Re: 333 mhz AMD w/ 128 mb RAM enough for XP?

From: wojo (kwoyach53954_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:58:23 GMT

"Skulk" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4304B88A-5C72-4D45-BA8F-9E370D25230A@microsoft.com...
>> You're getting a lot of terrible advice on here.
>
I'd have to disagree with you there.

>> I run WindowsXP and OfficeXP on a P2 333 with 192 and a P2 300 with 128.
>
>> Both run far better than 'fine'. One of the XPSP1 installations is under
500mb. Just turn off everything you don't need.
"better than fine" until you see how XP is supposed to run on a more
up-to-date system.

It will run adequately on the setup outlined as long as your not running
much in the way of TSR's, basically nothing in your taskbar, minimum cache
settings, no special XP bells and whistles or "eye candy" as Rick said, and
multitasking could get very interesting results.

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