[geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck

[Dan Sikorski]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:31, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 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. 

This all depends on your definition of running OK.  I have high
expectations of speed, while i've worked on other people's PC's that are
total dogs, but they were happy with them.  Personally, If i'm gonna run
XP, i want 512MB, but i really haven't messed with turning off a lot of
the extra crap.

	-Dan Sikorski