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Any tips for an old laptop?

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Well I've got This old laptop working again after welding some stuff back together inside it. I'm now installing a very stripped version of Windows XP SP3. Any tips for this old thing speeding it up? I've got some old ram for it as well ( it now has 128mb, and I've got another 128mb lying here somewhere ).
The specifications are:

Intel Celeron MMX 433Mhz
128 *(256mb soon if possible) PC-100 Ram
Ati Rage 8MB AGP Videocard
6.4 GB Seagate Harddisk
Windows XP GAMER SP3

Oc'ing the cpu isn't possible I guess? I rather not open it up again... Any good tweak software is welcome, it will be mainly used for chatting.

Thanks in advance!

Tijmen

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Right now your biggest obstacle is the memory. There's just not enough - 256MB will still be slow. Get at least 384 in there, if not more.

I don't think you'll be able to OC.

Getting a larger hard disk (~12GB) would help too. Increase the virtual memory size on what you've got.

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