XP on a slow machine?

[Darein]

I was planning on upgrading to XP sometime but was curious if it will run on my machine. I have a P2-300 I wasn't planning on upgrading till Christmas time. If I say turn off all the fancy stuff will I get a respectable speed?

 

[cirrus1]

What amount of ram do you have? W2K needs around 256 to run well and XP would need the same.

I think you will need to turn off the visual goodies to make your machine a little less stressed.

 

[vegetation]

Agreed, memory is the most important issue here. Your cpu seems to be decent enough for general system operation. If it doesn't have at least 128megs minimum, then forget it.

 

[inwoosac]

yes i agree windows 2k based os's are bloated..memory wise

 

[MCS]

I would hate to run XP on 128MB even (unless you switched off ALL the fancy new features/GUI).

 

[roibm]

i run it on p2 350 with 256ram and a 4gig hdd(oldest i have)
it performs ok if you get rid of all fancy stuff(mine after
loading takes 39MB RAM)

so, you should do ok, especially if you have a faster hdd than mine.