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| Thread ID: 81282 | 2007-07-23 01:16:00 | Installing XP | arko (9074) | Press F1 |
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| 571643 | 2007-07-23 03:51:00 | dual booting winxp and win me? no point in doing that unless you have some hardware or software that can't run on XP. Having both will take up more space. If you just use XP you can make use of NTFS instead of Fat32 which will make XP slightly more efficient. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 571644 | 2007-07-23 03:55:00 | ME is a crap OS. M$ $tuffed up with it, there is no point in a dual boot system with XP and ME unless you NEED something ME has that XP doesn't. ;) | wratterus (105) | ||
| 571645 | 2007-07-23 03:55:00 | P3, 733 Mhz should be ok dont you think? Oh that low end machine, my advice to you is get rid of all other OS and install Windows Professional Performance Edition. Haven't heard of it? I'm not surprised. It's only 233 MB in size and installs in under 10 minutes even on my lower machines... Then tweak the services.msc and get rid of absolutely everything except only those criticial to your system's barebone survival. |
bluesky787 (12574) | ||
| 571646 | 2007-07-23 05:35:00 | Dual booting can ease the transition - but you rapidly find you have no use for the old os and it can be a nuisance to remove . If you have 2 hard drives a slightly cumbersome workaround is to temporarily disable your current boot drive in Bios and do a clean install on the other - this way you get your new os installed on what it considers to be the "C:" drive and can switch between os's by using your BIOS boot priority, although it will change which drive is the C: drive each time you change it means when you realise Me is a horrible dog of a thing you can delete it with no hassles . Also if you google how to edit XP's boot menu you'll find you can add an entry manually or with an editor to point at the other HDD and create a dual boot after the new install . The reason for doing it this way is that if you create a dual boot from your existing setup you end up with the "old" windows on the C: drive and the new windows on D: or E: or whatever which is a pain in the butt when you want to abandon the old windows . a final note - while XP will allow you to install on the same drive or partition as another copy of windows it's not reccomended, it's far better to use a seperate partition or HDD to avoid the two versions screwing with each other . |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 571647 | 2007-07-23 06:57:00 | I am wanting to install an OEM version of XP home If the oem version is new/unused, you wont have a problem authorising it, but if its been used Micro$oft most likely wont let you reuse it/swap it to another machine (you probably know this, but worth pointing out :p ) P3, 733 Mhz should be ok dont you think? I have it running on a p3, 800mhz, 512mb machine, runs fine. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 571648 | 2007-07-23 07:07:00 | Junk Win ME, it's horrible anyway, dualboot will just annoy you, like everyone else has said, don't keep ME unless you really need it. (remember, you can run XP with the windows classic theme so it still looks like ME) |
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