[geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck

[Chris Byrne]

My Stepdads p3-700 runs OK with 128m on XP, but when he's heavily
multitasking it crawls. The OS seems to use about 110 megs of physical
just sitting there in his installation. IN mine its even more but I
think that's because my drivers have a bigger footprint and theres some
TSR's I cant get rid of and still have full power management. 

I recommend 256 for both 2k and XP though if you shut all the extra crap
off (like I do, and you do) 128 will work. The very first thing I do on
XP or ME is to shut off system restore. Eats up resources like mad. 

Chris Byrne



> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bradford
> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:03
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > Oh and XP runs fine on a 600e if you have 256 megs of RAM. 
> Anything less
> > and its unhappy no matter what system your on. 
> 
> I've got a TP600e (400Mhz), and it runs fine with 128M - I 
> just turn off
> the XP interface (prefer "Classic" style) and that "driver rollback" 
> feature, which speeds up things quite a bit.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> bill bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> austin, texas
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