 Slowest Machine To Ever Run Winxp, what are you machines specs? |
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 Oct 18 2006, 01:19 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 18-October 06 Member No.: 31,841  |
The best i have come across is a 500MHZ machine running windows xp with little problem!!! AS IF!!!
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Oct 18 2006, 01:27 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-October 06 From: Some where on Earth Member No.: 31,801 |
Me too in my old computer HEHEHE to open My Computer window I had to wait like 15 minutes (that's true)
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Oct 18 2006, 02:21 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 211 Joined: 15-September 06 Member No.: 30,028 |
The comes a point when there is no point using the OS because it was so slow. I ran XP on a 1Ghz Duron, with 64Mb RAM, and that was bad enough. If I had had a bit more computing knowledge at that point I would have loaded a different OS onto the computer, something that wasn't quite as large resource hog as XP. Maybe a Linux Distro.
The slowest computer (as we think of computers today) was either a 386 running Windows 3.1, or more recently (two months ago) a 30Mhz Laptop (Ugh) |
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Oct 18 2006, 02:42 PM
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 4,083 Joined: 24-July 05 From: Linix, DOS and Windows…the good, the bad and the ugly Member No.: 9,787  |
A friend installed XP on a 333Mhz machine to see if it would work and sure enough, it took the system, but man, was it slow. You almost needed a calendar to swap pages while connected on the wireless card. LOL.
Then we installed Win 98se and now the kids use it. |
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Oct 18 2006, 06:00 PM
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Ancient Enigma Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,788 Joined: 11-July 04 From: under the stars Member No.: 76 |
a default windows xp installation would really crawl on a slow machine. one way to make it run faster on slow machines: CUSTOMIZE!
 and here are two methods you can try to make your winxp run as you wish: 1. nLite - freeware - http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html 2. XPlite - commercial - http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html any of the two methods above will give you the ability to strip DOWN installation, for a blazing windows xp experience. one reportedly made a "tiny" edition, after much tweaking, to come up with a 400MB fully installed version, and running sweetly under 40MB ram (39.5MB to be exact).
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Oct 18 2006, 07:19 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 4-July 06 From: Nottingham UK Member No.: 26,049 |
I use macs normally, but I have a pc for things like msn.
Its a 1ghz with 32mb ram running XP & it is painfully slow, even after turning all the XP visuals off & doing all the tweaks. |
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Oct 19 2006, 12:48 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 397 Joined: 9-June 06 From: Wisconsin Member No.: 24,924 |
I've seen win xp on a 555 mHZ computer before. Man did it go slow! I was amazed that it actually worked. It had 256 MB of RAM tho, so I guess that helped it out.
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