- Jul 29, 2001
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I had enough of trying to use the g/f's old old Pentium 1 (not even mmx territory either) with win98 so I grabbed a few spare parts and built her a P3 450, 256 MB ram, 20 gig, sb live 5.1, DVD, ATI Rage pro 128 system. All she does is email/msn/web browse/solitare so it's plenty for her. I put on an extra copy of XP that I have laying around.
It's night and day over her old system, but it could probably use a bit of tweaking still. She doesn't care about eye-candy so I can turn off a lot. Already did away with the fade-effects, drop shadows etc, switched to windows classic UI, but what else is there? Performance is okay, but I'd like to speed it up a little more if possible. I don't want to do any registry hacks because it's her system and I don't want to break anything for fear of having to support it later. Just simple things. What am I forgetting?
TIA
It's night and day over her old system, but it could probably use a bit of tweaking still. She doesn't care about eye-candy so I can turn off a lot. Already did away with the fade-effects, drop shadows etc, switched to windows classic UI, but what else is there? Performance is okay, but I'd like to speed it up a little more if possible. I don't want to do any registry hacks because it's her system and I don't want to break anything for fear of having to support it later. Just simple things. What am I forgetting?
TIA