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Hmmm... I made the mistake of not saving the file, I thought for moment for some dumb reason that it would auto-save of something like that. all i've got is my dvd.

Hmm interesting. The computer is actually useable... of course with Firefox running, 82% of the RAM is being used, but it works. The processor isn't even maxed out all the time, in watching the little gadget, with full Aero effects, idling is at about 15% useage, will will spike with windows opening and stuff. The guy I sold it to loves it, he said its way better than the Windows 98 computer he has now, so this to him was a very worthwhile upgrade! :-) That's who this sort of thing is designed for, an old person who wants the games and the "pretties", but not paying the pretty penny, and who just needs to go online with dial-up to check email once in a great while. It'll probably last him years.

Hey guys! After reading this forum for help, I finally decided to delve into making a nice, small ISO to install on "lower-end sytems". I have a computer with the following specs: Celeron 700MHz (1.4) 512MB RAM (1.5) 10GB HD (5.3) 128MB nVidia Geforce FX5200 (2.9 Aero 2.4 Gaming) The install took about 4GB of space on the HD... plenty more space for other stuff, still! Whoo hoo! The computer actually runs really decently well... I was browsing on Firefox while installing updates and chatting on AIM. Seems to hold up for basic tasks when the install is nice and stripped down. Aero works just fine on it, after forcing it to work in the registry... no crashes or anything. If a Celeron 700MHz gets a 1.4..... what would a 1.0 be?! The processor specs: 700MHz/300MHzFSB/128kb L2 cache

My poor thread has been sitting idle for awhile! Sad! I had seen that Vista video, but honestly, its Vista running on hardware designed for it, with the right drivers, and designed to perform to the standards set out for Vista machines. I'm thinking of installing a vLite'd install of Vista Ultimate on my 1.2GHz Celeron machine. Anyone have advice on how to make a super small ISO, or the most minimal, stable possible version? I've seen some on here that are only 700MB ISOs! That's the size I'm looking for. I also want to try it on a machine that only has 384MB RAM, but has an Aero compatible graphics card, and I want to see how an install on there would go. Eric

I have a computer with the following specs, and was wondering if it was capable of supporting Blu-Ray playback if I bought a drive: Pentium 4 2.4GHz/512kb L2/533MHz FSB 3GB PC3200 (400MHZ) DDR RAM 80GB 7200 RPM hard drive ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB I was thinking of getting a PCI card with a SATA adapter, and using that for a BluRay drive.

Hey, yeah that would be cool! I take it all the the scores are a 1.0 How's the stability? Any driver compatibility issues to speak of???

Exactly why I decided not to do it. I think anything less than 600MHz would REALLY be pushing it. How was your performance under nLited XP? You should upgrade to 512MB RAM JUST so u can install Vista

Eh, I've already decided this is probably a dumb idea anyway with really no point to it really. Could it be done? Quite possibly, yes. What is the point of it being done? None, really. It would be slower than a dog, unstable with tons of legacy drivers, and just not fun. NOW installing it on a dual Xeon 500MHz, with 1.5GB RAM, 10k RPM HD and GeForce FX 5500 (256 MB) just might work a lot lot better....

Well, I actually I made a very nice stripped down install with NLite "back in the day" and I've been running the Vista Transformation Pack with Windows Blinds on that... and honestly it feels pretty dang fast, I really only use it for IMing at work. I figured it would be fun just to try it, see what happens. But I have no idea what problems to expect along the way, and whether or not it will actually work, even though its totally stripped down. My motherboard officially supports 256MB RAM max, in most cases do you think more can be installed?

Hey guys, I've been a member here for 3 years I just discovered today when trying to register! Who knew... Anyway, I'm an active member at macrumors.com and a not-so-active member at iexbeta.com

Hey guys... I'm a lurker, what can I say. Normally I'm floating over at Mac forums. ANYWAY! JUST to say I can do it, I'm thinking of trying to install a completely striped-down slipstreamed version of Vista onto the following laptop: 300MHz Pentium II (MMX) 256MB RAM 6.4GB HD CD-ROM 2.0MB Graphics SO the hardware sucks.... has anyone else had any luck with such old hardware?