Slow XP

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128MB is barely enough for XP. The minimum for acceptable performance is
256MB, and you'll be much happier with 512MB. However, if your computer is
old enough to have come with a 1 GHz processor, its components are not
likely to give you great performance on XP.

In a computer with sufficient hardware, the top two reasons, by far, for
slow performance are viruses/spyware and too many applications running in
the background.

Ted Zieglar

"Ivan" <Ivan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> HI my Xp is running really slow
> i got 1ghz cpu and 128mb ram
> would ram speed it up or not??? any suggestions???
> thanks

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If you're happy with your computer's performance, that's great. I think most
people would find that combination pokey for typical usage on XP.

Hope my sig works this time.


"Raymond J. Johnson Jr." <RayJ@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Ted Zieglar" <teddyz@notmail.com> wrote in message
> newsQ4y14jUFHA.2128@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > 128MB is barely enough for XP. The minimum for acceptable performance is
> > 256MB, and you'll be much happier with 512MB. However, if your computer
is
> > old enough to have come with a 1 GHz processor, its components are not
> > likely to give you great performance on XP.
>
> Say what? I have a 1.1Ghz Celeron with 128Mb of RAM, and XP runs very
> nicely. Of course, there are no heavy-duty apps that get run on that
> machine, but for general MS Office apps, web surfing and the like, it's
runs
> like a top.
>
>