On 19 Feb 2013, Stanley Daniel de Liver wrote:

At the moment I'm running XP on a 1GHz machine with 512MB
RAM
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Though on the other hand, I've been at work killing bits
of XP I don't like. Most notably (and memorably) I
replaced Explorer with "LiteStep" for window management
and "Gyula's Navigator" for file management. I run the
JayOS Skin for LiteStep which is much more 98ish than the
XP "Classic" theme and _far_ more customisable as well. I
ended up doing the same thing to one of my W98 machines
too.

Thanks for those pointers.

Just what's bad about the explorer? My PC (1G RAM I admit)
running taskmanager shows the explorer task as using 16M.
Not much compared with 65M for Iron (a de-googled version
of Chrome).

Well as I look now, LiteStep is using 11.5MB RAM. I just fired
up explorer (been a long time since I did that last) and after
opening a file manager window and closing it a couple of times
it was sitting hapilly at ~39MB. Mind you as I said before, I
was having quite a bit of trouble with Explorer (I think it
would suddenly go to 100% CPU usage or something like that),
so it may not be the healthiest example.

Perhaps I'm a bit overly sensitive to RAM use, but I like a
minimal background resource usage so that I leave as much
power as possible for the programs I want to use. Of course XP
makes a mess of this philosophy from the beginning, which is
why I use older Windows or Linux on the other machines I use.
I sometimes even go as far as DOS.

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