What are the minimum requirements to upgrade to windows vista?

[cyberfrien]

I have windows X P professional, Pentium 4 and 256 MB RAM on my desktop currently . Is it sufficient or do i need to upgrade the hardware too?

[jem101]

Originally Posted by cyberfrien

I have windows X P professional, Pentium 4 and 256 MB RAM on my desktop currently . Is it sufficient or do i need to upgrade the hardware too?

Memory is probably the most important thing here, Vista really struggles with less than 1 Gig (although I have run a laptop with 512 Meg and it was-just about-usable), but ideally 2 Gig is a much better amount. I guess you are upgrading a PC just to use the media center parts so you don't actually need a very powerful processor, I am running a 3 GHz P4 with Vista and the speed is just fine.

One thing to remember is that the PC will be a bit slower with Vista than XP, there is simply more happening. For media center, the graphics card is probably the most important component-check you can get Vista drivers for whatever you are using.

Good luck

[ApoLakay]

Originally Posted by cyberfrien

I have windows X P professional, Pentium 4 and 256 MB RAM on my desktop currently . Is it sufficient or do i need to upgrade the hardware too?

Download and run Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor from Microsoft and see how you go. Even if your CPU meets the minimum spec, your RAM will definitely be short - needs at least 1GB. Yeah, Vista is RAM hungry.

I don't know what you are planning to use your system but best option would be to upgrade your HW if you are keen in using Vista. There are cheap options if you got time to research.