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windows 7 memory and hard drive space and requirements

Anonymous
2009-10-15T19:56:32+00:00

We all know Vista takes up more memory and hard drive space than XP.  Windows 7 is supposed to be a bit smaller in size and not a memory hog.  Is there tech specs on the windows 7 OS that shows the minimal memory the OS needs to run and/or what is the amount of memory and hard drive space that windows 7 occupies?

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-10-15T23:00:21+00:00

    From the Windows 7 system requirements web page:

    If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

    • 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

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-10-15T23:25:06+00:00

    Please see my min specs thread here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/9038c21f-5184-468c-bf5b-9f54bca70c5c

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