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Re: SP3 issues (NG problems.)
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Ronin wrote:
> For some reason, I can only post to this sub-thread. I can't post any
> replies to Pa Bear or Daave, and some guy named Jose posted a reply that
> also doesn't show up here (directly subscribed to msnews.)
>
> So anybody who wants to continue with me probably ought to head over to
> Google. http://preview.tinyurl.com/yaveerk
>
> In any case, I will repost my replies to Daave and Pa here in this
> sub-thread. Maybe that will cover it.
>
>
> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e$KSm2bsKHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Ronin wrote:
>>> The system is snail-slow all the time. It's only when I leave that
>>> ton of stuff in the Startup queue that it takes ten minutes to load
>>> (maybe more like 20!), and is so slow that I keep expecting a bunch
>>> "Not responding" messages. Of course, it's so bogged down, maybe
>>> those messages are trying to appear and never actually make it to
>>> the screen, With the startup queue disabled entirely, it loads
>>> as fast as I'd expect under these conditions.
>>> As noted in my reply to Shenan, I loathe both Hibernate and
>>> Standby. And I'm installing 2GB of RAM when I get back from running
>>> chores later, so I figure that problem will disappear.
>>>
>>> You may be able to run XP on 256MB of RAM, I may be able to run XP
>>> on 256GB of RAM (though I of course couldn't get any real work
>>> done, being in the graphic arts business), but this is XP Home
>>> Premium, with Media Center or whatever it's called, and while he
>>> doesn't store much on the HD, he obviously uses it fairly often to
>>> listen, watch and burn. Plus, as I said in my reply to Shenan, why
>>> would anybody want to practice such stinginess when you can buy two
>>> gigs for 50 bucks?
>>
>> I think you went overkill with the RAM - my bet - you won't even use up
>> 1GB. You *might* make it to 768MB, but my bet would be between 384MB and
>> 640MB actually used. Not that I wouldn't have probably just bought as
>> much as the machine would take, myself - just that I don't think it is
>> really going to speed up much of anything on that system in the long run.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
1. Try disabling the Communities "feechur" in Windows Mail.
2. Please do NOT edit the subject when replying to an ongoing thread.
Ronin wrote:
> For some reason, I can only post to this sub-thread. I can't post any
> replies to Pa Bear or Daave, and some guy named Jose posted a reply that
> also doesn't show up here (directly subscribed to msnews.)
>
> So anybody who wants to continue with me probably ought to head over to
> Google. http://preview.tinyurl.com/yaveerk
>
> In any case, I will repost my replies to Daave and Pa here in this
> sub-thread. Maybe that will cover it.
>
>
> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e$KSm2bsKHA.1796@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Ronin wrote:
>>> The system is snail-slow all the time. It's only when I leave that
>>> ton of stuff in the Startup queue that it takes ten minutes to load
>>> (maybe more like 20!), and is so slow that I keep expecting a bunch
>>> "Not responding" messages. Of course, it's so bogged down, maybe
>>> those messages are trying to appear and never actually make it to
>>> the screen, With the startup queue disabled entirely, it loads
>>> as fast as I'd expect under these conditions.
>>> As noted in my reply to Shenan, I loathe both Hibernate and
>>> Standby. And I'm installing 2GB of RAM when I get back from running
>>> chores later, so I figure that problem will disappear.
>>>
>>> You may be able to run XP on 256MB of RAM, I may be able to run XP
>>> on 256GB of RAM (though I of course couldn't get any real work
>>> done, being in the graphic arts business), but this is XP Home
>>> Premium, with Media Center or whatever it's called, and while he
>>> doesn't store much on the HD, he obviously uses it fairly often to
>>> listen, watch and burn. Plus, as I said in my reply to Shenan, why
>>> would anybody want to practice such stinginess when you can buy two
>>> gigs for 50 bucks?
>>
>> I think you went overkill with the RAM - my bet - you won't even use up
>> 1GB. You *might* make it to 768MB, but my bet would be between 384MB and
>> 640MB actually used. Not that I wouldn't have probably just bought as
>> much as the machine would take, myself - just that I don't think it is
>> really going to speed up much of anything on that system in the long run.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html