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I have a PII 233mhz MMX, 512k cache 32 MB Ram and 4.8GB Hard Drive. It
currently has Win95 installed, but I would like to install a newer Win
version. I don't want to run in "crippled" mode so what would be the best
compromise (98,ME,XP)?
 
Can you increase the RAM memory to 64 or even 128 mb? Check what the
motherboard will allow. The hard drive is small. I would forget ME or XP
and consider 98SE. However, watch what you spend as it may be "dead
money".

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enquirer said:
I have a PII 233mhz MMX, 512k cache 32 MB Ram and 4.8GB Hard
Drive. It currently has Win95 installed, but I would like to
install a newer
Win version. I don't want to run in "crippled" mode so what
would be
the best compromise (98,ME,XP)?
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XP is not an option. Microsoft's minimum RAM requirement for XP
is 64MB, but that isn't even close to what's required for decent
performance. How much RAM you need depends on what apps you run,
but I wouldn't recommend that anyone run XP without at least
256MB.

Even if you were to upgrade to 256MB, your processor is at the
very bottom of those that will run XP. You are not likely to be
happy with its performance.

I would run Windows 98.
 
enquirer said:
I have a PII 233mhz MMX, 512k cache 32 MB Ram and 4.8GB Hard Drive. It
currently has Win95 installed, but I would like to install a newer Win
version. I don't want to run in "crippled" mode so what would be the best
compromise (98,ME,XP)?
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I'm running WinXP Pro on an Intel Celeron 1.7GHz PC133 with 512MB
without any problems. You're going to have to boost up your ram from
32MB to at least 128MB but 256MB is better. When I had the 128 DIMMs
installed XP worked but it overloaded virtual memory with multiple
applications open. When I installed 256 I had to use a memory manager
for the OS and apps to work around 194MB. And now that I have 512MB, it
uses 248MB. Results may not be the same for you but pretty close.
 
Win98, and you should still at least double the installed ram, and consider
a larger hard drive.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

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Try to bring the RAM up to 128MB and then install Windows 2000. I have
several of these machines running Windows 2000 and they do really well for
the basics - e-mail, surfing and basic apps like Office programs.
 
I see 2 options:
1) Linux - choose your flavor - it should run quite well on a PII 233,
32MB, just don't run Xwindows (KDE or GNU) - command line should be fine.
2) Boat Anchor or Artificial Reef of the Coast of "anywhere you fill
in", but remove any of the toxic materials first.

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enquirer said:
I have a PII 233mhz MMX, 512k cache 32 MB Ram and 4.8GB Hard Drive. It
currently has Win95 installed, but I would like to install a newer
Win version. I don't want to run in "crippled" mode so what would be
the best compromise (98,ME,XP)?
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I have not actually tried this myself, but 98Lite
(http://www.litepc.com/preview.html) may be worth a shot.

If not you are probably best off sticking with 95. A full blown 98 is a pain
with only 32 MB RAM. Of course, you can't count on fixes for security flaws
popping up, so make damn sure you have an updated antivirus, properly
configured firewall and a fastened seat belt at all times.

Apart from that you will at least need to upgrade your RAM to be able to
install any other desktop OS. You _might_ be able to use the computer for
some sort of network server (web, file, printer, DNS, firewall, whatever you
need) with Linux or some other open source OS, but any desktop usage with
such an OS on this computer is out of the question.
 
First off your hard drive is not large enough to handle windows xp, I would
go to win 98 or win 98se. Hope this helps, Bill.
 
98se

André Gulliksen said:
I have not actually tried this myself, but 98Lite
(http://www.litepc.com/preview.html) may be worth a shot.

If not you are probably best off sticking with 95. A full blown 98 is a pain
with only 32 MB RAM. Of course, you can't count on fixes for security flaws
popping up, so make damn sure you have an updated antivirus, properly
configured firewall and a fastened seat belt at all times.

Apart from that you will at least need to upgrade your RAM to be able to
install any other desktop OS. You _might_ be able to use the computer for
some sort of network server (web, file, printer, DNS, firewall, whatever you
need) with Linux or some other open source OS, but any desktop usage with
such an OS on this computer is out of the question.
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Not completely true... I easliy got XP installed on an OLD 120MHz 6x86
machine with 32 megs of memory, and win XP runs much faster and cleaner than
98SE ever did, and it really shows on that system. It's mainly due to the
lack of DOS overhead that 98SE has.

It was a very interesting experience :)
 
Full of it.

Bryan Schuman said:
Not completely true... I easliy got XP installed on an OLD 120MHz 6x86
machine with 32 megs of memory, and win XP runs much faster and cleaner than
98SE ever did, and it really shows on that system. It's mainly due to the
lack of DOS overhead that 98SE has.

It was a very interesting experience :)
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Bryan Schuman said:
Not completely true... I easliy got XP installed on an OLD
120MHz 6x86
machine with 32 megs of memory, and win XP runs much faster and
cleaner than 98SE ever did, and it really shows on that system.
It's
mainly due to the lack of DOS overhead that 98SE has.

It was a very interesting experience :)
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I don't like to claim someone isn't being truthful, but I have a
lot of trouble believing that.
 
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