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Rclrk43

10-15-2004 04:02 AM

XP on my computer?

I have a pentium 2, 400Mhz 288 megs of Ram and a 10GB Hard drive. Can I load XP
on my laptop and have it run well or stay with Win 2K
Thanks

Duane Arnold

10-15-2004 04:46 AM

Re: XP on my computer?

rclrk43@aol.com (Rclrk43) wrote in
news:20041015000246.05810.00004038@mb-m27.aol.com:

> I have a pentium 2, 400Mhz 288 megs of Ram and a 10GB Hard drive. Can
> I load XP on my laptop and have it run well or stay with Win 2K
> Thanks
>

You should stay with Win 2K. Yes, XP will run on the computer. But XP
requires more RAM to run decently. If you have no compelling reason to go
with XP, then Win 2K is fine. Win 2K is going to be around for a long time
like Win 98SE.

Duane :)

Trent©

10-15-2004 03:38 PM

Re: XP on my computer?

On 15 Oct 2004 04:02:46 GMT, rclrk43@aol.com (Rclrk43) wrote:

>I have a pentium 2, 400Mhz 288 megs of Ram and a 10GB Hard drive. Can I load XP
>on my laptop and have it run well or stay with Win 2K
>Thanks

Stay with 2000. Once you switch, you won't be happy.

Have a nice one...

Trent

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Matt Pascoe

10-15-2004 04:20 PM

Re: XP on my computer?

Yep I agree but XP will run well enough on that spec.

"Duane Arnold" <notme@notme.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9582F1EAD7FF9notmenotmecom@204.127.204.17. ..
> rclrk43@aol.com (Rclrk43) wrote in
> news:20041015000246.05810.00004038@mb-m27.aol.com:
>
>> I have a pentium 2, 400Mhz 288 megs of Ram and a 10GB Hard drive. Can
>> I load XP on my laptop and have it run well or stay with Win 2K
>> Thanks
>>
>
> You should stay with Win 2K. Yes, XP will run on the computer. But XP
> requires more RAM to run decently. If you have no compelling reason to go
> with XP, then Win 2K is fine. Win 2K is going to be around for a long time
> like Win 98SE.
>
> Duane :)

Sirius

10-16-2004 07:23 PM

Re: XP on my computer?

"Rclrk43" <rclrk43@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041015000246.05810.00004038@mb-m27.aol.com...
> I have a pentium 2, 400Mhz 288 megs of Ram and a 10GB Hard drive. Can I
load XP
> on my laptop and have it run well or stay with Win 2K
> Thanks

I've got XP on a P2 366 MHz with 128 Mb ram. Its not fast but is fine for
most purposes and is a major improvement over W98.

With the XP installation, going to Control Panel-System-Advanced-Performance
Settings and checking the box for optimum performance seems to have helped a
lot.

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