Subj : Win2k Min Systems Requirements
To   : Mike Powell
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sat Nov 29 2003 05:03 am

Thu 2003-11-27 07:15, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to All:

 MP> Does anyone have a Win2k box handy that wouldn't mind posting the
 MP> minimum system requirements?  I have a friend who is thinking of going
 MP> to Win2k.  He currently has 98SE, and we've already determined that his
 MP> system won't handle XP.  It is a Pentium-MMX 200 MHz with 128k RAM.

I've installed WinXP on a Pentium 133 with 64 Mb RAM, 10 Gb HDD.  It took about 
two hours to install but once it was running it was usable.  According to the 
Windows Task Manager there was at least 10 Mb of free memory after startup 
(after a bit of tweaking - see below), which was enough to load IE and surf the 
web without the system swapping heavily.  I've not tried to install Win2K on 
that machine but I expect the experience would be much the same.

Tweaking: WinXP will speed up a lot on an old system if you disable all the eye 
candy (My Computer|Properties|Performance|Optimise for performance, or 
something like that) - primarily if you disable support for theming.  Doing 
this should free up about 10-15 Mb of memory for applications, too.

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