Pentium 3 laptop windows 7

Lots of fun locating drivers on the net for this test and after much testing I managed to configure it to work well. Have Fun doing what I've done you'll come about a better Tech. Sorry folks it looks like the Microsoft Updates will Kill your computer setup. If you want to run it alone without the updates it works fine. My advice is to stop updates before you get online and then run the computer as it stands with antivirus. Security updates and other installers from Microsoft could crash your setup.

The minimum requirements specify the minimum hardware configuration requested to run your Windows on your system, but it's a minimal Windows configuration. I've always ran Windows 7 on at least 4 GB of RAM to get an acceptable performance level: I think the answer to your question depends on what you need to do. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. More than two decades ago, I remember that a buddy of mine got a brand-new desktop PC with an Intel Pentium III processor inside and everything about it was quite impressive.

Now, as incredible as it may seem, there are people still using such machines with Windows 7. Sadly, Microsoft has just confirmed that they will no longer be able to keep their operating system up to date unless they upgrade to a more recent processor that supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE2. Back in March , Windows 7 received a security update labeled KB that came with a warning. Sadly, the text has been changed this month to "Upgrade your machines with a processor that supports SSE2 or virtualize those machines.

For most users, the Pentium III and the AMD or Cyrix processors of that period which did not support SSE2 either, of course is an ancient piece of computing history that can be found on eBay for ridiculous prices and in museums. Those still using them with Windows 7 now will probably have to finally leave them to rest or — not a bad idea at all — make the move to a Linux distribution that supports such old architectures with the latest updates. If you happen to know people or businesses using pre-Pentium 4 the first Intel processor to support the SSE2 set of multimedia instructions in — or you happen to be one of them — let us know in the comments.

Do you think that Microsoft should still support such pieces of hardware? Microsoft drops Windows 7 support for Pentium III processors MHz slot-mounted Intel Pentium III processor Source: eBay As incredible as it may seem, Windows 7 still offered support for pre processors until recently, when Microsoft confirmed that machines without SSE2 support must be upgraded to continue receiving updates for the operating system.

Back in March, the company mentioned that a workaround for non-SSE2 processors was under development. Windows Software. Working For Notebookcheck.