Re: **Windows XP installation**

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

R wrote:


I want to install A windowx XP in a pentium II client with RAM of 64
and hard of 40Gig ,is it possible?




Possible? Yes.

But practical, no. 64MB of RAM is *way* too little to run XP with anything approaching acceptable performance.



if not, what's the minimum
specification for a station in order to have it?



64MB meets the official minimum, but as I said, that says nothing about running at acceptable speed. I wouldn't try to run XP with anything much less than a 400MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. Even that will be very slow, but it will be usable.


FWIW, I saw a 266 PII laptop with 192MB RAM and a 3GB HDD recently that ran XP Pro ok. Didn't have any apps installed but the OS booted up nicely and quicky, too. Worked fine as a terminal in a domain. I was very surprised to be honest. But I agree, the more system resources and speed the better.

Happy New Year!
Steve N.

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