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Low-profile Windows for slow computers?

iskim86

iskim86

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what should I do? it's a pentium 3 800 with 400 something megs of ram. slim Sony Vaio (those purple pieces of junks that every n00b in town raved about when it first came out).

I'm thinking of installing Windows 2000 with SP4 but I'm thinking it's too much clutter and would be better to just install Windows XP SP2 and turn off all options etc

what do you guys think?
 
I don't think it should matter what you do. Either or. I'm not sure XP is a better choice, I find XP to have alittle more clutter than 2000. The point is I think a PIII shouldn't have any problem running either operating system, especially with over 256 mb of ram. I think that windows 2000 might be your best shot. It's new enough that you'll be able to do most of what you want, but old enough not to have too much extra clutter like XP or Microsoft's newest products.
 
Originally posted by: akshayt
SP1 or maybe non Service Pack should work even better.
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This is horrendous advice.

@OP: I've run XP on a PIII 450 MHz with 384 MB of RAM. And while it wasn't great fun, it was workable. Classic theme, eye candy turned off. The same basic system is currently running Win2k SP4, and is maybe a little more responsive; but that is largely due to the newer, faster hard drive it has now.

In both cases, I didn't go to any great lengths to make Windows lighter.
 
Originally posted by: postmortemIA
2000 would run fasst..if it is laptop then XP is only option because of ClearType.
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Windows 2000 would work just ducky. You do not need ClearType font smoothing.

pcgeek

 
I'm running Windows XP PRO SP2 from a PC that's PIII 666MHz and 320MB RAM just fine. It uses an NVidia TNT2 pci video card which helps the performance a little bit. Turn off the following in the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services (if applicable):

Alerter
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
Help and Support
Machine Debug Manager
Messenger
Remote Registry
Security Center (SP2 only)
SSDP Discovery Service
System Restore Service (you can also disable this from System Properties)
Task Scheduler
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Terminal Services
Theme
Wireless Zero Configuratin (if no wifi devices)
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) [if you don't use ICS and built-in firewall]
 
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