wing007 said:
Dear Beck,
thank you kindly for your reply. I have a pentium 3 600Mhz. A part of the
RAM is probably also used for the graphics.
The point is that I also use a virusscanner and a fire wall... that probably
doesn't help speeding up right ;-)
What processor did your old laptop had?
Seems you have gotten yourself a beautiful fast new one by now. What are you
running now?
I myself am waiting for Windows Vista (...? Wish they kept it with the year
of release) to be released.
Grt,
Wing
Yes, it's possible. As for performance, the word "glacial" comes
to mind, if the computer doesn't have a CPU of at least 500 MHz along
with at least 256 Mb of RAM.
Acceptable performance is, of course, a matter of personal opinion
and depends entirely upon what *you* expect to do with your computer. If
all you want to do is play WinXP's built-in games, send and receive
simple emails, browse the Internet (while avoiding the more "ornamental"
web sites) etc., such a machine will easily meet your needs. If,
however, you plan to take advantage of WinXP's multimedia capabilities,
play graphic-intensive games, or do advanced word or data processing,
such a machine would probably be woefully inadequate.
If you turn off all of WinXP GUI eye-candy, it will still be very
slow, but it might usable for simple word processing, email,
web-browsing, etc. It won't be any good for graphics-intensive
applications, and most newer games. (During the public preview period,
I tested WinXP on a 500 MHz machine with 256 Mb of RAM, and it was much
slower than I like.)
To help improve WinXP's performance on older machines:
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.
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