It’s still under wraps as of writing, but we’ll publish an update when it’s ready. In that spirit and in an effort to simplify the task, we are developing a bespoke utility to scan any given PC for its constituent parts and return a detailed list of the components. We aren’t all that taken with how tedious it can be to ascertain whether a PC is equipped to run this or that software.

Given that it’s your main window into using a PC, performance is crucial to everyday use. The logic is that if you exceed them, you’re less likely to encounter performance issues when running the OS. While the minimum will get the OS running, we suggest aiming for the recommended requirements, if at all possible. With your PC specifications in hand, compare them to the minimum and recommended requirements for Windows 7 that we’ve listed further down. Should you be unsure how to go about doing this, fret not as we’ve compiled an easy to follow step-by-step guide, which you can find right here.

To determine whether your PC is capable of running Windows 7, you’ll first need to know what components you have, playing close attention to the CPU, storage space, and RAM as these have the most significant impact on the performance of the operating system.

Windows 7 professional release date