I’ve installed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on a few PCs in my office. The core installation takes up a little over 6GB of disk space, plus additional space for a paging file and hibernation file – the exact size of these two files varies depending on how much RAM is installed on your computer.
While I was reading we ran into the inquiry “What is the Vista version of Windows?”.
Released to the public on January 30, 2007, Windows Vista (box shown right) is the successor to Windows XP in Microsoft’s Windows line of operating systems. With the Vista iteration, Windows saw significant changes both aesthetic design and available features; with a focus on creating a more diverse and user-friendly experience.
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, which was released five years prior, at the time being the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems.
How big of a hard drive do I need for Vista?
20GB hard drive (with 15GB free – don’t worry though, Vista doesn’t take up 15GB, it just needs that much room to install!) Nothing scary there (apart from the 800MHz bit – seems so disco, even my old laptop was faster than that!).
Microsoft and software makers in general are notoriously bad about understating minimum system requirements, so when you see that the bare minimum requirements for Windows Vista list a system with 512MB of memory, you should know right off the bat that this isn’t going to be a pleasant experience.
What are the system requirements for a Windows Vista Capable PC?
A Windows Vista Capable PC has these minimum hardware requirements: An 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor 512 MB of RAM Direct. X 9-capable graphics processor (Windows Display Driver Model [WDDM] driver support recommended) with a minimum of 64 MB of memory, and preferably 128 MB.
Let us dig in. the maximum number of logical processors in a PC that Windows Vista supports is: 32 for 32-bit; 64 for 64-bit. The maximum number of physical processors in a PC that Windows Vista supports is: 2 for Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate, and 1 for Starter, Home Basic, and Home Premium.
How many GB of RAM does Vista have?
128 GB RAM. Well, Vista can indeed get enough. There is in fact a maximum amount of physical memory in concordance with the editions of Windows Vista. In this context, Windows Vista Starter edition is the least demanding of the operating system’s versions, and the 32-bit variant delivers support for a maximum of 1 GB RAM.
All 32-bit editions of Windows Vista, excluding Starter, support up to 4 GB of RAM. The 64-bit edition of Home Basic supports 8 GB of RAM, Home Premium supports 16 GB, and Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate support 128 GB of RAM. All 64-bit versions of Microsoft operating systems impose a 16 TB limit on address space.
On a system running x64 Vista Home Basic, you can add as much as 8 GB of RAM. X64 Vista Home Premium supports as far as 16 GB of RAM. But it will take no less than 128 GB of RAM in order to satiate x64 Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate. 128 GB of RAM is the maximum supported physical limit in the case of these three operating systems .
What are the minimum system requirements for DirectX?
, direct X 9-capable graphics processor (Windows Display Driver Model [WDDM] driver support recommended) with a minimum of 64 MB of memory, and preferably 128 MB A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC has these minimum hardware requirements:.