Yes you can boot Windows 10 with 192MB RAM

Posted on Thursday, April 09 2020 @ 10:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

These days a lot of people have too much time on their hands. Twitter user Sakura NØri decided to check the minimum system memory needed to run the 32-bit version of Windows 10. The answer to this totally pointless question is 192MB.

Anything less is too little to boot Windows 10. Microsoft's official minimum memory recommendation is 1GB. Interestingly, Windows 10 could partly boot with 140MB, but that proved to be too little for the UI to run.

The experiment was performed using a virtual machine. Booting took about three minutes and with 192MB of memory the system was very unresponsive.

Yesterday, 16-year-old Twitter user @0xN0ri (Nori for short) posted a thread where they continually tried to run the 32-bit version of Windows 10 on smaller and smaller amounts of RAM, using the operating system’s 1909 November update as a base and running it on Oracle VM Virtualbox off what they told Tom's Hardware was a Dell Inspiron 3670 running Arch Linux.

It works! https://t.co/6wotLMV8Yt pic.twitter.com/zyNQqtlVMI
— Sakura NØri ???? (@0xN0ri) April 2, 2020

Via: Tom's Hardware

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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