Microsoft Enthusiast Runs Windows 7 on a Pentium II System
Posted 06/23/09 at 07:01:58 PM by Pulkit Chandna
Microsoft must surely be hoping to raise the bar higher with its Windows 7 OS. However, a hacker is more interested in figuring out the lowest depths Windows 7 can plunge to. Whatever you believe you know about the bare minimum specs required to run Windows 7 may actually be exaggerated, greatly exaggerated. A hacker on the Windows Club’s forum, who is only known by his cyber pseudonym hackerman1, has done the unthinkable by successfully installing and running Windows 7 on a Pentium II system. The rig boasts a primeval 266 MHz Pentium II processor, 96 MB of SDRAM memory and a 4 MB graphics card. Hackerman1 now wants to repeat the feat using a 166 MHz Pentium I processor and 1 MB video card.

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Windows 7 Home Premium for $50, or Pro for $100,
Submitted by u217946 on Fri, 06/26/2009 - 9:44am
The online retailers participating in Microsoft's pre-order Win 7 disc sale starting at midnight Eastern tonight are:
• Amazon
• Best Buy
• Costco
• Fry's Electronics
• Office Depot
• Office Max
• Sam's Club
• Staples
• Tiger Direct
• Walmart
• NewEgg
• Nebraska Furniture Mart (What the?)In Canada, you can hit:
• Staples
• Future Shop
• Best Buy
• London Drugs
• Amazon
• The SourceAnd in Japan, the pre-order is available at:
• Yodobashi Camera
• Amazon
• Yamada Denki
• Bic Camera
• and "all small partners" (whatever that means)
Nice Work!
Submitted by Trooper_One on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 11:51am
Any decent computer chumps can run Win7 on the latested and fastest hardware. It takes a pro (a patient one) to tweek it to run on older hardware! Congratulations and good luck with P1 quest!
Run = boot AND use?
Submitted by anonemus on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 10:06am
When people say they can run W7 on P3 or lesser procs, do they mean they can boot AND run apps?
i think Win7 boots in 15~20
Submitted by sasquatch42 on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 7:14pm
i think Win7 boots in 15~20 minutes on a PIII and runs apps slowly
I have no idea about PII rigs though
Uh... Acctually, from
Submitted by BlueX273 on Sat, 07/11/2009 - 9:41pm
Uh... Acctually, from pressing the power button to the login screen, it takes about 1 min. 30 sec. to 2 minutes. Then again I think it's because my video card is an ATI Radeon 9800 128MB.
Hmm...
Submitted by ajuhawk on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 4:02am
A new Ad for MS? Can Mac OS X make this claim? Hmm...interesting...very interesting
Yes you can!
Submitted by Gateway-man2891 on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 7:21pm
Without any hacking at all, i am running Windows 7 RC on a Pentium III with 512 MB of ram, the only add-on i have is i am running a FX5500 Graphics. Either way, i am attempting to get Vista or 7 to run on my Intel Celeron Desktop, its 266 MHz with 192 MB of RAM
I am saving up for a new PC here are the stats of my current PC that i got for X-Mas in 2002!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pentium III--1 GHz, 512 MB
Hmmm....
Submitted by nightkiller on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 7:12pm
This is interesting. I'm having trouble getting (nvidia/ trident/ ati ) drivers for a P4 system to run on Fedora 10 and a resolution beyond standard VESA. Is he having better luck?
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mojo says totaly doable???
Submitted by mojosico on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:59pm
i remember putting windows 98 on a 386 sx25 with 4 mgs of ram it was like putting a watermelon thru a straw but it worked and i actually got online with it on dialup it took 25 min's to load the first page . lol . IS MOJO THAT OLD?? so i belive it is possible . my next project is to try to install vista on my p3 laptop 1ghz processer 512 ram if that works i will try win 7 will update .......
when you wake up from a dream . did you just go to sleep and this is the dream????? mojo ponders humm
So....
Submitted by winmaster on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:16pm
Does that mean that my Pentium III should be able to run Windows 7 even though I only have 512MB of RAM?
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Score of 1.0 isn't bad at all...
Submitted by bingojubes on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 4:58pm
... Surprised it didn't give a fraction of a score like a 0.3, or something.
it would be very funny if the 1.0 score ended up being a 4.0 or higher with the most minimal system he could muster up. i hope Microsoft changes their box info and look at something like this, and change their minimum requirements list to reflect this newfound amazement.
Doesn't supprise me. 7 is
Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 5:07pm
Doesn't supprise me.
7 is a break from tradition of forcing better hardwear since its also aimed at netbook...which is like a Pentium 0.5
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could hackerman1 be our own
Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 4:17pm
could hackerman1 be our own MPC Hackman?
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