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minimum requirements to run windows 98
Does anybody know the minimum requirements to run windows
98. somebody installed in on my fathers computer and it runs very slowley. Its a pentium with 16 mb of ram |
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minimum requirements to run windows 98
wrote in news:cb0001c438f5$98226370
: Does anybody know the minimum requirements to run windows 98. somebody installed in on my fathers computer and it runs very slowley. Its a pentium with 16 mb of ram http://support.microsoft.com/default...51&product=w98 It would likely run a lot better with 32mb of RAM. |
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minimum requirements to run windows 98
Besides my more modern everyday pc, I also have 4 older pc's (all networked)
my wife and kids use for various mundane/trivial stuff, a P90, P100, P120 and a Cyrix120. All running 98SE. P90 , 40 megs ram - acceptable as proxy server for other 3 pc's, hard disk(s) and printer(s) sharing P100, 32 megs ram - acceptable for surfing using slow dialup, word processing and not much more P120, 32 megs ram - ditto C120, 70 megs ram - ditto, BARELY acceptable but can overrun keyboard buffer when typing, mouse lag is common etc. etc. Compared to the others, the Cyrix takes AGES to boot but as it's basically a 486 that's no surprise. I recently up'd it from 16 megs ram and although it helped (less swap file trashing), it wasn't enough to give any real satisfaction. All of them can play mp3's using an early version of WinAmp if you "tone down" settings, e.g. mono, 1/2 quality etc.. I'd suggest "your" pc should be a P200 or faster before spending any cash on it, otherwise it'd be better to invest in another 2nd hand unit instead. "Fuzzy Logic" wrote in message ... wrote in news:cb0001c438f5$98226370 : Does anybody know the minimum requirements to run windows 98. somebody installed in on my fathers computer and it runs very slowley. Its a pentium with 16 mb of ram http://support.microsoft.com/default...51&product=w98 It would likely run a lot better with 32mb of RAM. |
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