
for a couple of years there.

Now my XP system has 2G RAM and a video card with 256M onboard!

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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