ChatterBank1 min ago
Win XP Vs. Win Me
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I am surprised Windows XP even runs on 64Mb, it must be the absolute minimum for XP.
Microsoft have created two main generations of Windows.
The first was Windows 95, which became Windows 98, which became Windows ME. These versions of Windows were basically DOS with a graphical front end, and hence run in less memory.
The other generation was Windows NT, which became Windows 2000, which became Windows XP (and also became Windows 2003 for servers).
This started out as a server product so was more robust, but also more memory hungry.
If you cannot increase the memory of the laptop then Windows ME will run much faster than XP.
Also, swapfile size doesn't need to be as big on ME and so less disk thrashing than XP. Laptop HDD speeds aren't up to much either so, in theory, the smaller the swapfile needed the better.
Maybe try something like <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> Linux. That will run fine!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/libra ry/en-us/dllproc/base/multitasking.asp
http://www.debian.org/
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