Re: upgrading to windows xp professional upgrade error

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:10:31 +0000

Bruce Chambers wrote:

> "Glacial" is the term that comes to my mind, I'm afraid. If you
>turn off all of WinXP GUI eye-candy, it will still be very slow, but it
>might usable for simple word processing, email, web-browsing, etc. It
>won't be any good for graphics-intensive applications, and most newer
>games.

I testing I used a 450 MHz CPU and initially under 256 MB, later raised
to 384. With a good ATI graphics card that handled MEG decode in its
hardware, that was OK - and would play for example DVD movies. I'm all
for turning off the top ten items of effects at Control Panel - System -
Advanced - Performance -Settings though 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)