Let's run Win10 on really really old hardware

ayerly said:

Hiya there !

Windows 10 32bits 1909 November update fully running on a sweet Asus EEEPC 1015PN

- Atom N550 @1,5Ghz
- 2GB Ram (sadly hardware limited to 2gb...)
- Nvidia Ion 1st gen

Nice, it seems 1909 is perfectly fine.


I just installed 1909 through Windows Update on my LG Pentium M laptop. No issues at all and super quick upgrade process! It only took 5-10 minutes to install, despite this laptop being terribly slow.

bobjoe said:

Nice, it seems 1909 is perfectly fine.


I just installed 1909 through Windows Update on my LG Pentium M laptop. No issues at all and super quick upgrade process! It only took 5-10 minutes to install, despite this laptop being terribly slow.

I'm going to upgrade my museum exhibit 2006 PC later today. Your laptop will be much snappier if you install a SSD system drive.

bobjoe said:

Nice, it seems 1909 is perfectly fine.

I just installed 1909 through Windows Update on my LG Pentium M laptop. No issues at all and super quick upgrade process! It only took 5-10 minutes to install, despite this laptop being terribly slow.

that's because 1909 is basically a "1903 SP1", bobjoe. it's delivered as a "cumulative update" thru WU rather than a full OS upgrade to 1903 users.
I already had 1909 on my mom's old Dell Inspiron 2007 laptop since mid-September 2019 though it was build 18363.356, before 1909 was really finalized in late October 2019

edit: the next challenge will be to install 20H1 on old hardware which is definitely a major feature update unlike 1909

Hi.! Win 10 Pro 1909 x64 built number 18363.418 on my laptop, Acer Travelmate 6292.
- Intel Core2Duo T7300 2,0Ghz
- 965 Express Family
- 2,5 Gb Ram
windows run fine and smoothly on this machine, the only problem till now this system refused update to LCU (KB4524570). I can't fix this issue till now.
beyond win 1709 this machine is failed to upgrade by windows update or in-line upgrade.. only able to do with clean install.

muchomurka said:

Two oldest systems I have, both allow standard installing & running & updating of 1809 x64:

Atom N450 Pineview & NM10 Chipset - year 2010
...horribly slow, limited usage possible under linux

Core2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield & nForce 750i Chipset - year 2008
...lack of SLAT/EPT so no 3-tier nested virtualization

Perhaps they will be supported under 19H1 too.
Not "really old hardware", only for info.

muchomurka said:

Update: already tested, both the mentioned eee 1005pg and diy desktop can install & run & update the x64 version of 1903 without any problems.

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As expected, no change/no problem with 1909.

Well, readers... You guys are going to LOVE this... (Or not.)

I'm running Windows 10 Pro x64 on an AMD Athlon II x4.
Here's the Speccy:



I built this system in 2012 with Windows 7 originally, and have hosted Windows 8 Pro, as well as 8.1 Pro, and have since upgraded to 10 Pro. For a while, I had some issues with W10's interface, but once 10 was well-established as a stable OS, I've upgraded back to it, and now at build 1909, it's running great.

Silverhand92 said:

Well, readers... You guys are going to LOVE this... (Or not.)

I'm running Windows 10 Pro x64 on an AMD Athlon II x4.
Here's the Speccy:



I built this system in 2012 with Windows 7 originally, and have hosted Windows 8 Pro, as well as 8.1 Pro, and have since upgraded to 10 Pro. For a while, I had some issues with W10's interface, but once 10 was well-established as a stable OS, I've upgraded back to it, and now at build 1909, it's running great.

Well done but that's modern. I have Windows 10 working fine on two 2006 vintage AMD PCs. The oldest is an Athlon 64 3000.