Older computers

[Sinisterx]

I'm looking to make a copy of xp for an older computer. What are components I can remove without causing any serious problems? I don't care what size the disc is. I want to know what's going to effect the end result in the RAM usage. I got a 233 P2 with 64 megs of ram.

[wizardofwindows]

i have a P2-233mhz (128ram)with xp prosp2 it runs fairly decent with 64mb ram i found it a tad slow but as far as unattended and removal the answer lies above http://unattended.msfn.org/ good luck.eh Edited August 18, 2006 by wizardofwindows

[gamehead200]

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[totoymola]

Hi. I don't mean to discourage you, but I honestly don't think installing windows xp on that type of computer is a good idea. How about installing Linux instead?

[gamehead200]

Hi. I don't mean to discourage you, but I honestly don't think installing windows xp on that type of computer is a good idea. How about installing Linux instead?

Linux is great and all, but how about if he has no experience with it? XP should run pretty nicely, actually, with a bunch of components removed from it with nLite, it should run pretty well. I used to have it running on a similar machine. It wasn't great for memory-hungry apps, but it was OK for web browsing, word processing, e-mail, etc. The usual simple stuff. Actually, even Apache might run pretty well on there.

Like wizardofwindows mentioned, with a few tweaks and removals, it should work pretty well.

[LLXX]

I've installed XP on a Pentium 166 with 64Mb of RAM. Even with all the unnecessary services disabled, it's still quite sluggish.

Linux isn't that fast either.

XP will definitely run on your machine, but it would probably perform better with Win98se.

[Sinisterx]

Hi. I don't mean to discourage you, but I honestly don't think installing windows xp on that type of computer is a good idea. How about installing Linux instead?

Thought of that before I posted. I even downloaded two versions of linux. Slackware and FreeBSD... I was all excited that I got something new to try out. Then I thought about something else. My grandma might raise an eyebrow if a friend of hers sent her some kind of program to play with and it didn't work. It's her comp, not mine. I'm not about to leave her alone with a complex OS that I don't know how to use. I just plan to show her how to work MSN Messenger so she can gossip with all her old friends for hours upon hours without interupting the phone signal, that is all.

Now I have my own motives for getting a low memory hog system going, GAMING! If I can have a barebones xp system, I'd be in heaven. I got 5 computers here and I only need one of them for surfing the net. I don't give a s*** about MSN Messenger myself, just another program to hog my gaming memory. Stripping the XP seems to be the only answer. My latest disc got down to 70 mb on the commit charge. But I made a boo boo, I dumped the internet explorer core. Apparently, I can't use chm files without it. And the device manager is a chm file *shakes head*. Would be nice if some kind of low memory alternative can be hacked, but I guess I can live with it. The wheels are turning though, I got ideas to deal with it. I think I can do better than 70 mb commit charge, with the internet explorer core. Prolly should find myself a rewriteable disc though. This is starting to get expensive. Not to mention time consuming.

Come to think about it, I wonder why Microsoft isn't building such a system themselves. Although, they did build the media center which is the complete opposite of what I have in mind. They would make more money off a simpler machine than a complex one. I can't speak for other people but I want it cause I don't want the **** remote crap so other people can remotely hack my comp. Internet explorer and outlook should be an option like the brief case and calculator. Chances are most gamers don't back their systems up or give a woopy s*** about themes. I had a bloody flower on my desktop for a month before I changed it. Roomate of mine having fun.

[LLXX]

Now I have my own motives for getting a low memory hog system going, GAMING! If I can have a barebones xp system, I'd be in heaven. I got 5 computers here and I only need one of them for surfing the net. I don't give a s*** about MSN Messenger myself, just another program to hog my gaming memory. Stripping the XP seems to be the only answer. My latest disc got down to 70 mb on the commit charge. But I made a boo boo, I dumped the internet explorer core. Apparently, I can't use chm files without it. And the device manager is a chm file *shakes head*. Would be nice if some kind of low memory alternative can be hacked, but I guess I can live with it. The wheels are turning though, I got ideas to deal with it. I think I can do better than 70 mb commit charge, with the internet explorer core. Prolly should find myself a rewriteable disc though. This is starting to get expensive. Not to mention time consuming.

70Mb commit charge? Mine is down to 30Mb. Internet Explorer, Network Connection, Device Manager, etc. all work. I didn't even use nLite, I just installed a stock XP retail and disabled all the unneeded services.

Use Micro$oft Virtual PC to test out installs - you can create an ISO and mount it as a virtual CD-ROM to install from. It's free too.

[WBHoenig]

A few months after XP came out I upgraded an old crica-1999 Dell Celeron (~300mhz, I think) with 64 megs of ram. XP itself worked just fine.