I am going to tweak windows xp to run as well as possible on a pentium 233MHz 128MB RAM GATEWAY 2000 PC! Any tips would be greatly apprechiated!!!! The best I have done with Windows XP is making it start up using only 35MB of RAM. I used the default theme as well. If I can do this then it makes me wonder, can I do any better? This is only being done for experimental perposes. I put everything together myself with old parts I had laying around. I am doing this to see how well I can make Windows XP Professional Edition preform on this old machine. NO MODIFICATIONS WILL BE MADE TO ANY OF THE HARDWARE! I want your help to make windows XP run as well as it possibly can on this old machine. Give me your best advice and DO NOT SUGGEST ANY UPGRADES. I am really wanting to push this OS to the limit!

Try tweak xp its on the microsofts site. computer stats: Gigabyte 7IXE4 Motherboard Atapi MARY500 cd-rom Philips 5232p cd-r/rw WDC WD400EB-75CPF0 HD Cypress USB mouse WK-8000 Keyboard NVIDIA Geforce fx 5200 Video card<br

I think you have the right idea. Memory is the critical thing. Limiting the background applications running to the bare minimum will help. For the ones you have to run, try and find the ones with the lowest memory requirements. Sorry, I do not check for private messages

How did you make xp start up using only 35MB of RAM ? Actually the size of xp system can be reduce by arround the size 300 ~400 Mb. At the moment I don't have time to do it. This is the summary of mein: Computer: Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional Motherboard: CPU Type Intel Pentium MMX, 233 MHz Motherboard Name Shuttle HOT-565(3 ISA, 4 PCI, 4 SIMM, 2 DIMM) Motherboard Chipset Intel Triton 82430TX System Memory 128 MB BIOS Type Award Modular (06/22/98) Communication Port Communications Port (COM1) Communication Port Communications Port (COM2) Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1) Display: Video Adapter S3 Vision968 (4 MB) Multimedia: Audio Adapter Modem #0 Line Playback Storage: IDE Controller Intel(r) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive Disk Drive Disk drive (1553 MB, IDE) Optical Drive CD-ROM Drive SMART Hard Disks Status Unknown Partitions: C: (FAT32) 1548 MB (1069 MB free) Input: Keyboard PC/AT Enhanced PS/2 Keyboard (101/102-Key) Mouse Microsoft PS/2 Mouse Peripherals: USB1 Controller Intel 82371AB/EB PIIX4 - USB Host Controller

Go to my computer right click then properties. Then the performance tab and change the settings of system so that only common tasks is in the folder that should really give the thing a boost. (Sorry i can't remeber the anmes right now as am at college and the names always escape me when i'm here :P)

You can set virtual memory to 0 What are you talking about xp start up using only 35MB of RAM ? Are you kidding ?

Im not kidding.