Re: XP home sticker
- From: "James" <just_for_5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:14:27 -0000
"Nick Le Lievre" <nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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James wrote:Hi
Can anyone sort me out with the above please? No media needed just a
label so I can get XP installed on a friends PC.
XP Pro is no good as the machine only has 192mb >RAM.
I beg to differ - I am running Windows Server 2003 (basically a Server
version of XP Pro) and it runs fine on 192mb of RAM with Outlook Express,
Outlook, mIRC, Messenger, IE opened on an ebay listings page and a free AV
product called ClamAV. Although it is using 170mb it can spill over to
200mb
and start disc thrashing if I open a few more things. But if you are
sensible about the amount of apps you run it will run happily on 192mb. Of
course it needs at least a 400mhz CPU to feel anything other then
sluggish.
--
I tried XPP on the celeron 400 and it dragged like crazy. Put XPH and it run
much easier. Also, the graphics are on-board so that doesn't help.
The PC is mainly used for a custom-written application (the guy used Delphi
I think) and it takes 7 seconds to load when the machine had Win 98 so when
I tested XPP it takes around 35 seconds and is soooo slow yet only 15
seconds to load under XPH (and runs reasonably). Haven't figured why but
hey, it's cheaper anyway to put XPH on so that's a reason by itself.
I do agree though a lot depends on what you're doing. I have an old PII 350
running XPP happily on 256Mb RAM but it is only used with OE, Firefox and
AVG.
JJ
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