Bad copy of Windows or bad computer??

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:12 pm

cbilljones wrote:

pretty strange as thats complete bull, i have multiple 64bit win7 running on 1 gig, and one running on 512 MB. Seems microsoft doesnt know much about operating systems Laughing

So i would say min 512 MB for 32/64 bit, recommend 1-2 gigs depending on role.

If you are running Windows 7 with 512MB of RAM it is going to get used up pretty quickly. You might be able to get away with a couple of windows open before it is nearly all used up.

My laptop (Win 7 64 Bit) uses 1.5GB without opening anything after boot and I did a clean install last week.

Anyway cbill why are you using windows? Shouldn't you be using Linux Wink

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:29 pm

If you only use one OS your going to find yourself obselete pretty quick in the IT industry.

cbilljones from another thread wrote:

I use a combination of XP, Win7 home/Pro, windows server 2008, ubuntu 10.04 server, 11.10 desktop and 12.04 desktop, Suse, win CE, DOS, various embedded firmwares. Ya, i use em all regularly Laughing

My Fav is ubuntu 12.04, on home PC it runs 90% of the time, only boot win 7 pro when i want to game, now that summers here i dont game really, so it pretty much stays on ubuntu. My laptop prob sees a pretty even split of 7 home premium and ubuntu 11.10. Work desktop is 100% win7 pro, work servers are 100% ubuntu 10,04 and 100% server 2008.

And i have an entire POS running atm from a win7 VM allocated 512 ram and 16 mb for video. is it fast? no, does it crash? no. Do i have aero av and bunch of other bloat running? no.

Funny thing is didnt M$ claim 7 would use less ram than XP? well i can run XP just fine on 256 MB lol

Scott1541 wrote:

Anyway cbill why are you using windows? Shouldn't you be using Linux Wink

Well around 50% of my win "machines" are virtual and they do run on top of linux Wink

seems i forgot to include windows phone 7 blackberry OS' android and apple OS' in my list, i use those too Laughing

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:03 pm

And all this has to do with the OP's issue how ??

Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:41 pm

because his windows keeps crashing Wink

in all fairness i guess were a bit off topic, but not much