Well, I've been experiencing some new issues. 1gb of ram really isn't enough to run it decently when you've got other programs such as Photoshop and such. Though 1gb isn't enough with XP either if you run the programs I do.
I've been getting out of memory messages when working with photoshop and firefox. The memory errors don't occur unless I've got a couple of external hard drives, my cell phone, and a few other devices plugged in though so it might just be a glitch with Windows 7 itself.
And I can't play a video in VLC from an external device such as a flash drive or external hard drive. It gives me an out of memory error and crashes. I've added 2gb to the computer to boost it up to 3gb and the error still occurs, so I think it's a glitch with Windows 7. I've sent a lengthy and detailed report to Microsoft about the issue.
EDIT: And I've taken the extra 2gb of ram out so now I'm back to 1gb. I want to test the thing with the minimum ram requirement since ram is such a big issue for me.