Hi Jim, Well I should clarify -- when I ran XP with only 256 RAM I was also using Norton AV and firewall and System Works, MS Office, with Outlook constantly on, and the combination of those programs were very sluggish on my system before I upgraded to 512 RAM. I have never worked with anything other than Windows so I know nothing about Linux. Debbie
_____ From: Jim Debbie, > WinXp runs very poorly on only 256 RAM, I upgraded from 256 to 512 on my > home pc, but when I can afford it I will upgrade to either 768 or 1 Gig. Actually one of my computers was operating with XP on 128 Meg of ram. I WAS running slowly but amazingly well for having only that much ram. The computer was being used by my daughter and clearing out the startup junk didn't help any, I thought maybe the clock was really slow. I gave her my oldest computer and took hers to 'play with'. I replaced the 128 Meg stick with a 512 M stick that I borrowed from another computer and now it works fine. Strangely enough, it was a Linux distro that did not work at all with only 128 Meg of ram. I downloaded and tried UBUNTU, a great Linux version, but even the live version did not work. But after I upgraded the ram it worked fine. BTW ubuntu is great because it is both a live versin, i.e. it will run from the CD and will install if you choose. I have nearly alwasy had problems with Linux working with my wheel mice, ubuntu nad no problem. And it is easy to configure. In one way it is like all other Linux distros, when I switch my KVM to another machine and come back the mouse goes crazy, like it had rabies. [I bottowed that description from someone on these Yahoo groups.] With the other Liuxes I could click on the desktop a few times and the mouse would settle down, not this version. Jim . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714&grpId=231864&grpspId=1600115386&msgId= 32230&stime=1153495655> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
