System Requirements

[Dave]

Will a Celeron 500Mhz system with 128MB or 256 MB RAM run WinXP Pro ok.
If also running a Progress GUI application and Office XP Pro and IM
and of course email/web?

TIA

 

[Curt]

Will a Celeron 500Mhz system with 128MB or 256 MB RAM run WinXP Pro ok.
If also running a Progress GUI application and Office XP Pro and IM
and of course email/web?

TIA

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Dave,

Go here, http://tinyurl.com/176j. You will the minimum system requirements
to run XP.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Will a Celeron 500Mhz system with 128MB or 256 MB RAM run WinXP Pro ok.
If also running a Progress GUI application and Office XP Pro and IM
and of course email/web?

TIA
.
it should run as well or better than 98/me would,but do

a clean install .

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Will a Celeron 500Mhz system with 128MB or 256 MB RAM run WinXP

Pro ok.


As always, it depends on what apps you run, as well as what *you*
consider OK. But in general a Celeron 500 with 256MB will run OK
(but not fast) for most people, and a Celeron 500 with 128MB will
run unacceptably slowly for most people.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If you turn off all of WinXP's GUI eye-candy, it will still be
somewhat slow but usable for simple word processing, email,
web-browsing, etc. It won't be any good for graphics-intensive
applications, and many newer games. (During the public preview period,
I tested WinXP on a 500 MHz Celeron machine with 256 Mb of RAM.)

1) Right-click the Task Bar > Properties > Start Menu, ensure
"Classic Start menu" is selected.

2) Right-click an empty spot on the Desktop > Properties > Themes >
select "Windows Classic."

3) Right-click My Computer > Properties > Performance > Settings >
Visual Effects, ensure "Adjust for best performance" is selected.

However, with a PC this old, it's essential to make sure it's
components are WinXP-compatible _before_ proceeding. Have you ensured
that all the PC's components are capable of supporting WinXP? This
information will be found at each of the PC's component's
manufacturer's web sites, and on Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility
List: (http://www.microsoft.com/hcl/default.asp). Computer
components designed for use with Win9x/Me very often fail to meet
WinXP's much more stringent hardware quality requirements.

Can you obtain OS-specific device drivers for your PC's
components, and any necessary motherboard BIOS updates? Additionally,
you can download and run Microsoft WinXP Upgrade Advisor to see if you
have any incompatible hardware components.
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/upgrading/advisor.as
p)



Bruce Chambers

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[Alex Nichol]

Will a Celeron 500Mhz system with 128MB or 256 MB RAM run WinXP Pro ok.
If also running a Progress GUI application and Office XP Pro and IM
and of course email/web?

With 256MB it should be quite adequate. 128, though it is the
'recommended' base size, is really not enough, and it would be paging
heavily