CS4 Standard Advice

Hi, I am looking to purchase the Adobe Illustrator CS4 Standard software which includes Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I have a Hp Pavillion M8170 PC with Windows Vista Home Premium, nvidia GeForce 8500 GT Video Card, 2.40 GHz processor, 2GB RAM and, 210GB Free Hard Drive Space. Will these be enough to adequately run the program or will I be likely to experience problems? I also use my PC to operate other programs. Will my PC be affected by installing CS4 Standard? Are there any installation issues I need to be aware of and, if so, how do I avoid them?
Thanks
Gary

Your system seems to meet the minimum specs required for installation, and the applications should run fine by themselves (not necessarily blazingly fast with that configuration), and probably with even two at a time open. I presume when you say you have 210 GB free space it's all on the same drive as Windows? You can install programs on another drive, but a lot of the common files must be on C: so you need quite a bit of free space there.
Peter

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