JM, I have a 600mhz AMD (550 mhz overclocked mobile CPU in a tower) and
384 MB RAM with XP sp2. It runs better than Win98SE (which I also have
in a multiboot configuration). BUT, with 256 meg RAM I'd say forget it.
XP would work with that little RAM but for any kind of performance you
NEED that 384MB. Also, tried SP3 on this setup forget it! While at
first it seemed all would be OK I found after a week the thing was slow.
IE took 50% longer to open (add security?), CPU use spike higher for
reasons unknown thus dogging the PC ... ended taking it off after 5 or 7
days. I like the performance a LOT better with SP2 for this minimal
setup. Lastly I must add, MS by default adds a LOT of services and other
STUFF on startup you simply will not need. The services here have been
trimmed to a meager 20, from 30 or 35 I think! So if you do install XP
be sure to trim out all the 'stuff' you really don't need. With a memory
upgrade I think you'll like XP.
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"JM" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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> philo wrote:
>> "JM" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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>>> philo wrote:
>>>> "JM" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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>>>>> Has anyone out there had success making Internet explorer 7 work
>>>>> on
>>>>> windows 2000? I know Microsoft says it won't work and so far I
>>>>> haven't
>>>>> been able to make it, but I know there has to be something hidden
>>>>> probably in the ie setup file that you can change to make it work
>>>>> on
>> 2000.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> JM
>>>>
>>>> IE7 is not designed to work with Win2k
>>>> nor have I heard of any hacks to make it work.
>>> That's probably because Microsoft doesn't want it to work on 2000.
>>> They
>>> want you to spend more money and upgrade to XP or Vista.
>>>
>>>> I've tried it on my XP machine
>>>> but was not terribly impressed...so went back to IE6
>>>>
>>> The reason I want to get ie7 working on 2000 is because of the
>>> tabbed
>>> browsing and phishing filter thing. Also I just like ie7 better than
>>> ie6...even though ie in general is not very impressive. And yes, I
>>> know
>>> that you can get tabbed browsing on other browsers, that's why I use
>>> Netscape and firefox, but I still would like to get ie7 to work on
>>> 2000.
>>> JM
>>
>>
>> AFAIK there are no hacks for it...
>> but if you search on Google...maybe someone came up with one???
>
> I've done a lot of searches on it and haven't found anything.
>
>
>>
>> If IE7 is that important to you...
>> then an upgrade to XP may be the only way.
>>
>> I use both XP and Win2k and have noticed that with sp3 applied to
>> XP...
>> the performance is improved to the point where XP (if set for best
>> performance) is almost
>> as light on resources as Win2k
>
> I've been running win2k with 256MB of RAM and a 600mhz processor. How
> do you think XP would be which that amount of available system
> resources?
> Thanks,
> JM