win2k on a Pentium 166

[Vas_Deferens]

Just for the heck of it, I put win2k on my ol' Pentium 166;64 mb ram machine.
God is this dog slow! Takes me a minute to zero the mouse pointer in on an icon. I checked the cpu usage in the performance tab, the meter was spiking from 6% to 98% constantly. Now the bare system requirements for win2k is a P133 w/ 64 mb, I just can't believe that. Is there something that I'm doing wrong here, or is this the grim reality of the situation? Thanks

VD

 

[lundog22]

wow you musta have alot of free time!!!

 

[TonDef]

You'll never have much luck using the minimum memory requirements on any version of Windows. Bump it up to 128MB and see what happens.

 

[Biggs]

Why not use Linux instead. It only requires a P133 and 16MB of RAM! Beat that.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Try Dos! only need 512K of ram

 

[Priit]

Have you tried W2k on 486 w/32Mb RAM ? Now that is SLOW Boot up from BIOS screen to desktop with notepad: 24min, right mouse click on desktop -> display properties: 6min, IE starts within 10 minutes... If I find enough free time I try to boot W2k with 16Mb RAM.