Would a hp pavilion zt1145 notebook PC Intel Pentium 1200 mhz 1.20ghz 240mb of ram be able to run spore creature creator?

unfortunately no, I have one these laptops and it has a 16-32 MB video card based on shared memory and you'll need 128 MB of video memory. Also 240 MB of ram is not nearly enough to run spore and the integrated S3 Twister does not support Pixel Shader. Here are the official system requirements

FOR Windows XP

* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent

* 512 MB RAM

* A 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

* The latest version of DirectX 9.0c

* At least 190MB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for

created creatures.