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windows me
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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