nlite does most of it.
Except you really don't gain much performance in the first place, and XP sucks anyway.
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nlite does most of it.
Except you really don't gain much performance in the first place, and XP sucks anyway.
I figure it reduces the need for the competition by removing some of the excuses for the less die-hard open-sourcers.
OK, it's a stretch but it sounded good at the time
Till
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I run a full fledged WinXP installation on my notebook with 192MB RAM ( it has 256MB, but 64 are reserved for the linux vm) with no problems. Rather than installing a version of XP that has been tampered with, i'd go looking for lightweight applications (assuming you can't upgrade the RAM, which would obviously be the best course of action).
It's also pirated, and barely better than stock XP, excepting all the missing features.
70MB RAM is worth less than a dollar anyway, just pony up and get a reasonable amount of memory.
Perfection
The Great Head.
RAM is cheap. Stick in in and forget about your troubles.
MicroXP was made with gaming in mind. Take for example the removal of Autoplay. This function polls the optical drives each second to see whether there is a disc in there. I used to explicitly notice this in the w95 days. Even though it's not as noticeable now, you know how exclusive these drives like to be...they're still able to hang a system. They can upset the fluidity of a game.
Anything the OS does with the CPU is going to have a negligable effect on games. Unless something is wrong, you're never going to see more than a ~1 fps difference due to CPU utilization (or lack thereof) by the OS.
aimeeandbeatles
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I know its not games, but I notice that if the CPU load is high on my computer (e.g. Xmarks does it when syncing my bookmarks), online flash video fps slows down greatly.
Genocidicbunny
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Thats not the OS using CPU resources. The only real CPU hog on my machine is svchost.exe which only acts up if I have a BSOD
The_Reckoning
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What motherboard do you have?
You could easily grab 2x1GB sticks of RAM for less than $50.
You could easily grab 2x1GB sticks of RAM for less than $50.
Meteor Man
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I'm afraid I'm not exactly computer-literate, so I don't know what a motherboard is. Could you please explain.
You could as easily walk into a shop with your box in your hands and ask them which memory you need. While you're there, it shouldn't take them long to pop it in for you while you wait if they're not swamped although you could do it yourself with a little help from this forum.
aimeeandbeatles
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Well, if you open up your case, it's usually the huge circuit board on one side. Basically where you plug everything in to communicate with each other. The way I see it, if the CPU is the brain, the mobo is the heart.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/motherboard.htm
lots of modern mobos have integrated/on-board video/sound/networking, while in the past you had to get seperate cards. Although IMHO on-board tends to be crummy for intensive computing.
The_Reckoning
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Run this:
http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz/cpuz_152_setup.exe
and tell us what it says on the 'Mainboard' tab.
Meteor Man
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I'll run that when I get to the other computer. Right now I'm on my laptop that has excellent RAM.
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