TheMANThinPC is basically a 7 with a few services removed... I've done to this Vista much more than that to make it run smoothly and have a real "idle" mode (0% disk usage, 2-5% CPU usage). Besides, that's still a 7, so it won't run on i586 no matter what...

SquallStrife Thank you :) DonutKing How slow is it? It's... Alright :) Much slower than XP, obviously, but completely bearable. This thing has a 2.5 MB NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV videocard, which isn't supported in Vista, so the CPU has also to draw the windows and stuff. Start menu opens …

Hello, Greetings everyone from snowy Russia, and sorry if I've chosen the wrong forum to post this — I'm a newbie. I've always been interested in old hardware and its capabilities, as well as the software optimizations that allow ruining modern stuff on powerless systems. As I'm sure you know, Vista …