Windows Xp With 64 Mb Ram

[Puffin]

Has anybody tried that? Run windows xp with 64 mb ram? It's really... interesting...

I'm just curious :P

(I'm odd, I know)

[FreeFreddy]

It' pretty bad idea, actually. Anything would be very slow loading because Windows XP would use the harddisk as an additional source of memory, and that one slows the system pretty down. Actually minimal requirement for Windows XP is 256 MB RAM, with 512 being much better and 1 GB being perfect. ;)

[aaberg]

Nope, but I ran Win98 with 8MB Ram! :rolleyes:

[FreeFreddy]

For that one is also 16 MB minimal and 32 very good. ;)

[Puffin]

Well, the fish-looking computer man at school who took my computer said that mine was the second computer he'd ever seen that ran windows xp on 64 mb ram :P

I was gonna buy more ram yesterday, but I have to special order it from the States <_<

*sigh*

[FreeFreddy]

Need my 256 MB DDR 266 RAM? It remained from the beginning when I bought the new PC, but I have faster and more RAM now, so I don't need it. :bye:

[Unknown Hero]

I would give you my processor (Athlon 1800+ XP) and 256MB RAM just for cable connection! *Keeps mumbling: "I hate modems, I hate modems!"*

[Ioncannon]

I never had 64 mb. in my life I had a 8mb pc. then upgraded it to 16mb, a 32mb pc, and 256 mb pc.

[Braindead]

I run a win98PC with 64MB ram and that's just doable, I don't even think of installing XP on that crappy PC... :P

[The Niles]

My brother just installed WinXP on a P1 166 Mhrz with 64MB and he said it ran but not well. He put in an extra 128MB of RAM and ran nicely but he did turn a lot of the axtra's (graphical extra's) off. XP is a very good platform. Much better then WinME in any case.

[evilded]

im running xp on 128mb and its fine and dandy. though i have so many viruses its a sheer madness...

[The Niles]

www.free-av.com (http://www.free-av.com) Download, install and run.

[FreeFreddy]

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/cata...sku_list_za.jsp (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp) - free firewall program and not bad one too. ;)

[Rogue]

I'm using AdAware and Spybot Search and Destroy for ads and some viruses.

But main program for AV is McAffe Virus Scan.

[evilded]

AVG free edition seems to have fixed many of my problems. Thanks wendy :ok:

[N17R0]

I remember doing tech support in high school, we put OSX on an old 575 Mac. I think it took 20 minutes to boot up.

[Danny252]

I just don't worry about RAM. 1gig of it (1024mb) works well enough.

[Rogue]

We had P133 with 32MB of ram that we used to run as NT Server (that's right, whole NT Terminal server) just to get use of our MetaFrame licences.

After install we put it bellow one desk and forgot about it. Finally we found it not long ago, still working. They gave me that PC, so now I'm using it with IPCop (I added 32MB more of ram) as firewall at home.

[Caged]

Originally posted by The Picard@Nov 6 2004, 05:55 PM
Much better then WinME in any case.
I don't know about that, I ran ME for quite a while before upgrading to XP and when i di, was greatly disappointed. All the security holes, updates, extra configuration changes that had to be made...seems like XP should have stayed in the workshop for another month or two before being released. In any case, ME at least isn't being targetted by major viruses anymore....here's hoping that future versions of windows get smoothed out more before public release

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Caged+Dec 3 2004, 01:57 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Caged @ Dec 3 2004, 01:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-The Picard@Nov 6 2004, 05:55 PM
Much better then WinME in any case.
I don't know about that, I ran ME for quite a while before upgrading to XP and when i di, was greatly disappointed. All the security holes, updates, extra configuration changes that had to be made...seems like XP should have stayed in the workshop for another month or two before being released. In any case, ME at least isn't being targetted by major viruses anymore....here's hoping that future versions of windows get smoothed out more before public release [/b][/quote]
There is a reason for that LOL

Can someone really use that OS? :D

WinME is really bad product and support for it was really bad.

Win98SE / Win2K was much better choice at the time!

[Titan]

Originally posted by evilded@Dec 1 2004, 12:54 PM
AVG free edition seems to have fixed many of my problems. Thanks wendy* :ok:
Combine AVG with Kerio's firewall, and you have a realy steady defence..

I use that, along with Adaware and a physical firewall also and a router with another firewall... hmm... it's amazing that i can surf actualy *L*

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Regarding XP, NEVER try and run it with LESS then 128 MB.. that's Microsofts own recomendations..

Preformace will drop emenzly, so unless you'r using UWSCSI or atleast a SATA as swap-disk... don't...

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Titan+Dec 3 2004, 04:27 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Titan @ Dec 3 2004, 04:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-evilded@Dec 1 2004, 12:54 PM
AVG free edition seems to have fixed many of my problems. Thanks wendy* :ok:
Combine AVG with Kerio's firewall, and you have a realy steady defence..

I use that, along with Adaware and a physical firewall also and a router with another firewall... hmm... it's amazing that i can surf actualy *L*

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Regarding XP, NEVER try and run it with LESS then 128 MB.. that's Microsofts own recomendations..

Preformace will drop emenzly, so unless you'r using UWSCSI or atleast a SATA as swap-disk... don't... [/b][/quote]
:D

What firewall are you using?

I have to upgrade my home wirewall to IPCop 1.4, and I just updated routers frimware to the latest. It's nice to have a network at home. :)

[Ioncannon]

Originally posted by N17R0@Dec 1 2004, 01:39 PM
I remember doing tech support in high school, we put OSX on an old 575 Mac. I think it took 20 minutes to boot up.
is 575 a powerpc??? Plus it wouldn't boot if it uses the old SCSI ports. I am just wondering cause it sound suspicias. Can I see a screeny of the model or some specs?

[Caged]

Originally posted by Anubis+Dec 3 2004, 03:18 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Anubis @ Dec 3 2004, 03:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Caged@Dec 3 2004, 01:57 PM
******QuoteBegin-The Picard@Nov 6 2004, 05:55 PM
Much better then WinME in any case.
I don't know about that, I ran ME for quite a while before upgrading to XP and when i di, was greatly disappointed. All the security holes, updates, extra configuration changes that had to be made...seems like XP should have stayed in the workshop for another month or two before being released. In any case, ME at least isn't being targetted by major viruses anymore....here's hoping that future versions of windows get smoothed out more before public release
There is a reason for that LOL

Can someone really use that OS? :D

WinME is really bad product and support for it was really bad.

Win98SE / Win2K was much better choice at the time! [/b][/quote]
Well, I managed to run many games such as Unreal II and serious Sam on the OS. Never had any trouble with viruses except for a boot.ini killer that i got through a bad download.

I must say though that overall it seemed like a stable platform and, like I said, wasn't targetted by free ranging-viruses after XP came out.

[Koen]

I used only 64 MB of ram the first few weeks I had WinXP, but after that period I installed more ram.

It was all running very slowely, but I can give you one golden tip on how to improve speed in such cases (swapping most of the time):

Install a new harddisk (a small one, 1 or 2 gig), and put the pagefile on that harddisk (instead of the harddisk where winXP is installed). It helped me a lot, really! My computer has become much more faster. :ok:

[N17R0]

Wish I still had the pic of the 575 booting. It did work, I can tell you that.

Well, depends on your definition of work. LOL

[Puffin]

Originally posted by Koen@Dec 14 2004, 07:56 PM
Install a new harddisk (a small one, 1 or 2 gig), and put the pagefile on that harddisk (instead of the harddisk where winXP is installed). It helped me a lot, really! My computer has become much more faster. :ok:
I can't :(

Got a laptop, no space inside it for another hdd..
But on one of the other computers we have, I have the windows on a disk of it own. So if Windows crashes, i don't lose my stuff!