Cannot install Windows 7 on PC with 256 MB RAM

Hi
I followed the forum guide:
Install Windows 7 on Computer with Less than 512MB RAM

however the new ISO will not bypass the RAM limitation.

Can you please advise?

Did anyone upload a working ISO?

PM and help will be highly appreciated

Buy some more RAM?

Seriously, it's dirt cheap and 1GB is the respectable minimum these days.

QuackPot said:

Buy some more RAM?

Seriously, it's dirt cheap and 1GB is the respectable minimum these days.

Tews said:

With all due respect, did you seriously expect to get a fully functional windows 7 install running, much less any applications, on 256mb of RAM??

Maybe he's doing it for kicks? I have Win7 Starter running like a beaut on a P3 with 352MB RAM.

@raindrop: Pre-patched winsetup.dll files are available on the web. Unfortunately, linking to files that kind of violate MSFT's policy is strictly banned on these forums, so I cannot help you further.

Tews said:

raindrop said:

Hi
I followed the forum guide:
Install Windows 7 on Computer with Less than 512MB RAM

however the new ISO will not bypass the RAM limitation.

Can you please advise?

Did anyone upload a working ISO?

PM and help will be highly appreciated

With all due respect, did you seriously expect to get a fully functional windows 7 install running, much less any applications, on 256mb of RAM??
I would suggest that you do as QuackPot suggests and invest a few dollars/euros on at least 2GB of ram before proceeding...

This is an old laptop that can handle maximum of 256 MB RAM
I have a working Windows 7 Starter Key (from technet)
and I received feedback that the performances on 256 MB are good
in some cases better than XP

due to the old hardware, I have no way to expand the RAM
Can anyone advise?

If you want to run Windows in 256MB of RAM or less, use Windows XP.

Windows 7 performance in 256MB of RAM will be horrific compared to Windows XP.

Ryan2320 said:

I know you can install Windows 7 below Minimum Specs but 256MB is low..

I agree.

It just isn't going to work good. Even when I disable most of the services, Windows 7 still uses more than 256MB of RAM.

If you look at my profile (pic at the top) you'll see I got Windows XP to run in 84MB of RAM. And that's even with a few unnecessary services running..

is there anyone that can help in bypass the 512 MB limitation?
is there any Windows 7 tweaker?

raindrop

there is a user here that specializes in things like this. His name is DocBrown. If you search his user name you will find several computers with specs = to yours that worked. If anyone can he can. I PM'ed him the link to this thread.

hope this helps

Ken