old computer

hello all as the title suggest, i am wondering if the new windows 7 can handle my old computer with no problems. First of all; Mobo: Asus P5kpl-am SE Proc: Pentium D Ram: 1gig Video: the integrated intel g31/g33 express (yes, the one that came with the mobo) hd: 160gigs -has internet...

Can you password protect Windows XP at start up? I have Windows 7 setup this way and would like to do the same with an older computer running XP. Thanks in advance

It seems to me that the biggest group of people having problems are trying to use an old computer. Then another group thinks that changing a thing or two like motherboard memory graphics card on an old computer is all that is needed. It seems to me that if the computer was not built for Vista...

Well when I installed Win7, I decided to put it on my old PC, that I didn't really care about... It was built to run XP... Right when I was installing it, my screen went black, and said, no signal found on my moniter (im was currently using the VGA slot on the mother board) So, I put in some...

Well, i have a quite old PC and now I hate using something that isn't 7 or Vista. So i was thinking to install Windows 7 on a Pentium D with 256 RAM. ¿It's going to run? ¿Do you know a lite version out there that can work? Thanks!

Hi folk just thought Id drop in and say hi. Im new to Windows 7 (but definatley not new to computers). Not sure if this is the right place to put this - but here goes. I thought Id just give my first impressions of 7. After having a lot of trouble getting it to download (it didnt want to know...

i made 6 discs all at low speeds 4x with different programs, when i boot from disk it says loading windows and it loads a bunch of files, then i get the windows 7 loading screen and what seems to be a desktop with no icons (Blue) then it stops and Nothing. What could i be doing wrong? Old...

I have been running Win7 successfully until these last updates, on my older computer. I have lost the touchpad and the amount of Ram that my system can access has changed. Now I know I am running less then recommended only 512MB but it has done the job running at about 80% which has now only...

Greetings, all! Just for jollies, I'm trying Windows 7 on an ancient homebrew I built back in 2003 and change. It has a decent (for the times) HD (150g) and reasonable memory (2g) and the processor isn't bad (1.75mhz), but it's the original ABit motherboard and cards. The point of this is...

Any body no where I can get a set of recovery disc's for an HP Pavilion a645w desktop pc. I have checked with HP and they advised me that my parents computer is 5 years old and they no longer have any recovery disc's for this computer. That was through emails and online chat sessions. My dad Has...

Hey everyone, just joined the forums as I just tried to install Windows 7. I used the word "tried" because I did not succeed in doing so... Background I was using Windows XP SP3 on a very old computer when I decided to try out Windows 7, just for fun. I knew the OS might be slower than XP, but...

As the title says. My install constantly freezes up (usuall during expanding files). This happens with 4 different ISOs both CD and USB. I managed to install it a couple of times but it just freezes then anyways. My comp is OLD (2004) but it easily meets the minimum specs and surpasses what...

I wanted to test Win7 on a live machine - outside of VM Ware or VPC 2007. So I built my old PC up so it would run again and then fired it up, installed Win 7 (7000) and then realized I had an issue. The space required to have my Laptop and another machine's keyboard and mouse was limited on my...

Hi guys, I've downloaded a BETA version of Windows 7, it's working well on my old computer, but I can't use my PCI nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 64mb properly! When I intall xp driver for this card, Windows 7 freeze itch time I open a 3d game or any 3d application! And if I install vista driver...

Hey all, So as the title says are there any Ubuntu users in the windows7forums community? I use Ubuntu 8.04 which is currently the newest long term support build. It's really the first Linux OS that I've gotten involved with in depth and I have to say I'm very impressed with it. It's rock...

hi to all of you people, finaly I have the pleasure so see vista runing nice and neat on my old PC, I know is old but is the only one I have!... Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed I must say VISTA is way COOL!! too bad I only have 8MB of Video RAM to run AERO...

We have a older pc that we no longer use but my mother in-law needs a pc for internet so we offered her our old pc but we want to update it with the latest goods before we give it to her. The operating OS on it is Windows ME. Here's the specs on the pc. Sorry for the long list but its the only...