Re: laptop is suddenly running very slowly

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:47:02 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
>cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:

>>> Also, and maybe more important, is lets say you setup a person with
>>> an 8 gig c: w/XP. That person will be installing programs, downloading
>>> all sorts of files, movies, mp3s, etc.

>Another generalization which may often apply, but not always. That's true of
>many people, but far from all. Again I point to my wife as an example. She
>has never installed a single program, and never downloaded anything but her
>E_mail. I have several other friends who use their computers very similarly:
>E-mail, light word-processing, and an accasional search of the web.

Yes; I should have written "That person MAY be installing programs,
downloading all sorts of files, movies, mp3s, etc."

My point is that there are recommendations on how much HD you should
have when planning an XP system, and recommendations on how much free
space you need to run XP without it crashing.

10G may (not) be OK for the first, but it's nuts for the second.

OTOH, PCs old enough to have under 8G HDs may not be
sufficiently-specced to run XP, and I'd generally advise against
upgrading old PCs to OSs more than 2 years newer, especially as
licensing issues make "trying" a new OS a costly proposition.



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