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Xanadu Location: Las Vegas NV Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	What OS is for me < on 11/30/2005 12:51 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	These are the specs: Compaq Motherboard, with Intel 810e chip P3 900+MHz cpu 2x 512MB PC-133 SD-Ram 'Unregistered' ATI PCI 64MB Radeon VE (7000) ATI AIW (if possible) 4GB HDD (OS) 200GB Seagate 7200RPM HDD DVD writer Drive DVD Drive External USB Card reader FDD -- What OS would be compatible for this, easy to install, versatile and good for constant use. SUpports many programs, Also if its a non windows OS, what Win. Emulator for it that supports most/all windows programs? (IE. FF, Doom Ultimate-Final, Civilization, Sims, GTA 3/vice city, Norton Pro, AVG Free/pro, AIM/Trillian)
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Professor Chaos Noble Donor Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 8 likes \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 1 on 11/30/2005 12:57 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	XP or 2000? It'll run fine on that machine. I don't think an emulator would work nicely with games.
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Xanadu Location: Las Vegas NV Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 2 on 11/30/2005 1:18 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Well I got a XP pro cd so, thatll work awsome.
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Posted by Professor Chaos
XP or 2000?

Seconded. There is a util in the Free Software thread that will let you take out the useless parts of the OS, but both will run fine. I've seen XP on a 266 and used it for 4 years on a 333 with 64mb ram.

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Stewie Location: Hamilton, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes kill your idols \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 4 on 11/30/2005 1:35 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	XP will work fine if you turn off all the fancy bloated themes (run it in performance mode from the system settings thing) and turn off un-needed services. edit: heh beryl ninja'd me [last edit 11/30/2005 1:36 AM by Stewie - edited 1 times]
	> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit.

Professor Chaos Noble Donor Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 8 likes \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 5 on 11/30/2005 1:44 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	start > run > msconfig > services voila.
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Stewie Location: Hamilton, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes kill your idols \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 6 on 11/30/2005 2:03 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	start>run>services.msc I find that one better to use. Not sure if its the same thing or not, I've just been taught to use that one instead.
	> The hierarchy of power dictates that the person with the most power does the least amount of work and retains the highest benefit.

Professor Chaos Noble Donor Location: Halifax, NS Gender: Male Total Likes: 8 likes \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 7 on 11/30/2005 2:29 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Yours seems a little better but both seem to do the same thing (disabling).
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Kenshin Location: Eagan, MN Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \| \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 8 on 11/30/2005 2:34 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	XP ran fine on my old Athlon 550 with 256 megs of ram without disabling anything. Sadly, except for the ram, I could probably still run that machine as my main machine if I really wanted to.

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Posted by Kenshin
XP ran fine on my old Athlon 550 with 256 megs of ram without disabling anything. Sadly, except for the ram, I could probably still run that machine as my main machine if I really wanted to.

At my dads I run XP Professional with all serveices activated on a PII 450 with 256mb and on a PIII 600 also with 256mb and both machines run very smoothly. I installed XP something like over 2 and a half years ago on one machine (the 450) and it's still very fast and stable. My sister's box was a P233 with 256mb and it also ran XP Pro for a while, but I gave her my 3200+ when I upgraded to a 3500+ 64. She burnt cds with it, downloaded music, used MSN and did powerpoint projects for school with it. Now I use that box as a test box running 2003 Server, and it too is running great.

XP can run on an older machine without a hick.

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ofberenonehand Location: Minn-e-snow-ta Gender: Neither Total Likes: 0 likes "Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve." \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 10 on 11/30/2005 3:34 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	It's slow on my moms 500 with 256 megs of ram, but it's a celeron.
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Xanadu Location: Las Vegas NV Gender: Male Total Likes: 0 likes \| \|	Re: What OS is for me < Reply # 11 on 12/1/2005 12:25 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	I was just thinking of using IBM OS/2 Warp 4.5 2000 Release. Display doctor 7.07 for use with a ATI AIW and ATI Radeon 7000. Opera browser, and a windows emulator. Although im worried if it wont support the aforementioned programs.
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