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Old January 23rd 09, 09:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Shane[_5_]
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N. Miller wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:00:40 -0000, Shane wrote:

N. Miller wrote:


On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:00 -0800, mdwiaterski wrote:


what is the best way to update my intel gateway pc from windows me.
I know microsoft doesnt offer any upgrades for that specific
program but there has got to be a way to upgrade this pc to make
it at least partialy up to date. I dont have a lot of money and I
am not a computer wiz.


If you don't have at least 512 KB of RAM, forget about upgrading to
Windows XP. MS claims XP will run in a minimum of 128 KB of RAM; but
I have seen that dog, and it won't hunt.

If you can afford to bring the RAM up to at least 512 KB, and can
find a Windows XP Upgrade pack (used to be available for $99, but
very scarce now), you can upgrade Windows Me to Windows XP Home
Edition.


Norman, I ran XP on 256 MB RAM for a few years and it wasn't a
serious problem. One'd have to be running the sort of things that
one wouldn't have stuck with Me all these years if one were in the
habit of so doing, for it to become noticeable.


I have upgraded my HP Pavilion 6475C from Windows Me to Windows XP
Home Edition. I assure you, it would be intolerable, if I were using
it for general purposes. It is only tolerable because I can leave it
running 24/7 with Mercury/32, and not have it falling over for lack
of system/user/GDI resources.

If I were going to try using that old iron for web surfing and email,
and nothing else, I would still upgrade the RAM to 512 kBytes. Or
roll it back to Windows Me.


Maybe the problem is the doing an upgrade rather than a clean install. There
is a reason it is preferred, and it is directly or indirectly one of
performance.

I'm sure it is not that you really do mean kilobytes. Anyway, yes, I too
would still upgrade the RAM - because I'm used to rather more these days.
I'm also used to broadband - but once upon a time even 56k was a speed
improvement and quite bearable in most circumstances. It is less so today,
of course, because online updating and services are just about universally
adapted for broadband capabilities and sod the unfortunate dial-up user. To
an extent that applies to apps too, increasingly written for machines with
gigabytes of RAM, but it is far less of an inconvenience than using dial-up
in the age of BB. I, for instance, still run Office 2000. You can install a
converter for reading Office 2007 documents and there is no need whatsoever
to move to O2K7. Or if there is, that is likely one of the areas that fall
outside of the remit of getting 'at least partially up-to-date'. Obviously
this whole enterprise is an exercise in compromise - but by and large XP
Home will work rather more impressively than any 9x version, on 256MB RAM.
At least, from a clean install. Doesn't even have to be to NTFS - and
possibly is less memory-intensive to stick to the less data-intensive FAT32
(a thought that never occured to me before. I used XP Home, with 256MB RAM,
on an 850 Athlon machine, from 2002 to 2007, for most of that time on
FAT32 - though I didn't notice any problems when I did use NTFS).

I certainly had no problems for instance watching DVDs on it or running a
USB broadband modem. Or running two hard disks and multibooting. In fact,
this may be a telling point about me, or about people in general (I've used
this as an example for why people should persevere with new software, not
delete it after 5 minutes - like my father does): as with Firefox, which I
ran for a year before I actually began to use it in preference to Internet
Explorer, I dual-booted Win Me and XP Home for one year before I began to
use XP more than Me. That was basically the time it took for the stability
and performance improvements to outweigh the reluctance to abandon the
familiar (though eventually I abandoned the Luna interface for once and for
all).

Maybe your experience is the exception.

Shane



 




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