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As far as M$ guidelines go, it shouldn't be just the RAM.
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Damn I would not even want to think about XP on 128 megs truth be known on 256 is kind of scary   |
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| knight0334 wrote: | 128 is ok if you go through and turn off every service that not needed, turn off XP visuals, remove any background image from your desktop, and dedicate a ton of HDD space for swap file.
I just built a machine for my wife's former boss. I tested XP Pro on it for crapz and gigglez with 128mb and I was surprised how well it ran once all the crap was turned off. |
That's another part of the problem.. we don't have any admin access to these computer... And the HDD is slow... Basically it's a POS and shouldn't be running XP.
I can bring up XP and any SINGLE app with little problems... but by the time I load all the app's I need to do my job... I'm sitting there with and everything is swapping in and out of the swap file. It would take approx. 10 - 15 seconds to do a screen refresh. And over 2 min's to bring up a Visio drawing.
I would love to find some more memory around that I don't need and upgrade this even further... RAM = Good!! 
And what's stupid.. from a business point of view... If I am waisting only 5% of my time waiting on this stupid thing to do something, then that means it's costing my company in just my time over $300 a month. Based on the price of RAM they could throw a 512MB in here and have an ROI (Return on Investment) in less than 2 weeks. |
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