List of Minimum Windows 7 Hardware Requirements:

• 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1  GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB free hard drive space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

  If vista runs slow on your machine Windows 7 may speed it up.