Believe it or not.....I have XP Home installed on a 350MHz PII. RAM is probably
most important, as you know. Nothing less than 256MB RAM is what I recommend (tho
the PII I mentioned only has 96MB at the moment).

Turning off the eye candy in XP helps on slower systems with minimal RAM:
Right-click My Computer Properties Advanced tab Performance section, Settings
button choose "Adjust for best performance" or "Custom" and turn off most or all
Click OK.

Happy Birthday, Gary!
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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I was just running XP on a 500MHz Compaq w/ 128MB RAM. Definitely needs more
RAM, which I'll try tomorrow. But that speed is tolerable unless you're
doing massive operations. Hasn't fallen seriously short except in image
rendering (needs more RAM.)

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"Richard in AZ" wrote in message
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128 megs of RAM will make Win98 run just great. 500 MHz Celeron is a
little too weak for XP.

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: Gospel wrote:
: wrote:
: An HP Pavilion 6630 that I just salvaged (from the side of the
road)
: has a working version of Windows 98 on it. From a command prompt,
: VER results in 4.10.2222.
:
: How can I tell whether this is Windows 98, ME or SE?
:
: Dan
:
: It is Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition.
:
: Now I wonder about the wisdom of running Win 98 SE on this computer..
: Its got lots of HDD space, a 500 or so MHz Celeron, but very little
: memory. It has 66MB of RAM. I added another 66MB but don't think
: 132MB is enough.
:
: I know its not enough for Windows 2000 or XP.
:
: Dan
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