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460231 2006-06-04 01:40:00 How would WinXP Home run on a PC with 256 Mhz RAM and 800 Mhz P3?
I don't want to go by MS minimum requirements - would rather get feedback from those who have used WinXP on a sub 1Ghz system.

Not for gaming, just word processing and Publisher. Maybe email.
Rutherford (10399)
460232 2006-06-04 01:58:00 It should work ok, on that system. A bit more ram wouldnt hurt tho. Speedy Gonzales (78)
460233 2006-06-04 02:23:00 Yeah - it should work ok - will be a bit slow though. somebody (208)
460234 2006-06-04 02:39:00 Thanks for the feedback. Its for a friend who is buying a PC but does not want to be stuck with W98 or ME. Rutherford (10399)
460235 2006-06-04 03:13:00 I have run it on lower, PIII 500 and 128MB RAM, it was a little slow, but for surfing, general stuff it was fine The_End_Of_Reality (334)
460236 2006-06-04 04:44:00 The boy's work pc runs well ,same specs. Neil McC (178)
460237 2006-06-04 06:37:00 done it with AMD K-6 500Mhz with 256mb ram

do and learn some tweaks that can speed things up
especially those appearance and pretty looking things
disable the animations and similar things
might want to take out some feature when browing files
um..forgot what that's called..that panel thingy on the left

what i did was to make it look as close to window 2000 on the outside and it ran faster
heni72847 (1166)
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