On Saturday, April 12, 2014 5:30:07 PM UTC-5, Ron wrote:

An old ('07) desktop of mine that is now sitting in a closet (the

motherboard died) exceeded the minimum requirements for Win7 but it ran

a lot faster with XP on it.



I had to make a lot of tweaks in order to get Win7 running somewhat

smoothly.
The '04 Dell I have (a freebie) runs Win7 extremely well. I was the 1st production PC with ePCI, DDR2, SATA, and a P4/3.2Ghz. I never ran the compatibility test. (and yes, I am repeating myself...a little)