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Old 08-22-2003, 03:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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winXP is CRAWLING... ugh.. suggestions?
OK, i went and installed xp on an older machine PII-266mhz w/ only 64MB ram...

now I konw taht I'm at a disadvantage right off the bat, but when I had win2k pro on this exact same machine, it ran just fine...


now it is as slow as you can imagine...

is there that much of a difference b/t xp and 2kpro?

ideas?
suggestions?

thanks
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Old 08-22-2003, 03:23 AM   #2 (permalink)
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1. 64mb just won't cut it.
2. Disabling unnecessary services will help (check this site) ... but 64mb of RAM still won't do well.
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Hell no! not with XP!!

Put another 128 in the machine and it will do much better!
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I'd suggest you either buy serious RAM or revert to 2K.
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RAM is not the only problem here.

It's a P2 266 ffs, even my bro's P2 450 w/512 MB SDRAM lags, it's the CPU.
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Sounds like the same as putting a 300kg passenger on the backseat of your bike and wonder why your 3y old can't drive it

It will probably never run fine on it, it wasn't meant to.
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i got xp running on a 333mhz pc wiht 288ram take a while to load but runs ok non the less
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