Now Meg is a fine machine that will run most applications without much problem. Office, for example. I will tell you this, however: if I were to purchase a new machine , which I did recently, I would start with 1 gigabyte of memory and make sure it was expandable to 2. Today 1 gigabyte is plenty of room — probably more room than most people need.
But applications grow. Operating systems get bigger. Making sure that you have lots of memory and the potential for lots more is perhaps the single biggest thing you can do to increase the usable life of your computer. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I Had a W98 and moved to XP. To start it takes more than 5 minutes.
Dial-up may be an entire different story. And I am running on Windows XP. My mouse jumps and ANY software being used to play audio media jumps when ever I open up simple applications such as.
However other factors could include, how old the computer is, if this is a old computer getting some new RAM could be an expensive option. If this is the case a new computer would be just as cheap. How good the processor is, if the processor is poor, which it certainly appears not to be, then getting a new motherboard is logical solution, but, again this can be VERY costly. Something I would like to point out is if you choose to get a new computer, windows VISTA is being relaesed soon, getting this could be leave you far more technologically upto date.
To ensure that windows run properly,increase the size of your virtual memory paging file. Pls advise me. Thanking you, With Best Regards Venkatesh. Will i be able to run xp. And if i will be able to will it run smoothly and what would it the performance be like? As always, your responsability if you follow my guide. A fter backing up or not the default boot. Everything should be set up,and your Ram,all of it,should appear ,and be available. Good luck. Yeah, everything in a thread,I didnt want to duplicate stuff!
Thats why I made a new one,clear and simple. I looked at the long one you sent me, some of it. If it's that known, it's surprising that our nice folks needed pages to clear it up,when it only should contain one or two. Anyways, its done now. I wouldnt want to continue old threads,or necro them. Let's keep this one on the track,if you dont mind,it was ,mainly,about Intel XP drivers. Well, if you are happy with that patch, it is good , the experience of other people suggest that there are stability issues on some hardware and that a "better" or "more complete" patch is needed, and this nicely explains the 13 thirteen pages of that thread.
Obviously this should be merged with the existing thread, since it concerns exactly the same subject matter. There's another patch as well, which is the Russian patch, which achieves the same result as the Chinese one same files , but includes some sys files from Windows Server x86 in order to avoid well, at least, to limit the USB issue discovered.
I have been using the same method you posted for months, then I switched to the Russian patch 'cause I was too lazy to replace system files with the ones from Windows Server x You need to be a member in order to leave a comment.
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