Windows Vista

Written on 3/22/2009 08:20:00 PM by Marc Crow

I have noticed that I have been getting a lot of computers with Windows Vista installed that only have 512 MB of memory. From my experience, you need to have at least 2 GB of memory installed on a computer for Windows Vista to run decent.

When Windows Vista was first released, a lot of people selling computers were just installing Vista on computers that were built for Windows XP, not realizing that Windows Vista was going to be a more powerful, and memory sapping operating system.

I'm not pointing fingers, but it also seems like the computers that have been coming in that need memory upgrades are the cheaper, Wal-Mart variety of computers. You get what you pay for when you buy something from there. Manufacturers add a ton of pre-installed software on Wal-Mart computers. That software and the lack of memory in the computer is probably why your new computer is so slow.

If you bought a computer last year, from Wal-Mart and it had Windows Vista installed on it, there is a good chance that you need your memory upgraded. You would be surprised at how much a difference a $50 (on average) memory upgrade would make.

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