Re: Requirements?

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

From: Jess Fertudei (not_at_this.juncture.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:28:03 -0400

Thank you

"Cyberbear" <fake@notreal.net> wrote in message
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> Jess Fertudei wrote:
> > Forget what the boxes say... in practicality... can my father's box [one
of
> > my old ones with a FIC PA2007 Super7 board, K62 running at 450 with 128M
> > SDRAM (operating at PC100 speed) running Office 97, a very old Print
Shop
> > Delux and IE6 doing mild surfing] handle XP Home?
> >
> > I would like to stabilize that system some from his current 98SE, if
> > possible.
> >
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> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> With 256MB RAM it would run XP Home, but it will still be pretty
> slow. If you turn off the fancy graphics effects in XP by using
> the "Classic Sttyle" you will find it a little easier to use. I
> have run XP on 450MHz Pentium 3 machines, I don't know how well a
> K6-2 will handle it. I do know that Pentium 2 machines are pretty
> slow running XP.
>
> But, with only 128MB RAM it will be thrashing the hard drive a
> lot due to lack of physical memory and making the experience very
> frustrating. If you must run XP on that machine, get more RAM,
> the more the better.
>
>

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