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Originally posted by King_Mack just a little note you can get away with using a 300 Mhz PII with XP, i use it on my other box not that great..but it does the job well

i did read somewhere that someone managed to get xp running on a p166 but it took 30 mins to boot up, due to the differences in cpu design from the early pentiums to the pentium 2's and 3's

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Originally posted by aloep OK, recently I've had a huge HD crash and lost 44 GB of MP3's, movies and games. I was running Windows ME which I had in this computer since August 2001 before this struck. Unfortunately I've long since lost my copy of Windows ME and have been forced to install a copy of Windows 95 which came with the computer I previously had which I bought in 1997. So basically, should I stick with Windows 95 or upgrade to something newer when I get the chance? So far 95 seems fine but I haven't installed very much so any problems are probably forthcoming. Since Windows 95 is nearly 8 years old, what are the main disadvantages it has over the later versions? Don't know much technical information about PC's but I have a 55 GB HD and 240 MB RAM. Would this be enough to run XP smoothly, for example? Any help is appreciated.

I'd recommend 512MB of RAM (preferably DDR) for it to run smoothly. 256MB is good enough for it to work decently though.

Your processor should be fine for "smooth enough" operation as long as it's 500MHz or above.

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Originally posted by Turbonium I'd recommend 512MB of RAM (preferably DDR) for it to run smoothly. 256MB is good enough for it to work decently though.

He has had his pc since 1997, DDR ram wasnt even invented then,and id doubt it would fit into his mobo!!for everyday use the difference between ddr and sdram is not that big, for stuff like music editing, photoediting, playing with large spreadsheets and word documents then the difference is more noticable

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aloep, PM me.
i need to talk with you.

PM DJ Rozzer, he knows the score.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Btw, Win ME is like the worst windows ever, I don't know a person who has them and doesn't complain about computer crashing once a day. But I'm curious how did you loose all those mp3s and games? I mean if it was just internal software error, it could hardly do that much damage.

i have used 98, ME, XP and XP Pro and out of all of those the only OS i havnt had any problems with what so ever is ME. So i am currently on that. I dont ever get blue screens, and i cant remember the last time my comp crashed. It runs a lot smoother than when i had XP on thats for sure. The only OS i hav left to try on this comp is 2000.

just used windows server 2003 standard edition, when tweak to a workstation it ownz alll

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike i have used 98, ME, XP and XP Pro and out of all of those the only OS i havnt had any problems with what so ever is ME. So i am currently on that. I dont ever get blue screens, and i cant remember the last time my comp crashed. It runs a lot smoother than when i had XP on thats for sure. The only OS i hav left to try on this comp is 2000.

wot about linux, nt4, windows 3.1, dr dos, ms dos, gr dos, gem....

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike i have used 98, ME, XP and XP Pro and out of all of those the only OS i havnt had any problems with what so ever is ME. So i am currently on that. I dont ever get blue screens, and i cant remember the last time my comp crashed. It runs a lot smoother than when i had XP on thats for sure. The only OS i hav left to try on this comp is 2000.

I don't doubt what you say, but that's hard to believe.

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Originally posted by jonsimmonds wot about linux, nt4, windows 3.1, dr dos, ms dos, gr dos, gem....

linux is to user unfriendly for ur average joe blogs like me and i remember windows 3.1 from the good old days..

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Originally posted by S2K I don't doubt what you say

thanks coz i hav no reason to lie

any operation system is only good and stable if set up corectly

mikey u so sud try linux wen u get bored!

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I've used Windows 3.0, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, Windows MT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME.

Before my HD crash I made several virtual machines using the program "Virtual PC" for a little bit of nostalgic fun.

Windows 3.11:








Windows NT 3.51 - I found this OS to be very really good actually:









Unfortunately I can't run any PC emulating software on Windows 95 so that's my fun with these OS's over for just now.