Re: Possible to install xp on a spare emergency reserver pc? eg.

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From: River_Rat (nospam_at_nospam)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:47:26 -0600

<<It's generally not recommend to run xp on machines older than 3 years.
It will probably run, but be very slow>>

I will have to disagree with this. The age of the puter does not have
anything to do with running the OS.
It all has to do with the size of the components not the age of them.

My wife is running XP Pro on a 5 year old puter and it runs better with XP
then it did with 98SE, & ME. 

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"cyanide" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message 
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"sash" wrote:
 > I am wondering if it is possible to install xp on a small old
 > computer I
 > have got.
 >
 > It is a Dan Pentium 2, with 6Gigabyte hard drive and it has
 > 250 Ram of
 > memory and a 333mhz processor.
 >
 > Is it possible to run xp on this system?
 >
 > Thanks
It's generally not recommend to run xp on machines older than 3 years.
It will probably run, but be very slow
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