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How do you install Windows XP on a system with less than 64MB RAM? Is there
any article describing the procedure for the same on support.microsoft.com?
 
"SANGFROID" <SANGFROID@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do you install Windows XP on a system with less than 64MB RAM? Is
> there
> any article describing the procedure for the same on
> support.microsoft.com?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865

XP needs at least 64 meg RAM.
 
"SANGFROID" <SANGFROID@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do you install Windows XP on a system with less than 64MB RAM? Is
there
> any article describing the procedure for the same on
support.microsoft.com?


Some of the older OS's did have a "no minimum" switch for setup
but I doubt it htere is such an option for XP

I assure you, you would not want to run XP with that small amount of RAM


Even 128megs will give quite poor performance.

256 megs is a realistic minimum


If you can bump the machine up to 128 megs of RAM
you may want to use Win2000 that should work ok


FWIW: there is a version of XP that will work (somewhat) with 64 megs of ram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs
 
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 07:03:00 -0800, SANGFROID
<SANGFROID@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> How do you install Windows XP on a system with less than 64MB RAM? Is there
> any article describing the procedure for the same on support.microsoft.com?


No, the official minimum is 64MB. I think I've read somewhere that
someone somehow installed it with less as an experiment, but if you
did so, performance would be terrible.

Even 64MB is way too little to run XP and do anything but play
solitaire with it. From a practical standpoint, almost everyone needs
at least 256MB, and depending on what apps you run, even that may not
be enough for decent performance.


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