Automating Hardware in Windows 7
For all of us desktop administrators out there, automation is the key to our success. Using Group Policy, we can automate the deployment of software, settings, printers, drive mappings and pretty much anything else for our users and computers. Hardware, especially roaming hardware, has always been a thorn in our sides.
Categories: Management Tags: Central Driver Store, Desktop, driver, driver store, Group Policy, hardware, registry
Four Types of Stop Errors
Your Windows 7 computer can encounter different types of hardware or software problems that generate a Stop message. Stop messages are generally categorized as follows:
Categories: Troubleshooting Tags: driver, Executive initialization, hardware, interrupt, IRQL, malfunction, software, Stop error, Stop message, Troubleshooting
Minimum Hardware Requirements
| Edition | CPU | RAM | Hard drive | Video graphics adapter |
| Starter | 1GHz | 512MB | 20GB | 32MB of RAM with DirectX 9 support |
| Home Basic | 1GHz | 512MB | 20GB | 32MB of RAM with DirectX 9 support |
| Home Premium | 1GHz | 1GB | 40GB | min. of 128MB RAM with DirectX 9 support, has a WDDM driver, Pixel Shader 2.0 hardware and 32 bits per pixel |
| Professional | 1GHz | 1GB | 40GB | |
| Ultimate | 1GHz | 1GB | 40GB | |
| Enterprise | 1GHz | 1GB | 40GB |
Categories: Installation Tags: hardware, requirements
